Definition: MPV

(MusicPhotoVideo) A playlist standard for music, image and video collections introduced in 2002 by the Optical Storage Technology Association (OSTA). An "MPV Writer" is software that creates the playlist, and an "MPV Reader" is software that can discover and read it. The playlist is a directory that enables sharing of multimedia collections between consumer electronics (CE) devices and PCs on all storage media (CD, DVD, memory card or hard disk). See playlist.