Advanced Video Coding
Video compression standard, published in 2004, with the goal to succeed MPEG-2/H.262 by reducing bitrate up to 50% while maintaining the same perceptual video quality (PVQ).
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CMAF Fragment
Smallest referenceable unit in CMAF containing at least a MovieFragmentBox (moof) and a MediaDataBox (mdat) atom.
Read articleCMAF Segment
A sequence of one or more consecutive fragments from the same track.
Read articleDynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP
Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP is an MPEG international standard to enable non-proprietary ABR media streaming using fMP4 containers and any codec format.
Read articleEncoder Boundary Point (EBP)
Encoder Boundary Point (EBP) is used by the ABR transcoder to signal segment boundaries that are used by the packager downstream to generate the segment files. Standardized by…
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Hardware or software that encodes or decodes a data stream (e.g. audio, video, closed captions).
Read articleFragmented MP4 (fMP4)
Fragmented MP4 (fMP4) is an MP4 container with its media logically partitioned into moof-mdat pairs (fragments). fMP4 can be one .mp4 file (all fragments) streamed using byte-range requests…
Read articleHigh Efficiency Video Codec
Video compression standard, published in 2013, with the goal to succeed AVC/H.264 by reducing bitrate up to 50% while maintaining the same perceptual video quality (PVQ).
Read articleHTTP Live Streaming
HTTP Live Streaming is an Apple standard for ABR media streaming using fMP4 or MPEG-TS containers and H.264 or H.265 video codecs.
Read articleLow-Latency Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (LL-DASH)
Low-Latency Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (LL-DASH) is an extension of the MPEG-DASH protocol designed to minimize latency in video streaming. While both LL-DASH and DASH are based…
Read articleLow-latency HTTP Live Streaming (LL-HLS)
Low-latency HTTP Live Streaming (LL-HLS) is an extension of the HLS protocol designed to minimize latency in video streaming. While both LL-HLS and HLS are based on similar…
Read articleManifest
A manifest refers to a text file that describes other files that can be fetched as part of Adaptive Bitrate Streaming (ABR). A master manifest is a text…
Read articleMicrosoft Smooth Streaming (MSS)
Microsoft Smooth Streaming (MSS) is a technology developed by Microsoft for adaptive bitrate streaming of media content over HTTP.
Read articleVertical Blanking Interval (VBI)
Vertical Blanking Interval (VBI) is a period of time within the vertical blanking period of a video signal. It is a fundamental component of analog television and some…
Read articleVertical Interval Timecode (VITC)
Vertical Interval Timecode (VITC) is a method of encoding timecode information into the VBI of a video signal, typically an analog video signal like NTSC or PAL. VITC…
Read articleVorbis
Vorbis is an open-source royalty-free audio compression format developed as a replacement for proprietary audio encoding formats such as MP3 and AAC.
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