Editing MPEG-4 (section)

{{short description|Video encoding standard}}

'''MPEG-4''' is a group of [[international standard]]s for the [[Video compression|compression]] of digital audio and visual data, multimedia systems, and file storage formats. It was originally introduced in late 1998 as a group of [[audio coding format|audio]] and [[video coding format]]s and related technology agreed upon by the ISO/IEC [[Moving Picture Experts Group]] (MPEG) ([[ISO/IEC JTC 1]]/SC29/WG11) under the formal standard ISO/IEC 14496&nbsp;– ''Coding of audio-visual objects''. Uses of MPEG-4 include compression of audiovisual data for [[Internet video]] and [[CD]] distribution, voice ([[telephone]], [[videophone]]) and [[broadcast television]] applications. The MPEG-4 standard was developed by a group led by Touradj Ebrahimi (later the [[Joint Photographic Experts Group|JPEG]] president) and Fernando Pereira.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ebrahimi |first1=Touradj |last2=Pereira |first2=Fernando |title=The MPEG-4 Book |date=2002 |publisher=[[Prentice Hall Professional]] |isbn=9780130616210 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ftRvA08WcM4C}}</ref>