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4K

A measure of the display resolution. For consumer grade TV's this means a grid of 3840x2160 pixels on the screen. For Digital Cinema, it is a grid of 4096x2160 pixels. See: 4K TV

A

Add-on

A program/application that allows you to add a new feature, or to extend an existing feature, of Kodi. It is the same principle as used by Apple's AppStore and Google's PlayStore.

Aspect Ratio

The correlation between the Width and the Height of an image. A standard flat screen TV has an Aspect Ratio of 16:9. See: Aspect Ratio

B

Bot

A program that automatically or semi-automatically adds or edits Wikipedia-pages.

Blu-ray format preserved

When ripping a movie from a Blu-ray disc, the original file and folder structure of the disc is kept intact, rather than re-encoding into a single file format such as mkv. See: Blu-ray Format

Build

C

CEC

Consumer Electronics Control. A feature of HDMI connected devices that allow the control of connected devices with a single remote control. Each device manufacturer uses their own Trade Name in place of the term CEC. See: CEC

Codec

Is a portmanteau of coder-decoder. A codec encodes a data stream or a signal for transmission and storage, possibly in encrypted form, and the decoder function reverses the encoding for playback or editing. Codecs are used in videoconferencing, streaming media, and video editing applications. See: Codec

Container

A file format that is used to combine, store and play Codecs. See: Containers

Cuesheet

When a CD is ripped as one large file, a cuesheet is simultaneously created that provides information on the tracks, duration, titles, performers and other metadata for all the songs within the single ripped file. See: Cuesheet

CRU Lyrics

D

Debug Log

Deprecated

Techie-speak for "tolerated in or supported by a system but not recommended" (i.e., beware: may well be on the way out).

DVD format preserved

When ripping a movie from a DVD, the original file and folder structure of the disk is kept intact, rather than re-encoding into a single file format such as mkv

F

Fork

The act of copying the source code of a program so that development may continue in a different direction to that of the original program. See: Fork

G

GUI

Graphical User Interface. The component of a computer system that a user is able to directly interact with. Usually presents the menu and option systems via icons.

H

HDCP

High-bandwith Digital Content Protection. It is a copy protection system implemented between authorised devices. It prevents protected media, such as Blu-ray movies, from being easily copied. If a device does not have a valid licence, then any streams sent or received will be reduced in quality. See: HDCP

HDMI

HDR

I

IRC

Internet Relay Chat.

IIRC

If I Recall Correctly

IMDB

A comprehensive repository of Movies, TV Shows, Cast, Crew, Trivia and more. See: IMDB

IPTV

Internet Protocol TeleVision. The delivery of television content over the internet instead of over the air. See: IPTV

IRL

Abbreviation for "In Real Life"

K

Kodi

L

Library

Live TV

M

Media Manager

Metadata

Moderator, Mod

A trusted member of the Forum that has been granted additional privileges for the purpose of housekeeping, arbitration and editing of other users posts. Usually granted for a particular area of the forum or a sub-forum. See also: Super Moderator

MusicBrainz

MusicBrainz is an open source music encyclopedia that collects music metadata and makes it available to the public. Like Wikipedia, MusicBrainz is maintained by a global community of users. See: MusicBrainz

MusicBrainz Picard

Picard is a cross-platform music tagger written in Python and uses MusicBrainz as the source for all tagging metadata. See: MusicBrainz Picard

N

NFO

Node

P

Passthrough

PVR

PVR Backend

R

Resolution

The measure of the number of Pixels along the width and the height of a display screen. Multiplying the two numbers will give the total number of pixels on the screen. The current standard resolution for consumer grade TV's is 3840x2160. See: Resolution

Repository, Repo

A centralised collection of Add-ons. The user then installs the repository which makes it more convenient to install multiple add-ons from a single location. It also provides the benefit of auto-updates. See: Kodi Add-ons

Rip, ripping

The process of copying a CD, DVD, Blu-Ray or UHD Blu-ray to a hard drive. Normally requires easily obtainable software. See: Ripping

S

Scanning

Scraper

Skin

Customised GUI's that are easily interchangeable with the default GUI or Skin. See: Skin

Skinning

Can be used to refer to the person creating the skin, or the act of creating the skin.

Super Moderator

Similar to Moderator, but with additional privileges to access and perform their duties anywhere in the forum.

T

Tag / Tagging

Talk page

A page reserved for discussion of the page with which it is associated, such as the article page. Very confusingly, the link to a talk page is labelled "discussion". All pages within Wikipedia (except pages in the Special namespace, and talk pages themselves!) have talk pages attached to them.

Team-Kodi Member

Template

A way of automatically including the contents of one page within another page, used for boilerplate text, navigational aids, etc.

Theme

See: Skin

TMDB, TheMOVIEDB

The Movie DataBase. A community built movie, TV and artwork database. Used by Kodi to scrape information into your library related to your Movies and TV Shows. See: TMDB

Troll

A user who incites or engages in disruptive behavior (trolling). There are some people who enjoy causing conflict, and there are those who make a hobby of it. However, these are few in number and one should always assume good faith in other users. Calling someone a troll in a dispute is a bad idea; it has an effect similar to calling someone a Nazi – no further meaningful debate is likely to occur. See also m:What is a troll?

TVDB, TheTVDB

The TV DataBase. A community built TV Show and Artwork database. Used by Kodi to scrape TV Show information into your library.

U

UHD, UHD4K, UHD Blu-ray

V

VPN

W

Wall of text

An unusually long paragraph, presenting a solid block of text of a dozen or more lines. Walls of text are visually unappealing and difficult to read. A wall of text in an article may simply be a sign of an inexperienced editor unfamiliar with Wikipedia markup, or may be a sign of a more serious issue such as copy-and-paste copyright violation. A wall of text in a talk page may be taken to be a sign of soapboxing or shotgun argumentation.

X

XBMC

Z

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