The SDE24 Standard Definition Encoder Module can encode up to two input sources, source 1 and source 2 in real-time. The module may be configured to encode source 1 in either MPEG2 or MPEG4 (H.264) transport streams. Source 2 may be encoded in MPEG2 only. Each Encoder Module can output one MPEG2 stream, two MPEG2 streams, one MPEG4 stream, or one MPEG2 and one MPEG4 stream. Each SDE24 module provides two sets of input connectors for NTSC composite with stereo audio. Audio is encoded using Dolby AC-3 encoding.