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| Concept | Category | Description | Related Concepts, Standards |
| OTT | Content Delivery | Over the Top delivery of content (video and audio) using unmanaged, available internet under best effort case scenario  |
IPTV, Netflix |
| OCAP | Specification | Stands for Open Cable Applications Platform (also called tru2way) and constitutes Technical specifications from CableLabs for a java based middleware, applications software and content authoring tools for enabling interoperable interactive apps e.g. programming guide, DVR, local news etc. It is based on GEM Standard (MHP-DVB) and contains two key profiles OCAP v1.0 (Baseline) and OCAP v2.0 (HTML support) | CableLabs, Interactive Apps, MHP, Tru2way, Cablecard, GEM, OpenCable |
| OMF | Standard | Stands for Open Media Framework (or OMFI Open Media Framework Interchange) is an interchange binary file format developed by Avid Technologies, offering cross-platform, extensible, and rich (metadata) container capable of holding complex composition information, including effects, as well as media data (essence). The format encapsulates all the information required to transport a variety of digital media such as audio, video, graphics, and still images, as well as the rules for combining and presenting the media. |
MXF, AAF, Essence |
| OGG Vorbis | Audio Compression | Ogg Vorbis is an open source, patent-free lossy audio codec for fixed and variable bitrates from 16 to 128 kbps/channel. Ogg is the name of Xiph.org’s container format for audio, video, and metadata while Vorbis is the name of a specific audio compression scheme that’s designed to be contained in Ogg. Its quality is comparable to MP3, AAC ,WPA | Xiph.Org Foundation, MP3, WMA |
| OpenGL | Graphics Standard | OpenGL is an operating system independent, cross-language, graphics API for rendering 2D and 3D computer graphics which exposes all the features of graphics hardware/ GPU. OpenGL enables developers to create high-performance, visually compelling graphics applications for CAD, game development, manufacturing, medical, and virtual reality etc. Most recent version OpenGL 4.3 (Aug 2012) | WebGL, OpenGL ES, Direct3D, GPU |
| OpenCable | Industry Initiative | OpenCable is an Industry initiative to help cable industry deploy interactive services and create competition in the host device marketplace. It borrowed much of the elements from DVB-MHP specification and created new common Java-based software/middleware standard called the Open Cable Application Platform (OCAP) | OCAP, DVB-MHP |