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api.video Glossary
All things video
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A
AAC (advanced audio coding)
adaptive bitrate streaming
aspect ratio
autoplay
B
bit depth
bitrate
buffer/buffering
bumper
C
captions
chyron
clipping
cloud video platform
cloud video streaming
codec
controls
D
DCT compression
DVR
dithering
E
embed
F
ffmpeg
framerate/frames per second (fps)
G
gamma correction
H
H.261
H.263
H.264
H.265
HDR
HTTP Live Streaming (HLS)
hosting
I
ingest
instant replay
inter-frame compression
L
latency
loop
lossy compression
M
manifest file
moderation
mp4
muted
O
OTT (over the top)
P
poster
preload
R
RTMP (Real Time Messaging Protocol)
rate limit
run-length encoding
S
startup time
T
thumbnail
transcoding
transmuxing
trimming
V
Video Compression
Video frame rate
Video resolution
VoD (Video on Demand)
video encoding
video platform
video player
video streaming api
W
watermarking