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Acrobat

Acrobat - digital signage

Adobe Acrobat is a software package that is used for producing high quality, non-editable, and printer friendly documents. Adobe Acrobat documents have the extension .pdf, and are often recognized as "PDF files." The software for viewing these files is called Acrobat Reader, and is available for free from the Adobe web site. The full version, which is used to create the documents, is available for purchase from Adobe.

ActiveMovie

ActiveMovie - digital signage

ActiveMovie is a graphic driver created by Microsoft, which is used by the Windows Media Player. It is used for playback of various types of animation formats. The ActiveMovie driver supports QuickTime, AVI, and MPEG files.

ActiveX

ActiveX - digital signage

ActiveX is Microsoft's technology for enhancing interactive control, primarily in Web browsers and other network-oriented interactive software applications. There have been some digital signage applications, specifically media players, developed on this technology.

Applet

Applet - digital signage

A small program that is/can be downloaded from a web site and executed on the user's computer.

Authoring System

Authoring System - digital signage

A piece of software for assembling multimedia applications. This would be a key piece of software within a digital signage solution.

AVI

AVI - digital signage

AVI, which stands for Audio Video Interleave, is an early video format by Microsoft.

Codec

Codec - digital signage

A codec is a program capable of performing encoding and decoding on a digital data stream or signal. There are other types of codecs such as an integrated circuit or other electronic device which combines the circuits needed to convert digital signals to and from analog type signals.

Flash

Flash - digital signage

Flash is a vector-based animation application created by Macromedia. (Now owned by Adobe Systems) Flash is a popular technology for web site designs because of their speed of download, high resolution, and browser compatability. To view flash pages, you must have shockwave software installed which is available from the Macromedia web site.

Java

Java - digital signage

Java is a network-oriented programming language developed by Sun Microsystems. There has been a little bit of programming for digital signage platforms using java, and we expect to see more in the future. It is specifically designed for writing programs that can be safely downloaded to your computer through the internet.

Quicktime

Quicktime - digital signage

Apple video technology that allows video, digitized sound, and 3D objects.

SaaS

SaaS - digital signage

See Software as a Service .

Shockwave

Shockwave - digital signage

Shockwave is the name of a plug in developed by Macromedia that allows users to view new forms of entertainment, such as flash, on the Web. With the shockwave plug-in, you can view games, music, rich-media, chat, and more.

Software as a Service

Software as a Service - digital signage

Software as a Service (SaaS) is software that is deployed over the Internet, eliminating the need to download or purchase software to a computer. A software provider typically licenses the service to consumers through a subscription model. SaaS vendors host their consumers' media content and operate the software on their behalf. Consumers are then required to sign in to their accounts to access their uploaded content. Most software as a service providers give users the ability to edit templates, schedule content and upload media through their sites.

XviD

XviD - digital signage

XviD is an opensource digital video compression format which is based loosely on the MPEG4 specifications. (DIVX)

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