he article “The tricks to MPEG's success” from the Windows Magazine focuses our attention on the most common system for the compression of video – MPEG. The video is divided to different components. The data which you get from CD-Rom include video and audio components. It is interesting to note that compressed video contain 3 different frames. I-Frame which is created for data compression, P-Frame which store data and B-frame for the difference detection among frames. The author gives the step by step description of MPEG system compression.