COMPUTER NETWORKING

MULTIMEDIA AND QUALITY OF SERVICE

COMPRESSION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which of the following can use lossless compression?
A
Word document
B
Audio file
C
Video file
D
Image file
E
All of them
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Lossless compression is generally used for so-called “discrete” data, such as database records, spreadsheets, word-processing files, and even some kinds of image and video information. Text compression is a significant area for lossless compression.

Detailed explanation-2: -Lossless data compression mainly supports RAW, BMP, PNG, WAV, FLAC, and ALAC file types. Lossy data compression mainly supports JPEG, GIF, MP3, MP4, MKV, and OGG file types.

Detailed explanation-3: -The most common lossless image formats are GIF, PNG, and BMP.

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