Video Compression Picture Types

Video Compression Picture Types

In the field of video compression a video frame is compressed using different algorithms with different advantages and disadvantages, centered mainly around amount of data compression. These different algorithms for video frames are called picture types or frame types. The three major picture types used in the different video algorithms are I, P and B. They are different in the following characteristics:

  • I‑frames are the least compressible but don't require other video frames to decode.
  • P‑frames can use data from previous frames to decompress and are more compressible than I‑frames.
  • B‑frames can use both previous and forward frames for data reference to get the highest amount of data compression.

Read more about Video Compression Picture Types:  Summary, Pictures/Frames, Slices, Macroblocks, Intra Coded Frames/slices (I‑frames/slices or Key Frames), Predicted Frames/slices (P-frames/slices), Bi-directional Predicted Frames/slices (B-frames/slices)

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