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Motion JPEG (M-JPEG) is a video codec where each video field is separately compressed into a JPEG image. The resulting quality of intraframe video compression is independent from the motion in the image which differs from MPEG video where quality often decreases when footage contains lots of movement. In addition, it makes video editing easier, as cuts may begin on any frame, not only on the beginning of a group of frames. JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) is a standard for storing and compressing digital images. Motion-JPEG extends this standard by supporting videos. In motion-JPEG, each frame in the video is stored with the JPEG format.

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