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AAC
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Advanced Audio Coding
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AAL
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ATM Adaptation Layer
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Access Unit
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A logical sub-structure of an Elementary Stream to facilitate random access or bitstream manipulation
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ACE
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Advanced Coding Efficiency (Profile)
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AFX
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Animation Framework eXtension
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Alpha plane
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Image component providing transparency information
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Amd
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Amendment
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AOI
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Area Of Interest
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API
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Application Programming Interface
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ARTS
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Advanced Real-time Simple (Profile)
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ATM
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Asynchronous Transfer Mode
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BAP
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Body Animation Parameters
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BAP
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Body Animation Parameter
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BDP
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Body Definition Parameters
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BDP
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Body Definition Parameter
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BIFS
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Binary Format for Scenes
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BSAC
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Bit-Sliced Arithmetic Coding
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CD
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Committee Draft
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CE
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Core Experiment
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CELP
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Code Excited Linear Prediction
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CIF
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Common Intermediate Format
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CNG
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Comfort Noise Generator
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DAI
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DMIF-Application Interface
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DCT
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Discrete Cosine Transform
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DMIF
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Delivery Multimedia Integration Framework
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DNI
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DMIF Network Interface
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DRC
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Dynamic Resolution Conversion
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DS
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DMIF signaling
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EP
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Error Protection
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ER
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Error Resilient
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ES
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Elementary Stream: A sequence of data that originates from a single producer in the transmitting MPEG-4 Terminal and terminates at a single recipient, e.g. an media object or a Control Entity in the receiving MPEG-4 Terminal. It flows through one FlexMux Channel.
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FAP
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Facial Animation Parameters
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FBA
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Facial and Body Animation
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FCD
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Final Committee Draft
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FDIS
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Final Draft International Standard
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FDP
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Facial Definition Parameters
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FlexMux stream
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A sequence of FlexMux packets associated to one or more FlexMux Channels flowing through one TransMux Channel
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FlexMux tool
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A Flexible (Content) Multiplex tool
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FSM
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Finite-States Machine
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FTTC
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Fiber To The Curb
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GMC
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Global Motion Compensation
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GSTN
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General Switched Telephone Network
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HCR
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Huffman Codeword Reordering
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HFC
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Hybrid Fiber Coax
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HILN
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Harmonic Individual Line and Noise
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HTTP
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HyperText Transfer Protocol
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HVXC
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Harmonic Vector Excitation Coding
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IP
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Internet Protocol
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IPI
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Intellectual Property Identification
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IPMP
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Intellectual Property Management and Protection
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IPR
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Intellectual Property Rights
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IS
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International Standard
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ISDN
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Integrated Service Digital Network
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LAR
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Logarithmic Area Ratio
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LATM
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Low-overhead MPEG-4 Audio Transport Multiplex:
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LC
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Low Complexity
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LOAS
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Low Overhead Audio Stream
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LOD
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Level Of Detail
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LPC
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Linear Predictive Coding
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LSP
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Line Spectral Pairs
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LTP
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Long Term Prediction
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M4IF
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MPEG-4 Industry Forum
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MCU
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Multipoint Control Unit
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Mdat
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media data atoms
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Mesh
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A graphical construct consisting of connected surface elements to describe the geometry/shape of a visual object.
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MIDI
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Musical Instrument Digital Interface
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MPEG
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Moving Pictures Experts Group
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MPEG-J
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Framework for MPEG Java API’s
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MSB
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Most Significant Bits
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NB
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National Body
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OCI
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Object Content Information
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OD
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Object descriptor
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OD
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Object Descriptor
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PDA
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Personal Digital Assistant
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PDU
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Protocol Data Unit
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PSNR
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Peak Signal to Noise Ratio
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QCIF
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Quarter Common Intermediate Format
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QoS
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Quality of Service
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Rendering
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The process of generating pixels for display
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RTP
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Real Time Transport Protocol
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RTSP
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Real Time Streaming Protocol
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RVLC
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Reversible Variable Length Coding
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SA-DCT
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shape-adaptive DCT
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SID
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Silence Insertion Descriptor
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SL
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Sync(hronization) layer
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SMIL
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Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language
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SNHC
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Synthetic- Natural Hybrid Coding
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SNR
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Signal to Noise Ratio
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Sprite
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A static sprite is a - possibly large - still image, describing panoramic background.
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SRM
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Session Resource Manager
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SVG
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Scalable Vector Graphics
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T/F coder
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Time/Frequency Coder
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TCP
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Transmission Control Protocol
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TransMux
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generic abstraction for any transport multiplex scheme
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TTS
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Text-to-speech
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UDP
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User Datagram Protocol
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UEP
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Unequal Error Protection
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UMTS
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Universal Mobile Telecommunication System
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VCB
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Virtual CodeBook
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Viseme
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Facial expression associated to a specific phoneme
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VLBV
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Very Low Bitrate Video
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VM
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Verification Model
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VOP
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Video Object Plane
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VRML
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Virtual Reality Modeling Language
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W3C
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World Wide Web Consortium
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WD
|
Working Draft
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WWW
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World Wide Web
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XMT
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Extensible MPEG-4 textual format
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