Glossary
Media processing glossary
The formats, codecs, protocols, and pipeline concepts behind file processing — written for the teams whose customers upload media every day, and who need it handled reliably at scale.
A
- AAC (Advanced Audio Coding)
- AAF File
- Adaptive Bitrate Streaming
- Adaptive Images
- Adaptive Metadata
- Adaptive Thresholding
- Administrative Metadata
- AES Video Encryption
- AI Super Resolution
- Alpha Channel
- Animated AVIF
- Anisotropic Diffusion
- Anti Aliasing
- API Rate Limiting
- APNG File Format
- ASF File
- Aspect Ratio
- Assembly
- Assembly Execution Progress
- Assembly Instructions
- Assembly Notification
- Assembly Replay
- Assembly Status
- Assembly Step
- Assembly Variable
- Asset Library
- Asset Taxonomy
- Async Mode
- Asynchronous Video
- Auth Key
- Auth Secret
- Automatic Cropping
- AV1
- AVIF
- AVOD
B
C
- Cache Busting
- Cache Hit Ratio
- Cache Invalidation
- Cache-Control Header
- Caching Images
- Captions
- CBR vs. VBR
- CDN Caching
- CDN Edge Server
- CDN Security
- CENC Encryption
- Checksum
- Chroma Key
- Chroma Subsampling
- Chromatic Aberration
- Chrominance
- Chunked Upload
- Cinemagraphs
- Claimable Cloud
- Clipping Path
- Cloud Content Management
- Cloud Transcoding
- Cloud Video Encoding
- Cloud Video Streaming
- Clustering-Based Segmentation
- Codec vs. Container
- Codecs
- Collaboration Seats
- Collaborator
- Color Correction
- Color Grading
- Color Histogram
- Color Image Processing
- Color Quantization
- Common Intermediate Format
- Common Media Application Format (CMAF)
- Compositing
- Compression Artifacts
- Content Caching
- Content Moderation
- Content Review Process
- Content Scraping
- Creative Assets
- CSS Outline Radius
- CSS Percentages
- CSS Width Property
- Custom RTMP
D
- DAM Access Control
- DAM Storage
- DAM Vendor
- DAM Workflow
- DAT File
- Data Residency
- DCT Compression
- DDS File
- Deconvolution
- Deep Learning for Image Processing
- Deinterlacing
- Demosaicing
- Demuxing
- Derivative Files
- Descriptive Metadata
- Device Pixel Ratio
- DIB File
- Digital Asset Archiving
- Digital Asset Lifecycle Management
- Digital Asset Management API
- Digital Asset Management Version Control
- Digital Asset Platform
- Digital Assets
- Digital Content Management
- Digital Media Library Software
- Digital Rights Management (DRM)
- Distorted Video
- Dithering
- DivX File
- DRM Encryption
- DRM Protected Video
- Drop Frame
- Dynamic Asset Transformation
- Dynamic Metadata
- Dynamic Text
E
F
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H
I
- ICNS File
- Idempotency
- IDR Frame
- Image Acquisition
- Image Aliasing
- Image Annotation
- Image Cache Server
- Image Captioning
- Image Carousels
- Image Classification
- Image Compression Algorithms
- Image Contrast Enhancement
- Image Convolution
- Image Degradation
- Image Denoising
- Image Derivative
- Image Dithering
- Image Editing API
- Image Feature Extraction
- Image Flattening
- Image Interlacing
- Image Masking
- Image Metadata
- Image Morphing
- Image Optimization
- Image Recognition
- Image Registration
- Image Representation
- Image Retrieval
- Image Segmentation
- Image Sitemap
- Image Synthesis
- Image Tagging
- Image Thresholding
- Image URL
- Image Warping
- Image Watermarking
- Image-to-Image Translation
- Indexed Color
- Instance Segmentation
- Inter-Frame Compression
- Interactive Video
- Interlaced GIF
- Interlaced Video
- Interstitial Video
- Inverse Telecine
- IPTC Metadata
J
K
L
M
- M2TS File
- M2V File
- M3U8
- M4P File
- M4S Format
- Macroblock
- Magic Bytes
- Marketing Asset Management
- Media Asset Management Software
- Media Assets
- Media Objects
- Media Pipeline
- Media URL
- Median Filter
- Megapixel
- Metadata
- Metadata Extraction
- Metadata Standard
- Metadata Tagging
- Midroll
- MIME Type
- MJPEG
- Moderation
- Morphological Image Processing
- Motion Compensation
- Motion Estimation
- Motion Graphics
- MOV File
- MP1 File
- MP2 File
- MPD File
- MPEG Compression
- MPEG-TS
- MPG File
- MPO File
- MTS File
- Multi-Camera Live Streaming
- Multi-Format Codec
- Multi-Label Image Classification
- Multiple CDN Domains
- Multiple Object Tracking
- Multisampling
- Muted Attribute
- Muxing
N
O
P
- P-Frame
- Panoptic Segmentation
- Pay-Per-View Streaming
- PBM File
- Per-Title Encoding
- PFM File
- PGF File
- PGM File
- Pixel Replication
- Pixelization
- PJPEG
- PNG
- PNM File Format
- Postroll
- PPM File
- Pre-Recorded Video
- Premium Video On Demand (PVOD)
- Presigned URL
- Priority Job Slot
- Progressive Images
- Progressive Rendering
- Progressive Scan
Q
R
- Radiance HDR
- Raster Files
- Rasterization
- Rate Limit
- Rate Limiter
- Rate-Distortion Optimization
- RAW File
- Real-Time Video
- Rebuffering
- Refresh Rate
- Region Growing
- Region-Based Segmentation
- Reliable Internet Stream Transport (RIST)
- Remuxing
- REST API
- Resumable Upload
- RGB Color Model
- RGB Image
- RGBA Image
- RIFF File
- RMVB
- Robot
- Robot Parameter
- RTCP
- RTMP Pass-Through
- RTMP vs. RTSP
- RTSP
- Run-length Encoding
S
- SDK
- SDR Video
- Semantic Segmentation
- Server-Side Ad Insertion
- Server-Side Rendering
- Shoppable Video
- Signature Authentication
- Signature Authentication for Notification
- Signed URL
- Simulcast
- Simulive
- Slice-Based Encoding
- Social Media Asset Management
- Software Encoding
- SPA (Single-Page Application)
- Spatial Compression
- Spatial Resolution
- Speaker Diarization
- Speech-to-Text
- SRT File
- SRT Video Streaming
- Startup Time
- Static Assets
- Static Content
- Stream Key
- Subpixel
- Supersampling
- SVG
- SVGZ File
- SVOD
- SWF File
- Sync Mode
T
- Technical Metadata
- Template
- Template Credentials
- Template Editor
- Temporal Compression
- Temporal Video Segmentation
- Text-to-Image Model
- Threshold Segmentation
- Thumbnail Storyboard
- Thumbnails
- Time to First Byte
- Timecode
- Timed Text Markup Language
- Tone Mapping
- Transmuxing
- Transrating
- TS File
- Turbo Mode
- tus
- TVOD
- Two-Pass Encoding
U
V
- Variable Bit Rate
- Variable Frame Rate
- VC-1
- Video Alt Text
- Video Analytics
- Video Annotation
- Video Archiving
- Video Aspect Ratio
- Video Autoplay
- Video Bandwidth
- Video Bitstream
- Video Broadcasting
- Video Chapters
- Video Chunk
- Video Clipping
- Video Color Space
- Video Completion Rate
- Video Compositing
- Video Compression
- Video Content Management System
- Video Controls
- Video Decoding
- Video Editing API
- Video Embed
- Video Encoding
- Video Engagement
- Video Fingerprinting
- Video Frame Rates
- Video Hosting
- Video Indexing
- Video Ingest
- Video Localization
- Video Loop
- Video Manifest
- Video Metadata
- Video on Demand
- Video Packaging
- Video Paywall
- Video Playback
- Video Player SDK
- Video Posters
- Video Preload
- Video Processing API
- Video Proxies
- Video Quality Metrics
- Video Rendering
- Video Rendition
- Video Resolutions
- Video Scaling
- Video Scrubbing
- Video Segmentation
- Video Sitemap
- Video Stitching
- Video Stream Processing
- Video Streaming API
- Video Syndication
- Video Transcription
- Virus Scanning
- Visual Artifacts
- VMAF
- VP9 Codec
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