[FFmpeg-user] Is pcm_bluray to pcm_s16le lossless?

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

wtfux <wtfux.dev <at> googlemail.com> writes:

> To my understanding this should be lossless, right? But somehow the m2ts
> container is 12.1 GB large and the mkv container is 11.5 GB. There are no
> further streams or attachments in .m2ts and just copying the h264 stream
> shouldn't change the size either. I'm not quite familiar with m2ts
> container but that would be a huge overhead for just the container.

Please note that MPEG transport streams are intended to 
work with non-lossless transmission methods while I don't 
think your mkv is still playable if you damage it.

(The conversion from s16le to s16le is of course lossless.)

Carl Eugen