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Old 2007-08-10, 07:34 PM
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Re: Is decompressed AC3 lossy?

I really wish all these lossy codecs weren't suddenly available as lossless, too (AC3, WM9 (WMA), AAC, etc) it REALLY is going to confuse a lot of people soon, once stuff starts spreading that way... makes it much harder to tell what is crap and what is not without having to analyze each file
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Re: Is decompressed AC3 lossy?

Yeah i know what you mean & why call these sudden lossless ones the same bloody name.That's a boggler too

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Re: Is decompressed AC3 lossy?

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AC3>LPCM = Not lossy,just a bloated AC3
Some VHS's used to say Dolby on Linear tracks

But tgunn,between you & me(hopefully),i wouldn't do what i 100% know you are thinking.The definitive is being worked on......Shhhhhh

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Exactly. If the original audio was mono, then reducing the lossless stereo LPCM to mono would not make it lossy, and it would fit on a DVD5. I HATE DVD9s and splitting one into two DVD5s. I do it when I must, as I recently did with CologneShark's Steve Miller DVD9.

I quadrupled the volume on that one.

I hope whoever is working on the "definitive" increases the volume in Goldwave, it makes a HUGE difference. I will probably DL it even if it's a DVD9, just to extract the audio. My "decompressed" AC3 version sounds great, I sincerely hope the one being worked on sounds as good or even better. I'm also curious to see if my ears can tell the difference.

Thanks for replying.
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Old 2007-08-10, 09:20 PM
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Re: Is decompressed AC3 lossy?

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I'm confused.. if you decompress AC3 (I assume you mean to 48kHz WAV), you don't get back the audio data that was discarded when it was compressed to AC3.

It should sound the same. Unless you then RE-encoded to AC3 again.. THAT would sound terrible.
Yes, the AC3 was decompressed to wav, when I dropped it into Tsunami DVD Author it said "LPCM" mono, as I deleted one channel and doubled the volume.
(as Bob the Guru suggested. On account of this I wondered if the original audio was mono.)

The full file was 1.2 GBs, the mono about 585 MBs, it fit perfectly onto a DVD5, with motion menu it came to 4.27 GBs, and sounds great.

But you do get back some of the compressed data. The AC3 audio is about 1/4 of the LPCM.

Anyway, KK knows what this is all about, so if says the definitive version is being worked on, expect something really exceptional to happen. The video on this DVD is excellent, and I expect the audio will be too.

Thanks for replying.
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Re: Is decompressed AC3 lossy?

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then reducing the lossless stereo LPCM to mono would not make it lossy

Thanks for replying.
Now thats a different ball park & would

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Old 2007-08-11, 12:19 AM
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Re: Is decompressed AC3 lossy?

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Now thats a different ball park & would

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If the original audio was stereo. Was it? I don't know, this is what I have been wondering about.
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