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Moving Picture Experts Group definition
compression, standard, algorithm, file format, body (MPEG, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29 WG11) An
ISO committee that generates
standards for digital
video compression and audio. Also the name of their
algorithms.
MPEG-1 is optimised for
CD-ROM and is the basis for
MP3.
MPEG-2 is aimed at
broadcast quality video for applications such as
digital television set-top boxes and
DVD.
MPEG-4 is a standard for low
bandwidth video telephony and
multimedia on the
World-Wide Web. MPEG-3 was merged into MPEG-2.
(http://cselt.it/mpeg/).
MPEG.org (http://mpeg.org/).
MPEG decoder (ftp://toe.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/multimedia/mpeg/).
MPEG routines (ftp://ftp.mni.mcgill.ca/pub/mpeg/).
(2000-05-31)
