MPEG2

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MPEG-2 is a standard for compressing and transmitting video and audio, established by MPEG. It was widely adopted as the base specification for DVD-Video and digital broadcasting, and it includes video coding (Part 2), audio, and a systems layer that bundles multiple streams for transmission. The systems layer has the program stream for storage media and the transport stream (TS) for error-prone channels such as broadcasting; video compression itself has since given way to successor codecs such as H.264, but the TS container is still widely used.

MPEG2

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