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...television networking devices. MPEG-4 is designed for “low bandwidth” applications and is common for broadcasting video over the World Wide Web (WWW). (MPEG-3 was subsumed into MPEG-2.) Video compression can achieve compression ratios approaching 20-to-1 with minimal distortion.
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