On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 02:06:41PM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
Maitland Vaughan-Turner wrote:
This hits near something I was wondering:
Wouldn't it be pretty easy
to do lossless compression on a DSD stream. Since it's only one bit,
It seems like you could use simple run-length encoding to achieve
pretty good results.
I pretty sure you are wrong here. Yes, RLE would probably work pretty
well on the DSD encoded version of a digitally generated sine wave.
OTOH it would be rather easy to do *lossy* compression on a DSD stream.
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