Moving Picture Experts Group

The 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 has standardized the following compression formats and ancillary standards:

, and includes the popular Layer 3 ( MP3 ) audio compression format.

, DVB and ISDB , digital satellite TV services like Dish Network , digital Cable Television signals, SVCD , and with slight modifications, as the . VOB (Video OBject) files that carry the images on DVD s.

, but abandoned when it was realized that MPEG-2 (with extensions) was sufficient for HDTV. (not to be confused with MP3 , which is MPEG-1 Layer 3.)

. Several new (newer than MPEG-2 Video) higher efficiency video standards are included (an alternative to MPEG-2 Video), notably:

--- MPEG-4 Part 2 (or Advanced Simple Profile) and

--- MPEG-4 Part 10 (or Advanced Video Coding or H.264 ). MPEG-4 Part 10 may be used on HD DVD and Blu-ray discs, along with VC-1 and MPEG-2.

In addition, the following standards, while not sequential advances to the video encoding standard as with MPEG-1 through MPEG-4, are referred to by similar notation:

MPEG-7 : A formal system for describing

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