aprnu@feddit.ch to Open Source@lemmy.ml · 8 months agoLosslessCut, the Swiss army knife for lossless video and audio editingubunlog.comexternal-linkmessage-square27fedilinkarrow-up1212
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minus-squaremudeth@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up4·8 months 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-squareryannathans@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 months agoLossless codecs can be decoded and reencoded without effect
minus-squaremudeth@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2·8 months agoLosslessCut doesn’t only use lossless codecs. It losslessly cuts video files encoded in lossy codecs.
minus-squareReversalHatchery@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-28 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.
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.
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.
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.