IMCapture Glossary

AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) is a standardized, lossy compression and encoding scheme for digital audio. AAC achieves better sound quality than MP3 at similar bit rates. AAC is supported by the majority of modern equipment, including portable (iPhone, iPod, iPad, etc.). The format is used in popular iTunes store.

Application – computer program that performs singular or multiple related specific tasks and intended for interaction with user. Application usually doesn’t apply computer capabilities directly in contrast with system software functioning.

Audio is an electrical or other representation of sound. 

Audio call is a call between two people using special computer application (FaceTime, Skype, Yahoo Messenger, etc.) and a microphone, but webcams, so they can hear each other.

Audio format – standard of digital audio that is created by definite algorithm of sound editing. The structure and the way of keeping audio file on digital media depend on its format. Different audio formats supports by different audio players and devices.

Autorecord is saving a call by default, whenever an audio or video session starts. Autorecord is one of the IMCapture functions. 

AVI (Audio Video Interleaved) is a multimedia container format developed by Microsoft. AVI files can contain audio and video data in a file container that allows synchronous audio-with-video playback. It supports multiple streaming audio and video. Most AVI files use the file format extensions (ex. MP3 for audio). IMCapture for Skype converts the recorded file to AVI.