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Here we see that besides DCT another encoding method is
employed: DPCM on the DC component at least. Why is this
strategy adopted:
- DC component is large and varied,
but often close to previous value (like lossless JPEG).
- Encode the difference from previous 8x8 blocks - DPCM
Dave Marshall
10/4/2001