- Industria: Computer; Software
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Apple Inc., formerly Apple Computer, Inc., is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software and personal computers.
(1) In digital audio, converting a set of data streams representing discrete channels into a single stream that retains the capacity to be converted back to separate channels. A synonym for multiplexing. In Audio Converter Services and in audio file formats such as CAF, interleaving involves placing one sample from each channel in sequence such that a set of coincident samples, one from each channel represented in the data stream, appears in each frame. Compare deinterleaving. (2) In QuickTime, a technique in which sound and video data are alternated in small pieces, so the data can be read off disk as it is needed. Interleaving allows for movies of almost any length to have little delay on startup.
Industry:Software; Computer
In QuickTime, a piece of software that is responsible for reading and writing a media structure’s data. The data handler provides data input and output services to the media structure’s media handler. See also media handler.
Industry:Software; Computer
A task that provides services to clients, using a MIG-generated RPC interface. See also MIG.
Industry:Software; Computer
The primary means of displaying screen information on Mac computers.
Industry:Software; Computer
The process of building a data model to describe the mapping between a relational database schema and an object model.
Industry:Software; Computer
In audio, describes a variable-bit-rate audio format where information about the sizes of the frames is included in the audio data stream. Compare externally framed. See also webpage template, variable bit rate.
Industry:Software; Computer
An object supplied by AppleScript Studio that supplies data to a table view or other view with rows and columns.
Industry:Software; Computer
The layering of windows according to the window class hierarchy. Compare window ordering.
Industry:Software; Computer
