MPEG1MPEG2
MPEG1MPEG2 refers to the two closely related video compression standards issued by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG), specifically MPEG‑1 and MPEG‑2. Both standards are designed to encode digital video and audio streams, but they target different applications and provide varying levels of compression efficiency and quality.
MPEG‑1, released in 1993, was the first widely adopted standard for audio and video compression. It introduced
MPEG‑2, published in 1995, expanded on MPEG‑1 by adding support for higher resolutions (up to 720×480 for
The two standards share a common frame structure and syntax, enabling hardware and software developed for MPEG‑1