Well known in the analog world, make a copy of a copy of copy and with each pass you lose some quality.
The same applies to lossy compression.
Berndhold encoded/decoded audio using various lossy compression codecs.
He used 100 passes.

Results after 100 passes with VBR ~96 kbps
It demonstrates the generation loss and the difference in performance of various encoders nicely.
http://bernholdtech.blogspot.de/201...dio-encoders-100-pass-recompression-test.html
The same applies to lossy compression.
Berndhold encoded/decoded audio using various lossy compression codecs.
He used 100 passes.

Results after 100 passes with VBR ~96 kbps
It demonstrates the generation loss and the difference in performance of various encoders nicely.
http://bernholdtech.blogspot.de/201...dio-encoders-100-pass-recompression-test.html
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