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MPEG-2 was designed for coding interlaced images at transmission rates above 4 million bits per second. MPEG-2 is used for digital TV broadcast and DVD. An MPEG-2 player can handle MPEG-1 data as well. MPEG-1 and -2 define techniques for compressing digital video by factors varying from 25:1 to 50:1. The compression is achieved using five different compression techniques: - The use of a frequency-based transform called Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT). - Quantization, a technique for losing selective information (sometimes known as lossy compression) that can be acceptably lost from visual information. - Huffman coding, a technique of lossless compression that uses code tables based on statistics about the encoded data. - Motion compensated predictive coding, in which the differences in what has changed between an image and its preceding image are calculated and only the differences are encoded. - Bi-directional prediction, in which some images are predicted from the pictures immediately preceding and following the image. The first three techniques are also used in JPEG file compression. A proposed MPEG-3 standard, intended for High Definition TV (HDTV), was merged with the MPEG-2 standard when it became apparent that the MPEG-2 standard met the HDTV requirements. MPEG-4 is a much more ambitious standard and addresses speech and video synthesis, fractal geometry, computer visualization, and an artificial intelligence (AI) approach to reconstructing images. MPEG-4 addresses a standard way for authors to create and define the media objects in a multimedia presentation, how these can be synchronized and related to each other in transmission, and how users are to be able to interact with the media objects. MPEG-21 provides a larger, architectural framework for the creation and delivery of multimedia. It defines seven key elements: Digital item declaration Digital item identification and declaration Content handling and usage Intellectual property management and protection Terminals and networks Content representation Event reporting The details of various parts of the MPEG-21 framework are in various draft stages. 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