Moving Picture Experts Group

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(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.

Home (http://www.cselt.it/mpeg/). MPEG.org (http://www.mpeg.org/). MPEG decoder (ftp://toe.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/multimedia/mpeg/). MPEG routines (ftp://ftp.mni.mcgill.ca/pub/mpeg/).

(2000-05-31)