RLE

Cards (6)

  • Lossy: A type of compression that reduces the quality of the original file.
  • lossless compression: data is not lost, but the file size is reduced
  • RLE: run length encoding
  • Run Length Encoding (RLE) works by encoding all of the data according to how many times it occurs at a time.
  • AAAAAA is the letter A repeated 6 times. It can be stored as (A, 6)​
  • 11 11 11 00 00 00 00 11 11 

    (11,3) (00,4) (11,2)