non-lossy audio compressor & virtualdub

[cow]

Does anyone know of a non-lossy audio compressor that works with VirtualDub? I'm looking for something that can be used in real-time while capturing video. Kinda like Huffyuv, but for audio. I've seen Shorten and FLAC, but they seem to be just stand-alone programs that are used for re-encoding WAVs files.

[DJ Bobo]

What's your problem with normal WAV capturing?! even if you find a lossless codec, you'll most probably have to decompress to WAV before later processing.
The best would be to capture in WAV and then compress near losslessly to MP3 @320kbps for DivX and such, and to MP2 @384kbps for SVCD/DVD and such

[cow]

Actually, I'm just mostly curious if it will lessen frame drops (less disk writes). And yes, it's only going to be used temporarily while capturing and will be re-encoded later.

[DJ Bobo]

No, it won't give you less drops. It may even give you more drops, because you introduce a processing step while capturing ;)
Keep in mind that the audio part in the capture doesn't require much disk transfer rate: capturing in CD quality takes about 176KB/s, this is equivalent to a CD drive working at 1x = nothing! ;)

[cow]

I noticed with Huffyuv disk writes seem to be the problem and not the cpu (usage stays low), so I was hoping compressing the audio might be one solution. But I guess you're right, it probably doesn't produce that much data to be of any problem...

[DSPguru]

Originally posted by cow
Does anyone know of a non-lossy audio compressor that works with VirtualDub? http://mediaxw.sourceforge.net/