AC-3 stands for Audio Codec -3.The market name for AC-3 is Dolby Digital as it is a creation of Dolby Laboratories. The standard is laid down by the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) in ATSC Doc. A/52A. It was released in 1991.It comes with the .ac3 file extension.As a lossy codec AC-3 reduces audio file size […]
If you’re a YouTube channel owner you can easily create playlists from your videos.You can even add multiple videos to your playlists automatically.No Need for an Active YouTube ChannelAlso, to create playlists on YouTube you don’t have to be an active channel owner. In other words, you don’t have to publish videos on your channel […]
You would have known the benefit of creating playlists for the videos in your channel.If your channel has only a limited number of videos you can manually add a video to a new playlist as you publish it.What if you’ve already published hundreds of videos. Then as an afterthought, you want to group them into […]
There are many YouTubers with flourishing channels with hundreds of videos. These channels have random videos on different subjects.More often than not, viewers have to browse through the entire selection of videos to find related videos.Most viewers would not take the trouble to do it.The result is lost engagement in the form of additional views, […]
DivX stands for Digital Video Express.It is an efficient codec that compresses long videos, especially movies into smaller file sizes without compromising on quality.The DivX format can reduce MPEG-2 video (used for DVD video) to about 10% of its original size without noticeable quality loss.In the old days, a whole DVD movie can be squeezed […]
WAV is an abbreviation of Waveform Audio. It is also referred to as WAVE.It’s an audio format developed by Microsoft and IBM in the 1980s and comes with the .wav or sometimes .wave extension.It is no surprise then to see .wav use extensively on Windows. All the error sounds your Windows computer makes are stored […]
A Multimedia Compact Disc is a CD-ROM that has a storage space of 3.7GB on a single side.It was a format backed by Sony and Philips. It was announced in December 1994 and was referred to as High-Density CD or HDCD.It was later renamed MMCD.A month later, a similar high-density format was announced. It was […]
Digital Audio Tape (DAT) was introduced in 1987 by Sony. It looks similar to audio cassettes but it is smaller in size.DAT which uses magnetic tape cassettes was intended as a replacement for the analog audio cassettes. Although not successful as a consumer format, it found limited success when it came to audio reproduction and […]
mini-CD A mini-CD performs the same function as a CD, albeit on a ‘smaller scale’. As its name suggests, it’s a miniature version of a CD.It is 80mm in diameter (3 1/8-inch )(3.125 inches) as opposed to a regular CD which measures 120 mm in diameter.mini- Audio CDA mini-audio CD is also known as CD-3. […]
Have you come across a VOB file and wondered what it is? Chances are you’ve been using a VOB file without knowing it.VOB stands for Video OBjects.It is a video container format associated with DVD. If you come across a VOB file or have received or downloaded one, chances are it has been extracted from […]