A p p e n d i c e s
MPEG Compression
Moving Pictures Experts Goup - An organization under the International Standards Organization which is tasked with generating standards for digital video and audio data compression.
MPEG-1
The first standard developed by MPEG which defined coding for a combined
MPEG-2
The second standard developed by MPEG which defined coding for a combined audio- visual signal at a rate of 6.0Mbit/sec. It is intended to process video with a source resolu- tion of 720 x 480 pixels at 30 frames/sec, the resolution of broadcast television.
A standard for MIDI interfaces and connectors.
NTSC
National TV Standards Commission. The standard for TV broadcast and reception for the USA.
Operating System
A group of control programs that convert application commands,including driver programs,into the exact form required by a specific brand and model of microprocessor in order to produce the desired results from that particular equipment.
PAL
Phase Alternation by Line. The standard for color television in Western Europe and most of Asia and Africa..
Parallel Port
A connection to another device through which data is transferred as a block of bits simultane- ously with a wire for each bit in the block and with other wires only for control of the device not for transfer of data.
Partition
A block of space on a hard disk which is set aside and made to appear to the operating sys- tem as if it were a separate disk and is addressed by the operating system accordingly.
PCMCIA
PCMCIA is a trademark of the Personal Computer Memory Card International Association. The Personal Computer Memory Card International Association is an organiza- tion that sets standards for
Peripheral Device
A piece of equipment which performs a specific function associated with but not integral to a computer. Examples: a printer, a modem,
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