Transcoding

The process of taking one encoding and converting it to another is called transcoding. It is used in instances where a certain format is not supported, or limited storage requires a reduction in file size. A good example is taking an MP3 file and converting it to WAV format. Transcoding is an analog-to-analog or digital-to-digital process that works with video and audio files, and the different character encodings.

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