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Posted May 28, 2011 @ 2:19 pm by Hells Death - 1188 views

I have a concert from 1976 in .avi format and I was wondering if the format will be able to convert into a lossless audio? I know some files are lossy video, but is the audio is a lossy video also lossy?? Thanks for any help!!

Posted May 28, 2011 @ 3:11 pm by nitroangus23

You can't. Avi. is a lossy format. You can't make anything that isn't lossless, even video. The sound is most likely encoded at like 160 Kbps mp3, Avi.

Posted May 28, 2011 @ 3:15 pm by nitroangus23

Now, if it were a DVD file (.vob) Then yes, you could convert that into a lossless file. (Although technically, DVD's aren't truly lossless encoded to begin with,close,but not truly lossless. Blu Rays are however.)

Posted May 28, 2011 @ 3:37 pm by BrianJohnson888

Actually Flick, a DVD can contain lossless audio. PCM encoding is a form of lossless audio, and is present on some DVDs, and many blu-ray movies. Difference being that DVDs generally only have 2.0 stereo PCM, while blu-ray is large enough to contain a 5.1 surround PCM.

Posted May 28, 2011 @ 9:32 pm by nitroangus23

Well, you learn somethin' every day :) lol

Posted May 28, 2011 @ 9:38 pm by Hells Death

Alright, oh well.... Thanks guys

Posted May 29, 2011 @ 8:06 pm by travishayes89

Yeah, most AVIs contain mp3 audio (as do most mp4 videos with AAC audio). I think it's an extremely remote configuration possibility (due to the container nature of AVI, you can really put most any video format / audio format configuration into an AVI file) that you could have WAV/FLAC/whatever as the audio track. It's just not that common, since most encoders use, by default, mp3 audio.