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Moving Picture Experts Group
     
         (MPEG,
        ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29 WG11) An {ISO} committee that generates
        {standards} for digital {video compression} and audio.  Also
        the name of their {algorithms}.
     
        {MPEG-1} is optimised for {CD-ROM} and is the basis for {MP3}.
        {MPEG-2} is aimed at {broadcast quality video} for
        applications such as {digital television} {set-top boxes} and
        {DVD}.  {MPEG-4} is a standard for low {bandwidth} {video
        telephony} and {multimedia} on the {World-Wide Web}.  MPEG-3
        was merged into MPEG-2.
     
        {Home (http://www.cselt.it/mpeg/)}.  {MPEG.org
        (http://www.mpeg.org/)}.  {MPEG decoder
        (ftp://toe.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/multimedia/mpeg/)}.  {MPEG
        routines (ftp://ftp.mni.mcgill.ca/pub/mpeg/)}.
     
        (2000-05-31)