Anonymous, bureaucrat, administrator
7,528
edits
Changes
no edit summary
The instructions of HOW to store the differences is called Encoding. You also need instructions on how to draw the differences called Decoding. Collectively a set of instructions is called a Codec (Coding - Decoding). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nPsBwMivCk2cbXxyr0DCY (Up to 2:30 is a very easy to understand summary then it gets quite technical).