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'''Transcoding''' is the direct digital-to-digital conversion of one [[data compression|encoding]] to another,<ref>{{cite web|author1=Margaret Rouse|title=transcoding|url=http://searchmicroservices.techtarget.com/definition/transcoding}}</ref> such as for [[movievideo]] data files, audio files (e.g., [[MP3]], [[WAV]]), or [[character encoding]] (e.g., [[UTF-8]], [[ISO/IEC 8859]]). This is usually done in cases where a target device (or [[workflow]]) does not support the format or has limited storage capacity that mandates a reduced file size,<ref name="SMP">

"Advancements in Compression and Transcoding: 2008 and Beyond",

[[Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers]] (SMPTE),