Moving Picture Experts Group

The Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) is a ISO committee that was established in 1988 to develop standards for digital video compression with audio. The MPEG acronym is used to denote their various algorithms.. 2000-05-31.
==Standards==
*MPEG-1 is optimized for CD-ROM. A subset of MPEG-1, Audio Layer 3, is the basis for MP3.
*MPEG-2 is aimed at broadcast quality video for applications such as digital television set-top boxes and DVD. Work on MPEG-3 was merged into MPEG-2.
*MPEG-4 is a standard for video conferencing and multimedia on the web.
==History==
Apple first added MPEG-1 support to some 68040-based Macintosh models through an Apple MPEG Media System card, released in July 1995.Pipeline: Shipping, InfoWorld. 1995-07-17. Software playback of MPEG-1 video became possible on PowerPC Macs with the release of the QuickTime MPEG Extension on January 24, 1997.Press Release: Apple Introduces High-Quality MPEG Software for QuickTime by Jonathan Hirshon, Apple Computer. 1997-01-24. Archived 1998-12-02.QuickTime gets extension: MPEG-enhanced playback possible by Ed Scannell, InfoWorld. 1997-02-03. Support for MPEG-4 video was added with QuickTime 6.0 in July 2002.Happy birthday, Apple QuickTime by Tony Smith, The Register. 2011-12-02.
==References==
==See also==
*Joint Photographic Experts Group
==External links==
*The Moving Picture Experts Group official website
*MPEG at Computer Hope
* at Wikipedia
Category:Organizations
Category:Video codecs
Category:1988 establishments