[mythtvnz] Multicast your noisy frontend or backend to a quiet box?

[James Gray]

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> not to mention downgrade in quality as a result of the multiple decoding
> and encoding.
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> I think this comment would have been particularly applicable to analogue
> signals, however given these are digital one would hope it was lossless.
>  Accept it might not be though.


Not the case with lossy compression. Imagine lossy compression as a cookie
cutter, a different shape is a different codec. Use two different codecs,
and you get the losses of both
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