MPEG
    n 1: a set of standards adopted by the moving pictures experts
         group for the compression of digital video and audio data
         or a file of data compressed according to those standards

	

	MPEG
       Motion Picture Expert Group [old term] (MPEG)

	

	MPEG
       Moving Picture Expert Group (org., ISO 11172-1, JTC1)

	

	Moving Picture Experts Group
MPEG

    (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)