Operation Manual

Appendix B: Terms and Acronyms
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Term
Acronym
Definition
Niagara SCX
 A streaming media management software that installs on
a user-encoding device connected with remote SCX
Explorer workstations.
 It too allows users to manage live video broadcasting over
the Internet and to mobile devices from their remote
workstations
 It coordinates the streaming processes to allow users to
set up and control Niagara® streaming systems positioned
throughout their enterprise or anywhere in the world - all
from their desktops.
 It functions as one part of the total encoding solution to
allow users ultimately to control and monitor each
individual stream.
Niagara SCX
Explorer
 A streaming media management software that installs on
any user client device.
 It lets users manage live video broadcasting over the
Internet and to mobile devices.
 It lets users set up and control Niagara® streaming
systems positioned throughout their enterprise or
anywhere in the world - all from their desktops that
interface to the server.
 Users can instantly see:
— The status of all of their networked encoders
— Which encoders have active encode sessions
 Allows users to navigate through the application to control
and monitor each individual stream.
 It can interface with the SCX Explorer Manager to become
part of the total encoding operation.
Phase
Alternation Line
PAL
 The standard television broadcast/reception protocol used
in Europe.
 PAL scans the video image 625 times horizontally.
Pixel
Digital images are composed of an array of individual dots
called picture elements, or pixels.
Real-time video
Video from a video source, such as a camera, that the
compressor then processes immediately and sends for
decompression and playback.
Sequential Color
with Memory
SECAM
An analog color television system first used in France (in
French it translates to Séquentiel couleur à mémoire).