- 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.
Moving Picture Experts Group. An international working group of ISO/IEC that develops standards for digitally coded representations of audio and video. MPEG is part of the names of many perceptual coding formats published by the group. Pronounced “EM-peg.” See also IEC, ISO.
Industry:Software; Computer
A set of audio and video perceptual coding formats, formally designated as ISO/IEC-11172. MPEG-1 encompasses the Video CD and MP3 formats.
Industry:Software; Computer
A set of audio and video perceptual coding formats, formally designated as ISO/IEC-13818, first published in 1994. MPEG-2 encompasses formats of generally higher quality than MPEG-1, including broadcast-quality video and (with modifications) DVD movies.
Industry:Software; Computer
Head related transfer function. Also called Anatomical Transfer Function, or ATF. A mathematical description of the frequency and phase filtering that takes place when an acoustic signal impinges on a person’s head and pinnae. The HRTF is used in DSP to add spatialization information to a signal. See also DSP, panning, spatialization.
Industry:Software; Computer
Interchange File Format. A flexible, chunk-based file format for storing media content. Developed by Electronic Arts, Inc., and the technical inspiration for Apple’s AIFF.
Industry:Software; Computer
A set of audio and video perceptual coding formats, formally designated as ISO/IEC-14496, first published in 1998. MPEG-4 encompasses many of the features introduced in MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 and adds features useful for streaming media and broadcast, among others. See also stream
Industry:Software; Computer
One of the QuickTime media types, in which sequences of sounds and tones are generated.
Industry:Software; Computer
