Term

event

Posted on April 1, 2015 in

A collection of associated program elements that have a common timeline for a defined period. An event is equivalent to the common industry usage of “television program.” An event may also be an analog “television program.”

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event

Posted on April 1, 2015 in

A collection of elementary streams with a common time base, an associated start time, and an associated end time.

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essence

Posted on April 1, 2015 in

In its simplest form, essence = content – metadata. In this context, (video) essence is the image itself without any of the transport padding (H and V intervals, ancillary data, etc).

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epoch

Posted on April 1, 2015 in

An instant in time that is arbitrarily selected as a point of reference.

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environment resource

Posted on April 1, 2015 in

A physical or logical component of an application environment; e.g., a region of the graphics frame buffer, an input device, a shared semaphore, a memory pool, etc.

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entry point

Posted on April 1, 2015 in

Refers to a point in a coded bit stream after which a decoder can become properly initialized and commence syntactically correct decoding. The first transmitted picture after an entry point is either an I-picture or a P-picture. If the first transmitted picture is not an I-picture, the decoder may produce one or more pictures during […]

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entropy coding

Posted on April 1, 2015 in

Variable length lossless coding of the digital representation of a signal to reduce redundancy.

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entitlement management message (EMM)

Posted on April 1, 2015 in

Entitlement management messages are private conditional access information which specify the authorization level or the services of specific decoders. They may be addressed to single decoders or groups of decoders.

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entitlement control message (ECM)

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Entitlement control messages are private conditional access information which specify control words and possibly other stream-specific, scrambling, and/or control parameters.

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end-user

Posted on April 1, 2015 in

The individual operating or interacting with a receiver.

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