mpeg

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

MPEG
    n 1: a set of standards adopted by the moving pictures experts
         group for the compression of digital video and audio data
         or a file of data compressed according to those standards

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

Moving Picture Experts Group
MPEG

   <compression, standard, algorithm, file format, body> (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 television} {set-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.

   (http://cselt.it/mpeg/).  MPEG.org
   (http://mpeg.org/).  MPEG decoder
   (ftp://toe.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/multimedia/mpeg/).  MPEG
   routines (ftp://ftp.mni.mcgill.ca/pub/mpeg/).

   (2000-05-31)

from V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006)

MPEG
       Motion Picture Expert Group [old term] (MPEG)

from V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006)

MPEG
       Moving Picture Expert Group (org., ISO 11172-1, JTC1)