Glossary
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Administrator: Person who administers the network, i.e. takes care of setting up and maintaining all components belonging to the network.
AVI: Abbreviation for Audio Video Interleave, a video container file format developed by Microsoft. A single AVI video file can contain several audio, video and text data streams (thus the name container format).
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BMP: Abbreviation for Bitmap, a grid graphics format designed for Microsoft Windows and OS/2 that is wide spread and therefore supported by almost every popular graphics software package without any problems.
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Channel (WLAN): The channel is a certain part of the WLAN frequency band. Devices that want to communicate with each other have to use the same WLAN channel. In Europe the WLAN frequency band is currently divided into 13 channels.
Client: Also referred to as network client; describes an end device such as your TV set that is connected to the network and gets data from a (media) server to make it accessible to the user.
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DHCP: Abbreviation for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. DHCP allows automatic assignment of IP addresses with the aid of a DHCP server.
DHCP server: Network service which takes care of automatic assignment of IP addresses to clients.
DivX: Video Codec which allows even large files to be relatively highly compressed in their file size without having to tolerate important quality losses.
DRM: Digital Rights Management. Processes to control copyright protected data. To be used correctly, DRM protected contents require not only a DRM capable device but also the possession of a license issued by the provider (to be paid for).
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Ethernet: Cable linked data net technology for local networks (LANs). Also covers standards for e.g. plug connectors and transfer speeds.
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Host: Computer that the server services are provided from, i.e. that makes data available. Refer also to media server.
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ID3 tags: Additional information on MP3 files. Here you can save information on the artist, title, album and album cover. This data is then processed by the PC using an ID3 tag editor.
IP address: IP addresses (Internet Protocol Addresses) are used to identify devices in an Internet Protocol (IP) network. IP addresses are made up of four groups of numbers of three digits each.
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JPEG: Joint Photographic Experts Group. A body that has developed a standardised process for compressing digital images. This process JPEG (abbreviated to JPG) that was named after the body is a wide spread graphics format for photos.
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LAN: Abbreviation for Local Area Network. Mainly used as a name for networks with cabling (Ethernet).
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MAC address: Hardware address of a network adapter, e.g. the network card in the PC. It is permanently assigned by the manufacturer and is used to uniquely identify devices in networks.
Mbit/sec: Information about the transfer rate in networks in megabits, i.e. millions of characters per second. With WLAN, the maximum speed is 11 (IEEE 802.11b) or respectively 54 (IEEE 802.11g) Mbit/sec, in wired nets 10 Mbit/sec or 100 Mbit/sec (Fast Ethernet).
Media server: Stands for the device which multimedia contents are stored on, but is also the name for the service provided by the device that makes this data available to the network.
MP3: Data format for compressed audio data.
Multimedia contents: Videos, music files and photos are grouped together under this term.
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NAS: Abbreviation for Network Attached Storage. The term describes a hard disk which is independently linked to the network (i.e. without a PC).
Network Mediaplayer: The technology in your Loewe TV set which presents multimedia contents on the screen for you.
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