ABSTRACT
The combination of media servers and lighting consoles has helped to blur the lines between lighting and video. A media server is simply a specialized computer with high-end processing and graphics capabilities running a software application that stores and plays back video files, graphics, and live video with effects in real time. The size of video and still images is measured in pixels; the more pixels the higher the resolution, and the higher the resolution for a given image the better the quality of the displayed image. Ultimately the video hardware in the computer on which the media server software is running limits the output resolution. Some of the settings include things like the resolution, frame rate, field order, aspect ratio, chroma subsampling and bit-depth, and the maximum sampling and bitrates. The frame rate is the number of frames per second used to record the video.
