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MPEG-2
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(compression, standard, algorithm, file format)MPEG-2 - A variant of the MPEG video and audio compression algorithm and file format, optimised for broadcast quality video. MPEG-2 was designed to transmit images using progressive coding at 4 Mbps or higher for use in broadcast digital TV and DVD. An MPEG-2 player can handle MPEG-1 data as well.

MPEG-2 has been approved as International Standard IS-13818.


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If you go out and rent a Hollywood Movie from Blockbuster, the DVD will contain an MPEG2 file.
264, MPEG4, MPEG2, VC1, and WMV-HD are optimised in PowerDVD for full hardware acceleration in Intel's Graphics Media Accelerator 500 (Intel GMA 500), relieving the CPU of the decoding process and improving the platform energy efficiency.
Please note that these disks are data DVDs containing MPEG2 format video files.
 
 
 
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