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Old 2008-05-30, 12:36 PM
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Re: Lossy or lossless?

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Originally Posted by roomful View Post
That's double lossy. One encoding to lossy is bad enough, but decoding lossy to wav then encoding again to lossy will really make it sound terrible. All the negative aspects of lossy compression will be much more apparent upon listening.

If you want to edit/process it, and preserve the quality, you will have to leave it as wav after running it through Goldwave, and use LPCM audio for your DVD.
this is the correct answer.


but - to address another of the questions in the first post, there's no such thing as a "lossless DVD". All video on DVDs is compressed. The audio COULD be lossless - but AC3 is not.
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