What I meant here is the following: cd/wav -> ogg/mp3 is lossy ogg/mp3 -> wav isn't lossy hence, cd/wav -> ogg -> wav -> mp3 has two lossy transitions, not three.
To clarify, going from ogg to wav certainly doesn't bring back the original exact audio, but produces the audio exactly as described in the ogg file. jackp --- Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 11:28:53 -0800 (PST) > Jack Pistachio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Encoding to either ogg or mp3 is lossy, but when > converting > > back to wav the information in the mp3 or ogg audio > should > > be retained completely. > > Erm, no. These two statements are mutually > exclusive. The very > definition of lossy compression is that information is > lost. Hence, lossy. > Lossless compression loses no information. > > Forms of lossless compression: gzip, zip, rar, arj, > lzh, ace, et al. > > Forms of lossy compression: vorbis (ogg being a > wrapper), mp3, jpg > > -- > Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm > your shrink, I'm your > PGP Key: 8B6E99C5 | main connection to the > switchboard of souls. > | -- Lenny Nero - Strange Days > -------------------------------+--------------------------------------------- > > ATTACHMENT part 2 application/pgp-signature __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
