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- noun Alternative spelling of
time code .
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Examples
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And more importantly, when I'm talking to someone I like to note "timecode" so I can quickly come back and identify key clips.
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Because program stream packets are variable-length, the player can end up reading a significant amount of data, only to discover that the timecode tells it that it's badly off, and it has to seek again.
Archive 2010-03-01 Farnz 2010
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Bluray escapes this by using MPEG-2 transport streams as the container, but with a 4-byte timecode added to each transport packet.
How a 1980s telecoms compromise helped set the Bluray video format. Farnz 2010
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Both DVD and Bluray are built on MPEG; DVD uses MPEG-2 exclusively, carrying video and audio in an MPEG-2 program stream, extended to add timecode to packets, resulting in the "VOB" file format.
Archive 2010-03-01 Farnz 2010
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Both DVD and Bluray are built on MPEG; DVD uses MPEG-2 exclusively, carrying video and audio in an MPEG-2 program stream, extended to add timecode to packets, resulting in the "VOB" file format.
How a 1980s telecoms compromise helped set the Bluray video format. Farnz 2010
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This has limitations when it comes to seeking; when an optical disk player seeks, it moves the read head to a location that's approximately right, then reads the disk until it finds the timecode it's after, then either moves the heads again to a better estimate of the correct place, or resumes playback.
Archive 2010-03-01 Farnz 2010
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This has limitations when it comes to seeking; when an optical disk player seeks, it moves the read head to a location that's approximately right, then reads the disk until it finds the timecode it's after, then either moves the heads again to a better estimate of the correct place, or resumes playback.
How a 1980s telecoms compromise helped set the Bluray video format. Farnz 2010
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Bluray escapes this by using MPEG-2 transport streams as the container, but with a 4-byte timecode added to each transport packet.
Archive 2010-03-01 Farnz 2010
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Because program stream packets are variable-length, the player can end up reading a significant amount of data, only to discover that the timecode tells it that it's badly off, and it has to seek again.
How a 1980s telecoms compromise helped set the Bluray video format. Farnz 2010
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Thank goodness someone has posted the entire movie in segments on YouTube, so I can direct you to this portion and timecode 1:30.
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