The story of how the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) was conceived and established.This book is structured in six sections each with a different number of chapters and parts of the 1 describes the world of media before MPEG.Section 2 recounts the birth of MPEG and the story of its first 3 standards.Section 3 explores some of the media-related areas in which MPEG operated.Section 4 assesses some of MPEG’s diverse characteristics.Section 5 tells the causes of and mourns the death of MPEG.Section 6 describes the constitution, the work MPAI did so far and future plans.