Re: ogg to mp3 audio (also via 8233a question)
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 04:32:10PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 11:28:53 -0800 (PST)
> Jack Pistachio <jackpistachio@yahoo.com> 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.
Jack said "when converting back to wav". Indeed, the *decompression*
part of a lossy compression algorithm does not lose information.
Information will certainly have been lost from the audio stream that was
originally encoded, but not from the MP3 or OGG that is being decoded.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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