Term/Acronym |
Definition |
| 8VSB | 8-level Vestigial Sideband Modulation: Used for ATSC over-the-air broadcast |
| ABR | Adaptive bitrate video coding |
| AC-3 | Dolby Digital Audio Codec 3: Compression used by ATSC |
| ACE | Automated Content Export |
| AFD | Active Format Description: Metadata describing format (i.e., 4:3 or 16:9) |
| ARL | As-run logs: Used to extract a program schedule |
| ASI | Asynchronous Serial Interface: Used to carry MPEG-TS |
| ATSC | Advanced Television System Committee: A set of standards for US digital television |
| Bookmark | Short program segments marked on the MIS server to facilitate auditing and sharing |
| Bouquet | A logical grouping of channels |
| CALM Act | Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation: The FCC requirement for audio loudness |
| CC/TT | Closed captioning/SMPTE timed text: Protocols used to add text description to audio |
| CDN | Content Deliver Network: distributed network of servers to host content as geographically near to the user as possible |
| CEM | Content Export Module: An optional software package to export program clips to social media sites |
| Clear QAM | Clear Quadrature Amplitude Modulation: A non-encrypted cable video distribution |
| Component video | Analog video with separate red, green, blue (RGB) channels using three RCA connections |
| Composite video | Analog video over a single RCA connection |
| Dialnorm | AC-3 metadata used to control playback gain |
| DPI | Digital Program Insertion: Metadata that allows downstream insertion of commercial or short programs |
| DPI - in point | Entry point to switch to a different stream |
| DPI - out point | Return to normal stream |
| DvB | Digital video Broadcasting: An international suite of digital television standards |
| Encoder | MIS function that receives and processes media signals |
| ETSI | European Telecommunications Standards Institute |
| Fault clips | Portions of audio or video stream that fails to meet MIS quality thresholds |
| GPI | General-Purpose Interface: Metadata used for broadcast automation |
| HDMI | High-Definition Multimedia Interface: A digital interface used to transport audio and video short distances |
| HVAC | Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning |
| IP | Internet Protocol: Used to send digital data from one computer to another |
| IPMI | Intelligent platform management interface: interface specification to provide low level management functions outside the O/S |
| Metadata | Data-about-the-data: Additional information carried by the program used to describe program details |
| MH | Media Hub: an internal MIS component |
| MIS | Volicon Media Intelligence Service - The Volicon Media Intelligence Service suite of applications transforms content, creation, sharing, and monitoring of broadcast products. It allows you to create and distribute high-quality content faster while immediately enabling response to the competition, advertisers and regulatory entities. |
| MPEG | Motion Picture Expert Group: An international organization that sets audio and video compression and transmission standards |
| MPEG-TS | MPEG Transport Stream: A standard container for audio, video and Program and System Information Protocol (PSIP) |
| Multiview | MIS feature that allows you to configure multiple channels and monitoring widgets into a single display screen |
| NAVE | Nielsen Audio Video Encoder: Psychoacoustic symbols inserted in programs to facilitate automatic viewer tracking |
| NTP | Network Time Protocol: An internet standard used to synchronize computer real-time clocks |
| NTSC | National Television System Committee: developed analog US television standard |
| OTT | Over-the-top program delivery using internet protocols |
| PID | Packet Identifier: A unique 13-bit value used to identify elementary streams of a program in a single- or multiprogram Transport Stream |
| Probe | MIS ingest server housing one or more encoders |
| PSIP | Program and System Information Protocol: A method used to transport program metadata (e.g., sub channels, program guide and content ratings) |
| QoS/QoE | Quality-of-Service/Quality-of-Experience |
| RPM | Remote program monitor – Volicon multisite video analysis and monitoring suite |
| S-video | Separate video: A variation of composite video that separates luminance (black and white) from chrominance (color) to enhance video quality |
| SD/HD-SDI | Uncompressed Standard- or High-Definition (video serial data) Interface |
| Services | A/V program content with the associated metadata |
| SMLP | Short main long proxy |
| SMPTE | Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers: Creates numerous technical standards |
| STB | Set-top box: A device used to make programming available to customers |
| Storyboard | Sequence of video frames to assist visualization |
| TS | Transport stream |
| TSA | Transport stream analysis |
| UIRT | Universal Infrared Receiver/Transmitter |
| VANC | Vertical Ancillary data space in digital streams |
| W3C | World Wide Web Consortium: Sets standards to advance the use of the World Wide Web |
| XDS | Extended Data Services: Analog NTSC metadata |
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