Glossary of Terms for Newbies

[WishMaker]

I'm a newbie. duh.

Is there anyway you have enough room on your site to put a Glossary of Terms in the left hand side... you know, over there <------ in that section.

Some of us are not just dummies, but the ones that need the idiot's version and a simple text full of terms and what they mean would help when reading "how to's" and posts.

AVI (is an abreviation for... etc.

And then possibly the the most common ways these words/abreviations are used.

I would then print this out and refer back to the print-out instead of clicking all over the place and loosing my train of thought when reading
"how to's" and posts.

If there is already a place like this, on this GREAT, WONDERFUL, INFORMATIVE, FANTASTIC, (is my nose a deep dark brown yet?) would you please direct me there?

Thanks, WONDERFUL, OVERWORKED, DEDICATED, administrators

[ian follow]

The online resource: http://www.afterdawn.com/glossary/

Another good site: http://www.videonics.com/Video-Glossary.html (you can copy&paste&print)

And another good one: http://www.videoessentials.com/glossary.htm

[WishMaker]

Thanks! That's a good start.

I hope I don't seem like I'm being a nit-picker, but it would be like someone very new to the medical field and listening to the Doctor's and Nurses discussing a patient.

"She had a CVA on the 11th..."

Most people wonder what a CVA is. When the definition is given...

"A CVA stands for Cerebral Vascular Accident."

One might still scratch their head until someone said...

"That means the patient had a STROKE."

[Baldrick]

I will add some glossary sites to our link sections. In the future I maybe will make a vcdhelp glossary page....if I ever get some time over and when my english grammar is good enough(it doesn't help to have a glossary if you don't understand the explanation ...)

[vitualis]

Off topic (but still perhaps relevant): yes, they may stop scratching their heads but how many lay people actually know what a stroke is? I'd bet that if I asked 10 different people, I'd get 10 different answers.

Somethings are just difficult to explain unless the reader has willing to do a bit of further reading/research.

For example, trying to explain what GOP means in a paragraph would be impossible (without the average person "scratching their heads").

Look at the extended discussions on the meaning of bitrate/CBR/VBR...

Regards.

[WishMaker]

Yes, I will do better at doing my own research. Today, I even saved a large PDF file from the Cyberlink PowerDirector2 Pro, figuring I would be able to pick up the lingo. There was also a glossary at the end.

Without trying to be a poop-head, GOP stands for something to do with SVCD or DVD etc.? OR were you making an analogy, 'cause my peanut sized brain immediately saw GOP and thought "Grand Old Party".

I'm pretty sure my problem comes from being afraid to just get in there and DO IT! I have a Pioneer 104 and haven't even installed the darned thing. I feel intimidated by it, worrying that I'm going to screw up something. I bought it thinking I could only make SVCD's on a DVD burner, when I already have a perfectly functioning CDRW. UGH!

Also, for what I have in mind to do, doesn't seem to be in any of the forums.

On their site, I found the DVDit (retail version, I think)which, I think, has the tools for what I have in mind, but I really can't afford to buy it right now. Unless, you know of another, cheaper program that when you click one of the MENUS? it'll take you to something you have on Microsoft Word.

Am I making sense? I would have several menus? One would take you to a 2 to 5 min film clip, One to photos, one to a text file etc. (all this with sound effects (when you click on a MENU) AND background music to boot.

If I'm dreamin' big time about doing the above, unless I have a multimedia recording studio, please let me know. That way, I can lower the bar a bit. I really think the presskit cd's that I have are fantasic and want to reproduce as many features as possible.

Sorry this got so long.

[ian follow]

Hi Baldrick,

Count on me for that glossary. I'm a journalist that cover technology (among other things) and I can explain what-ever-you-want in simple way.

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Hrmm GOP. I still don't know what that is. Gross Output Phasing? I do know that tab in TMPGEnc is for the frames. Ps, Is, Bs. B most compression after each i, or p frame. I believe you should write the glossary in your native language, have different language guides like the same number as VCDEasy's selectable languages :P

[kitty]

GOP - group of pictures - defines a start frame (labelled I) and frames based on differences between the I frame and the other frames (B & P).

There are tutorials on the specifics - see http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/frame/research/mpeg/mpeg_overview.html

[Baldrick]

www.vcdhelp.com/glossary

based from this forum
http://www.vcdhelp.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=31

[Baldrick]

If anyone is interested in helping me build the glossary contact me.....it is also very easy to add new terms or edit them cause it is based from this forum.
http://www.vcdhelp.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=31
(if you add or edit there it will automatically be updated in the main glossary www.vcdhelp.com/glossary)

[SquirrelDip]

Stroke: Definition by example...

Three older ladies were confronted by a flasher. Two of them had a stroke - the third one couldn't reach.

[kitty]

I'll help Baldrick. Is it fair to steal some definitions from other sites or places on the Internet or link to white papers for more info (like MPEG1/2)?

[kitty]

I am attempting to add a topic in the glossary forum but it says only moderators can do this. Gee all this time I thought I was one

[Baldrick]

kitty: Should work now...forgot to add moderators permission to the forum.

[Baldrick]

A short explanation and a link is okey. And it may be okey to to "steal" a part from a defintion but then add a link to the source.

[kitty]

Ok, works fine. I was trying to add a relative link like having IEEE1394 & i.Link point to the term Firewire. I saw you indexed anchors on terms to I pointed IEEE1394 to #Firewire but the php bbcode kept adding http:// so it looked like http:///#Firewire. I added the whole URL but that opens a new browser window which is undesirable. Is there a way to add an interpage jump link using [url]?

[Baldrick]

For now, just add term and I will fix it.

[Baldrick]

About stealing information...what about this for example
http://www.vcdhelp.com/glossary#dvd
http://www.vcdhelp.com/glossary#firewire

I don't see any point of rewriting every video term...but do you think it is okey to do so? without contacting the source...

[kitty]

Seems to be fine. What do you think of the ones I added?

[Baldrick]

Looks good...but add only the video term to the topic, not cvd(china video disc). Only CVD cause it will be easier to link to it in the future www.vcdhelp.com/glossary#cvd . You can add what it stands for in the explanation instead.

Keeeeeep adding.......I want to see 3034390 new terms by tomorrow....

[Baldrick]

I made the term clickable. So it links to itself, good if you want to copy the link to someone. And added the glossary link(under what is) to all pages.

[kitty]

What a slave driver!

On the page where you have:
This is our new glossary. We will keep adding video terms, today there are only a few terms but except much more video terms in the future.

try this:
This is our new glossary. We will keep adding video terms, today there are only a few terms but expect many more video terms in the future.

I won't pick on your english too much if you don't pick on my Swedish or Finnish

[Baldrick]

You can edit my posts....if you like....and if you like you can add something to the ! New glossary topic....like, It is me kitty that does alll hard work here....

[kitty]

ok, you are kind - I will not try to edit your content - I have just edited some "test" topics. Do you want specific definitions now or just add them as I think of them?

[Baldrick]

Remember that you can also add html to the explanations....I think...

[kitty]

As we get more definitions we can add links inside definitions - I will do this for terms having "DVD" in them if appropriate - see Divx for an example

[musher70]

keep up the good work, i'm quite sure it's appreciated...

[Baldrick]

ok, you are kind - I will not try to edit your content - I have just edited some "test" topics. Do you want specific definitions now or just add them as I think of them?

I mean that it is okey to edit my posts. No problems. Specific definaionations?? what do you mean. And thanks for helping me.

[kitty]

I understood. Do you want to focus on MPEG or codecs or anything? I have been doing some file formats - ASF, WMF, etc.