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Embedded Player - A media player, such as RealPlayer, placed within a browser window so that only the media clip shows.

Encoding - Rewriting or transferring media sources from one format to another (i.e., from video tape to RealVideo).

Extension (or File Extension) One or several letters at the end of a file name that determine how the file is formatted and viewed. Filename extensions usually follow a period (dot) . For example, this.txt is a plain text file, that.htm or that.html denotes an HTML file. Some common image extensions are picture.jpg, or picture.gif.