Live Streaming Glossary

The Ultimate Guide to Streaming Terms and Definitions

Anyone trying to learn a new skill or hobby can quickly become overwhelmed by new words, acronyms, and industry lingo. Our glossary of common livestreaming terms aims to break down complex technologies into simple and understandable language.

Check out our comprehensive glossary below and get started learning today!

A

• a Keyframe Interval
• a Power Conditioner
• a Progressive Scan
• a Video Cross Converter
• a Video Switcher
• a Web Channel
• a Web Preset
• Adaptive Bitrate Streaming (ABR & ABS)
• Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)
• An Audio Embedder
• an RJ-45
• an Uninterruptible Power Supply
• Audio Artifacts
• Audio Video Synchronization

B

• Bitrate

C

• Cloud Transcoding
• Codecs

D

• Decoder
• Deinterlacing

E

• Emulator
• Encoder Channels and Presets

H

• H.264 (AVC) Codec
• H.265 (HEVC)
• HDCP
• HTTP Live Streaming (HLS)

I

• Interlaced Scanning

L

• Lower Thirds

M

• MPEG-DASH

O

• Over-the-Top (OTT)

P

• Packet Loss
• Point to Point

R

• RSP
• RTMP

S

• Serial Digital Interface (SDI)

T

• the Quality of Service (QoS)

V

• Video Compression
• Video Embed Code
• Video Encoding
• Video Latency
• Video Resolutions

W

• WebRTC