Radium wrote:
> Richard Crowley wrote:
> > MPEG *IS* "PCM".
>
> Thats like saying MP3 is the same as WAV.

No, it's not. It's saying that both are pulse code modulation.
WAV is simply a specific container format for audio information.
WAV files can hold linear PCM, non-linear PCM such as A-law or
u-law, encodings such as MPEG, AC-3 and such.

Thus, if you simply specify that something is in WAV format, you're
only saying that it's a RIFF-format file and that it's internal
format is unspecified. It could be linear PCM (wave format type 1),
it could be MPEG (wave format type 80).

Both linear PCM and MPEG ARE pulse-code modulations, meaning that
at certain instants, the instantaneous amplitude of the is sampled
and encoded. One of them simply has gone through some additional
lossy encoding procedure.

> Which is wrong.

No, it is not. You are most definitely out of touch on this.

> No offense.

Well, it's clear that you're back, with the same misinformation
as always, and we see you didn't waste any of your time during
your absence to learn any of this stuff.

Ho hum...