If you view video on your computer or listen to music you downloaded from the Internet, you probably use MPEG technology. In contrast to data files, audio and video files tend to be very large and ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Back in 1988, the first work began on video compression standards that would ultimately result in ...

Video standard for compression of audio and video signals into a disk-based format. MPEG-1 attempted to match VHS in quality, using a 26:1 compression scheme for video compression—based on chroma ...

Coming so soon after MPEG-1 and MPEG-2, MPEG-4 raises a number of questions. Will it replace MPEG-2? Does it make existing equipment obsolete? How does it affect the broadcast industry? To answer ...

MPEG-4 is one of the latest video/audio compression method standardized by MPEG group, designed specially for low-bandwidth (less than 1.5MBit/sec bitrate) video/audio encoding purposes. MPEG-4 is ...

Audio codecs are one of the fundamental building blocks of modern media systems. The first and still most prominent MPEG audio codec is mp3, which first appeared on the market in 1998. Since then, ...