Media and Entertainment Industry Concepts : Browse by Letter – F
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| Concept | Category | Description | Associated Product, Forum, Company etc. |
| Fast Nationals | Audience Measurement |
Fast National or Final National is a Nielsen TV term for the episode ratings for the previous night’s national broadcasts. The rating is based on data collected from people meters which records information on the episode watched and demography of user watching the episode. Fast Nationals rating are released a day following the airing of an episode. | C3, Nielsen, TV rating |
| Ffmpeg | Audio/video Technology |
Ffmpeg is an open source, cross-platform audio/video codec library (libavcodec) widely used for multimedia solutions e.g. record, play, transcode, encode and streaming. Key tools include Ffserver, ffplay and ffprobe. | Encoder, Transcoder |
| Firewire | Standard | Firewire (IEEE 1394 interface) is a serial bus interface standard for high-speed communications and real-time data transfer originally conceptualized by Apple, also named as iLINK (Sony) and Lynx (Texas Instruments). | IEEE1394 or 1394, USB |
| FLAC | Audio Standard | Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) is an open source, lossless audio codec. FLAC is supported across multiple hardware platforms and Operating systems and does fast compression without any loss in quality and enables bit for bit regeneration at decode. | MP3 |
| Flighting | Advertising Technology |
Flighting (bursting) is advertising timing strategy where ads or commercials are run during a period (flight) followed by a period of no advertising (hiatus), again followed by ads. Flighting strategy is often used for seasonal and event based categories. | media scheduling, Bursting |
| Frame rate | Audio/video Technology | Frame rate is unit of measurement (number of frames per second – fps) and denotes the rate at which video frames or animated images are display or rendered . Each frame constitutes a still image and running them in quick succession creates an illusion of motion with higher fps resulting in smoother motion. | FPS |
| Free to Air | Broadcast Technology | Free-to-air (FTA) refers to unencrypted (or clear) television and radio broadcast services, which enable users to consume services through a receiver device (set-top box, integrated TV etc.) connected to an antenna. Most countries have National and public funded networks providing FTA broadcast channels. | Set-top box |
| Freesat | Broadcast Technology | Freesat is free-to-air digital satellite television service in UK which is a joint venture between the BBC and ITV. | Freeview, Freetime |
| Freeview | Broadcast Technology | Freeview is UK’s free to air Digital Terrestrial Television service. It enables access to a range of channels (Radio and interactive services) using a receiver devices (set-top box or an integrated digital television) through a conventional roof-top aerial. | Freesat |
