MPEG flavors:
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MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 use the same base technology but begin with different initial resolutions
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3 types of frames: I-frames (a.k.a. key frames) use only intraframe compression akin to JPEG; P-frames and B-frames do not contain pixel information but operational description of frame content. To decode a P-frame, decoder needs frames behind; for B-frames both look behind and ahead is needed
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MPEG system stream: video and audio interleaved in a complex fashion
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