[MPlayer-users] Encoding from DVB-T mpeg-ts recordings

[D Richard Felker III]

On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 11:34:09AM -0700, RC wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 11:46:37 -0400
> D Richard Felker III <dalias at aerifal.cx> wrote:
> 
> > actually a direct mp2->mp3 transcoder should be possible, perhaps with
> > no loss.
> 
> Perhaps so, but not with any reduction in size, so there wouldn't be
> any point.

there would be a point, for making files that play on a device with
only mp3 decoding but not mp2 (stupid, yes, but possible).

> I was actually thinking to myself that it should be possible just to
> re-do the lossless compression on a file, possibly getting a small
> improvement without any loss, as compression algorithms improve over
> time.  But I've never heard of anyone doing it.

in general not possible. most of the gains can't be translated
losslessly.

rich