The basic concepts and vocabulary conventions for the MIL Sequences module are:
Destination. The location in which the output of the specified operation is saved.
Elementary video stream. A video composed of a sequence of frames containing no audio component.
Container format. A format that can contain an elementary video stream, as well as other elements such as audio and subtitles. AVI and MP4 are container formats.
Frame. One of the successive images forming a video.
H.264 compression. An advanced compression standard that uses predictive frames to maximize compression efficiency.
I-frame. A frame containing all the data necessary to decode it independently of other frames. I-frames are the least compressible H.264 frames.
Operation. An action performed on a certain number of inputs and having a certain number of outputs. The H.264 compression and decompression operations each have one input and one output.
Predictive frame (P-frame) and bi-predictive frame (B-frame). A frame contained within an elementary video stream that cannot be indepently decoded into a full image. It must refer to other frames in the stream during playback to be properly decoded. P- and B-frames are more compressible than I-frames.
Source. The location from which the input of the operation is taken.