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this post was submitted on 29 Aug 2024
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What's wrong with FLAC?
Nothing. It’s just that you don’t see people use flac very often as an audio codec for movies or TV series. At least I haven’t seen it very often.
The only issue would be if you were trying to transcode Dolby Digital to flac. That is not a transcode you want to do.
Why is that?
Dolby Digital (e-ac & e-ac3) are lossy codecs. So transcoding a lossy codec to a lossless codec, is not a good idea.
You can read more about it here: https://interviewfor.red/en/transcodes.html
Lossy to lossless is fine it's just a waste of space.
It’s extra wasted space because compression artifacts are hard to compress lossless. It’s a shit sandwich, so people advise against it.
I didnt realise* that they were lossy. Makes sense now.