Moving Picture Experts Group

"MPEG" redirects here. For the labor union, see Motion Picture Editors Guild. For the unaffiliated company that licensed patent pools for some MPEG standards, see MPEG LA. For the MPEG-developed file format using the .mpeg filename extension, see MPEG program stream.
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Some well known older (up to 2005) digital media formats and the MPEG standards they use

The Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) is an alliance of working groups established jointly by ISO and IEC that sets standards for media coding, including compression coding of audio, video, graphics, and genomic data; and transmission and file formats for various applications.[1] Together with JPEG, MPEG is organized under ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29 – Coding of audio, picture, multimedia and hypermedia information (ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee 1, Subcommittee 29).[2][3][4][5][6][7]

MPEG formats are used in various multimedia systems. The most well known older MPEG media formats typically use MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and MPEG-4 AVC media coding and MPEG-2 systems transport streams and program streams. Newer systems typically use the MPEG base media file format and dynamic streaming (a.k.a. MPEG-DASH).

  1. ^ John Watkinson, The MPEG Handbook, p. 1
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference SC29atJTC1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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  4. ^ ISO, IEC (2009-11-05). "ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29, SC 29/WG 11 Structure (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 – Coding of Moving Pictures and Audio)". Archived from the original on 2001-01-28. Retrieved 2009-11-07.
  5. ^ MPEG Committee. "MPEG – Moving Picture Experts Group". Archived from the original on 2008-01-10. Retrieved 2009-11-07.
  6. ^ ISO. "MPEG Standards – Coded representation of video and audio". Archived from the original on 2011-05-14. Retrieved 2009-11-07.
  7. ^ ISO. "JTC 1/SC 29 – Coding of audio, picture, multimedia and hypermedia information". Retrieved 2009-11-11.