M
M-ACPA -
M-Audio Capture and Playback Adapter.
M-Audio Capture and Playback Adapter (M-ACPA)
-
An adapter card (for use with the IBM PS/2
product line) that provides the ability to record and play back high quality
sound. The adapter converts the audio input (analog) signals to a digital
format that is compressed and stored for later use.
master
stream handler -
Controls the behavior of one
or more subordinate objects (the slave streams).
matte
-
In film, an opaque piece of art or a model
that leaves a selected area unexposed to be filled on a subsequent pass
or in composite.
MCD -
MCI -
M-Control Program/2 -
The software interface required for the M-Motion
Video Adapter/A. It consists of APIs or toolkits for DOS, Windows, Windows
MCI, OS/2, and OS/2 MMPM/2. It also includes Pioneer and Sony videodisc
player drivers for these environments. See also M-Motion Video Adapter/A.
MDM -
media -
More than one hardware medium.
media component
-
A processor of audiovisual information or
media. Media components can be either internal or external physical devices
or defined mechanisms for effecting higher-level function from internal
hardware and software subsystems. (An example is a waveform player component
that utilizes the DSP subsystem and data streaming services to effect audio
playback functions.)
media component capabilities
-
The functionality of a media component, including
component functions that are supported.
media
component type -
A class of media components
that exhibit similar behavior and capabilities. Examples of media component
types are analog video display hardware and MIDI synthesizers.
media
control driver (MCD) -
A software implementation
or method that effects the function of a media component. For OS/2, a media
control driver or media driver is a dynamic-link library (or set
of libraries) that utilizes physical device drivers, Media Device Manager
services, and OS/2 to implement the function of the media component.
Media
Control Interface (MCI) -
A generalized interface
to control multimedia devices. Each device has its own MCI driver that
implements a standard set of MCI functions. In addition, each media driver
can implement functions that are specific to the particular device.
media
device -
A processor of audiovisual information
or media. Media components can be either internal or external physical
devices or defined mechanisms for effecting higher-level function from internal
hardware and software subsystems. (An example is a waveform player component
that utilizes the DSP (Digital Signal Processor) subsystem and data-streaming
services to effect audio-playback functions.)
media
device capabilities -
The functionality of a
media component, including supported component functions.
media
device connection -
A physical or logical link
between media component connectors for a particular set of media component
instances.
media device connector -
A
physical or logical input or output on a media component.
media
device connector index -
An identifier for a
media component connector.
media device ID
-
Media component identification. A unique identifier
for a component.
media device instance -
A case of an application's use of a media component.
media device manager (MDM) -
A
system service that, when two or more applications attempt to control a
media device, determines which process gains access.
media
driver -
A device driver for a multimedia device.
See also device driver.
media driver
-
A software implementation or method that effects
the function of a media device.
media element
manager (MEM) -
A system service that manipulates
multimedia data.
media programming interface
(MPI) -
A subsystem that provides a comprehensive
system programming API layer for multimedia applications.
media
segment -
An audiovisual object of some type,
such as a waveform, song, video clip, and so on.
media
unit -
A medium on which files are stored; for
example, a diskette.
media volume -
A
(possibly heterogeneous) physical or logical collection of media segments.
(Examples are a videodisc, video tape, compact
audio disc, OFF file, and RIFF file.)
media volume
file -
A media volume that is embodied as a
conventional binary computer file within a computer file system on storage
devices such as disks, diskettes, or CD-ROMs. Such storage devices can
be either local or remote. Media volume files can be of various formats,
such as OFF or RIFF, and contain segments of various types.
medium
shot -
A camera angle that reveals more of the
subject than a close-up but less than a wide shot, usually from face to
waistline; sometimes called a mid-shot.
MEM
-
MEM
IOProc -
An internal I/O procedure provided
by the MMPM/2 system that supports memory files.
memory
file -
A block of memory that is perceived as
a file by an application.
memory playlist
-
A data structure in the application used to specify
the memory addresses to play from or record to. The application can modify
the playlist to achieve various effects in controlling the memory stream.
message interface -
See
command message interface.
MIDI Mapper
-
Provides the ability to translate and redirect
MIDI messages to achieve device-independent playback of MIDI sequences.
MIDI message -
A
sequence of bytes that conform to the MIDI standard. There are two categories:
System Exclusive (SysEx) and non-SysEx messages. SysEx messages can be
of any length, whereas non-SysEx messages are between one and three bytes.
mid-shot -
millisecond -
One
thousandth of a second.
minutes-seconds-frames
(MSF) -
A time format based on the 75-frames-per-second
CD digital audio standard.
MIPS -
Millions
of instructions per second. A unit of measure of processing performance
equal to one million instructions per second.
mix
-
The combination of audio or video sources
during postproduction.
mixed-media system
-
Synonym for multimedia system.
Mixed
Object : Document Content Architecture (MO:DCA) -
A
data format for multimedia products.
mixer
-
A device used to simultaneously combine and blend
several inputs into one or two outputs.
mixing
-
(1) In computer graphics, the result of the
intersection of two or more colors. (2) In filming, the combining of audio
and video sources that is accomplished during postproduction at the mix.
(3) In recording, the combining of audio sources.
MMIO
-
MMIO
file services -
System services that enable
an application to access and manipulate multimedia data files.
MMIO
manager -
Multimedia input/output manager. The
MMIO manager provides services to find, query, and access multimedia data
objects. It also supports the functions of memory allocation and file compaction.
The MMIO manager uses IOProcs to direct the input and output associated
with reading from and writing to different types of storage systems or file
formats.
M-Motion -
A
multimedia platform that offers analog video in addition to quality sound
and images. The M-Motion environment consists of the M-Motion Video Adapter/A
and the M-Control Program/2 master stream handler.
M-Motion Video Adapter/A -
(1)
A Micro Channel adapter that receives and processes signals from multiple
video and audio sources, and then sends these signals to a monitor and speakers.
(2) Dual plane video hardware that offers analog video in addition to quality
sound and images. (3) The M-Motion Video Adapter/A requires the M-Control
Program/2.
MMPM/2 -
Multimedia
Presentation Manager/2. See OS/2 multimedia.
MMTIME
-
Standard time and media position format supported
by the media control interface. This time unit is 1/3000 second, or 333
microseconds.
MO:DCA -
Mixed
Object : Document Content Architecture.
mode
-
A method of operation in which the actions
that are available to a user are determined by the state of the system.
model -
The conceptual
and operational understanding that a person has about something.
module
-
A language construct that consists of procedures
or data declarations and that can interact with other constructs.
moire
-
An independent, usually shimmering pattern
seen when two geometrically regular patterns (as a sampling frequency and
a correct frequency) are superimposed. The moire pattern is an alias frequency.
See also aliasing.
monitor -
monitor window -
A
graphical window, available from a digital video device, which displays
the source rectangle, and any subset of this video capture region. See
destination rectangle for related information.
motion-control
photography -
A system for using computers to
precisely control camera movements so that the different elements of a shot-models
and backgrounds, for example-can later be composited with a natural and
believable unity.
motion video capture adapter
-
An adapter that, when attached to a computer,
allows an ordinary television picture to be displayed on all or part of
the screen, mixing high-resolution computer graphics with video; also enables
a video camera to become an input device.
Motion
Video Object Content Architecture (MVOCA) -
A
data format for multimedia products.
Moving Pictures
Experts Group (MPEG) -
A group that is working
to establish a standard for compressing and storing motion video and animation
in digital form.
MPEG -
Moving
Pictures Experts Group.
MPI -
Media
Programming Interface.
MPI application services
-
Media Programming Interface application services.
Functional services provided by MPI to application programs and higher-level
programming constructs, such as multimedia controls.
MS
-
Script abbreviation for medium shot.
MSF -
multimedia -
Material
presented in a combination of text, graphics, video, image, animation, and
sound.
multimedia data object -
In
an application, an element of a data structure (such as a file, an array,
or an operand) that is needed for program execution and that is named or
otherwise specified by the allowable character
set of the language in which the program is coded.
Multimedia
File I/O Services -
System services that provide
a generalized interface to manipulate multimedia data. The services support
buffered and unbuffered file I/O, standard RIFF files, and installable I/O
procedures.
multimedia input/output (MMIO)
-
(1) System services that provide a variety of functions
for media file access and manipulation. (2) A consistent programming interface
where an application, media driver, or stream handler can refer to multimedia
files, read and write data to the files, and query the contents of the files,
while remaining independent of the underlying file formats or the storage
systems that contain the files.
multimedia navigation
system -
A tool that gives the information product
designer the freedom to link various kinds and pieces of data in a variety
of ways so that users can move through it nonsequentially.
multimedia
system -
(1) A system capable of presenting
multimedia material in its entirety. (2) Synonym for mixed-media system.
multiple selection -
A
selection technique in which a user can select any number of objects, or
not select any.
Musical Instrument Digital Interface
(MIDI) -
A protocol that allows a synthesizer
to send signals to another synthesizer or to a computer, or a computer to
a musical instrument, or a computer to another computer.
mute
-
To temporarily turn off the audio for the
associated medium.
mux -
An
abbreviation for multiplexer. See also mixer.
MVOCA
-
Motion Video Object Content Architecture.
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