21 Terms
Contributors in Video
Video
Aperture, safe action
Entertainment; Video
As defined by a test pattern, a safe action aperture indicates the safe action image area within which all significant action must take place, and the safe title image area, within which the most ...
Application
Entertainment; Video
An application runs in a module, communicating with the host, and provides facilities to the user over and above those provided directly by the host. An application may process the transport stream.
Application specific integrated circuit (ASIC)
Entertainment; Video
An integrated circuit designed for special, rather than general, applications.
Application window
Entertainment; Video
The workspace (window) available to an application. The size can be adjusted by the user and limited only by the size of the monitor's display.
Archive
Entertainment; Video
A) Off-line storage of video/audio onto backup tapes, floppy disks, optical disks, etc. b) A collection of several files bundled into one file by a programme (such as ar, tar, bar, or cpio) for ...
Arithmetic and logic unit (ALU)
Entertainment; Video
One of three essential components of a microprocessor. The other two are the registers and the control block. The ALU performs various forms of addition, subtraction, and logic operations, such as ...
Arithmetic coding
Entertainment; Video
Perhaps the major drawback to each of the Huffman encoding techniques is their poor performance when processing texts where one symbol has a probability of occurrence approaching unity. Although the ...
