MPEG

Last update: 2012/01/12

The Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG)

 

Who we are

 

The Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) is a working group of ISO/IEC in charge of the development of international standards for compression, decompression, processing, and coded representation of moving pictures, audio and their combination. So far MPEG has produced:

  • MPEG-1, the standard for storage and retrieval of moving pictures and audio on storage media (approved Nov. 1992)
  • MPEG-2, the standard for digital television (approved Nov. 1994)
  • MPEG-4, the standard for multimedia applications 
  • MPEG-7 the content representation standard for multimedia information search and filtering
  • MPEG-21, the multimedia framework
  • MPEG-A, the collection of standards for Application Formats
  • MPEG-B, the collection of Systems-related standards
  • MPEG-C, the collection of Video-related standards
  • MPEG-D, the collection of Audio-related standards
  • MPEG-E, the Multimedia Terminal standard
  • MPEG-M, the standard for packaging and reusability of MPEG technologies
  • MPEG-U, the standard for rich-media user interfaces
  • MPEG-V, the standard for real and virtual worlds, and for their interactions

MPEG continues the development of:

  • MPEG-4 in its different components (Systems, Video, Audio, File Format, 3D Graphics, Composition, Fonts etc.)
  • MPEG-7, particularly in Profiles and MPEG Query Format
  • MPEG-21, particularly in the area of Contract Expression Language
  • MPEG-B, particularly in the area of Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH)
  • MPEG-C, particularly Reconfigurable Video Coding
  • MPEG-D, particularly Universal Speech and Audio Coding
  • MPEG-U, particularly in the area of advanced user interfaces
  • MPEG-V, particularly in the area of extensions

and is now in the full development phase of:

  • 3D Video Coding, the standard for coding 3D Visual information
  • High Efficiency Video Coding, the standard for a new frontier in video coding.
  • MPEG-M 2nd edition, the standard for digital media ecosystems

MPEG keeps on exploring new opportunities for standards serving the needs of the media industry. Visit the MPEG home page to keep abreast of MPEG developments.

MPEG usually holds four meetings a year. These comprise plenary meetings and subgroup meetings on Requirements, Systems, Video, Audio and 3D Graphics. Participation is open to experts duly accredited by an appropriate National Standards Body. On average a meeting is attended by more than 300 experts from some 20 countries representing more than 200 companies spanning all industry domains with a stake in digital audio, video and multimedia.