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What is MPEG2?

April 26, 2017MPEG2

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What is MPEG2?

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MPEG is the name of the Moving Pictures Expert Group who created a couple of international standards. One important one is the MPEG-1/2 (ISO/IEC 13818-part x) standard which will be used for the MA VPU. As MA uses Microsofts DirectShow to render the textures (pictures) it will need a Codec* to be able to read in these pictures. This codec is the MPEG2 one from MainConcept. There are several formats that can contain MPEG2 videos, below are some well known ones: .mpg (MPEG-1 or MPEG-4 possible) .mpeg (MPEG-1 or MPEG-4 possible) .m2v (MPEG-2 Elementary Video Stream) .m2a (MPEG-2 Elementary Audio Stream) m2s (MPEG-2 Elementary Data Stream) .vob (DVD Video Object) The MPEG2 standard allows a couple of variation which are not so important to know but which will influence the quality of the picture. They are defined to be able to run several resolutions like full HD for example. That influences also the bitrate which can vary from approx. 3 to over 80 Mbit/s. As higher the bitrate as more wor