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V
Volume
Volume is the most common word used to
specify the control of relative loudness of
sounds. It also pertains to the function on
many electronic devices that is used to control
the loudness.
W
WAV
A format for sound files developed jointly by
Microsoft and IBM. Built into Windows 95
to XP, which made it the de facto standard
for sound on PCs. WAV sound files end with
a ‘.wav’ extension and works with nearly all
Windows applications that support sound.
WMA (Windows Media Audio)
An audio format owned by Microsoft, is a
part of Microsoft Windows Media technology.
Includes Microsoft Digital Rights Management
tools, Windows Media Video encoding
technology, and Windows Media Audio
encoding technology.
WMV [Windows Media Video]
Refers to a video compression technology
developed by Microsoft Corporation. WMV
content can be encoded by using Windows
Media® Encoder 9 series. Files are recognised
by their file extension ‘.wmv’.
L
LCD (Liquid Crystal Display)
Probably the most common way to show
visual information on non-computer electronic
equipment.
M
MHz (Mega Hertz)
One million cycles per second.
MP3
A file format with a sound data compression
system. MP3 is the abbreviation of Motion
Picture Experts Group 1 (or MPEG-1) Audio
Layer 3. With the MP3 format, one CD-R or
CD-RW can contain about 10 times more
data than a regular CD.
P
PCM (Pulse Code Modulation)
Pioneering form of digital recording.
S
Shuffle
A feature that plays audio files (tracks) in
random order.
Stereo
Literally means solid. Usually taken to refer to
two channel stereo, though developments in
digital audio facilitate multichannel stereo.
T
Thumbnail
A thumbnail is reduced-size versions of a
picture that is used to make it easier to
recognize an them. Thumbnails serve the
same role for images as a normal text index
does for words.
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