D-Link MediaLounge DSM-320, User Manual

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Video
AVI: Short for A udio V ideo I nterleave, the file format for Microsoft’s Video for
Windows
®
standard . See under Video for Windows
®
.
DivX: Is a video format that is MPEG- compliant and widely used on the
Internet for encoding video files.
MPEG : Short for M oving P icture E xperts G roup, and pronounced “empeg”.
MPEG generally produces better-quality video than competing formats. MPEG
achieves high compression rate by storing only the changes from one frame to
another, instead of each entire frame. MPEG uses a type of lossy compression,
since some data is removed. However, the reduction in the resulting video
quality is minimal. There are three major MPEG standards: MPEG-1, MPEG-2
and MPEG-.
• The most common implementations of the MPEG-1 standard provide a
video resolution of 352-by-240 at 30 frames per second (fps). MPEG-1
is used with Video CDs (VCD) and results in video quality slightly below
the quality of a VCR video.
• MPEG-2 offers higher resolution with CD-quality audio. This is sufficient
for all major TV standards, including NTSC , and even HDTV . MPEG- is
used by DVDs . MPEG-2 compresses a 2 hour video into a few gigabytes
of data on a single disc.
• MPEG-4 is a video compression standard based on MPEG-1 and MPEG-
2. Videos encoded with MPEG-4 technology are considerably smaller
than videos encoded with MPEG-1 or 2. MPEG-4 was standardized in
October 1998.
QuickTime : An audio and video compression technology developed by Apple
Computer and is widely supported on Macintosh and Windows
®
PC computers.
The latest QuickTime implementation is MPEG- compliant.
SRT subtitle format
: Speech Recogniser Transcript is a subtitle format that
outputs text for a recorded waveform that is attached to a video file. By including
an SRT file in the same folder as a supported video file, the DSM-320 can display
the subtitles for the video file.
XviD : XviD is an ISO MPEG-4 compliant video codec. It’s an open source project
which is developed and maintained by many people from all over the world.
Glossary (continued)