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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).
Unicast Unicast communication applies to a piece of information that
users send from one point to another point.
• Unicast transmission refers to users sending a packet from a
single source to a specified destination.
Video-on-demand VOD
• Video stored in a file for playing later.
• Also, known as Compress Once and Play Many Times.