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 (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/).
