Dictionary

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Some terms used in the area of Audio/Video and there meaning.

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Aspect Ratio

The ratio of width to height of a video

bitrate

The number of bits of data to be played per second.

Chroma

codec

A part of the program which understands a type of video or audio.

Decode

To understand and play a file, VideoLAN needs to decode it. It does this with a decoder.

Deinterlacing

Demuxing

Encode

ES

An elementry stream, a single channel of audio, video or subtitles (without a container).

FourCC

framerate

The number of frames of video displayed (or encoded to be displayed) per second.

IDCT

Motion Compensation

Muxing

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.