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The MPEG Data Stream

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The abbreviation MPEG, first of all, stands for Moving Pictures Experts Group, that is to say MPEG deals mainly with the digital transmission of moving pictures. However, the data signal defined in the MPEG-2 Standard can also generally carry data which have nothing at all to do with video and audio and could be Internet data, for example.

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Fischer, W. (2020). The MPEG Data Stream. In: Digital Video and Audio Broadcasting Technology. Signals and Communication Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32185-7_3

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