What is Video Compression?

Video Streaming Definitions: Video Compression

In this video, Haivision’s CTO, Mahmoud Al-Dacak, talks about video compression standards, how they work, and some of the advantages of certain protocols.

Video compression is the process of reducing the total number of bits needed to represent a given image or video sequence. Video compression is most commonly performed by a program with a specific algorithm or formula for determining the best way to shrink the size of the data. Video compression algorithms such as H.264/AVC or H.265/HEVC reduce the raw content data by as much as 1,000 times.

Learn more in our glossary of video streaming definitions: http://bit.ly/2WO8KeS

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