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MPEG-4 is an ISO/IEC standard
developed by MPEG (Moving Picture Experts Group), the committee that also
developed the Emmy Award winning standards known as MPEG-1 and MPEG-2. These
standards made interactive video on CD-ROM and Digital Television possible.
MPEG-4 is the result of another international effort involving hundreds
of researchers and engineers from all over the world. |
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MPEG-4, whose formal ISO/IEC designation is ISO/IEC 14496,was finalized
in October 1998 and became an International Standard in the first months
of 1999. The fully backward compatible extensions under the title of MPEG-4
Version 2 were frozen at the end of 1999, to acquire the formal International
Standard Status early in 2000. Some work, on extensions in specific domains,
is still in progress.
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