About the Mpeg file format
- Name
- MPEG Movie
- Extension
- .mpeg
- Format
- Binary
- Category
- Video
- Developer
- Moving Picture Experts Group
- Description
- Popular video format standardized by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG); compressed using MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 compression; often used for creating movies that are distributed over the Internet.
- MIME Type
- video/mpeg
- Sample
- sample.mpeg
- Wikipedia
- .mpeg on Wikipedia
MPEG movie file format is famous for movie distribution online. Their peculiar video compression has made it gain popularity compared to other file formats. The popularity of MPEG is because it is easily downloadable and easier to stream online.
Developed by Moving Picture Experts Group, it can use either MPEG1 or MPEG 2 for compression, which is a better compression compared to other file formats. The data compression is at a high compression ratio and lossless.
The file avoids storing every frame of the video; instead, it keeps the changes that occur between the frames. As a result, data stored in MPEG is of high quality despite been compressed at a very high rate. Videos that have been converted from DVD are archived using this file format.
Windows media player, Quick times, I-tunes Winamp, and VLC program files, among others, can open MPEG movie File formats. MPEG uses the .mpeg file extension, and it is made up of profiles and levels standards. The levels in these files give the range of the properties in them. The profiles, on the other hand, provide a set of tools for use by the file.
Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Opera are among the browsers that support MPEG movies.
