Compression Losses

Types of Compression:

Lossless Compression:

• Decompresses data back to its original form without any loss.
• The decompressed file and original are identical.

         Ex:  Winzip, FLAC, Apple lossless, WMA lossless

Lossy Compression:

• The compressed data is having some loss compare to original data is called lossy compression.

        Ex:  JPEG, JPG, GIF..etc

Examples:

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