Abreviations

Formatting video for local playback

Sampling \- The act of taking a portion of one sound recording, the sample, and reusing it as an instrument or element of a new recording.

Stereo Sound \- Audio consisting of two channels, left and right.

Streaming \- A method for making audio, video and other multimedia available in near realtime, that is the user can begin to watch or hear the content of a downloaded media file after only a short delay. Previously it was necessary to download an entire file before playing it.

Transcoding \- Encoding an already compressed data stream to a different codec.

3GP - A multimedia container format defined by 3GPP for use on 3G mobile phones. It is a simplified version of MPEG-4 Part 14 (MP4). 3GP files have the filename extension .3gp or .3g2. 3GP stores video streams as MPEG-4 or H.263, and audio streams as AMR-NB or AAC-LC formats.

3GPP \- 3rd Generation Partnership Project.

3ivx \- A commercial video codec suite that allows the creation of MPEG-4 compliant data streams.

AAC \- Advanced Audio Coding.

AAC-LC\- Advanced Audio Coding. Low Complexity.

AC3 \- Audio File Format.

AIFF \- Audio Interchange File.

AMR \- Adaptive Multi-Rate (NB = NarrowBand, WB = WideBand).

AVI \- Audio Video Interleave Container File.

CBR \- Constant Bit Rate.

DivX \- Video Codec. DivX has the ability to compress lengthy video segments into small sizes while maintaining relatively high visual quality. DivX uses lossy MPEG-4 Part 2 compression.

ETSI \- European Telecommunications Standards Institute.

FLAC \- Free Lossless Audio Codec.

H.263 \- Video Codec. Predecessor of H.264.

H.264 \- Also known as MPEG-4 AVC (Advanced Video Coding), is a video compression standard that offers significantly greater compression than its predecessors, for example, MPEG-4 ASP (Advanced Simple Profile).

M4A \- MPEG-4 Audio Layer.

MOV \- QuickTime Video Clip.

MP3 \- MPEG Audio Stream, Layer 3.

MP4 \- MPEG-4 Video File.

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