The Moving Picture Experts Group or MPEG is a working group of ISO/IEC charged with the development of video and audio encoding standards. Its first meeting was in May of 1988 in Ottawa, Canada. As of late 2005, MPEG has grown to include approximately 350 members per meeting from various industries, universities, and research institutions. MPEG's official designation is ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29 WG11.
MPEG (pronounced EM-peg) has standardized the following compression formats and ancillary standards:
MPEG-1: Initial video and audio compression standard. Later used as the standard for Video CD, and includes the popular Layer 3 (MP3) audio compression format.
MPEG-2: Transport, video and audio standards for broadcast-quality television. Used for over-the-air digital television ATSC, DVB and ISDB, digital satellite TV services like Dish Network, digital cable television signals, and (with slight modifications) for DVDs.
MPEG-3: Originally designed for HDTV, but abandoned when it was discovered that MPEG-2 was sufficient for HDTV.
MPEG-4: Expands MPEG-1 to support video/audio "objects", 3D content, low bitrate encoding and support for Digital Rights Management. Several new (newer than MPEG-2 Video) higher efficiency video standards are included (an alternative to MPEG-2 Video), notably, Advanced Simple Profile and Advanced Video Coding.
MPEG-7: A formal system for describing multimedia content.
Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) - News and documents from the ISO/IEC working group that develops standards for encoded audio and video.
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MPEG Industry Forum - Formerly known as M4IF, it now provides news and resources related to the MPEG-4, MPEG-7 and MPEG-21 standards to help with their adoption and use.
MPEG Pointers and Resources - Annotated links of MPEG resources, focused mostly on the MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 standards.
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404TNT: MPEG - Includes a document archive, links, and FAQs about the MPEG standards.
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