- Industry: Computer; Software
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Apple Inc., formerly Apple Computer, Inc., is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software and personal computers.
A kernel architecture in which all pieces of the kernel are closely intertwined. A monolithic kernel provides substantial performance improvements. It is difficult to evolve the individual components independently, however. The Mac OS X kernel is a hybrid of the monolithic and microkernel models. See also microkernel.
Industry:Software; Computer
In Core Audio, describes an instrument unit configured to produce sounds of only a single timbre. Both monophonic and polyphonic instrument units can be monotimbral. Compare multitimbral.
Industry:Software; Computer
A process that merges mouseMoved and mouseDragged events by checking to see if one of these events exists in the event queue, and if it does, updating the queue with the position and delta information from the more recently generated event.
Industry:Software; Computer
A structure of time-based data that is managed by QuickTime. A movie may contain sound, video, animation, or a combination of any of these types of data. A QuickTime movie contains one or more tracks; each track represents a single data stream in the movie. See also time-based data, track.
Industry:Software; Computer
In QuickTime, a region that describes the area occupied by a movie in the movie coordinate system, before the movie has been clipped by the movie clipping region. A movie’s boundary region is built up from the track movie boundary regions for each of the movie’s tracks. See also movie clipping region, track movie boundary region.
Industry:Software; Computer
The clipping region of a movie in the movie’s coordinate system. QuickTime applies the movie’’slipping region to the movie boundary region to obtain a clipped movie boundary region. Only that portion of the movie that lies in the clipped movie boundary region is then transformed into an image in the display coordinate system. See also movie boundary region.
Industry:Software; Computer
A region that describes the display area occupied by a movie in the display coordinate system, before the movie has been clipped by the movie display clipping region. See also movie display clipping region.
Industry:Software; Computer
The clipping region of a movie in the display coordinate system. Only that portion of the movie that lies in the clipping region is visible to the user. QuickTime applies the movie’s display clipping region to the movie display boundary region to obtain the visible image. See also movie display boundary region.
Industry:Software; Computer
A QuickTime file that stores a movie and its associated data.
Industry:Software; Computer
A QT atom that specifies the characteristics of an entire QuickTime movie.
Industry:Software; Computer
