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Disclaimer. This is design documentation which may differ from its final version.
Glossary¶
General¶
- Packaging
- Change the delivery format of a program stream without altering the programmatic timeline.
- Transmuxing
- Also known as packaging or re-packaging.
Dynamic Ad Insertion¶
- DAI
- Dynamic Ad Insertion
- The supplementing of a program stream with an alternative piece of content (an advertisement) for monetization.
- DAR
- Dynamic Ad Replacement
- The supplementing of a program stream with an alternative piece of content (an advertisement) for monetization.
- EMSG
- The Event Message box ('emsg') provides signalling for generic events related to the media presentation time.
- ESAM
- Cablelabs Event Signaling And Management API
- Fragment duration
- The length of a fragment containing either 1 or multiple GOP's.
- GOP
- The encoding sequence or Group of Picture all the necessary data to be decoded an presented for viewing
- IDR
- Instant Decoder Refresh. A type of video picture used in visual encoding allow for a received device or decode to display with video without any information of any picture before or after.
- SCTE-104
- Requests from an automation system to create splice markers in a program stream.
- SCTE-35
- The fulfillment of SCTE-104 requests, containing all necessary metadata a downstream system to take appropriate actions to condition a program stream.
- SGAI
- Server Guided Ad Insertion
- The supplementing of a program stream with an alternative piece of content (an advertisement) for monetization.
- SGAR
- Server Guided Ad Replacement
- The supplementing of a program stream with an alternative piece of content (an advertisement) for monetization.
- splice
- Split and merge a media fragment at a desired point in time.
- splice_insert()
- This is the legacy standard for a distributor placement opportunity.
- SSAI
- Server Side Ad Insertion
- The supplementing of a program stream with an alternative piece of content (an advertisement) for monetization.
- SSAR
- Server Side Ad Replacement
- The supplementing of a program stream with an alternative piece of content (an advertisement) for monetization.
- time_signal()
- The time_signal() provides a time synchronized data delivery mechanism.