- Industry: Computer; Software
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Apple Inc., formerly Apple Computer, Inc., is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software and personal computers.
A set of audio and video perceptual coding formats, formally designated as ISO/IEC-14496, first published in 1998. MPEG-4 encompasses many of the features introduced in MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 and adds features useful for streaming media and broadcast, among others. See also stream
Industry:Software; Computer
MIDI timecode. A music synchronization protocol, defined as part of the MIDI protocol. MTC emulates SMPTE timecode. See also timecode.
Industry:Software; Computer
A process in which a single packet can be addressed to multiple recipients. Multicast is used, for example, in streaming video, in which many megabytes of data are sent over the network.
Industry:Software; Computer
The ability to have multiple network addresses in one computer, usually on different networks. For example, multihoming might be used to create a system in which one address is used to talk to hosts outside a firewall and the other to talk to hosts inside; the computer provides facilities for passing information between the two.
Industry:Software; Computer
The concurrent execution of multiple programs. Mac OS X uses preemptive multitasking.
Industry:Software; Computer
In Core Audio, describes an instrument unit configured to allow production of more than one timbre simultaneously. Compare monotimbral.
Industry:Software; Computer
One of the QuickTime media types, in which sequences of sounds and tones are generated.
Industry:Software; Computer
