Comparison between MP4 and MPEG

MP4 is a standard developed by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG); commonly used for sharing video files on the Internet.The MPEG-4 video is compressed with MPEG-4 video encoding. Audio is compressed using AAC compression.

MPEG is a working group of experts that was formed by ISO and IEC to set standards for audio and video compression and transmission.

Summary:

1. MPEG1/4 are different video encoding decoding formats.

2. MPG is a different codec and container formats

3. MP4 is a container format not a codec

4. Other codec used in .mp4 container is "mpeg-4 part 10" standard called AVC or h.264

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