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Standards comparison chart Body
Standard
Bit-rate
Application
ITU-T
H.261
192Kbps
ISDN-Phone
ISO
MPEG-1
1.5Mbps
CD-ROM
ISO
MPEG-2
4-8Mbps
SDTV, HDTV
ITU-T
H.263
2 Mbps
PSTN-Phone
ISO
MPEG-4
1 Mbps
Streaming, IP
ITU-T /ISO
H.264
< 1Mbps
MMS, cellular systems, IP
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References
ITU-T SG16, Gary Sullivan, ed., “Draft text of Recommendation H.263 Version 2 (“H.263+”) for Decision,” January, 1998. ITU-T Recommendation H.261: “Video codec for audiovisual services at p x 64 kbit/s,” Geneva, 1990, revised at Helsinki, March 1993. ITU-T Recommendation H.263: “Video coding for low bitrate communication,” March 1996. ITU-R Recommendation BT.601-4: “Encoding parameters of digital; television for studios.”