Lossy and lossless compression questions
Q1. What is meant by ‘lossy’ compression?
Q2. What is meant by ‘lossless’ compression?
Q3. Give an example of picture file type which uses lossy compression.
Q4. Give an example of picture file type which uses lossy compression.
Q5. Give an example of sound file type which uses lossy compression.
Q6. Give an example of sound file type which uses lossless compression.
Q7. Give an example of video file type which uses lossy compression.
Q8. Give an example of video file type which uses lossless compression.
Q9. What is a codec?
Q10. Why not just use the raw files rather than apply a codec to them to convert them into a different format?