Moving Picture Experts Group

Website: http://www.chiariglione.org/mpeg/

The ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 Moving Picture Experts Group AKA MPEG is an ISO/IEC standards body dedicated to creating video and audio encoding standards.

Among the compression methods standardized by MPEG are

• ISO/IEC 11172 Coding of moving pictures and associated audio for digital storage media at up to about 1.5 Mbit/s (AKA MPEG-1)
  • MPEG audio layer 1
  • MPEG audio layer 2
  • MPEG audio layer 3
• ISO/IEC 13818 Generic coding of moving pictures and associated audio information (AKA MPEG-2)
• ISO/IEC 14496 Coding of audio-visual objects (AKA MPEG-4)
  • Part 2 Visual (AKA MPEG-4 Codec)
  • Part 3 Audio
    • Subpart 4 Advanced Audio Codec (AAC)
    • Subpart 9 MPEG-1/2 Audio in MPEG-4
    • Subpart 11 Audio Lossless Coding
    • Subpart 12 Scalable Lossless Coding
  • Part 10 Advanced Video Coding (AVC) AKA H.264
  • Part 12 ISO Base Media File
• ISO/IEC 15938 Multimedia content description interface (AKA MPEG-7)
• ISO/IEC 21000 Multimedia framework (AKA MPEG-21)
• ISO/IEC 23000 Multimedia Application Formats (AKA MPEG-A)
• ISO/IEC 23001 MPEG Systems Technologies (MPEG-B)
• ISO/IEC 23002 MPEG Visual Technologies (MPEG-C)
• ISO/IEC 23003 MPEG Audio Technologies (MPEG-D)
  • Part 1 MPEG Surround
  • Part 3 Unified Speech and Audio Coding (USAC)
• ISO/IEC 23004 MPEG Multimedia Middleware
• ISO/IEC 25781 Universal 3D file format