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Summary

Name MPEG-2 Program Stream
Version  
Other names  
Identifiers Apple Uniform Type Identifier:  public.mpeg
MIME:  video/mpeg
PUID:  x-fmt/386
Family  
Classification Video
Disclosure  
Description MPEG-2 is a lossy compression standard (an improvement and expansion of the MPEG-1 standard) designed for the generic coding of video and audio and intended to cover a wide scope of application, including: video production, broadcast and editing. Streams are at potentially higher bitrates than MPEG-1 but more efficient compression making it suited to High Definition video. MPEG-2 Video supports both 'progressive' and 'interlaced' frame video. An MPG-2 ‘Program’ stream (PS) file (*.mpg, *.mpeg) generally contain both video and audio streams, generally for synchronised playback, and may carry a variety of other data (e.g. video captions). Some camcorders store their MPEG-2 Program Stream video data as files with the .mod extension, usually alongside other files containing metadata and management information for the video.
Orientation Binary
Byte order Big-endian (Motorola)
Related file formats Can contain MPEG-2 Elementary Stream  
Has lower priority than Video Object File (MPEG-2 subset)  
Has priority over MPEG-1 Program Stream  
Is supertype of Video Object File (MPEG-2 subset)  
Technical Environment  
Released  
Supported until  
Format Risk  
Developed by None.
Supported by None.
Source Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
Source date 11 Mar 2005
Source description  
Last updated 13 Sep 2018
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