Glossary Multiple terms about video/audio formats and multi-media.
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3D (three-dimensional) means a geometric setting that has height, width and depth (length). It is usually related to 2D. 3D movies are the motion pictures with added stereoscopic vision. 3D film formats has Anaglyph and Split Screen.
3GP, a multimedia format is usually used on 3G mobile phones and some 2G and even 4G phones. Its filename extension is .3gp. 3GP file format is similar to another container format, 3G2.
4K or 4K resolution, is an advanced picture technology. 4K refers to a display device which has 4096×2160 pixels. 4096 pixels show the horizontal resolution of the display device, and 2160 pixels represent vertically.
AirDrop is an ad-hoc service Apple provides for OS X and iOS operating systems. AirDrop is able to help user transfer files among Mac computers and iOS devices without using another application or mail.
AVI, standing for Audio Video Interleave, is a multimedia container format developed from Microsoft. Containing audio and video data in a small-sized file, AVI is one of the most commonly-used video format.
AVCHD stands for Audio and Video Compression for High Definition. As a recording media, AVCHD specification allows using memory cards, recordable DVDs and other drives.
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iCloud backup storage refers to a cloud storage and computing service provided by Apple Inc. iCloud storage helps to back up files from iOS devices, including photos, apps, etc. as well as restore backups.
iMovie is a video editing software application developed by Apple Inc. especially for Mac computers and iOS devices. With iMovie, user can edit the photos and video clips and add titles, themes, music and effects.
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Developed by Apple, iTunes is one free and useful application program, which helps you play and manage music/video. From iTunes Store, music, videos, TV shows and more can be purchased. iTunes enables you to check, manage or sync all the contents with your iPhone/iPad/iPod.
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M4B is the audiobook format with MPEG-4 container format based, and it is regularly compressed with AAC encoding as well. A file with the .m4b extension is actually an MPEG-4 audio book file. Compared with other audiobook formats, M4B has a great advantage to let you to bookmark audiobook.
What is M4P? M4P (MPEG-4 Protected) is a protected audio format encoded with advanced audio codec (AAC), which uses DRM technology to restrict copying.
M4V, a video container format, contains H.264 video and MPEG-4 AVC (Advanced Video Coding) audio. Similar to MPEG-4, M4V is defined in the systems part of the MPEG-4 standard (ISO 14496-1).
MKV is a package format, containing unlimited video, audio, subtitle, tracks and pictures data in one file. That's to say, MKV is a open-standard container format, similar to some formats like ASF, AVI, MPEG-4 and more.
MKV file is not a simple audio or video format, which holds various videos with different type of encoding, audio and subtitle tracks in one file without any limitation. With the assistance of MKV Codec, you can easily play your MKV files on many media players.
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MOV is a multimedia container file format used in Apple's Quicktime program. The MOV format is able to hod one or more tracks, each of which stores a particular video, audio or text.
MP3, is an commonly-used audio coding format which uses a lossy data compression. According to Wikipedia, MP3 was designed by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) as part of its MPEG-1 standard and later extended in the MPEG-2 standard.
MP4 is MPEG-4 Part 14, defined by MPEG (Moving Picture Expert Group). As a container format, MP4 is a format not only to store video and audio, but also store subtitle and still image. Also, it contains metadata.
MTS is a high-definition MPEG and H.264 transport stream video format. This format supports 720p and 1080i HD video formats. Commonly, people are willing to call MTS as AVCHD, which is developed jointly by Sony and Panasonic.
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XAVC is used by Sony high-end camcorders like PMW-F55, PMW-F5, etc. XAVC is at the heart of Sony's industry-leading 4K products. It offers a specialized 4K format to encourage people to apply 4K technology to a wider field.
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