COMPUTER NETWORKING

MULTIMEDIA AND QUALITY OF SERVICE

COMPRESSION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
MP4, MPEG and MOV files are all examples of
A
Audio files using lossy compression.
B
Audio files using lossless compression.
C
Video files using lossy compression.
D
Video files using lossless compression.
E
Image files using lossy compression
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -MOV files usually contain uncompressed video or videos that use lossless compression. However, modern compression technologies can produce very high-quality video playback.

Detailed explanation-2: -MOV is another type of digital container file for videos and other multimedia. Apple developed MOV for use with the Apple QuickTime Player. Like MP4 files, MOV videos are encoded with the MPEG-4 codec.

Detailed explanation-3: -MP4s are video files (with audio) compressed using lossy compression. The lossy compression gives huge savings in file size, needed to: Make video streaming services practical (e.g. YouTube, Vimeo, NowTV, on demand TV)

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