Volkswagen RNS 510 Manual page 29

Alert-C standard
Advice and Problem Location for European Road
Traffic, Version C
The Alert-C standard is laid down in ISO 14819-1.
It defines the coding for events and their position in
TMC messages.
Point Location, Area Location
Two types of location descriptions that are used by
the German Federal Highway Research Institute to
describe points, routes or areas in the localisation
table.
List of abbreviations used
AM - Amplitude modulation
AUX - Auxiliary
Additional connection channel for audio media
BAP - Control and display protocol
CD - Compact disc
Optical storage medium, data is burnt with a laser onto a plastic disc with metal coating.
CDs can, for example, hold 800MB of data.
CDA - CD audio track
Audio track on video CD/DVD
CDC - Compact Disc Changer (CD changer)
DAB - Digital Audio Broadcast
DDP - Display Data Protocol
DRM - Digital Rights Management
Standard for the digital copyright
DVD - Digital Versatile/Video Disc
Further development of optical storage media with a storage capacity of 4.7Gb on single-layer
coated DVDs (single layer DVD, DVD±R, DVD±RW) and 8.5Gb on double-layer coated DVDs
(dual/double-layer, DVD±R-DL, DVD-RW±DL).
In the near future, DVDs with 15 to 30Gb storage capacity will be available
(high-density DVD, HD-DVD).
FM - Frequency modulation
GPS - Global Positioning Satellite system
Global satellite-supported orientation and positioning system originally used by the military
GSM - Global System for Mobile communications
Standard for digital mobile telecommunications networks that is also used for
data transfer as well as text messages (SMS).
Playlist
List with a special playback order for audio tracks
stored in a data directory on an audio CD/DVD.
For example, to work on the RNS 510, the list needs to
be in the same directory or folder as the tracks to be
played.
Glossary
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