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	ASF		Advanced Streaming Format: Microsoft's answer to Real Media and streaming media generally.

	Encoding		The process of taking a raw uncompressed file and compressing it to an encoded form while maintaining the quality.

	AVI		Audio Video Interleave: The video format most commonly used on Windows PCs. It defines how video and audio are attached to each other, without specifying a codec.

	MPEG		MPEG means Motion Picture Expert Group and it's THE resource for video formats in general. This group defines standards in digital video, among it the MPEG-1 standard (used in Video CDs), the MPEG-2 standard (used on DVDs and SVCDs), the MPEG-4 standard (used in DivX video technology) and several audio standards - among them MP3 and AAC.

	Codec		COder/DECoder: A codec is a piece of software that lets you encode something - usually audio or video - to a specific format, and can decode media encoded in this specific format again. Popular Codecs: MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, Indeo, etc. AVI, ASF, etc, is not a codec but a format - and can be encoded using different codecs.

	MPEG-4		MPEG-4 is a standard defined by the Working Group 11 (Moving Picture Expert Group) of ISO (International Standard Organization) in October 1998 (date of the first draft of the standard). It is the standard for the mature digital era. With its added features, MPEG-4 offers better compression, interactivity, and universal Internet/wireless access to the medium.

	Decoding		Decoding refers to the process of converting a compressed file to a viewable image.

	DirectX		DirectX is an application program interface developed by Microsoft, first for Windows 95, for creating and managing graphic images and multimedia effects in applications such as games and active Web pages. It includes the DirectDraw API for direct access to video memory.

	VOB Files		All DVD movies are stored in so-called VOB files. VOB files usually contain multiplexed Dolby Digital Audio and MPEG-2 video. VOB Files are called as follows: vts_XX_y.vob where XX represents the title and Y the part of the title. There can be 99 titles and 10 parts, although vts_XX_0.vob never contains any video, usually just menu or navigational information.

	DivXT		DivXT is a video technology that compresses digital video so it can be downloaded over DSL or cable modems in a relatively short time with no reduced visual quality.

	ISO		In common use, an "ISO" is a file that contains the complete image of a disc. Such files are often used when transferring CD-ROM images over the Internet. Depending on who you're talking to, "ISO" may refer to all disc image files or only certain kinds. Different file extensions of image files include ISO, BIN, IMG, CIF, FCD, NRG, GCD, PO1, C2D, CUE, CIF, CD, and MagicISO can open and manipulate just about any disc image format.