Difference between revisions of "Transcoding"
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Every time you encode with a [[Lossy]] encoder, the quality will decrease. There's no way to gain quality back even if you decode your 128kbps [[MP3]] and encode it with 320kbps. | Every time you encode with a [[Lossy]] encoder, the quality will decrease. There's no way to gain quality back even if you decode your 128kbps [[MP3]] and encode it with 320kbps. | ||
| − | Transcoding to a different format is not recommended, unless absolutely necessary eg. for portable player use. It will always end up to a worse quality file than the source. People want to keep the new formats like | + | Transcoding to a different format is not recommended, unless absolutely necessary eg. for portable player use. It will always end up to a worse quality file than the source. People want to keep the new formats like [[Vorbis]], [[MPC]] and [[AAC]] clean from the (possibly very bad quality) [[MP3]] transcodings. |
Revision as of 12:23, 4 January 2006
Every time you encode with a Lossy encoder, the quality will decrease. There's no way to gain quality back even if you decode your 128kbps MP3 and encode it with 320kbps.
Transcoding to a different format is not recommended, unless absolutely necessary eg. for portable player use. It will always end up to a worse quality file than the source. People want to keep the new formats like Vorbis, MPC and AAC clean from the (possibly very bad quality) MP3 transcodings.
