Bitstream

So, imagine that you have a box of crayons and you want to make a picture. Each crayon has a different color, right? Now imagine that instead of crayons, you have tiny pieces of data that make up a digital picture, like the one on your tablet or phone.

A bitstream is like a really long and complicated list of those tiny pieces of data, called "bits." It's like a big recipe with instructions for your tablet or phone to understand and put together those bits to make a digital picture or sound.

Think of it like a puzzle: you have all these little pieces, but you need to put them together in the right way to make a complete picture. That's what a bitstream does - it tells your device how to put all those little pieces together in order to make a picture or sound.

So when you're watching a video or listening to music on your tablet or phone, you're actually using a bitstream to bring all those tiny bits of data together and create the picture or sound you're watching or listening to.