Media Get Digital

Media Get Digital	Many phenomena involving humans achieve a significant scale when they are enabled by a standard. This chapters narrates how a global scale phenomenon was triggered is what happened to the first project after the MPEG group was established.
The First MPEG Project	A necessary condition for the development of a public standard is the existence of a group accessible to interested parties. This section recounts the events that led to the definition of the first MPEG project – MPEG-1.
MPEG-1 – Inside	This section gives a bird’s eye view of the technical content of MPEG-1.
MPEG-1 Development – Video	This section describes the development process of MPEG-1 Video.
MPEG-1 Development – Audio	This section describes the development process of MPEG-1 Audio.
MPEG-1 Development – Systems	This section tells the story of the first time media data are put together in a synchronised way using packets and not frames.
MPEG – Reference Software	Software and standards used to be in different worlds. This section narrates the story of how they first became two sides of the same coin.
MPEG-1 – Conformance	Developing standards is the creative part of the story. But if data are generated in a “standard” way, we need a means to assess whether the data are really “standard”. This is what this section is about.
MPEG-1 – Achievements	Some consider MPEG-1 as part of the history of media. This section proves that if MPEG-1 is history, it still has a big impact on our lives.