- Compression decreases the memory of the file may be image or a video.
- We have compression for data to occupy less memory.
- Data compression is nothing but storing the huge data in a format that it occupies less space.
- We have software for the data compression.
- By using this software we can compress the data like image, videos, audio, text etc.,
- Zipped file looks like this.
Application:
- Compress the file or data while transmission in web to decrease time.
- Compress the data while storing the data in huge so we get some space.
- Codecs are used to compress the data of the images and videos to occupy less space in the disk.
- By decreasing the size of the file it is easy to transfer to file through Internet.
- Generally images and videos are compressed by using codecs to upload them in web sites.
- Compression done by codecs are divided into lossy and lossless compression.
- Lossless compression is used to retrieve the original data after decompressing the compressed file like image or video.
- Lossy compression decreases the quality of the image by decreasing the resolution and size of the image file.
