ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line ADPCM - Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation API - (Windows) Application Programming Interface ATM - Asynchronous Transfer Mode AVI - Audio Video Interface CCIR - Consultative Committee for International Radio CCITT - Consultative Committee for International Telegraphy and Telephony CGA - Color Graphics Adapter CIF - Common Intermediate Format for digital video CORBA - Common Object Request Broker Architecture DCT - Discrete Cosine Transform DLL - (Windows) Dynamic Linking Library, e.g., MMSYSTEM.DLL DPCM - Differential Pulse Code Modulation EGA - Enhanced Graphics Adapter FDDI - Fiber Distributed Data Interface HTML - Hyper Text Markup Language HTTP - Hyper Text Transfer Protocol IGMP - Internet Group Management Protocol IMAP - Internet Message Access Protocol (e.g., IMAP4) ITU-T - International Telecomminication Union - Telecommunication Standardization Sector (formerly CCITT) JAI - JAVA Advanced Imaging API JBIG - Joint Bi-level Image experts Group JPEG - Joint Photographic Experts Group (ISO/IEC standard for compressing still images) MCI - (Windows) Media Control Interface for multimedia devices MFC - Microsoft Foundation Classes MHEG - Multimedia Hypermedia Experts Group MIDI - Music Instrument Digital Interface MIME - Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions MME - Microsoft Multimedia Extensions MPEG - Moving Picture Expert Group (ISO/IEC standard for compressing digital video) MPOA - Multiprotocol Over ATM NTSC - (National Television Standards Committee) Color TV standard in North America and Japan OLE - (Windows) Object Linking and Embedding PAL - (Phase Alternate Line) Color TV standard in Europe (except France and Russia) and China PCM - Pulse Code Modulation POP - Post Office Protocol (e.g., POP3) PPP - Point to Point Protocol PSN - Packet Switched Network (as in IP) PSTN - Public Switched Telephone Network RIFF - (Windows) Resource Interchange File Format - (Microsoft) Raster Image File Format SECAM - (Systeme Electronique Color Avec Memoire) Color TV standard in France and Russia SGML - Standard Generalized Markup Language SLIP - Serial Line Internet Protocol SMIL - Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language SMTP - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol SMPTE - Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers SONET - Synchonous Optical NETwork SVGA - Super Video Graphics Array URL - Uniform Resource Locator VESA - Video Electronics Standards Association VGA - Video Graphics Array VRML - Virtual Reality Modeling Language XGA - Extended Graphics Array XML - Extensible Markup Language Sound Formats ------------- .aif (Apple, SGI) Audio Interchange File Format (AIFF) .au (Sun, Mac) sound format .iff Amiga .mid MIDI sound (digitally synthesized music) .pcm Pulse Code Modulation (digitally recorded sound) .voc Soundblaster .wav (Windows) digitally recorded sound Video Formats ------------- .avi Video for Windows video .mmm (Microsoft Multimedia Movie) Animation .mov QuickTime for Windows video .mpg MPEG .qt QuickTime for Windows video Graphics/Image Formats ---------------------- .bmp, .dib, .rle Windows bitmap formats .eps Encapsulated PostScript .flc Graphics animation .fli Graphics animation .gif (CompuServe) Graphics Interchange Format .jpg JPEG .pcd PhotoCD .pcx PC Paintbrush Images .pic, .pct PICT format .png Portable Network Graphics .pnt MacPaint .ppm Portable Pixmap .psd (Adobe) Photoshop image format .rib Renderman format .tga (Truevision) Targa format (uncompressed images) .tif, .tiff (Aldus) Tagged Image File Format .wmf Windows Metafile .wpg WordPerfect Graphics .xbm X Bitmap