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Milestone XProtect ® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual
www.milestonesys.com 186 Glossary of Terms
Glossary of Terms
Symbols & Numeric
360 degrees panomorph support
Cameras with 360 degrees panomorph
support offer
—as the name indicates—360
degree coverage and can survey an entire
area without blind spots or distorted images.
A
API
Application Program Interface —set of tools
and building blocks for creating or customizing
software applications.
Aspect ratio
The height/width relationship of an image.
ATM
Automatic teller machine —machine that
dispenses money when a personal coded card
is used.
AVI
A popular file format for video. Files in this
format carry the .avi file extension.
C
Central
XProtect Central is a feature that provides a
complete overview of status and alarms from
any number of the system's servers,
regardless of location.
Codec
A technology for compressing and
decompressing audio and video data, for
example, in an exported AVI file. MPEG and
Indeo are examples of frequently used codecs.
CSV
Comma-separated values data format that
stores tabular data, where the lines represent
rows in a table and commas define the
columns, in a simple file. For example, data
about cameras may appear as comma-
separated values in a .csv file, which you can
then import into your system. It is an effective
method if you set up several similar systems.
D
Device
In XProtect Express : a camera, video
encoder, input device, or output device
connected to a recording server.
DirectX
A Windows extension providing advanced
multimedia capabilities.
DNS
Domain Name System —system allowing
translation between alphabetic host names (for
example, mycomputer) or domain names (for
example,
www.mydomain.com ) and numeric
IP addresses (for example, 192.168.212.2).
Many people find alphabetic names easier to
remember than numeric IP addresses.
Driver
A program used for controlling/communicating
with a device.
DST
Daylight saving time: temporarily advancing of
clocks during the summer so that afternoons
have more daylight and mornings have less.