Waveform Audio File Format (WAVE or more commonly known as WAV due to its filename extension .wav) is a Microsoft and IBM audio file format standard for storing an audio bitstream on PCs.   It is[…]

While spell check and grammar check are valuable tools and often catch obvious errors, they are not capable of picking up nuance. For example, if one uses effect when affect should be used, spell check[…]

Pop-on and roll-up are the two styles of presentation commonly used in television captioning.  Paint-on captions are sometimes used for special effects but are much less common.  Accurate Secretarial LLC endorses the use of the[…]

RealVideo is a suite of proprietary video compression formats developed by RealNetworks and first 1997. RealVideo is supported on many platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Solaris, and several mobile phones. RealVideo is usually paired with[…]

The Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE) is a cross-industry initiative developing the next generation digital media experience based on open, licensable specifications. DECE members include network hardware manufacturers such as Cisco, computer, television and mobile[…]

DV is a format for storing digital video, audio and metadata such as subtitles and closed captioning. It was launched in 1995 through the joint efforts of multiple producers of video camera recorders. DV uses[…]

DivX is the brand name of products created originally by DivX LLC, including the DivX Codec which became popular due to its ability to compress lengthy video segments into small sizes while maintaining high visual[…]

Motion JPEG (MJPEG or M-JPEG) is a video compression format in which each video frame or interlaced field of a digital video sequence (including video and metadata such as subtitles and closed captioning) is compressed[…]

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web. W3C was founded in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web and author of the[…]

Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) is a World Wide Web Consortium extensible markup language (XML) that enables authoring of interactive audiovisual presentations. SMIL is typically used for multimedia presentations which integrate streaming audio and video[…]