H.262 or MPEG-2 Part 2 (formally known as ITU-T Recommendation H.262 and ISO/IEC 13818-2, also known as MPEG-2 Video) is a video coding format standardised and jointly maintained by ITU-T Study Group 16 Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG) and ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG), and developed with the involvement of many companies. It is the second part of the ISO/IEC MPEG-2 standard. The ITU-T Recommendation H.262 and ISO/IEC 13818-2 documents are identical.
The standard is available for a fee from the ITU-T
History
The ISO/IEC approval process was completed in November 1994. The first edition was approved in July 1995 and published by ITU-T Didier LeGall of Bellcore chaired the development of the standard and Sakae Okubo of NTT was the ITU-T coordinator and chaired the agreements on its requirements.
The technology was developed with contributions from a number of companies. Hyundai Electronics (now SK Hynix) developed the first MPEG-2 SAVI (System/Audio/Video) decoder in 1995.
The majority of patents that were later asserted in a patent pool to be essential for implementing the standard came from three companies: Sony (311 patents), Thomson (198 patents) and Mitsubishi Electric (119 patents).
In 1996, it was extended by two amendments to include the registration of copyright identifiers and the 4:2:2 Profile. ITU-T published these amendments in 1996 and ISO in 1997. The most recent edition of the standard was published in 2013 and incorporates all prior amendments.
| ISO/IEC 13818-2:2000
| H.262 (02/00)
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| Third edition
| 2013
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| ISO/IEC 13818-2:2013