time of the MPEG-4 project in the late 1990s and continuing to the present, MPEG had grown to include approximately 300-500 members per meeting from various industries, universities, and research institutions.

The COVID-19 pandemic caused a general shut-down of physical meetings for many standardization groups, starting in 2020. Following the 129th MPEG meeting of January 2020 in Brussels, MPEG transitioned to holding its meetings as online teleconference events, the first of which was the 130th