30 What is the status of MPEG's work, then? What about MPEG-1, -2, and so on? (ISO-MPEG Standard - MPEG Audio Layer-3)
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This article is from the MPEG FAQ, by Frank Gadegast phade@cs.tu-berlin.de with numerous contributions by others.
30 What is the status of MPEG's work, then? What about MPEG-1, -2, and so on? (ISO-MPEG Standard - MPEG Audio Layer-3)
MPEG approaches the growing need for multimedia standards step-by-
step. Today, three "phases" are defined:
MPEG-1:"Coding of Moving Pictures and Associated Audio for
Digital Storage Media at up to about 1.5 MBit/s"
Status: International Standard IS-11172, completed in 10.92
MPEG-2:"Generic Coding of Moving Pictures and Associated
Audio"
Status: International Standard IS-13818, completed in 11.94
MPEG-3: does no longer exist (has been merged into MPEG-2)
MPEG-4: "Very Low Bitrate Audio-Visual Coding"
Status: Call for Proposals first deadline 1. 10. 95
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