How Video Compression Works

Have you ever wondered how video streaming is possible? Let’s think about how big a typical 1080p video is: 1920x1080 pixels, 24-bits each, 30 frames per second... That’s almost 1.5 gigabits per second. How can you transmit that much data, over the air, in real time? The answer is video compression. Related Videos: How Image Compression Works How Digital Cameras Process Images Video Highlights: 1. Codecs 2. Intra-frame (spatial) coding 3. Inter-frame (temporal) coding 4. Block motion estimation 5. Motion compensation 6. Residual frames