Glossary: Letter M

Media Playlist File: a plain text format for multimedia playlists containing file paths or URLs. Used by most media players and IPTV services.

MPEG-4 Audio: an audio-only MPEG-4 container commonly used for AAC-encoded audio. It is the standard format for music purchased from the iTunes Store.

MPEG-4 Video: a video container format developed by Apple, very similar to MP4. It is used primarily for video content in the Apple ecosystem and iTunes Store.

Media Access Control Address: a unique hardware identifier assigned to a network interface controller (NIC) by the manufacturer. MAC addresses are 48-bit values expressed as six hexadecimal pairs (e.g...

A proprietary numerical computing environment and programming language developed by MathWorks. MATLAB is widely used in engineering, science, and mathematics for matrix operations, signal processing,...

MATLAB data file for storing workspace variables, arrays, and structures. Widely used in engineering and scientific computing.

A generic term for a family of formats for storing collections of email messages in a single file, concatenated sequentially.

A specification for storing tilesets (map tiles) in SQLite databases. Used for offline map rendering and efficient tile serving.

Microsoft Access Database: the legacy database file format for Microsoft Access (prior to 2007).

Media Descriptor/Media Data File: a disc image format by Alcohol Soft where .mds contains metadata and .mdf contains the raw disc data.

Multi-Factor Authentication: a security mechanism that requires users to provide two or more verification factors (something you know, something you have, something you are) to gain access to a resour...

MIME HTML: a web page archive format bundling HTML with all its resources (images, CSS, JS) into a single file using MIME encoding.

Musical Instrument Digital Interface: a technical standard for communication between electronic musical instruments and computers. MIDI files contain musical instructions, not audio recordings.

Medical Imaging NetCDF: a file format for medical imaging data developed at the Montreal Neurological Institute based on HDF5/NetCDF.

Matroska Video: an open, free container format that can hold unlimited video, audio, subtitle, and metadata tracks in a single file. Popular for high-quality video distribution.

A set of practices that combines machine learning, DevOps, and data engineering to deploy and maintain ML models in production reliably and efficiently. MLOps covers model versioning, experiment track...

Mobipocket e-book format: a digital book format originally for Mobipocket Reader and later adopted by Amazon Kindle. It has been largely replaced by KFX and EPUB.

Module File: a music file format originating from the Amiga demoscene. It contains instrument samples and pattern data for tracker-style music playback.

QuickTime File Format: a multimedia container format developed by Apple for its QuickTime framework. It is commonly used in video editing and is the basis for the MP4 format.

MPEG-1 Audio Layer III: the most widely used lossy audio compression format. Developed by the Fraunhofer Society, it dramatically reduced audio file sizes while maintaining acceptable quality.