A New Authoritative Glossary for the Streaming Industry
Let's All Get On the Same Page
Solving challenges in any industry requires an agreed-upon lexicon. If there isn’t agreement on the terms and meanings which define the problems, it makes it significantly more challenging to solve them.
List of Terms
Below is a complete list of all terms. Click on a term to open its definition.
Filter by term category. Just select the categories to display the relevant terms. Multiple categories supported.
- 3G
- 4G
- 5G
- Ad ID
- ALID (MDDF)
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Bad Actor
- Bandwidth
- Broadcast
- Business metadata
- Cache
- Cache efficiency
- Cache hit
- Cache miss
- Catch’up TV
- CDN Configuration
- CMAF chunk
- CNAME
- Conditional Access System
- Content
- Content Delivery Network
- Content ID (MDDF)
- Content Management System
- Content operation
- Content versioning
- Cosmo
- Data schema
- Delay line
- Descriptive metadata
- Digital Rights Management
- Domain Name Server
- Dynamic Ad Insertion
- Edge Server
- EDNS
- EIDR
- Encryption
- Entity Relationship Model
- Extensible Markup Language
- Forensic Watermarking
- Geo-blocking
- Geo-content replacement
- GOP
- High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection
- House ID
- HTTP redirect
- IGMP
- Ingest
- Internet Protocol Television
- internet Speech Audio Codec
- ISAN
- JavaScript Object Notation
- Key rotation
- Last Mile
- Latency
- Linear Programming
- Live Content
- Live-to-File
- Live-to-VOD
- Load balancer
- Load balancing
- Load sharing
- Long-Term Evolution
- Machine Learning (ML)
- Metadata
- Metadata Aggregator
- Metadata Enhancement
- Metadata Mapping
- MP3
- Multi-Access Edge Computing (formerly Mobile Edge Computing)
- Multi-Key
- Multicast
- Multicast ABR
- Non-Live Content
- Objective Video Quality
- On-Demand Programming
- Over-the-Top
- QAM
- RDK
- Real Time Streaming Protocol
- Reverse Proxy
- Second-screen
- Server-side Ad Insertion
- Set-top Box
- Shield Cache
- Single Sign On
- Smart TV
- Software Development Kit
- Start-Over
- Stream Leakage
- Technical Metadata
- Temporal Metadata
- Timeshift
- Tokenized URL
- Transport Stream
- Trick Play
- Unicast
- URL Tokenization
- User Datagram Protocol
- Video on Demand
- Virtual Multichannel Video Programming Distributor
- Vorbis
- Watermarking
- WebVTT
