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[VDR User]

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Dieter BSD <dieterbsd at engineer.com> wrote:
>> With very very very few exceptions, all analog NTSC broadcasts have
>> been switched to digital, by the FCC mandated deadline of June 12,
>> 2009.
>
> As long as there remain some NTSC broadcasts, there might be some
> that you wish to watch.  That's why I wrote:

Yes, technically there are still some that exist, for now. However,
their death certificate is signed and they're so few that it's not
worth mentioning.

>> You absolutely do NOT have to reencode a stream
>
> I did not say anything about RE-encoding anything.  Only about
> encoding/compressing the high bandwidth datastream the tuner
> generates from NTSC.  And to be clear, this only applies to
> NTSC, not to ATSC.

NTSC streams are not broadcast raw. What do you call encoding data
that's already encoded if you don't think it's reencoding? Also, doing
so causes degredation so unless there's a need for the user to do so,
he's better off not wasting his time.

>> Tuners do NOT provide raw audio/video to the system in any case.
>
> http://corona.homeunix.net/cx88wiki/Overview/RawVideo

While that's technically possible in _some_ cases, and assuming it's
fully implemented and functional, I'm unaware of any software that
actually provides raw data to the user. I suppose I should have worded
my point differently.