avspilt

Avspilt is a Norwegian term used as the past participle of the verb avspille, meaning to play back or reproduce media content. As an adjective, avspilt describes media that has already been played or transmitted back to an output device. In practice, the term appears in broadcast engineering, media archiving, and streaming workflows to denote the playback state of material, such as a track, video, or sequence that has already been reproduced rather than newly initiated.

In usage, avspilt often functions to distinguish between content that is being played for the first time and content that has already been replayed. For example, a media manager might note that a file is avspilt before moving it to an archive, or a broadcast log might include an entry indicating that a segment has been avspilt. An English rendering is typically played back or replayed, depending on context.

Etymology and related terms: the word is built from the verb avspille, with the prefix av- indicating reversal or completion in this sense, plus the typical participle ending -t used for adjectives in Norwegian. Related concepts in English and other languages include playback and replay, which describe similar states of media content after it has been consumed or distributed.

See also: playback, replay, media archiving, streaming workflow.