Glossary

A

• AAC (advanced audio coding)
• adaptive bitrate streaming
• aspect ratio
• autoplay

B

• bit depth
• bitrate
• buffer/buffering
• bumper

C

• captions
• chyron
• clipping
• cloud video platform
• cloud video streaming
• codec
• controls

D

• DCT compression
• DVR
• dithering

E

• embed

F

• ffmpeg
• framerate/frames per second (fps)

G

• gamma correction

H

• H.261
• H.263
• H.264
• H.265
• HDR
• HTTP Live Streaming (HLS)
• hosting

I

• ingest
• instant replay
• inter-frame compression

J

K

L

• latency
• loop
• lossy compression

M

• manifest file
• moderation
• mp4
• muted

N

O

• OTT (over the top)

P

• poster
• preload

Q

R

• RTMP (Real Time Messaging Protocol)
• rate limit
• run-length encoding

S

• startup time

T

• thumbnail
• transcoding
• transmuxing
• trimming

U

V

• Video Compression
• Video frame rate
• Video resolution
• VoD (Video on Demand)
• video encoding
• video platform
• video player
• video streaming api

W

• watermarking

X

Y

Z