that represents one frame will be the same as the information used in the next frame.

Using motion compensation, a video stream will contain some full (reference) frames; then, the only information stored for the frames in between would be the information needed to transform the previous frame into the next frame.

Illustrated example

The following is a simplistic illustrated explanation of how motion compensation works. Two successive frames were captured from the movie Elephants Dream.

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