All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020)

Re:All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020) by Kye on Saturday December 25, 2021 @08:37AM (#29683258)

Vinyl starts as a poor material for recording music and only gets worse with age and use. Take a picture if it on old film and develop it with old techniques, and you end up with the worst possible recording medium. I'm impressed they got anything from it.

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Re:All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020) by dredmorbius on Saturday December 25, 2021 @10:27AM (#29684022)

There's a recording medium which is worse than a photograph of vinyl.

None.

If an old photo is what you've got, make the best at extracting from it.

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Re:All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020) by Kye on Saturday December 25, 2021 @10:41AM (#29684144)

This seems like an argument against something I didn't say in the comment you replied to. Maybe I misunderstood you.

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Re:All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020) by dredmorbius on Saturday December 25, 2021 @09:01PM (#29688995)

There's at least a plausible interpretation of your earlier comment that the attempt was futile or without merits.

The OP makes clear that this was the only viable way of extracting information. 1 >>> 0.

Also, as a sufficiently early recording (anything before the mid-1940s), the medium would have been shellac or wax rather than vinyl. Shellac especially is immensely fragile and prone to shatter when handling.

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Re:All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020) by Kye on Saturday December 25, 2021 @09:28PM (#29689124)

Your interpretation was incorrect.

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Re:All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020) by dredmorbius on Saturday December 25, 2021 @09:40PM (#29689175)

Your expression was unclear.

I'm not telling you what you meant.

I'm telling you what I heard, and, in reponse to your implied question, why I'd responded as I had.

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