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- adverb In a
lossy way.
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Examples
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These paragraphs could just as readily apply to changes in copyright, lossily compressed music, or spam: they are characteristics inherent in the ecology itself.
Boing Boing: January 16, 2005 - January 22, 2005 Archives 2005
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It is because of the regularity of the universe that evolution, which represents very lossily the history of our development in our genome, is able to occur.
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Elementary Video and Audio streams can contain uncompressed data or compressed data (which itself can be losslessly compressed or lossily compressed).
VideoHelp.com Forum 2010
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Elementary Video and Audio streams can contain uncompressed data or compressed data (which itself can be losslessly compressed or lossily compressed).
VideoHelp.com Forum 2010
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Store metadata in libexiv2 containers, do not lossily encode to QByteArray.
KDE TechBase - Recent changes [en] Frasche 2010
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Store metadata in libexiv2 containers, do not lossily encode to QByteArray.
KDE TechBase - Recent changes [en] Arysin 2010
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Free Loseless Audio Codec. both format are loseless thus the filesize is usually 1 / 2 of the original PCM audio. its use by audiophile or one who care more about audio quality then compression ratio. if you just want the mp3 format, why go thru the trouble of getting the bigger loseless format then lossily compress it?
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Free Loseless Audio Codec. both format are loseless thus the filesize is usually 1 / 2 of the original PCM audio. its use by audiophile or one who care more about audio quality then compression ratio. if you just want the mp3 format, why go thru the trouble of getting the bigger loseless format then lossily compress it?
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Store metadata in libexiv2 containers, do not lossily encode to QByteArray.
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Free Loseless Audio Codec. both format are loseless thus the filesize is usually 1 / 2 of the original PCM audio. its use by audiophile or one who care more about audio quality then compression ratio. if you just want the mp3 format, why go thru the trouble of getting the bigger loseless format then lossily compress it?
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