Often overlooked, MPEG-2 defines two container formats:
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, countries began transitioning from analog to digital terrestrial television. MPEG2 was the mandatory codec for DVB (Europe) and ATSC (North America). Your local TV station broadcast "The Tonight Show" or "60 Minutes" over the air using an MPEG2 transport stream (.ts files). Because of this, MPEG2 became synonymous with "broadcast quality." Often overlooked, MPEG-2 defines two container formats: In