Any theoretical limit to compression?

大憨熊 提交于 2019-11-30 11:25:26

The limits of compression are dictated by the randomness of the source. Welcome to the study of information theory! See data compression.

There is a theoretical limit: I suggest reading this article on Information theory and the pigeon hole principle. It seems to sum up the issue in a very easy to understand way.

If you have a fixed catalogue of all the movies you were ever going to compress, you could just send an id for the movie and have the "decompression" lookup up the data with that index. So compression could be to a fixed size of log2(N) bits, where N was the number of movies.

I suspect the practical lower bound is rather higher than this.

Do you really mean lossless? Most of today's video compression is lossy, I thought.

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