Category: Technology
Company: Apple Inc.
Created by: Karl Schaeffer
Number of Blossarys: 9
A surround sound speaker configuration consisting of five speakers arranged in specific positions along the circumference of a circle and a subwoofer (the “.1”). The speaker channels are typically ...
Sometimes written as Q8.24 or fx8.24. A fixed-point sample size used as the canonical audio sample type for processing linear PCM audio in iOS, in lieu of 32-bit floating-point samples. In an 8.24 ...
Advanced Audio Coding. A compressed, lossy, perceptual coding scheme, originally a component of the MPEG-2 standard as MPEG-2 AAC. Defined in 1997 as part of ISO/IEC 13818-7. Enhanced for the MPEG-4 ...
Access control entry. A component of an ACL that associates a user or group with a set of permissions and specifies whether each permission is allowed or denied.
A structure containing information describing what must happen (display a confirmation dialog, ask for a password, and so forth) in order to permit a specific operation to occur. An ACL may also ...
Apple Developer Connection. The primary source for technical and business resources and information for anyone developing for Apple’s software and hardware platforms anywhere in the world. It ...
Adaptive delta pulse code modulation. A variant of pulse-code modulation, and an extension of DPCM, that varies quantization step size to minimize bit rate for a given dynamic range.