[mythtv-users] PCI-E ATSC (US) Card Recommendation

[Brian Wood]

On Tuesday 01 December 2009 02:17:39 pm Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 10:22 -0700, Brian Wood wrote:
> > An encoder takes something in and outputs MPEG, a decoder takes in 
MPEG
> > and outputs something else.
> 
> Y'all are arguing about orthogonal concepts.  One dude is talking about
> video (i.e. signal) encoder/decoders and another about MPEG
> encoder/decoders.
> 
> signal -> video decoder -> mpeg encoder -> mpeg file
> mpeg file -> mpeg decoder -> video encoder -> TV

Essentially correct, but I thought the discussions specified "NTSC 
encoder/decoder" and "MPEG encoder/decoder".

I think most of us understand the difference, but I can see where it could get 
confusing.

NTSC encoders and decoders are things that most of us here don't get 
involved with.

The reference to an NTSC encoder was actually referring to an NTSC tuner, 
demodulator and decoder, meaning something that could turn an NTSC RF 
signal into usable video.

But please, continue to keep us all honest :-)