COMPUTER NETWORKING

MULTIMEDIA AND QUALITY OF SERVICE

COMPRESSION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
You would use ____ compression if space was more important than quality
A
Lossy
B
Lossless
C
Either A or B
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -No quality degradation happens in lossless compression. Lossy compression reduces the size of a file to a large extent. Lossless compression reduces the size but less as compared to lossy compression. Transform coding, Discrete Cosine Transform, Discrete Wavelet transform, fractal compression, etc.

Detailed explanation-2: -The main advantage of lossless compression is you don’t have to worry about degrading the quality of a picture or making it look pixelated. Also, unlike with lossy compression, you can restore an image to its original format without any data loss.

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