A method of decoding a video from a bitstream, the video including a sequence of pictures in a coding order, the method comprising: decoding a partition mode from the bitstream, the partition mode defining the partitioning of a portion of the sequence of pictures into a plurality of rectangular coding cuboids (52, 54, 56; 72, 74, 76), at least one rectangular coding cuboid including blocks of two or more consecutive pictures in the coding order, wherein the rectangular coding cuboid can be visualized as a stack of collocated blocks in the two or more consecutive pictures; decoding , from the bitstream, inter-prediction information associated with the at least one rectangular coding cuboid, including at least one motion vector and at least one reference picture index; generating a predicted cuboid for said at least one rectangular coding cuboid based on the at least one motion vector and the at least one reference picture index; reconstructing a cuboid of transform domain coefficients from the bitstream; dequantizing and three-dimensional inverse transforming the cuboid of transform domain coefficients to produce a reconstructed residual cuboid; and reconstructing the pixels of said at least one rectangular coding cuboid as the sum of the predicted cuboid and the reconstructed residual cuboid, wherein the at least one motion vector comprises a single motion vector, the at least one reference picture index comprises a single reference picture index, and wherein generating the predicted cuboid includes copying a reference cuboid of pixel values specified by the single motion vector and the single reference picture index, wherein the reference cuboid includes blocks of at least two previously-reconstructed consecutive pictures in the coding order. decoding a partition mode from the bitstream, the partition mode defining the partitioning of a portion of the sequence of pictures into a plurality of rectangular coding cuboids (52, 54, 56; 72, 74, 76), at least one rectangular coding cuboid including blocks of two or more consecutive pictures in the coding order, wherein the rectangular coding cuboid can be visualized as a stack of collocated blocks in the two or more consecutive pictures; decoding , from the bitstream, inter-prediction information associated with the at least one rectangular coding cuboid, including at least one motion vector and at least one reference picture index; generating a predicted cuboid for said at least one rectangular coding cuboid based on the at least one motion vector and the at least one reference picture index; reconstructing a cuboid of transform domain coefficients from the bitstream; dequantizing and three-dimensional inverse transforming the cuboid of transform domain coefficients to produce a reconstructed residual cuboid; and reconstructing the pixels of said at least one rectangular coding cuboid as the sum of the predicted cuboid and the reconstructed residual cuboid, wherein the at least one motion vector comprises a single motion vector, the at least one reference picture index comprises a single reference picture index, and wherein generating the predicted cuboid includes copying a reference cuboid of pixel values specified by the single motion vector and the single reference picture index, wherein the reference cuboid includes blocks of at least two previously-reconstructed consecutive pictures in the coding order. <EOS>