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Glossary
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Q
QoS Video
8
8K Resolution
2
2160p
2K Resolution
7
720x480
4
4K Bitrate
6
640x480
1
1080p
1:1 Aspect Ratio
16:9
X
XCF File
3
3GP
A
AAC (advanced audio coding)
AAF File
Adaptive Bitrate Streaming
Adaptive Images
Adaptive Metadata
AI Super Resolution
Animated AVIF
Anisotropic Diffusion
Anti Aliasing
API Rate Limiting
APNG File Format
ASF File
Aspect Ratio
Asset Library
Asset Taxonomy
Asynchronous Video
Automatic Cropping
AVOD
B
B-Frames
Bicubic Interpolation
Bilinear Interpolation
Binarization
Binary Image
Bit depth
Bitmap
Bitonal Image
Bitrate
Bitrate Control
Bitrate Ladder
Bounding Box
Brand Asset Library
Brand Assets
Buffer
Bumper
BVOD
C
Cache Busting
Cache Hit Ratio
Caching images
Captions
CBR vs VBR
CDN Caching
CDN Edge Server
CDN multiple domains
CDN Security
CENC Encryption
Chroma Key
Chroma Subsampling
Cinemagraphs
Clipping Path
Cloud Content Management
Cloud Transcoding
Cloud Video Streaming
Clustering-Based Segmentation
Codecs
Color Image Processing
Color Quantization
Common Intermediate Format
Common Media Application Format (CMAF)
Compositing
Compression Artifacts
Content Caching
Content Review Process
Content Scraping
Creative Assets
CSS Outline Radius
CSS percentages
CSS Width Property
D
DAM storage
DAM Vendor
DAM Workflow
DAT File
DCT compression
DDS file
Deconvolution
Deinterlacing
Demuxing
Device Pixel Ratio
DIB File
Digital Asset Management API
Digital Asset Management Version Control
Digital Asset Platform
Digital Assets
Digital Content Management
Digital Rights Management (DRM)
Distorted Video
Dithering
DivX File
DRM Encryption
Drop Frame
Dynamic Metadata
Dynamic Text
E
ECW File
Edge-Based Segmentation
Edge Detection
Edge-Preserving Smoothing
Edge Server
Embed HLS
Embedded Images
Embedded Metadata
Encoding
Encoding Ladder
Encrypted Media Extensions
Entropy Coding
EXR File
F
F4V
Fallback Image
FFmpeg
FFprobe
File Management System
File Structures
Foveated Imaging
Fragmented MP4
Frame Interpolation
Frame Rates & FPS
FVOD
G
Gamma Correction
Gaussian Blur
GIFV
Global Server Load Balancing
Group of Pictures
H
H.261
H.266
HDR
HDS Streaming
Histogram Equalization
Histogram Thresholding
HLS Streaming
Hosting
I
ICNS File
Image Acquisition
Image Aliasing
Image Annotation
Image Cache Server
Image Captioning
Image Carousels
Image Classification
Image Compression Algorithms
Image Contrast Enhancement
Image Convolution
Image Degradation
Image Derivative
Image Dithering
Image editing API
Image Flattening
Image Interlacing
Image Masking
Image Metadata
Image Recognition
Image Registration
Image Representation
Image Retrieval
Image segmentation
Image Sitemap
Image Synthesis
Image Tagging
Image Thresholding
Image-to-Image Translation
Image URL
Image Watermarking
Indexed Color
Instance Segmentation
Inter-Frame Compression
Interlaced GIF
Interlaced Video
Inverse Telecine
J
Interactive Video
J2C File
J2K File
Jaggies
JFIF
JPC File
JPEG XR
JPEG XS
JPEG XT
JPF File
JPM file
JPX File
K
Keyframe Interval
L
Latency
Lossy Compression
M
M2TS File
M2V File
M4P File
M4S Format
Macroblock
Marketing Asset Management
Media Asset Management Software
Media Assets
Media Objects
Media URL
Median Filter
Megapixel
Metadata
Metadata Standard
Metadata Tagging
Midroll
Morphological Image Processing
Motion Compensation
Motion Estimation
Motion Graphics
MOV File
MP1 File
MP2 File
MPD File
MPEG Compression
MPEG-TS
MPG File
MPJEG
MPO File
MTS File
Multi-Label Image Classification
Multisampling
Muted Attribute
Muxing
Moderation
N
Native Resolution
Native Video
Nearest Neighbor Interpolation
Next Gen Formats
O
Object Detection
Origin Servers
Over the Top Video
P
360p
P-Frame
Panoptic Segmentation
PBM File
Per-Title Encoding
PFM File
PGF File
PGM File
Pixel Replication
Pixelization
PNM File Format
PPM File
Progressive Images
Progressive Rendering
Progressive Scan
R
Radiance HDR
Raster Files
Rasterization
Rate-Distortion Optimization
Rate limit
RAW File
Real-Time Video
Rebuffering
Refresh Rate
Region-Based Segmentation
Region Growing
Remuxing
RIFF File
RMVB
RTMP Pass-Through
RTMP vs. RTSP
RTSP
Run-length Encoding
S
SDK
Semantic Segmentation
Server-Side Rendering
Shoppable Video
Slice-Based Encoding
Social Media Asset Management
SPA (Single-page application)
Spatial Compression
Spatial Resolution
Startup Time
Static Assets
Static Content
Subpixel
Supersampling
SVGZ File
SWF file
T
Temporal Compression
Temporal Video Segmentation
Text-to-Image Model
Threshold Segmentation
Thumbnails
Time To First Byte
Transmuxing
Transrating
TS File
TVOD
Two-Pass Encoding
U
Ultra Low Latency Video Streaming
Unsharp Masking
User-Generated Video
V
Variable Bit Rate
VC-1
Video Alt Text
Video Aspect Ratio
Video Autoplay
Video Bandwidth
Video Chunk
Video Clipping
Video Compression
Video Content Management System
Video Controls
Video Editing API
Video Embed
Video Engagement
Video Fingerprinting
Video Frame Rates
Video Ingest
Video Loop
Video Manifest
Video Metadata
Video on Demand
Video Posters
Video Preload
Video Proxies
Video Rendering
Video Rendition
Video Resolutions
Video Scaling
Video Segmentation
Video Sitemap
Video Streaming API
VP9 Codec
W
Watershed Segmentation
Wavelet Compression
WebVTT
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