Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG)-1

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Description:	Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG)-1 defines a coding standard of moving pictures and associated audio for digital storage media at up to about 1.5 Mbit/s. MPEG-1 is a standard for lossy compression of video and audio. This standard is designed to compress Video Home System (VHS) quality raw digital video and compact disc (CD) audio down to 1.5 Mbit/s (26:1 and 6:1 compression ratios respectively) without excessive quality loss, making video CDs, digital cable/satellite television (TV) and digital audio broadcasting (DAB) possible. This standard is published as International Organization for Standardization/International Electrotechnical Commission (ISO/IEC) 11172.
Technology/Standard Usage Requirements:	Users must ensure their use of this technology/standard is consistent with VA policies and standards, including, but not limited to, VA Handbooks 6102 and 6500; VA Directives 6004, 6513, and 6517; and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) standards, including Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS). Users must ensure sensitive data is properly protected in compliance with all VA regulations. Prior to use of this technology, users should check with their supervisor, Information Security Officer (ISO), Facility Chief Information Officer (CIO), or local Office of Information and Technology (OI&T) representative to ensure that all actions are consistent with current VA policies and procedures prior to implementation.
Section 508 Information:	This product is accessible. It is 508-compliant and needs no further assessment before use in VA. For additional information or assistance regarding Section 508, please contact the Section 508 Office at Section508@va.gov. Please see reference tab for more information concerning product versions.
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Decision Source:	TRM Mgmt Group
Decision Process:	One-VA TRM v22.11
Decision Date:	11/01/2022 at 15:15:03 UTC
Introduced By:	TRMSP
Standards Body:	ISO

Vendor Release Information

The Vendor Release table provides the known releases for the TRM Industry Standard, obtained from the vendor (or from the release source).

Version	Release Date	Vendor End of Life Date	Vendor Desupport Date
1993 (Part 1, 2, 3)	08/12/1993
1995 (Part 4)	03/02/1995
1998 (Part 5)	10/29/1998
2007 (Part 5)	08/12/2007

Current Decision Matrix (10/17/2022)

Users must ensure their use of this technology/standard is consistent with VA policies and standards, including, but not limited to, VA Handbooks 6102 and 6500; VA Directives 6004, 6513, and 6517; and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) standards, including Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS). Users must ensure sensitive data is properly protected in compliance with all VA regulations. Prior to use of this technology, users should check with their supervisor, Information Security Officer (ISO), Facility Chief Information Officer (CIO), or local Office of Information and Technology (OI&T) representative to ensure that all actions are consistent with current VA policies and procedures prior to implementation.

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Release/Version Information:

VA decisions for specific versions may include a ‘.x’ wildcard, which denotes a decision that pertains to a range of multiple versions.

For example, a technology approved with a decision for 7.x would cover any version of 7.(Anything) - 7.(Anything). However, a 7.4.x decision would cover any version of 7.4.(Anything), but would not cover any version of 7.5.x or 7.6.x on the TRM.

VA decisions for specific versions may include ‘+’ symbols; which denotes that the decision for the version specified also includes versions greater than what is specified but is not to exceed or affect previous decimal places.

For example, a technology approved with a decision for 12.6.4+ would cover any version that is greater than 12.6.4, but would not exceed the .6 decimal ie: 12.6.401 is ok, 12.6.5 is ok, 12.6.9 is ok, however 12.7.0 or 13.0 is not.

Release	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4
<Past	CY2023				CY2024				CY2025				Future>
1993 (Part 1, 2, 3)	Unapproved	Unapproved	Unapproved	Unapproved	Unapproved	Unapproved	Unapproved	Unapproved	Unapproved	Unapproved	Unapproved	Unapproved
1995 (Part 4)	Unapproved	Unapproved	Unapproved	Unapproved	Unapproved	Unapproved	Unapproved	Unapproved	Unapproved	Unapproved	Unapproved	Unapproved
1998 (Part 5)	Unapproved	Unapproved	Unapproved	Unapproved	Unapproved	Unapproved	Unapproved	Unapproved	Unapproved	Unapproved	Unapproved	Unapproved
2007 (Part 5)	Approved	Approved	Approved	Approved	Approved	Approved	Approved	Approved	Approved	Approved	Approved	Approved
Note:	At the time of writing, version 2007 (Part 5) is the most current version, released 08/23/2007.

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Standard Components

Note: This list may not be complete. No component, listed or unlisted, may be used outside of the technology in which it is released. The usage decision for a component is found in the Decision and Decision Constraints.
Source	Name	Description
ISO/IEC 11172-1	Part 1: Systems	This document specifies the system layer of the coding. The specification was developed principally to support the combination of the video and audio coding methods defined in ISO/IEC 11172-2 and ISO/IEC 11172-3. The system layer supports the following basic functions: the synchronization of multiple compressed streams on playback, the interleaving of multiple compressed streams into a single stream, the initialization of buffering for playback start up, continuous buffer management, and time identification.
ISO/IEC 11172-2	Part 2: Video	This document specifies the coded representation of video for digital storage media and the decoding process. It is primarily applicable to digital storage media supporting a continuous transfer rate up to about 1,5 Mbit/s, such as compact disc, digital audio tape, and magnetic hard disc, and for non-interlaced video formats having approximately 288 lines of 352 pels and picture rates around 24 Hz to 30 Hz. Nevertheless it can be used more widely than this because of the generic approach taken.
ISO/IEC 11172-3	Part 3: Audio	This document specifies the coded representation of high quality audio for storage media and the method for decoding of high quality audio signals. It is intended for application to digital storage media providing a total continuous transfer rate of about 1,5 Mbit/s for both audio and video bitstreams, such as Compact Discs (CD), Digital Audio Tape (DAT) and magnetic hard disc, and for sampling rates of 32 kHz, 44,1 kHz, and 48 kHz.
ISO/IEC 11172-4	Part 4: Compliance testing	This document specifies how tests can be designed to verify whether bitstreams and decoders meet requirements specified in parts 1, 2 and 3 of ISO/IEC 11172. It summarizes the requirements, cross references them to characteristics, and defines how compliance with them can be tested. It gives guidelines on how to construct tests and determine their outcome. It also defines some actual tests only for audio.
ISO/IEC 11172-5	Part 5: Software Simulation	This document specifies how coding of moving pictures and associated audio for digital storage media at up to about 1,6 Mbit/s.

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Domain Area	Category	Customer Guidance	Category Locked By ELT Date
Collaboration and Electronic Workplace Productivity Software	Multimedia Software

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General Analysis

Adoption Benefits

This is a mature standard.
This is a well-documented standard.
This standard is widely implemented by the various technologies for video playback.
This standard`s low bit rate and small file sizes are useful when users must fit multiple hours of video onto a Digital Versatile Disc (DVD) and do not require the broadcast quality of MPEG-2 encoding.
At the time of writing, no National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) vulnerabilities had been reported and no VA Cyber Security Operations Center (CSOC) bulletins had been issued for the latest versions of this standard.

Adoption Risks

This standard strictly defines the bitstream and decoder function but does not define how the encoding is to be performed, although a reference implementation is provided. This means that coding efficiency can drastically vary depending on the encoder used, and generally means that newer encoders perform significantly better than their predecessors.

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