AAC - Advanced Audio Coding

ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line

ADPCM - Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation

API - Application Programming Interface

ATM - Asynchronous Transfer Mode

AVI - Audio Video Interface

CCIR - Consultative Committee for International Radio

CCITT - International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee 

CDMA - Code Division Multiple Access

CGA - Color Graphics Adapter

CIF - Common Intermediate Format for digital video

CORBA - Common Object Request Broker Architecture

DAC - Digital to Analog Converter

DAVIC - Digital Audio Visual Council

DCT - Discrete Cosine Transform

DLL - (Windows) Dynamic Linking Library, e.g., MMSYSTEM.DLL

DPCM - Differential Pulse Code Modulation

DVB - Digital Video Broadcasting 

DVB-MHP - DVB-Multimedia Home Platform

EGA - Enhanced Graphics Adapter

FDDI - Fiber Distributed Data Interface

GSM - Global System for Mobile communications

HTML - Hyper Text Markup Language

HTTP - Hyper Text Transfer Protocol

IEC - International Electrotechnical Commission

IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force

IGMP - Internet Group Management Protocol

IMAP - Internet Message Access Protocol (e.g., IMAP4)

ISO - International Organization for Standardization

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)

MPEG-J - Framework for MPEG JAVA API's

MPOA - Multiprotocol Over ATM

MSF - Multiservice Switching Forum

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

RTCP - Real Time Control Protocol

RIFF - (Windows) Resource Interchange File Format
     - (Microsoft) Raster Image File Format

RSVP - Resource ReSerVation Protocol

RTP - Real Time Transport Protocol

RTSP - Real Time Streaming Protocol

SCSI - Small Computer System Interface

SDH - Synchronous Digital Hierarchy

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

TDMA - Time Division Multiple Access


URL - Uniform Resource Locator

VESA - Video Electronics Standards Association

VGA - Video Graphics Array

VRML - Virtual Reality Modeling Language

USB - Universal Serial Bus

XGA - Extended Graphics Array


XML - Extensible Markup Language


Sound Formats
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.aif 		(Apple, SGI) Audio Interchange File Format (AIFF)

.au 		(Sun, Mac) sound format
.iff		Amiga
.mid		MIDI sound (digitally synthesized music)
.mp3		MPEG audio Layer 3
.pcm		Pulse Code Modulation (digitally recorded sound)
.voc		Soundblaster

.wav 		(Windows) digitally recorded sound


Video Formats
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.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
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.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