Hi all, thanks for a great place for learning!
Have been wondering about this for a while: I have read several places that NICAM stereo is distributed as 728 kbps audio, so it's a bit more compressed than a CD which is 1440 kbps if I remember correctly.
My standalone DVD recorder (a Pioneer DVR-630) can record the audio as "high quality" LPCM mode which is a good thing for an audiophile wannabe like me. Better than the usual 256 kbps AC3 anyway.
But then: If I assume the audio is not compressed anywhere along the way from the source (which would probably be impossible to find out unless I email someone at the TV network in question) I guess I will have a DVD with LPCM audio which has been transcoded from the NICAM signal into LPCM.
Questions:
1) Is this OK to extract and convert to WAV -> FLAC and share here?
2) Am I right in the above description or have I missed something here?
http://www.answers.com/topic/nicam
http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/NICAM
I have no tool for frequency analysis (using a Mac here)...
(now just wondering why my share ratio is frozen. Is it because I have two Macs?)
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