Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of a set of standards established for the compression of digital video and audio data.
- noun A file of digital video and audio data that has been so compressed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- initialism Moving Pictures Experts Group
- initialism Any of a group of computer file
formats for the compression and storage of digital video and audio data. - noun A computer file (as of a movie) in an MPEG format.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun 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
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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MPEG is short for Moving Pictures Expert Group which is a working group of ISO / IEC in charge of the development of standards for coded representation of digital audio and video.
AfterDawn.com 2009
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MPEG is short for Moving Pictures Expert Group which is a working group of ISO / IEC in charge of the development of standards for coded representation of digital audio and video.
AfterDawn.com 2009
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MPEG is short for Moving Pictures Expert Group which is a working group of ISO / IEC in charge of the development of standards for coded representation of digital audio and video.
AfterDawn.com 2009
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MPEG is short for Moving Pictures Expert Group which is a working group of ISO / IEC in charge of the development of standards for coded representation of digital audio and video.
AfterDawn.com 2009
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MPEG is short for Moving Pictures Expert Group which is a working group of ISO / IEC in charge of the development of standards for coded representation of digital audio and video.
AfterDawn.com 2009
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MPEG is short for Moving Pictures Expert Group which is a working group of ISO / IEC in charge of the development of standards for coded representation of digital audio and video.
AfterDawn.com 2009
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MPEG is short for Moving Pictures Expert Group which is a working group of ISO / IEC in charge of the development of standards for coded representation of digital audio and video.
AfterDawn.com 2009
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So instead of the pretty 60MB file I had in MPEG-2 format, they got sent to them a paltry 8. 5MB file in WMV format.
"Sorry, Patrick, but you're up against Wheel of Fortune." tragic_elegance 2008
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Optional features include email notices sent when motion is detected, scheduled monitoring times and the ability to record and burn surveillance videos in MPEG-4 format.
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The HD1000 records to the latest in MPEG-4 standard MPEG-4 AVC/H. 264, delivering exceptional video clarity and detail while maintaining the smallest file size possible.
Sanyo launches world’s smallest ‘Full HD’ camcorder | Sync Blog 2007
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