MPEG: Moving Picture Expert Group

MPEG stands for Moving Picture Experts Group. It is a family of standards used for coding audio-visual information (e.g., movies, video, music) in a digital compressed format.

The major advantage of MPEG compared to other video and audio coding formats is that MPEG files are much smaller for the same quality. This is because MPEG uses very sophisticated compression techniques.

Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) a working group of ISO/IEC in charge of the development of standards for coded representation of digital audio and video. Established in 1988, the group has produced the following compression mechanisms:

MPEG-1: The standard on which such products as Video CD and MP3

MPEG-2: The standard on which such products as Digital Television set top boxes and DVD are based.

MPEG-4: The standard for multimedia for the fixed and mobile web.

MPEG-7: The standard for description and search of audio and visual content.

MPEG-21: The Multimedia Framework.

In addition to these consolidated standards, MPEG has started a number of new standard lines:

MPEG-A: Multimedia application format.

MPEG-B: MPEG systems technologies.

MPEG-C: MPEG video technologies.

MPEG-D: MPEG audio technologies.

MPEG-E: Multimedia Middleware.

MPEG is a working group of ISO, the International Organization for Standardization. Its formal name is ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11. The title is: Coding of moving pictures and audio.

MPEG held its first meeting in May 1988 in Ottawa, Canada. By late 2005, MPEG has grown to include approximately 350 members per meeting from various industries, universities, and research institutions. Now MPEG has become an inevitable part of modern life.


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