Online Computer Terms Dictionary - M

Moving Picture Experts Group

<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.

Home. MPEG.org. MPEG decoder. MPEG routines.

(2000-05-31)