- 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 set of audio and video perceptual coding formats, formally designated as ISO/IEC-14496, first published in 1998. MPEG-4 encompasses many of the features introduced in MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 and adds features useful for streaming media and broadcast, among others. See also stream
Industry:Software; Computer
MIDI timecode. A music synchronisation protocol, defined as part of the MIDI protocol. MTC emulates SMPTE timecode. See also timecode.
Industry:Software; Computer
A process in which a single packet can be addressed to multiple recipients. Multicast is used, for example, in streaming video, in which many megabytes of data are sent over the network.
Industry:Software; Computer
The ability to have multiple network addresses in one computer, usually on different networks. For example, multihoming might be used to create a system in which one address is used to talk to hosts outside a firewall and the other to talk to hosts inside; the computer provides facilities for passing information between the two.
Industry:Software; Computer
The concurrent execution of multiple programs. Mac OS X uses preemptive multitasking.
Industry:Software; Computer
In Core Audio, describes an instrument unit configured to allow production of more than one timbre simultaneously. Compare monotimbral.
Industry:Software; Computer
One of the QuickTime media types, in which sequences of sounds and tones are generated.
Industry:Software; Computer
The Core Audio programming construct that applications use to play MIDI or other event data.
Industry:Software; Computer
A mutual-exclusion locking object that allows multiple threads to synchronise access to shared resources. A mutex has two states: locked and unlocked. Once a mutex has been locked by a thread, other threads attempting to lock it block. When the locking thread unlocks (releases) the mutex, one of the blocked threads (if any) acquires (locks) it and uses the resource. The thread that locks the mutex must be the one that unlocks it. The work-loop lock (which is used by a command gate) is based on a mutex. See also lock, work loop
Industry:Software; Computer
A set of attribute choices in which the user can select only one item, such as font size. Compare accumulating attribute group.
Industry:Software; Computer
