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Term or Abbreviation
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Detail |
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Advanced Audio Coding |
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AAL
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ATM
Adaptation Layer |
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ACE
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Advanced
Coding Efficiency (Profile) |
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API
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Application Programming Interface |
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ARTS
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Advanced
Real-time Simple (Profile) |
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ATM
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Asynchronous Transfer
Mode |
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BAP
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Body Animation
Parameters |
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BAP
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Body Animation
Parameter |
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BDP
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Body Definition
Parameters |
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BDP
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Body Definition
Parameter |
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BIFS
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Binary Format for
Scenes |
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BSAC
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Bit-Sliced Arithmetic
Coding |
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CD
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Committee Draft |
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CE
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Core Experiment |
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CELP
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Code Excited Linear
Prediction |
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CIF
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Common Intermediate
Format |
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CNG
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Comfort Noise
Generator |
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DAI
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DMIF-Application
Interface |
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DCT
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Discrete Cosine
Transform |
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Trade Name of Software
Manufacturer |
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DMIF
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Delivery Multimedia
Integration Framework |
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DNI
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DMIF Network Interface |
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DRC
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Dynamic Resolution
Conversion |
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DS
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DMIF signalling |
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EP
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Error Protection |
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ER
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Error Resilient |
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ES
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Elementary Stream |
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FAP
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Facial Animation
Parameters |
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FBA
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Facial and Body
Animation |
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FCD
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Final Committee Draft |
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FDIS
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Final Draft
International Standard |
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FDP
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Facial Definition
Parameters |
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Feed |
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An RSS feed which
enables someone to receive (semi-automatically)
updates to a specific series of information. |
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FlexMux stream
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A sequence of FlexMux
packets associated to one or more |
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FlexMux Channels
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flowing through one
TransMux Channel |
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FlexMux tool
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A Flexible (Content)
Multiplex tool |
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FTTC
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Fiber To The Curb |
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GMC
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Global Motion
Compensation |
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GSTN
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General Switched
Telephone Network |
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HCR
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Huffman Codeword
Reordering |
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HFC
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Hybrid Fiber Coax |
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HILN
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Harmonic Individual
Line and Noise |
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HTTP
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HyperText Transfer
Protocol |
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HVXC
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Harmonic Vector
Excitation Coding |
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IEC |
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IP
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Internet Protocol |
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IPI
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Intellectual Property
Identification |
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IPMP
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Intellectual Property
Management and Protection |
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IPR
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Intellectual Property
Rights |
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IS
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International Standard |
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ISDN
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Integrated Service
Digital Network |
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ISO |
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International
Standards Institute |
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LAR
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Logarithmic Area Ratio |
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LATM
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Low-overhead MPEG-4
Audio Transport Multiplex: |
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LC
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Low Complexity |
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LOAS
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Low Overhead Audio
Stream |
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LOD
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Level Of Detail |
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LPC
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Linear Predictive
Coding |
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LSP
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Line Spectral Pairs |
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LTP
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Long Term Prediction |
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M4IF
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MPEG-4 Industry Forum |
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MCU
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Multipoint Control
Unit |
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Mdat
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media data atoms |
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Mesh
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A
graphical construct consisting of connected surface
elements to describe the geometry/shape of a visual
object. |
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MIDI
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Musical Instrument
Digital Interface |
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MP4 |
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Is an ISO/IEC standard
developed by MPEG (Moving Picture Experts Group) it
is their 4th major version hence 4. |
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MPEG
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Moving Pictures
Experts Group |
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MPEG-J
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Framework for MPEG
Java API's |
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MSB
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Most Significant Bits |
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OCI
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Object Content
Information |
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OD
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Object Descriptor |
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PDA
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Personal Digital
Assistant |
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PDU
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Protocol Data Unit |
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Phoneme
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Smallest part of a
sound used to construct a word |
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PMP |
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Portable Media Player
- aka MP4 player |
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PSNR
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Peak Signal to Noise
Ratio |
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QCIF
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Quarter Common
Intermediate Format |
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QoS
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Quality of Service |
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Rendering
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The process of
generating pixels for display |
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RSS |
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Real simple
syndication |
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RTP
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Real Time Transport
Protocol |
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RTSP
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Real Time Streaming
Protocol |
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RVLC
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Reversible Variable
Length Coding |
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SA-DCT
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shape-adaptive DCT |
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SID
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Silence Insertion
Descriptor |
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SL
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Sync(hronization)
layer |
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SMIL
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Synchronized
Multimedia Integration Language |
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SNHC
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Synthetic- Natural
Hybrid Coding |
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SNR
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Signal to Noise Ratio |
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Sprite
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A static
sprite is a - possibly large - still image,
describing panoramic background. |
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SRM
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Session Resource
Manager |
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SVG
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Scalable Vector
Graphics |
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T/F coder
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Time/Frequency Coder |
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TCP
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Transmission Control
Protocol |
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TransMux
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generic abstraction
for any transport multiplex scheme |
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TTS
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Text-to-speech |
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UDP
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User Datagram Protocol |
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UEP
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Unequal Error
Protection |
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UMTS
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Universal Mobile
Telecommunication System |
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VCB
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Virtual
CodeBook |
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Viseme
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Facial
expression associated to a specific phoneme |
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VLBV
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Very Low
Bitrate Video |
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VM
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Verification Model |
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VOP
|
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Video
Object Plane |
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VRML
|
|
Virtual
Reality Modeling Language |
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W3C
|
|
World Wide
Web Consortium |
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WWW
|
|
World Wide
Web |
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X3D
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Extensible
3D |
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XMT
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Extensible
MPEG-4 textual format |
