
Glossary
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User’s Manual
Volume –
A desktop mountable storage area, may be a partition of a hard drive, a removable disk or a cartridge. Typically
measured in Megabytes or Gigabytes.
VOB (Video OBjects) –
The format in which DVD movies are stored. Within each VOB file, a number of
video/audio/subpicture streams are stored. Subpicture streams refer to the subtitles on DVDs and other VOB files. These
subtitles are video streams that overlay the main picture stream, and can be turned on or off.
WMA (Windows Media Audio) –
An audio format developed by Microsoft® for audio streaming and compression.
XviD –
A video codec, very similiar to DivX®, based on the MPEG-4 compression standard. This an open-source video codec
that is currently being developed around the world. The XviD codec can play movies using any XviD-enabled player, such as
the LaCie silverscreen.