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- Streaming - Streaming format can send live or on-demand video or audio broadcast over the Internet. Popular streaming video formats include RealVideo, QuickTime (MOV) and WMV.
- SVCD - SVCD stands for 'Super Video CD'. A SVCD is very similar to a VCD, it has the capacity to hold about 35-60 minutes on 74/80 min CDs of very good quality full-motion MPEG-2 video along with up to 2 stereo audio tracks and also 4 selectable subtitles. A SVCD can be played on many standalone DVD Players and of course on all computers with a DVD-ROM or CD-ROM drive with the help of a software based decoder / player. SVCDHelp.com. more...
- SVHS - A higher quality version of the VHS videotape format. Separates chrominance and luminance information to a produce a sharper picture than regular VHS videotape. (Super Video Home System) An advanced recording system used for tape format. The luminance and chrominance signals are recorded and played back using the two wire Y/C procedure, thus avoiding the degradation experienced when encoding and decoding composite video signals.
- TIFF (Tag Image File Format) - TIFF is an industry standard file format developed for the purpose of storing high-resolution bit-mapped, gray-scale, and color images. more...
- track-at-once (TAO) - this burning process can write tracks individually, up to 99 total. Automatically places 2 second gaps between tracks.
- ULAW - Compressed WAV format. u-Law (or CCITT standard G.711) is an audio compression scheme and international standard in telephony applications. u-Law is very similar to A-Law, a variation of u-Law found in European systems. This encoding format compresses original 16-bit audio down to 8 bits (for a 2:1 compression ratio) with a dynamic range of about 13-bits. Thus, u-Law encoded waveforms have a higher s/n ratio than 8-bit PCM, but at the price of a bit more distortion than the original 16-bit audio. The quality is higher than you would get with 4-bit ADPCM formats. Encoding and decoding is rather fast and generally, widely supported.
- variable bit rate (VBR) - encoding process where the codec makes the choice for how many bits are used on each segment of music. More complex segments get more bits. VBR was created with the goal of efficient use of file sizes. Most newer audio and video codecs employ a technology known as variable-bitrate encoding, which allows resulting files to look and sound better while still retaining a compressed, convenient file size. Essentially, VBR encoding assigns more bits to complexly-detailed portions in the original source, and fewer bits to the simpler portions.
- VCD - VCD stands for 'Video Compact Disc' and basically it is a CD that contains moving pictures and sound. If you're familiar with regular audio/music CDs, then you will know what a VCD looks like. A VCD has the capacity to hold up to 74/80 minutes on 650MB/700MB CDs respectively of full-motion video along with quality stereo sound. more...
- VHS - VHS stands for Vertical Helix Scan.
- VHSRip - In the Internet piracy scene, this term means a release of a movie, or some form of video, that has been taken from a VHS source. It has been captured and then re-encoded to a digital format. Some groups are dedicated to releasing VCD copies of movies that haven't been released on DVD as of yet.
- VIDEO_TS - UDF file name used for video directory on disc volume. Files under this directory name contain pointers to the sectors on the disc which hold the program streams.
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