MPEG-2 Program Stream
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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.
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| Extensions | .mpeg.mpg.mod.mp2 |
|---|---|
| MIME types | video/mpegvideo/mp2p |
| Signatures | 000001ba at byte 0 (MPEG-2 Program Stream) |
| PRONOM | x-fmt/386 |
| Wikidata | Q28018471 |
| Library of Congress | fdd000637 |
| Apple UTI | public.mpeg |
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From Converters (FFmpeg, ImageMagick, Pandoc, LibreOffice), PRONOM, Wikidata. Updated 2026-10-20.