User guide

Viz Engine Administrator’s Guide

MMCX (micro-miniature coaxial) connectors are coaxial RF connectors similar to MCX

but smaller.

Mono

Monaural (often shortened to mono) sound reproduction is single-channel.

MPEG

Moving Picture Experts Group, is the name of a family of standards used for coding

audio-visual information (e.g., movies, video, music) in a digital compressed format.

MXF

Material Exchange Format (MXF) is an object-based file format that wraps video, audio,

and other bitstreams, optimized for content interchange or archiving by creators and/

or distributors, and intended for implementation in devices ranging from cameras and

video recorders to computer systems.

NTSC

National Television System Committee (NTSC) is the analog television system used in

the north, mid and to some extend in south America and also in some Asian countries.

Outside Broadcasting is the production of television or radio programmes (typically to

cover news and sports events) from a mobile television studio.

OP-Atom

MXF Operational Pattern Atom. OP-Atom was designed to address the needs of non-

linear video and audio editing.

Reference

SMPTE 390M-2004 Television – Material Exchange Form at ( MXF ) – Specialized

Operational Pattern “Atom” (Simplified Representation of a Single Item).

PAL

Phase Alternating Line, is a color-encoding system used in broadcast television systems

in large parts of the world.

PCI

PCI Local Bus (usually shortened to PCI), or Conventional PCI, specifies a computer bus

for attaching peripheral devices to a computer motherboard.

PCIe

PCI Express was designed to replace the general-purpose PCI (Peripheral Component

Interconnect) expansion bus, the high-end PCI-X bus and the AGP graphics card

interface.

PCI-X