(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)