mpeg1,mpeg2,mpeg4

MPG1属第一代,主要应用于VCD方面上,但并不是说MPG1就是VCD.

MPG2属第二代,主要应用于DVD方面上,码率相当高.

MPG3,属第三代,开始用于开发视频,但失败,不过倒是成全的MP3的存在,主要是MP3音频!

MPG4,应用广泛,多种编码方式,用于许多音频视频方面!

未来的MPG5不知何时出现! 

MPEG stands for Moving Picture Expert Group in charge of the development of standards for coded representation

 of digital audio and video. There are several audio/video formats which bear this group's name, 

such as MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4. View MPEG to DVD Burner and AVI to MPEG Converter. 

MPEG1
MPEG1 format is often used in digital cameras and camcorders to capture small, easily transferable motion video clips. 

It is also the compression format used to create Video CDs. In addition, The well-known MP3 audio format is part of 

the MPEG1 codec. View DVD to MPEG1 Ripper. 

MPEG2
MPEG2 format, a video standard developed by MPEG group, is often used in digital TVs, DVD movies and in SVCDs.

 It is not a successor for MPEG1, but an addition instead. both of these formats have their own purposes in life. 

MPEG1 is meant for medium-bandwidth usage and MPEG2 is meant for high-bandwidth/broadband usage. 

View DVD to SVCD Ripper. 

MPEG4
MPEG4, the latest compression method standardized by MPEG group, is used for both streaming and downloadable 

web content, and is also the video format employed by a growing number of portable video recorders. 

One of the best-known MPEG4 encoders is DivX which since version 5 has been fully standard-compliant MPEG4 encoder

. View DVD to MPEG4 Ripper.

MPEG7
MPEG7 doesn't itself offer any new encoding features and it is not meant for representing audio/video content, 

unlike its siblings MPEG1, MPEG2 and MPEG4. Instead, it offers metadata information for audio and video files, 

allowing searching and indexing of audio/video data based on the information about the content instead of searching

 the actual content bitstream. 

MPEG7 is based on XML and therefor is universal and all the existing tools that support XML parsing should be 

able to read the data as well, provided that they can ignore binary parts of the file. 

MPEG7 is not used at the moment, but it is under serious development and standardization process 

at the moment and hopefully we see first fully featured MPEG-7 tools within few years. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_container_formats

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-2