Hello, I'm writing to see if there is any interest here in a project I've been considering. It consists of a device with a set of digital tuner modules (perhaps 5 or 6) which attach through an FPGA to Ethernet. The tuners would be a combination of QAM/VSB and DVB, for receiving MPEG programming over cable, terrestrial (US), and FTA DVB satellite. The filtered MPEG packets would be sent multicast UDP, and the tuners could be shared among multiple clients on the network. The device would also support I2C commands to the tuners using control packets. The existing linux DVB drivers would be used with some modifications. This would allow: 1) sharing of tuners between multiple clients, 2) multi-channel video applications, 3) doing things like background scanning, enhanced-PVR, etc, and 4) easy expansion by just adding more devices to the LAN. I haven't been able to find such a device for sale, so I'm considering rolling my own. If anyone is interested, or alternatively if such a thing already exists, please let me know. Regards, Brian __________________________________ Discover Yahoo! Find restaurants, movies, travel and more fun for the weekend. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/weekend.html
