What types of data should be compressed with the Run Length Encoding algorithm? What types of data does the algorithm perform well with?

Question

Images

Videos

Text with few repeated characters

Text with many repeated characters

Answer 1

Run Length Encoding algorithm works well with data that contains long sequences of the same value. This includes images with large areas of uniform color, videos with static frames, and text with repeated characters or words. Data with few repeated values may not benefit much from using Run Length Encoding, as it would not result in significant compression.