Moving Picture Expert Group


This is a collection of informations that try to answer to the frequently asked questions about the MPEG compression standard.
It is organized as an hypertext in HTML format to be easily extensible and upgradable. If you are just looking for MPEG related public domain software you might want to browse the MPEG FTP Archive.

MPEG Informations, Questions and Answers

  1. The MPEG standard

  2. MPEG-1

  3. MPEG-2

  4. MPEG-3

  5. MPEG-4

  6. MPEG related companies

Latest changes : December 16 1994.


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Luigi.Filippini
Scientific Visualization Group
CRS4