Friday, 7 October 2011

Glossary Of Terms


Key Term
Describe & Explain the meaning of each term give examples where appropriate
Video formats, eg. mov, avi, mod, wmv
xvid
vob
m4v
mp4
Different layers of video transmission and storage. Different files have their own format depending where you save it from.
Streaming
Radio
Television
Internet television
Multimedia is constantly received by and presented to an end user while being delivered by a streaming provider.
File compression
7-zip
winrar
Lets you reduce the overall number of bits and bytes in a file so it can be transmitted faster over slower internet connections or take up less space on your computer/disk.
Aspect ratios: 4:3, 16:9
Aspect ratio of an image is the ratio of the width of the image to its height expressed as two numbers separated by a colon.
Frame rates
Frame frequency
FPS
The rate of which an imaging device produces unique consecutive images called frames, mostly expressed in frames per second.

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