MICROPROCESSOR AND MICROCONTROLLER

COMPUTER SYSTEMS

ARCHITECTURE OF 8085

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Lossy compression is most commonly used with images, video & audio files.
A
True
B
False
C
Either A or B
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Lossy compression is most commonly used to compress multimedia data (audio, video, and images), especially in applications such as streaming media and internet telephony. By contrast, lossless compression is typically required for text and data files, such as bank records and text articles.

Detailed explanation-2: -Lossy compression is typically used when a file can afford to lose some data, and/or if storage space needs to be drastically ‘freed up’. Here, an algorithm scans image files and reduces their size by discarding information considered less important or undetectable to the human eye.

Detailed explanation-3: -The JPEG image file, commonly used for photographs and other complex still images on the web with no transparency, is generally compressed using lossy compression.

Detailed explanation-4: -Common lossy compression-based image formats are JPEG and MPEG.

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