Digital Video Advertising
Advertising that appears before, during or after digital video content in a video player (i.e., pre-roll, mid-roll, post-roll video ads). Digital video ads include TV commercials online and…
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Domain Name Server
A server that provides Domain Name Service (DNS) resolution. Primarily for mapping human-significant names to IP addresses. There are some other data/functions enabled by DNS as well.
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Digital Right Management
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The 2nd generation of DVB digital satellite broadcast.
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The 2nd generation of DVB digital terrestrial broadcast.
Read articleDynamic Ad Insertion
Dynamic Ad Insertion (DAI) is a server-side technology that enables publishers to insert video ads, typically targeted to an individual or household, into live linear programming and video…
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Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP is an MPEG international standard to enable non-proprietary ABR media streaming using fMP4 containers and any codec format.
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A server used for temporary storage of content in multiple locations close to the viewer clients.
Read articleElectronic Programming Guide (EPG)
Electronic Programming Guide (EPG) is a digital guide that displays information about current and upcoming content on cable, satellite or streaming channels. At a glance an EPG will…
Read articleEncoded Bitrate
Encoded Bitrate is the bitrate of the compressed (i.e. during ABR encode/transcode) audio or video media objects, each Bitrate level representing different quality levels in ABR. The concept…
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).
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Encryption is the method by which information is transformed using a secret key that hides the data and protects confidentiality of the data.
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Hostname of an Edge server that end users use to request a file
Read articleEntertainment ID Registry
The Entertainment ID Registry (EIDR) is a universal unique identifier system for a broad array of audio visual objects across the entertainment supply chain. EIDR Association is a…
Read articleEntity Relationship Model
A type of conceptual data model that represents structured data in terms of entities and relationships. An entity relationship diagram can be used to visually represent information objects…
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Electronic Sell-Through – The purchase, rather than rental, of a title.
Read articleEvent Message (emsg)
Event Message (emsg) boxes are often used to carry proprietary metadata since no standardised methods include a latency timestamp.
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