A fundamental syntactic unit in markup languages, such as HTML or XML. Elements are delimited by start tags and end tags.
To convert audio and video content to a specified digital format.
A technology that converts live or prerecorded audio and video content to a specified digital format. Typically, content is compressed during encoding. Windows Media Encoder is an example of an encoder.
To programmatically disguise content to hide its substance.
In Windows Media Player, a process to ensure that digital audio data is read from the CD-ROM drive accurately during playback or copying. Using error correction can prevent undesirable noises that are not part of the original material.
An automatic notification of a user action or a change in state that can be recognized by an object and responded to programmatically.
A markup language that provides a format for describing structured data. XML is a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) specification, and is a subset of Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML).