Glossary

AAC stands for Advanced Audio Coding, it was developed by MPEG Moving Picture Experts Group, to replace MP3 as it provide higher sound quality in the same bitrate.

ABR stands for Adaptive Bitrate Streaming. It refers to content streaming functionality for improving streaming over HTTP networks. The bitrate refers to how fast the data travels across a network; the speed of the data depends on the speed of the internet.

Application Programming Interface, or API for short, is a group of subroutines and communication protocols that allow different programmes to commute. Programmers can simplify and ease their code by utilising a variety of API tools.

AV1 is a codec developed by the Alliance For Open Media, a join efforts of ton of different technology again. AV1 main benefits is that...

The amount of data bits transferred or processed within a limited amount of time is a bitrate, and video bitrate is the amount of video data transferred in a certain time.

CDN stands for content delivery network, is a network that interconnect the servers, that speeds up loading data-heavy application webpage.

CMS stands for content management system, is an application that helps in creating, organizing and storing media files for use on the website.

The terms encoder and decoder, or compressor and decompressor, are combined to form the word codec. A codec, as used in video terminology, is...

Just as the name suggest, container are basically video file, a video file can contain data like, video tracks, audio tracks, metadata. There are different kind of video file formats, MOV, MV4 and so on.

DASH stands for Dynamic adaptable Streaming over HTTP. It makes it possible to stream excellent media material using a regular HTTP web server.

DRM stands for Digital rights management it refer to the technique to protect copyrighted materials. DRM are responsible for securing the copyright’s holder rights.