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Milestone XProtect ® Essential 2014 Administrator's Manual
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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
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 Essential : 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.
DST
Daylight saving time: temporarily advancing of
clocks during the summer so that afternoons
have more daylight and mornings have less.
Dual stream
Some cameras support two independent
streams (which can be sent to the recording
server): one for live viewing and another for
playback purposes. Each stream has its own
resolution, encoding, and frame rate.
E
Event Server