< compression , standard , algorithm , file format > A proposed variant of the MPEG video and audio compression algorithm and file format. MPEG-3 was intended as an extension of MPEG-2 to cater for HDTV but was eventually merged into MPEG-2.
Not to be confused with MP3 - MPEG-1 layer 3 .
[Technical details?]
(1999-01-06)