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Day: September 30, 2022

Software Development Kit

Software Development Kit is a set of software tools, guidelines and programs used by programmers and developers to create applications for a specific platform.

Start-Over

The ability for a viewer to rewind to the start/beginning of a program which is currently being broadcast and play it in a timeshifted fashion.

Tokenized URL

URL that has a token to control access to the resource specified by the URL. Token is the signature mechanism for URL to manage access control in this context.

Trick Play

Trick play is a feature of digital video systems that mimic the visual feedback given during fast-forward, pause and rewind operations that were provided by analog systems, such as VCRs and in multiple speeds.

Unicast

Unicast delivery in IP networks involves a 1:1 data transmission scheme where one host or endpoint is communicating with one other host or endpoint exclusively.  Contrast with broadcast or multicast transmission models. Unicast has been heavily used in video with the arrival of ABR streaming, leveraging the HTTP protocol.

Transport Stream

Transport Stream is a container format encapsulating packetized elementary streams of audio, video and other data for transmission and storage purposes. It is the main format in digital satellite, cable and IPTV.

URL Tokenization

The process by which a token is generated and applied to the URL within the HTTP structure.