Lossy or lossless?

[tgunn2760]

I have a DVD with low volume AC3 audio @256;

I extract the audio to wav with IMToo DVD ripper;

run it through Goldwave and increase the volume;

encode to AC3 audio at same bitrate-256-with Sony Vegas.

Do I have a lossy or lossless DVD?

[LeifH12345]

Genuine LOSSY. All you did was amplify it, and probably made it worse.

[LeifH12345]

[Karst]

Very funny Leif!

Originally Posted by tgunn2760

I have a DVD with low volume AC3 audio @256;

I extract the audio to wav with IMToo DVD ripper;

run it through Goldwave and increase the volume;

encode to AC3 audio at same bitrate-256-with Sony Vegas.

Do I have a lossy or lossless DVD?

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.

[jameskg]

Originally Posted by Karst

Very funny Leif!

thanks.. I made that last year...

[jameskg]

Originally Posted by roomful

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.

[LeifH12345]

Originally Posted by jameskg

thanks.. I made that last year...

I was going to say courtesy of jameskg, but I decided if anyone besides you really cared, they'd quote it and see it was yours.

[tgunn2760]

Originally Posted by jameskg

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.

I think we covered that all DVDs are compressed, I personally do not see a problem in the method I proposed because you are compressing the audio to the same specs. All you doing really is boosting the volume. You do not put any date back to the file when decompressing, and not removing anything that was not removed the first time.

I will try it my way just to see how the audio turns out. I doubt that it will sound "horrible". In fact I expect it to sound much better than the original.

I am also sure it will not be allowed on the tracker, but I was not planning to seed it.

I thought about keeping the wav audio, but that would require a DVD9.

[LeifH12345]

Originally Posted by tgunn2760

I personally do not see a problem in the method I proposed because you are compressing the audio to the same specs. All you doing really is boosting the volume. You do not put any date back to the file when decompressing, and not removing anything that was not removed the first time.

Wrong.

What you are asking is if 256 @ AC3 will become lossless if you amplify it, then re-encode it to 256. That is the same as going mp3 256 > wav/cdr > mp3 256. It's double lossy.

It's the same thing as re-sizing a picture, really.

[LeifH12345]

Once something is lossy, there's no going back. You cannot get something from nothing.

Originally Posted by tgunn2760

I think we covered that all DVDs are compressed, I personally do not see a problem in the method I proposed because you are compressing the audio to the same specs. All you doing really is boosting the volume. You do not put any date back to the file when decompressing, and not removing anything that was not removed the first time.

I will try it my way just to see how the audio turns out. I doubt that it will sound "horrible". In fact I expect it to sound much better than the original.

I am also sure it will not be allowed on the tracker, but I was not planning to seed it.

I thought about keeping the wav audio, but that would require a DVD9.

not true, more information will be removed. Do it enough times and it will be nothing but static.

Try it out just to see how it sounds. I guarantee you will notice the effects of compression in cymbal heavy and loud passages.

What's wrong with a DVD9? They are seeded here all the time.

[jameskg]

Tgunn, you've been schooled by both Leif & roomfuloftubes. They're right. If you don't understand why, you need to read-up on digital data compression, as it is used for digital audio. You don't have a grasp on it yet.