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2.1.91 layer [video and systems]: One of the levels in the data hierarchy of the video and system
specifications defined in ISO/IEC 11172-1 and ISO/IEC 11172-2.
2.1.92 low frequency enhancement channel [audio]: A limited bandwidth channel for low frequency
audio effects in a multichannel system.
2.1.93 luminance (component) [video]: A matrix, block or single pel representing a monochrome
representation of the signal and related to the primary colours in the manner defined in CCIR Rec 601. The
symbol used for luminance is Y.
2.1.94 macroblock [video]: The four 8 by 8 blocks of luminance data and the two corresponding 8 by 8
blocks of chrominance data coming from a 16 by 16 section of the luminance component of the picture.
Macroblock is sometimes used to refer to the pel data and sometimes to the coded representation of the pel
values and other data elements defined in the macroblock layer of the syntax defined in ISO/IEC 11172-2.
The usage is clear from the context.
2.1.95 mapping [audio]: Conversion of an audio signal from time to frequency domain by subband
filtering and/or by MDCT.
2.1.96 masking [audio]: A property of the human auditory system by which an audio signal cannot be
perceived in the presence of another audio signal .
2.1.97 masking threshold [audio]: A function in frequency and time below which an audio signal cannot
be perceived by the human auditory system.
2.1.98 MDCT [audio]: Modified Discrete Cosine Transform which corresponds to the Time Domain
Aliasing Cancellation Filter Bank.
2.1.99 motion compensation [video]: The use of motion vectors to improve the efficiency of the
prediction of pel values. The prediction uses motion vectors to provide offsets into the past and/or future
reference pictures containing previously decoded pel values that are used to form the prediction error
signal.
2.1.100 motion estimation [video]: The process of estimating motion vectors during the encoding process.
2.1.101 motion vector [video]: A two-dimensional vector used for motion compensation that provides an
offset from the coordinate position in the current picture to the coordinates in a reference picture.
2.1.102 MS stereo [audio]: A method of exploiting stereo irrelevance or redundancy in stereophonic audio
programmes based on coding the sum and difference signal instead of the left and right channels.
2.1.103 multichannel [audio]: A combination of audio channels used to create a spatial sound field.
2.1.104 multilingual [audio]: A presentation of dialogue in more than one language.
2.1.105 non-intra coding [video]: Coding of a macroblock or picture that uses information both from itself
and from macroblocks and pictures occurring at other times.
2.1.106 non-tonal component [audio]: A noise-like component of an audio signal.
2.1.107 Nyquist sampling: Sampling at or above twice the maximum bandwidth of a signal.
2.1.108 pack [system]: A pack consists of a pack header followed by one or more packets. It is a layer in
the system coding syntax described in ISO/IEC 11172-1.
2.1.109 packet data [system]: Contiguous bytes of data from an elementary stream present in a packet.
2.1.110 packet header [system]: The data structure used to convey information about the elementary
stream data contained in the packet data.
2.1.111 packet [system]: A packet consists of a header followed by a number of contiguous bytes from an
elementary data stream. It is a layer in the system coding syntax described in ISO/IEC 11172-1.
2.1.112 padding [audio]: A method to adjust the average length in time of an audio frame to the duration
of the corresponding PCM samples, by conditionally adding a slot to the audio frame.