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The process of using one or more software programs to reduce the size of a file to save storage space and/or minimize download time.

Video compression is necessary for efficient encoding of video data in video file formats and streaming video formats.

Lossless compression removes only enough redundancy allowing the original data to be recreated exactly. Lossy compression sacrifices additional data to achieve greater compression results (e.g., smaller size).

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