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what are the types of compression in BMP files. How can we able to uncompress it?
Oct 19 '06 #1
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what are the types of compression in BMP files. How can we able to uncompress it?
JPG offers compression. But with BMP, it is raw data. There is no compression. That is why bmp files are so huge.
Oct 19 '06 #2
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JPG offers compression. But with BMP, it is raw data. There is no compression. That is why bmp files are so huge.
Hmmm I think that BMP can be RLE (run length encoded) but generally people don't, anyway generally RLE doesn't achieve as good compression as either gif or jpeg
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