[ProAudio] DVD Dubbing Problem

[James Perrett]

Sony also used a compressed 8 bit system for 8mm video.

Were you thinking of Mike Skeet by any chance? He was an early F1 user and
ran Whitetower Records if remember right.


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On Fri, 23 May 2025, 02:37 Bob Katz via ProAudio, <proaudio at bach.pgm.com>
wrote:

> Oops, I was confusing “minidisc” (which was a lossy coded medium) with
> mini dv!
>
> Still I recommend you use a bit meter to look at the spdif stream out of
> the player into your capture daw.
>
> And yes, 1648 linear pcm is a very decent medium. What’s his name, an
> engineer who runs a small record company, made numerous 2-Mike 1648
> recordings on a highly modified DAT recorder, which sound lovely, warm, and
> deep.
>
>
> Bob
>
>
> My iPhone made me write this. Quotes only below this line. Nothing more to
> see here.
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
> > On May 22, 2025, at 3:46 PM, Jim Brown via ProAudio <
> proaudio at bach.pgm.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 5/22/2025 11:05 AM, Bob Katz via ProAudio wrote:
> >> f I recall, mini-dv was a medium dedicated to Sony's lossy coded
> format. If I'm right then the so-called "16 bit 48 kHz" files are lossy
> encoded. The lossy encoded wordlength in the file is apparently 16 bit but
> when decoded it will expand to 18 bits in linear pcm format (formerly lossy
> coded) or more.
> >> And if I'm right then David Josephson's point about finding the
> original player makes sense and you have to play it from the original
> software. I suggest having a bit-scope on the digital output to sense the
> output wordlength coming from the decoder. You could do that by playing the
> dig out (SPDIF) into a good DAW and run a plugin called "bitter" on the
> bitstream.
> >
> > Thanks Bob. The dubs I've made to DVD were Firewire from a semi-pro
> player (not Sony) to a standalone DVD recorder that claims to enhance toe
> video. For all of that material I simultaneously recorded the same mix to
> 2-track DAT.
> >
> > Jim Brown
> >
> >
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