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a

  • AAC (Advanced Audio Coding)
  • ABR (Adaptive Bitrate)
  • AC-3
  • AOM (Alliance for Open Media)
  • AV1
  • AVC (Advanced Video Coding)
  • Aspect Ratio

b

  • Beacon
  • Bitrate
  • Breakdown (data)
  • Buffering

c

  • CBR (Constant Bitrate)
  • CDM (Content Decryption Module)
  • CDN (Content Delivery Network)
  • CENC
  • Cache
  • Clipping
  • Codec
  • Content Management System (CMS)

d

  • DAM (Digital Asset Management)
  • DASH
  • DRM (Digital Rights Management)
  • DRM License
  • Decoding
  • Demultiplexing / Demuxing
  • Demuxed
  • Dimension
  • Dimension Value
  • Dolby Digital
  • Dolby Digital Plus

e

  • EME (Encrypted Media Extensions)
  • Edge
  • Encoding
  • eAC-3

f

  • FFmpeg
  • Filter (data)

g

h

  • H.264
  • H.265
  • HDCP
  • HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding)
  • HLS (HTTP Live Streaming)
  • HLSe
  • HTML5

i

  • Ingest

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m

  • MPEG
  • MPEG DASH
  • MSE (Media Source Extensions)
  • Manifest
  • Midroll
  • Multi-CDN
  • Multiplexing / Muxing
  • m3u8

n

o

  • OVP (Online Video Platform)
  • On2 Technologies
  • Opus
  • Origin

p

  • Per-title encoding
  • Postroll
  • Preroll

q

  • QoE (Quality of Experience)
  • QoS (Quality of Service)

r

  • RTMP pass-through
  • Rebuffering
  • Rendition
  • Resolution

s

  • Splicing
  • Stitching

t

  • Transcoding

u

  • UGC (User Generated Content)

v

  • VBR (Variable Bitrate)
  • VP8
  • VP9
  • Video API
  • VoD (Video on Demand)
  • Vorbis

w

  • WebM
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