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consultant
6th March 2005, 18:34
Many music artists have Music Video Compilation DVDs. Since most DVD Soundtracks have a PCM Stereo stream which is 48kHz/16bit and CD's are 44kHz/16bit, would it not be true then that you will get a slightly higher quality audio file if you demuxed a Video DVD, extracting the PCM Stereo stream to a WAV file versus ripping the WAV file from the same song off the audio CD?

For example, Janet Jackson Design of a Decade. I have it on DVD. Is there any advantage to buying and ripping the CD if I can just already extract the soundtracks from the DVD? (Granted if I convert to high quality MP3 I'll have to manually enter the ID3 tags versus using some sort of ripping program that accesses the CDDB database and fills out the ID3 tags for you.)