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Niagara SCX User Guide
ViewCast 103
Term Acronym Definition
Media Access
Control Address
MAC
• A hardware address that uniquely identifies each node of a
network.
• In IEEE 802 networks, it interfaces directly with the network
medium.
• In OSI Reference model networks, its designation is Data
Link Control (DLC) address.
Moving Picture
Experts Group –
4
MPEG-4
• Defines how you transmit multimedia streams – video, audio,
text, data – as individual objects.
• A compression/decompression technology that strives to
achieve interactivity, efficiency, and stability in narrow-band
transmissions.
• Aims to pave the way toward a uniform, high quality
encoding/decoding standard to replace the many proprietary
streaming technologies used on the Internet today.
Multicast Applies when sending a piece of information from one or more
points to a set of other points.
• Multicasting, a networking technique, delivers the same
packet simultaneously to a group of clients.
National
Television System
Committee
NTSC
• The analog television system used in the United States,
Canada, Japan, Mexico, the Philippines, South Korea,
Taiwan, and some other countries.
• It also refers to the name of the U.S. standardization body
that adopted it.
Network Interface
Card
NIC
• A card (hardware) that connects to a wire-based network
such as token ring or Ethernet.
• It allows computers to communicate over a computer
network.
Niagara Encoders
• ViewCast Niagara® streaming media encoders deliver the
quality, features and ease-of-use convenience that
professional broadcasters demand.
• These pre-configured, plug-and-play solutions enable users to
quickly capture and broadcast premium quality audio and
video in multiple formats and at multiple bit rates – all
simultaneously.