full-motion video

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full-motion video - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  full-motion video
  FMV
  
     (FMV) Any system used to deliver moving video images and sound
     on a computer.  Video images and sound are stored on disk;
     compact disc is preferred because of the amount of data
     required.  Some form of video compression is used to reduce
     the amount of data and to allow it to be read from disk
     quickly enough.  Compression can be relatively slow but
     decompression is done in real-time with the picture quality
     and frame rate varying with the processing power available,
     the size of the picture and whether it appears in a window
     or uses the whole screen.
  
     Acorn Computers' system is called Replay and Apple Computer
     's is QuickTime.
  
     Compare MPEG, H.261.
  
     [IBM PC equivalent?  Do they all use compression?  Web page?]
  
     (1994-11-09)