Moving Pictures Experts Group

<compression, standard, algorithm, file format, body> (MPEG) An ISO committee that generates standards for digital video compression and audio. Also the name of their algorithm.

MPEG-1 is optimised for CD-ROM. Variants under development in Nov 1994 are MPEG-2 for broadcast quality video and MPEG-4 for low bandwidth video telephony.

An MPEG decoder from Berkeley or with a Motif interface and a library of routines soon to be here.

(16 Aug 1996)