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Originally Posted by HarryT
Is there such a thing as a "non-lossy" video format? DVD movies use MPEG-2, for example, which is most assuredly a "lossy" format, and most (digital) broadcasts are either MPEG-2 or MPEG-4.
I agree with you that blocky, pixelated video certainly sounds like an artifact of over-compression. I always rip video for my iPod at a bitrate which still looks good played full-screen on my PC.
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Harry, I don't rip video, and I don't darknet. Yes, Mpeg2 is lossy, but the resulting picture is carefully tuned for high quality moving images. I guess I need to buy a USB DVD-player to test with. (I can reuse it with my EEE PC). Even if it does run Mpeg2, which I doubt, what kind of uncompressed audio will it run? Perhaps there are ways to make it into a silk purse, but to me it's still a sow's ear.