MPEG (Moving Picture Expert Group) FAQ

This is a list of changes and contributors to the collection of frequently asked questions and other informations about the MPEG compression standard.
Most of the contributions are related to Usenet News postings, the author e-mail address is cited between parenthesis.

• December 16 1994 : More about MPEG-2 levels and profiles (rell@csi.compuserve.com) and reference about MPEG-1 audio article (howitt@elf.com)
• December 14 1994 : Added pointer to MHEG DIS text. (buford@cs.uml.edu)
• December 2 1994 : More on HDTV spatial formats. (jtran@ATVL.Research.Panasonic.COM)
• November 19 1994 : MPEG-2 reached International Standard status. (cfogg@netcom.com)
• November 18 1994 : Informations about ITU and pointer to its gopher server.
• November 16 1994 : More about MPEG book . (cfogg@netcom.com)
• November 11 1994 : Added question about MPEG patent issues and pointers to CableLabs and MPEG-IPR (michael@ecel.uwa.edu.au)
• November 10 1994 : Details on Video Buffering Verifier (jcs@zoo.bt.co.uk) (slblake@eos.ncsu.edu) and variable bitrate (pauls@truevision.com)
• November 9 1994 : Added paper on Grand Alliance Transmission Field Tests (bretlw@janus-ccm.zenithe.com)
• November 4 1994 : New book on motion analysis for image sequence coding.
• October 31 1994 : Pointer to Microware Systems Corporation (adam@microware.com)
• October 27 1994 : More on JBIG (jbek@oce.nl) and MHEG (neideck@nestvx.enet.dec.com) (simonnot@loria.fr)
• October 26 1994 : Press release of Bell Atlantic Digital Video Services (mhatter@teleport.com)
• October 25 1994 : Link to IVS (INRIA Videoconferencing System) (Thierry.Turletti@sophia.inria.fr)
• October 20 1994 : More info about DigiCipher (Inside Cable Magazine)
• October 18 1994 : Announce of DiviCom Set-Top decoder and MPEG-2 encoder (zhang@divi.com)
• October 17 1994 : Added press release of IBM MPEG-2 chip.
• October 16 1994 : Added press release of 3DO real-time MPEG encoding system (Rick.Reynolds@3do.com).
• October 15 1994 : Info about MPEG book release date. (jantony@ids.net)
• October 13 1994 : Link to SGS-Thomson US contact (tristan@la.tce.com)
• October 8 1994 : Added link to the Graphics Archive (bryanw@rahul.net), Image Communication Information Board (ICIB) (gerfi@igd.fhg.de) and Centro di Studio per la Televisione (CSTV) (fabrizio@cstv.to.cnr.it).
• October 7 1994 : Some corrections and more details about differences between MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 (tristan@la.tce.com)
• August 23 1994 : Definition for S-Video (jmccabe@lexmark.com)
• August 22 1994 : Added information about Univ. of Washington DSP MPEG-1 coder/decoder (woobin@u.washington.edu)
• August 21 1994 : More informations about MPEG-2 chips (jacob@divi.com)
• August 11 1994 : Added a short tutorial about generating huffman trees (dillon@apollo.west.oic.com) and references about huffman coding (bkr@watson.ibm.com).
• August 1 1994 : More informations about MPEG-2 sample rates and frame size (cfogg@xenon.com)
• July 19 1994 : Added FutureTel real-time coder info (jwl@netcom.com)
• July 14 1994 : Added gamma definition (richard.salmon@rd.bbc.co.uk)
• July 8 1994 : Added ADPCM definition (jwang@atitech.ca)
• July 7 1994 : Added references to IEC and ISO home pages
• July 5 1994 : Added pointer to IUMA MPEG audio archive (also mirrored on Sunsite).
  More general info about MPEG-2 (cfogg@xenon.com)
• July 4 1994 : Added Hughes/USSB satellite tv image. More are available from ITRE.
• July 1 1994 : More info about MPEG books (jantony@ids.net)
• June 30 1994 : Information about MPEG book (aar@kaleida.com)
• June 29 1994 : Added HDTV informations. (myers@fc.hp.com)
• June 23 1994 : More about MPEG-1 frame sizes (kaczowka@apollo.HP.COM)
• June 17 1994 : Info about HP 7xx series machine MPEG capabilities (kaczowka@apollo.HP.COM)
• May 31 1994 : Added infos about AT&T encoder (thomas@allegra.att.com)
• May 27 1994 : More informations about real time encoders
• April 26 1994 : Added some infos about MHEG
• April 21 1994 : Added price information for standard documents
• April 20 1994 : More info on MPEG-4

Another (partial) list of persons whose material (mostly Usenet News postings or contributions to other FAQ lists) contributed to the creation of this list :

• Mark Adler (madler@alumni.caltech.edu) (http://quest.jpl.nasa.gov/Mark.Adler/)
• Andrew Davidson (andy@aimla.com)
• Chad Fogg (cfogg@ole.cdac.com)
• Frank Gadegast (phade@cs.tu-berlin.de)
• Norbert Gerfelder (gerfi@igd.fhg.de)
• James R. Harvey (jrharvey@frl_admin.win.net)
• Morten Hjerde (100034,663@compuserve.com)
• Steve Krause (steve_krause@qm.sri.com)
• Tom Lane (tgl@cs.cmu.edu)
• Charles Poynton (poynton@sun.com)
• David Thomas (thomas@allegra.att.com)
• Lee Westover (lee.westover@sun.com)