Multiplexing: What does it mean?

[TomBrooklyn]

What does multiplexing mean? It is said in the IfoEdit Guide that multiplexing is what makes IfoEdit so good.

[ammck55]

Welcome to the forum:

This is the definition taken straight from Doom9's Glossary (http://www.doom9.org/glossary.htm). You can't find it from within Noobs, you have to go back out to the main Forum's homepage. We've discussed setting a glossary page inside the Noobs forum, but that's all we've done on that project, so far.

Multiplexing
Usually video and audio are encoded separately. Then you have to join both of them to make a movie that you can play (you can of course play audio and video separately in two players but to get synch would be rather hard). During multiplexing the audio and video track are combined to one audio/video stream. The audio and video stream will be like woven together and navigational information will be added so that the player can example fast forward/backward and still retain synch audio/video.

ammck55

[TomBrooklyn]

OK, thanks ammck55.