• mudeth@lemmy.ca
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    9 months ago

    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.

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      9 months ago

      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.

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      9 months ago

      Lossless codecs can be decoded and reencoded without effect

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        9 months ago

        LosslessCut doesn’t only use lossless codecs. It losslessly cuts video files encoded in lossy codecs.