MULTIMEDIA AND QUALITY OF SERVICE
COMPRESSION
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Question
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What type of compression does the ZIP format use? (7-9)
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Lossy
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Lossless
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Lossless data compression is used in many applications. For example, it is used in the ZIP file format and in the GNU tool gzip.
Detailed explanation-2: -Because GIF is a lossless data compression format, meaning that no information is lost in the compression, it quickly became a popular format for transmitting and storing graphic files.
Detailed explanation-3: -Lossless compression algorithms are needed in cases where we want the reconstructed file output to be identical to the original output. Lossless compression is generally used for text compression: data such as database records, spreadsheets, and word processing files.
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