This document provides an overview of several video compression standards including MPEG-1/2, MPEG-4, H.264, and HEVC/H.265. It discusses the key concepts of video coding such as entropy coding, quantization, transformation, and intra- and inter-prediction. For each standard, it describes the main coding tools and improvements over previous standards, focusing on techniques for more efficient prediction and extraction of redundant spatial and temporal information while maintaining quality. The development of these standards has moved towards more fine-grained partitioning and new coding ideas and tools to reduce bitrates further.