28 Sep
2007
28 Sep
'07
1:29 a.m.
Dominique Michel <dominique.michel(a)citycable.ch> sez:
Personally, I don't like it. I prefer very much a good stereo sound in the
original language (with some kind of text if it is a language that I don't
understand) like on the Swedish TV.
For that PCM-DSD stuff. I prefer PCM because we can archive a good sound
quality with a much lower bandwitch. DSD was fine at the beginning of digital
recording because it was nothing else (for what I know), but for today's
professional audio, DSD is a waste of resources because of the huge needed
bandwitch.
Dominique
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.
~Maitland
28 Sep
28 Sep
2:06 a.m.
New subject: Direct Stream Digital / Pulse Density
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.
However, on real analogue inputs there is sure to be a lot of very low
level noise which will result in very short run lengths.
Also be aware that all (neglecting ancient stuff like A-law, u-law and
IDPCM) recent audio codecs doe their encoding in the frequency domain
where it is easier to find redundancy than in the time domain.
Erik
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6:09 a.m.
New subject: Direct Stream Digital / Pulse Density
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 02:06:41PM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
Maitland Vaughan-Turner wrote:
OTOH it would be rather easy to do *lossy* compression on a DSD stream.
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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.
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