Definitions

Artefact - a visible defect in a digital photo or video picture

Codec - a third-party system component that compresses and/or decompresses data

Compression - lossy or lossless process of encoding information using fewer bits

Deblocking - correcting blocks in decoded video in order to improve visual quality and prediction performance by smoothing the sharp edges which can form between blocks when block coding techniques are used

Deinterlacing - converting interlaced video, like common analog television signals, into a non-interlaced form.

Denoising - removing noise from a video. Noise is an unwanted distortion of data, including false contouring appearance, wide horizontal noise strips typical for old VHS, film artifacts - dust or dirt; snow, multiple small dots etc.

Deshaking - removing shaking from a video (typical effect for home camera shooting).

DirectX (Microsoft DirectX) - a set of system components providing application programming interfaces (APIs) for handling tasks related to multimedia, especially game programming and video, on Microsoft platforms

Filter - a program component used to modify the content of video

Multithreading - parallel (simultaneous) execution of several pieces of program in different threads

Uprezzing - increasing video resolution

VirtualDub - a powerful video editing application with a collection of more than 100 video filters