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. -- FA Laboratorio di Acustica ed Elettroacustica Parma, Italia Lascia la spina, cogli la rosa. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-dev
