Difference between revisions of "Dictionary"

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 Some terms used in the area of Audio/Video and there meaning.
-[[Decode]]<br>
+{{stub}}
-[[Encode]]<br>
-[[Transcode]]<br>
-[[Demuxing]]<br>
+===[[Aspect Ratio]]===
-[[Muxing]]<br>
+The ratio of width to height of a video
-[[Packetizing]]<br>
+===[[bitrate]]===
+The number of bits of data to be played per second.
-[[Chroma]]<br>
+===[[Chroma]]===
-[[Deinterlacing]]<br>
+===[[codec]]===
-[[Overlay]]<br>
+A part of the program which understands a type of video or audio.
-[[Post Processing]]<br>
+===[[Decode]]===
-[[Motion Compensation]]<br>
+To understand and play a file, VideoLAN needs to decode it. It does this with a decoder.
-[[IDCT]]<br>
+===[[Deinterlacing]]===
+===[[Demuxing]]===
-[[FourCC]]<br>
+===[[Encode]]===
-[[Sample rate]]<br>
+===[[ES]]===
-[[bitrate]]<br>
+An elementry stream, a single channel of audio, video or subtitles (without a container).
-[[framerate]]<br>
+===[[FourCC]]===
-[[Aspect Ratio]]<br>
+===[[framerate]]===
-[[codec]]<br>
+The number of frames of video displayed (or encoded to be displayed) per second.
+===[[IDCT]]===
-[[PTS]]<br>
+===[[Motion Compensation]]===
-[[PCR]]<br>
+===[[Muxing]]===
-[[ES]]<br>
+===[[Overlay]]===
+Displaying an image on top of the video
+===[[Packetizing]]===
+===[[Post Processing]]===
+===[[PCR]]===
+===[[PTS]]===
+===[[Sample rate]]===
+===[[Transcode]]===
+Transcoding is changing the format of a file.

Revision as of 20:17, 15 January 2006