Video - MPEG

MPEG is the acronym for the Moving Pictures Expert Group, a working group of ISO/IEC. The area of work assigned to it is: Development of international standards for compression, decompression, processing, and coded representation of moving pictures, audio, and their combination, in order to satisfy a wide variety of applications.

There are various MPEG standards:

• MPEG-1: The standard on which such products as Video CD and MP3 are based.
• 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: A new standard, not yet finished, which is set to become the "Multimedia Framework" standard.

In the context of this page we are viewing a video encoded using an MPEG-1 standards compliant codec.

Because it is an international standard, it is not necessary to have a proprietory plug-in to handle the file type. The theory goes that you should be able to play the file so long as you have a compliant plug-in and the relevant codecs available on the computer. Most of the existing players in the game are incorporating MPEG-4 compliance in their products alongside their own technologies.

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