uncompressed
Speech parts
1. uncompressed - Adjective
2. uncompressed - Verb
Meaning
uncompressed
simple past and past participle of uncompress
uncompressed (not comparable)
(computing) Not having been compressed.
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A consequence of this is that decompressed video has lower quality than the original, uncompressed video because there is insufficient information to accurately reconstruct the original video.
An uncompressed GIF file can be converted to an ordinary GIF file simply by passing it through an image editor.
Compressed and uncompressed files coexist nicely on ext2 partitions.
Digital video was first introduced commercially in 1986 with the Sony D1 format, which recorded an uncompressed standard definition component video signal in digital form instead of the high-band analog forms that had been commonplace until then.
Compression ratio The compression ratio (that is, the size of the compressed file compared to that of the uncompressed file) of lossy video codecs is nearly always far superior to that of the audio and still-image equivalents.
Because of the relatively high bit rate of uncompressed video, video compression is extensively used.