Is MPEG2 a lossy format?

Thanks

Mike

and the quick easy answer is "yes"

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Soooooooooooooooo! when i capture footage from my camcorder i would be better of saving it as AVI rather then MPEG2? or can i not do that?!!

Im using Ulead videostudio 8

Thanks

Mike

You'd be better off capturing as a DV-AVI (avg 10:1 compression). The compression is still lossy, but not nearly as lossy as MPEG2 (avg 40:1)

AVI is just a file format, it doesn't have a particular standard compression method associated with it. Lossless AVI uses RGB or YUV no compression formats or HuffYUV which gives about a 4 :1 compression ratio.

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