Glossary

A thumbnail is reduced-size video or photographic content that are usually used to organize and recognize content at first sight.

Transport Layer Security is a cryptographic protocol that ensures privacy between communicating applications and their users on the internet.

The process of changing the parameters of a live video stream (bitrate, resolution, etc).

Time To Live (TTL), is a setting used to define how long a certain video or audio content will stay in a server / cache.

Also known as authenticated streaming or authenticated video on-demand, TV Everywhere is a business model in which broadcasters grant their audience access to live or on-demand video content by authenticating themselves as current subscribers.