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Since its very beginning MPEG has been an evolutionary melting pot, where experts push beyond the goal of creation of international standards for new audio and video compression technologies.
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Pentium IV 1,2 GHz – 1G RAM – 512M dual head Video Board – 1T HDD.
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The CIF (Common Interchange Format) video format is made of moving images with 352 columns and 288 lines; QCIF (Quarter Common Interchange Format) video format is made of moving images with 176 columns and 144 lines.
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Redundant array of independent disks.
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BTC – Basic Test Cell; the core element of a test session in which a coding condition is evaluated.
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SSD – Solid state Storage Device; the new disk made of flash memory with an extremely low data read time; four SSD drives in Raid 0 (stripe) configuration provide a read speed four times higher than the equivalent configuration using conventional HDD.
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Baroncini, V., Quackenbush, S. (2012). MPEG Video/Audio Quality Evaluation. In: Chiariglione, L. (eds) The MPEG Representation of Digital Media. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6184-6_13
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