Introduction These days MPEG is adapting its working methods at physical meetings to cope with the constraints of the Covid-19 pandemic. But this is not the first time that MPEG does works, and excellent one, without the help of physical meetings. This article will talk about this first and indispensable attempt at developing standards outside of regular MPEG meetings. Compression is a basic need In the early 2000, MPEG received an unexpected, but in hindsight obvious proposal. MPEG-4 defines several…