With regard to videocompression,bidirectional prediction is a system that allows adecoder to get information fromframes that are forward in the video stream, instead of just previously decompressed frames. There are advantages to this feature, such as avoiding large spikes in the data rate due to sudden scene changes. Whileencoding video that will need bidirectional prediction, the process may time some time longer.
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