MPEG-2


MPEG-2

(compression, standard, algorithm, file format)A variant ofthe MPEG video and audio compression algorithm and fileformat, optimised for broadcast quality video. MPEG-2 wasdesigned to transmit images using progressive coding at 4Mbps or higher for use in broadcast digital TV and DVD.An MPEG-2 player can handle MPEG-1 data as well.

MPEG-2 has been approved as International StandardIS-13818.