What is the difference between .mpeg-2 and .mpeg?
- Name
- MPEG-2 Video
- MPEG Movie
- Extension
- .mpeg-2
- .mpeg
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Video
- Video
- Developer
- Motion Pictures Expert Group
- Moving Picture Experts Group
- Description
- Video file encoded with the MPEG-2 codec, which is mainly used for over-the-air, satellite, and cable digital TV signals and DVD video; uses lossy compression for audio and video to significantly reduce the size of the video data; not as efficient as the H.264 format.
- 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
- video/mpeg
- Sample
- sample.mpeg
- Wikipedia
- .mpeg-2 on Wikipedia
- .mpeg on Wikipedia