compression, standard, algorithm, file format, body (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. (https://cselt.it/mpeg/). MPEG.org (https://mpeg.org/). MPEG decoder (ftp://toe.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/multimedia/mpeg/). MPEG routines (ftp://ftp.mni.mcgill.ca/pub/mpeg/). (2000-05-31)