FILM 1400 Lecture Notes - Cartesian Coordinate System, Generation Loss, Transcoding
17 Apr 2013
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Transcoding is the direct digital-to-digital conversion of one encoding to another. This is usually done to incompatible or obsolete data in order to convert it into a more suitable format. When transcoding one lossy file to another, the process almost always introduces generation loss. In true transcoding, the bit stream format of one file is changed from one to another without its undergoing another complete decoding and encoding process. This usually is possible if the source and target codes are sufficiently similar. However, support for this process very much depends on the case. For ex, different data structures such as lists, records and arrays; substitutions by variable; the separation between algorithms and data structures; and modularity. To transcode something is to translate it into another format. The computerization of culture gradually accomplishes similar transcoding in relation to all cultural categories and concepts.
