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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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