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Tektronix provides test and measurement instruments, solutions and services for the computer, semiconductor, military/aerospace, consumer electronics and education industries worldwide.
a) Microsoft’s interface for controlling multimedia devices such as a CD-ROM player or a video playback application.
b) A high-level control interface to multimedia devices and resource files that provides software applications with device-independent control of audio and video peripherals. MCI provides a standard command for playing and recording multimedia devices and resource files. MCI is a platformindependent layer between multimedia applications and system lower-level software. The MCI command set is extensible inasmuch as it can be incorporated in new systems via drivers and can support special features of multimedia systems or file formats. MCI includes commands like open, play, and close.
Industry:Software
Intel’s latest compressor and decompressor for digital video, incorporating such special features as transparency, scalability, and local decode. See Indeo Video, Local Decode, Scalability, Transparency.
Industry:Software
a) A term used to describe the chaining of a video signal through several video devices (distribution amplifiers, VCRs, monitors, etc.).
A VCR may be hooked up to a distribution amplifier which is supplied with a video input connector and a loop output connector. When a signal is fed to the distribution amplifier, it is also fed unprocessed to the loop output connector (parallel connection) on the distribution amplifier. In turn, the same signal is fed to another device which is attached to the first one and so on. Thus a very large number of VCRs or other video devices can be looped together for multiple processing. b) An input that includes two connectors.
One connector accepts the input signal, and the other connector is used as an output for connecting the input signal to another piece of equipment or to a monitor.
Industry:Software
a) A group of stations connected together for common broadcast or common business purposes; multiple circuits. b) A group of computers and other devices (such as printers) that can all communicate with each other electronically to transfer and share information. c) A collection of MPEG-2 Transport Stream (TS) multiplexes transmitted on a single delivery system, e.g., all digital channels on a specific cable system.
Industry:Software
a) An undesirable random signal variation with respect to time. A tendency toward lack of synchronization of the picture. It may refer to individual lines in the picture or to the entire field of view. b) A rapid, small shift in image position characteristic of film projection. Projection jitter can reduce the apparent resolution of film.
Industry:Software
The process of converting data from one type of media to another for premastering and mastering. Premastering software typically requires input data on hard disk.
Industry:Software
The Indeo-C was a compression algorithm in the Personal Conferencing Specification (PCS) from the Personal Conferencing Work Group (PCWG), which was an industry group led by Intel. Due to lacking support by the industry, the PCWG dropped the PCS, and has now consolidated with International Multimedia Teleconferencing Consortium (IMTC) which supports ITU-T Red. H.320 videoconferencing. The Indeo-C algorithm did not use vector quantizing, as in Indeo, or a hybrid wavelet-based algorithm, as in Indeo Video Interactive, but used a transform coding called Fast Slant Transform (FST). An FST calculates frequency coefficients of picture blocks, like the DCT used in MPEG, but requires less computational power. Both intra-frame and inter-frame coding with motion estimation was applied in Indeo-C and finally, run-length and Huffman coding.
Industry:Software
The individual responsible for setting up, maintaining, and troubleshooting the network, and for supplying setup information to system administrators of each system.
Industry:Software
The variation in phase of the bit rate clock expressed as a percent of the bit period.
Industry:Software
