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# Configure the general encoding parameters

Before configuring the input stream general parameters, you must select the export type.
Select either **IP TV** or **Internet TV**.

* The main purpose of IP TV is interlaced encoding, dedicated to TV (Progressive encoding is also a configuration to leverage true motion feature).

* Codec presets are different between Internet TV and IP TV export types. Video quality is better with IP TV. We use closed GOP for chunking in Internet TV and open GOP in IP TV. These are the 3 main differences.

* Video, audio and metadata parameters and values may differ depending on the selected export type.

## Docs

- [Configure blackout](https://mediakind.ferndocs.com/beam/live-encoder/configure/encoding/blackout-encoding.md)
- [Configure logo insertion](https://mediakind.ferndocs.com/beam/live-encoder/configure/encoding/logo-insertion.md)
- [Configure metadata encoding](https://mediakind.ferndocs.com/beam/live-encoder/configure/encoding/metadata-encoding.md)
- [Configure subtitle burn-in](https://mediakind.ferndocs.com/beam/live-encoder/configure/encoding/subtitle-burnin-encoding.md)
- [Configure subtitle encoding](https://mediakind.ferndocs.com/beam/live-encoder/configure/encoding/subtitles-encoding.md)
- [Configure the audio encoding parameters](https://mediakind.ferndocs.com/beam/live-encoder/configure/encoding/audio-encoding.md)
- [Configure the video encoding parameters](https://mediakind.ferndocs.com/beam/live-encoder/configure/encoding/video-encoding.md)
- [SCTE-104/IP out-of-band metadata](https://mediakind.ferndocs.com/beam/live-encoder/configure/encoding/scte-104-oob-metadata.md)