• glossary

Glossary

Welcome to MediaPortal's wiki glossary. Here you will find detailed explanations of the terminology used when configuring and using this great software.

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• 1080i/p

• 16:9

• 3ivX

• 4:3

• 480i

• 480p

• 5.1 Audio

• 720p

• AA - Anti-aliasing

• AAC - Advanced Audio Coding

• ?AACS - Advanced Access Content System

• AC-3

• AC3 Filter

• AC'97

• Add-ons (plugins)

• ?Advanced Access Content System

• Advanced Streaming Format

• Advanced Stream Redirector

• Advanced Television Systems Committee

• AFAIK - As Far As I Know

• Aliasing

• ?Analog

• Anamorphic widescreen

• Anti-aliasing

• Artifact

• ASF

• Aspect ratio

• ASX

• ATSC

• Audio taper

• Audio Codec '97

• Audio Video Interleaved

• AVI

• Back buffer format

• ?Balloon tips

• BASS Audio Library

• BDA

• Bitrate

• ?Blu-ray

• bps

• Broadcast Driver Architecture

• ?C#

• Capturecard

• CBR

• CDDB

• CFRC

• Cinematic Frame Rate Conversion

• Coax

• Codec

• ?Codec pack

• Common Interface

• Component video

• Composite video

• ?Compositing

• Compression

• Content recording

• ?Concurring Versioning System

• Constant Bit Rate

• Content Scrambling System

• ?CRT

• ?C-Sharp

• CSS

• ?CVS

• Daemon Tools

• DD - Dolby Digital

• Deinterlace

• ?Stencil Buffer Format

• Digital Visual Interface

• DirectShow

• ?DirectX

• DivX

• ?DTS

• DVB

• ?DVB-C

• ?DVB-S

• DVB-T

• DVD

• DVI

• DVR

• ?DVR-MR

• DxVA

• ?EDTV

• Electronic Programme Guide

• ?Enhanced Definition TV

• EPG

• Extensions (plugins)

• ?External player plugins

• FFDshow

• Filter

• FireWire

• ?Forum

• Framesize

• Framerate

• ?Freedb

• ?Frontend

• FPS

• GUI

• ?GUI plugins

• ?HDCP

• ?HD DVD

• ?HDMI

• HDTV - High Definition Television

• HTPC - Home Theatre PC

• Huffyuv

• Hwmc

• ?Hybernate

• ID3

• IMDb

• IMHO

• ?Infrared

• Interlace

• Internet Movie Database

• ?Interpolation

• ?Intervideo

• ?IR

• ?IR Blaster

• ?kbps

• ?Ken Burns Effect

• ?Letterbox

• ?Matroska

• ?Mbps

• ?MCE

• ?MP3

• ?MPEG

• ?MPEG-1

• ?MPEG-2

• ?MPEG-4

• ?MPG

• ?Multicast

• ?Multisample type

• ?Multisample quality

• ?.NET Framework

• ?NTSC

• On-Screen Display

• ?Open Source

• OSD

• ?OSM

• ?OTA

• ?Overlay

• ?Overscan

• ?Over The Air

• PAT

• ?PAL

• ?Party Shuffle

• ?PCM

• ?Personal Video Recorder

• ?Phase Alternating Line

• ?Picture-In-Picture

• ?PIP

• ?Pixel Correction Ratio

• ?Playlist

• Plugins

• ?PMP

• ?Portable Media Player

• ?Process plugins

• ?PVR

• ?Progressive scan

• ?Pro-logic

• ?Post Processing

• Powersaving

• ?QAM Tuner

• QuickTime

• ?Radlight filter manager

• ?RDS

• ?ReClock

• ?Renderer

• ?Reference Recording

• ?Resolution

• ?RBG

• S3 Standby (Suspend to RAM)

• ?S4 Hybernate (Suspend to Disk)

• ?SBE

• ?SCART

• ?SDTV

• ?SECAM

• ?Set top box

• ?Shoutcast

• Skin

• ?Smoothing

• ?Sony/Philips Digital Interface

• ?S/P-DIF

• ?Stacking

• ?Standard Definition TV

• ?SIF

• Single Seat

• ?Source Interchange Format

• Standby

• ?STD

• STR

• ?Streaming radio

• ?Suspend to Disk

• ?/S3 Suspend to RAM

• ?Super Video-CD

• ?SVCD

• ?S-Video

• ?Tag reader plugins

• Taper

• ?Taskbar

• ?Teletext

• ?TFT

• Timeline

• ?Timeshifting

• ?TOSLINK

• ?Transcoding

• ?Tuner

• TV-Engine

• TV-Server

• ?Variable Bit Rate

• ?VCD

• ?VCR

• ?Vertex processing

• ?VfW

• ?Video Cassette Recorder

• ?Video-CD

• ?Video for Windows

• ?VideoMixerRenderer

• ?VMR

• ?VMR9 Windowless

• ?VMR9 Renderless

• ?VOB

• ?VOBSUB

• Volume taper

• ?WAF

• ?Wake-on-LAN

• ?Wake up device

• ?WDM

• Widescreen

• ?Wife Acceptance Factor

• ?Window plugins

• ?Windows Driver Model

• ?Windows Media Player

• ?Windows XP Media Center Edition

• ?WinDVD

• ?WMA

• ?WMF

• ?WMP

• ?WMV

• ?WOL

• ?USBUIRT

• XMLTV

• ?XviD

• ?YUF

• Zap-OSD