> On Sun, 25 Jan 1998, C. Jasper Spaans wrote:
>
> > Here's my question: I have access to a portable Philips DCC recorder with
> > some Multimedia capabilities - ie, I can use it as a tape backup drive.
> I don't think you can use it for doing backups. DCC uses lossy compression
> which makes it impossible or at least very inpractical.
>
No, you can use it to make backups. The multimedia extension kit just
sends over raw binary data which bypasses the codec. Also this way you
can get encoded audio-files *into* your computer. These are PASC encoded,
which is pretty much MPEG-I layer I with some extra null-bytes. mpg123
can decode these files (use the -q switch, or else you get a warning for
every frame it decodes!). btw. mpg123 is *way* faster in this than the
software Philips has available for decoding!
Maarten
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| Maarten Boekhold, Faculty of Electrical Engineering TU Delft, NL |
| Computer Architecture and Digital Technique section |
| M.Boekhold@et.tudelft.nl |
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