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Appendix D
Glossary
Term Description
TCP/IP
Network data transmission format using unique numbers to identify
devices on the network
IP address
Term for referring to the unique number used for a device on a TCP/IP
network
WEP
Wired Equivalent Privacy – an encryption method for wireless network
communications
UPnP
Universal Plug and Play
DHCP
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol – a method for automatically
configuring devices using TCP/IP network protocol
SHOUTcast
A Winamp based distributed audio system for Internet radio
broadcasting. A trademark of
www.shoutcast.com
MP3
A file extension for MPEG1 audio layer 3 – sometimes also used to
refer to a digital audio file
WAV
A file extension for a sound file format developed by IBM and Microsoft
AIFF
Audio Interchange File Format
WMA
Windows Media Audio file
WMV
Windows Media Video file
M3U
A play list file supported by Winamp software
PLS
A play list used by SHOUTcast and other audio streams
AVI
Audio Video Interleave – a file extension (as in .avi) used by a number
of different encoding programs. Sometimes used to refer to a file
encoded with any number of Mpeg 4 formats
JPG
Joint Photographic Experts Group a format used for compressing
digital pictures – sometimes used to refer to a digital photograph
GIF
Graphics Interchange Format – a format used for compressing digital
pictures
BMP
Image Bitmapped graphics Format – an uncompressed picture format
PNG
Portable Network Graphics – another picture format
XviD
A video format that is MPEG 4 complaint
MPEG
Moving Picture Experts Group
MPEG-1
A video encoding format – relatively low in compression and quality,
used for VCDs
MPEG-2
A video encoding format – used in DVDs and other formats (such as
Digital TV transmission) better quality and compression than MPEG-1
MPEG-4
A video encoding format – depending on the encoding method, can
produce a good quality video file with a much better compression than
MPEG-2, resulting in a much smaller file size
QuickTime
A video compression format developed by Apple Computer
Access
Point
A term used in wireless network communications to refer to the device
that acts as a hub for wireless data communications
WEP key
A 64 or 128 bit key number that is set on both the wireless access
point and the wireless device to ensure that the device is allowed to
use the wireless network
ISO
ISO 9660 is the file system format of a CD-ROM. An ISO file is an
‘image’ file that represents the contents of a CD-ROM.
IFO
DVD information file containing details about chapters, titles and audio
tracks.
