(MPEG, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29 WG11) An ISO committee that generates standards for digital video compression and audio.Also the name of their algorithms.MPEG-1 is optimised for CD-ROM and is the basis for MP3. MPEG-2 is aimed at broadcast quality video for applications such as digital televisionset-top boxes and DVD.MPEG-4 is a standard for low bandwidth {video telephony} and {multimedia} on the {World-Wide Web}.MPEG-3 was merged into MPEG-2.Start .{MPEG.org (http://www.mpeg.org/)}.{MPEG decoder (ftp://toe.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/multimedia/mpeg/)}.{MPEG routines (ftp://ftp.mni.mcgill.ca/pub/mpeg/)}.(2000-05-31)