DEFLATE

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DEFLATE is a lossless compression algorithm developed by Phil Katz for PKZIP. It is a combination of LZ77 and Huffman coding. Zlib, gzip, and zip all use the DEFLATE algorithm.

Codecs using deflate

Additionally MOV headers can sometimes be deflate compressed.

Links

RFC 1951 – Deflate Compressed Data Format Specification version 1.3
An Explanation of the Deflate Algorithm by Antaeus Feldspar.

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