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.
Abreviations
3GP - A multimedia container format defined by 3GPP for use on 3G mobile phones. It is a simplified version of
3GPP \- 3rd Generation Partnership Project.
3ivx \- A commercial video codec suite that allows the creation of
AAC \- Advanced Audio Coding.
AC3 \- Audio File Format.
AIFF \- Audio Interchange File.
AMR \- Adaptive
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
ETSI \- European Telecommunications Standards Institute.
FLAC \- Free Lossless Audio Codec.
H.263 \- Video Codec. Predecessor of H.264.
H.264 \- Also known as
M4A \-
MOV \- QuickTime Video Clip.
MP3 \- MPEG Audio Stream, Layer 3.
MP4 \-
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