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minus-squareOskarAxolotl@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 year agoOnly reason I could think of is that compressing white noise is very inefficient because of its high entropy. Compression needs patterns and white noise doesn’t really have any.
minus-squarelolcatnip@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down4·1 year agoThat would be true for lossless compression. Audio codecs generally don’t work that way.
Only reason I could think of is that compressing white noise is very inefficient because of its high entropy. Compression needs patterns and white noise doesn’t really have any.
That would be true for lossless compression. Audio codecs generally don’t work that way.