Manual

Glossary
AAC
Advanced Audio Coding. A perceptual audio coding system that is described by ISO/
IEC 14496‑3.
AES
Audio Engineering Society. An international organization that promotes advances in audio
and disseminates new knowledge and research.
AES3
A standard jointly developed by the Audio Engineering Society (AES) and the European
Broadcasting Union (EBU) that specifies serial transmission of two-channel linearly
represented digital audio data on various media.
ARC
Audio Return Channel. A feature of HDMI that enables audio to be sent through the HDMI
cable from the sink to the source.
ASI
Asynchronous serial interface. A streaming format that often carries an MPEG transport
stream. It can contain a single program or be a multiplex of multiple programs, each
consisting of video and audio.
associated audio
An audio program designed to be decoded simultaneously with another (main) program and
then mixed into the main program to produce a single output.
ATSC
Advanced Television Systems Committee. An international standardization organization for
digital television; also refers to a set of standards for transmission of digital television over
terrestrial, cable, and satellite networks.
AVR
Audio/video receiver. An audio amplifier and audio/video (A/V) switching combination device
for a home theater. It contains inputs for all of the audio and video sources and outputs to
one or more sets of speakers and one or more monitors or TVs.
CRC
Cyclic redundancy check.
dBFS
Decibels full scale. The amplitude of a signal relative to a digital full-scale signal.
DHCP
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol.
dialnorm
Dialogue normalization value.
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