- Reducing of size or number of bits present in data.
- Compression is applied in all formats like audio, video, images.
Types of Compression:
Lossless Compression:
- Decompresses data back to its original form without any loss.
- The decompressed file and original are identical.
Lossy Compression:
- The compressed data is having some loss compare to original data is called lossy compression.
Audio Compression:
Video Compression:
Image Compression:
Advantages:
- Increase the speed of transmitted data.
- Less time taken.
- Reduce the storage space.
- Reduces the bandwidth of the file transmitted to another network.
Disadvantage:
- In lossy compression some amount of data will be lost.
- Only certain data types will compress.
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