mpeg-2

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mpeg-2 - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  MPEG-2
  
     <compression, standard, algorithm, file format> A variant of
     the MPEG video and audio compression algorithm and file
     format, optimised for broadcast quality video.  MPEG-2 was
     designed to transmit images using progressive coding at 4
     Mbps 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 Standard
     IS-13818.
  
     (1995-04-18)