MPEG-2
AUDIO: 5.1 channel stereo-phonic + multilingual
- Backward compatible with MPEG-1 2-ch audio
- ruined by Dolby digital surround (AC-3)
VIDEO : Generic Compression Standard
- Profile@Level (Tools@Bitrate)
- (still) MC-DCT but much better than MPEG-1
- improved motion estimation, and optimized entropy coding
Generic Applications
- DTV : MP@ML Video + MPEG-1 Audio
- HDTV : MP@HL Video + AC-3 Audio
- DVD : MP@ML Video + AC-3 Audio