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Viz Engine Administrator’s Guide

Note: Note: ANC packets which lie in the dataspace which is in both the horizontal

and vertical intervals, is considered to be HANC and not VANC.

Anti aliasing

Anti-aliasing is the technique of minimizing the distortion artifacts known as aliasing

when representing a high-resolution signal at a lower resolution.

Audio codec

An audio codec is a hardware device or a computer program that compresses and

decompresses digital audio data according to a given audio file format or streaming

audio format.

AVI

Audio Video Interleave (AVI): is a multimedia container format introduced by Microsoft

in November 1992 as part of its Video for Windows technology.

Bi-level sync

In standard-definition applications, a bi-level sync signal, often with a colorburst signal

in facilities that have analog equipment. Typically, this is either in NTSC or PAL format.

As the resulting signal is usually indistinguishable from an all-black television signal of

the same format, this sort of reference is commonly known as black or black burst. See

SPG and Tri-level sync.

BIOS

Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) is a system that defines the firmware interface. The

initial function of the BIOS is to identify, test, and initialize system devices, and prepare

the machine into a known state.

Black burst

See SPG and Bi-level sync.

BNC

The BNC (Bayonet Neill Concelman) connector is a very common type of RF connector

used for terminating coaxial cable.

BSOD

The Blue Screen of Death (also known as a stop error or blue screen) is an error

screen displayed by some operating systems, most notably Microsoft Windows, after

encountering a critical system error which can cause the system to shut down, to

prevent damage.

Configuration file

Holds all configurable settings used by Viz Engine and various integrated applications.

The configuration file can be found at: <Install Directory>\viz3\.

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