<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/16/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">A JM</b> <<a href="mailto:vbtalent@gmail.com">vbtalent@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span></div>
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<div>So, even though the Xbox is just a FE it still needs to do decoding in order to diplay correctly or for that matter at all?</div>
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<div>I assumed that the BE did all the work since it contains the capture card and storage was also on the backend, the FE was just a conduit to the TV. </div></blockquote>
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<div>I think you are confusing ENcoding with DEcoding.</div>
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<div>The backend encodes the video to disk, either using the hardware on a PVR type card, or using the CPU if your capture card does not have encoding capabilities.</div>
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<div>Decoding is the process of playing the video back out to the display, this is done by the frontend, whether it is a stand alone box or in the same box as the backend.</div>
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<div>--g<br> </div>