aprnu@feddit.ch to Open Source@lemmy.ml · 1 year agoLosslessCut, the Swiss army knife for lossless video and audio editingubunlog.comexternal-linkmessage-square27fedilinkarrow-up1211arrow-down16
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minus-squareryannathans@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·edit-21 year agoExcept if it’s lossless so there’s no harm in reencoding to accurately clip files
minus-squaremudeth@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·1 year agoYou’re confusing cause and effect. It’s lossless because it cuts at keyframes and does not re-encode. If it did what you’re suggesting it wouldn’t be lossless anymore.
minus-squareReversalHatchery@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-211 months agoI think they were talking about a special kind of media file, that is not compressed but instead stored losslessly. I think H264 can do that too.
minus-squareryannathans@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·1 year agoLossless codecs can be decoded and reencoded without effect
minus-squaremudeth@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoLosslessCut doesn’t only use lossless codecs. It losslessly cuts video files encoded in lossy codecs.
Except if it’s lossless so there’s no harm in reencoding to accurately clip files
You’re confusing cause and effect. It’s lossless because it cuts at keyframes and does not re-encode.
If it did what you’re suggesting it wouldn’t be lossless anymore.
I think they were talking about a special kind of media file, that is not compressed but instead stored losslessly. I think H264 can do that too.
Lossless codecs can be decoded and reencoded without effect
LosslessCut doesn’t only use lossless codecs. It losslessly cuts video files encoded in lossy codecs.