Monday, 17 October 2011

Glossary of media terms

Video Formats: Video Formats are the formats on which the video is shown, e.g. Windows Media, Blue Ray, avi.
Layers of video transmission and storage, each with its own set of formats to choose from. A song and the format of a file is MP3, MPEG-4

Streaming media is multimedia that is constantly received by and presented to an end-user while being delivered by a streaming provider. Also when videos and pictures are put on the Internet for people to look at, e.g. YouTube, Facebook, Google, uses Bluetooth to send songs, pictures, to another person.


File compression is mainly used when sending a file from one computer to another using a connection that has limited bandwidth. The compression makes the file smaller therefore, sending the file is faster or so it can be uploaded to websites like YouTube For example sending a picture or video to another computer.

Aspect Ratios: Aspect Ratios refer to the width of the picture/screen in relation to it’s height. It is expressed in the form “Width x Height”

Frame Rate is the frequency or rate, which an imaging device produces a unique consecutive images called frames. Which is used in animation such programs like pivot.

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