Re: lossless audio codec for video capturing

On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 14:41:15 +0100, Peter Larsen
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>Martin Heffels wrote:
>
>> Yep, one refers to bit-reduction as in what programs like WinZIP etc
>> do: if I got ten zeros in a row, I don't write ten zeros, but say that
>> there are ten zeros at this place. This leads to no reduction in
>> quality.
>
>And there is no bit reduction, all the bits are there, they are just
>written differently.

Of course there is bit-reduction. You end of with a file with less
bits then the original :)
That's what makes the term bit-reduction so confusing. Maybe we
should set-up a IEEE-committee to set a standard for the naming?

cheers

-martin-
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