Sunday, 20 November 2016

Data Compression

some data files are quite large high resolution or music sampled data high frequency result in several megabytes of data.

compression- process pf reducing the number of bits required to represent data

lossless: often used where the graphic might be changed by another person or where the image contains layers of graphics that need to be kept separate from each other.
no data loss
it is high quality

lossy: offers a higher compression on rotation

run length encoding: a method of compressing data by eliminating repeated data

dictionary based: compression technique is used whem compressing text files

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