video compression

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video compression - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  video compression
  compressed video
  
     Compression of sequences of images.  Video compression
     algorithms use the fact that there are usually only small
     changes from one "frame" to the next so they only need to
     encode the starting frame and a sequence of differences
     between frames.  This is known as "inter-frame coding" or "3D
     coding".
  
     MPEG is a committee producing standards in this area and
     also the name of their standard algorithm.  H.261 is
     another standard.
  
     See also Integrated Information Technology, 3DO,
     full-motion video, Online Media.