Hi everyone, I am searching for hardware for a small project: build one or two boxes packed with tuner cards to capture, encode and stream analog TV channels to an IP network. The initial target is 6 channels, but ideally I would like to be able to accomodate more in the future. Hence I am looking for supported cards featuring dual tuners and a hardware MPEG encoder. The cards must have a PCI or PCIe interface. I would better not have to deal with USB devices because, if nothing else, the boxes should be self-contained. I've read about the saa7162 based devices; I think these would be ideal, and I believe I can actually find some on the local market. However, as far as I can tell, there are no drivers yet to support the hardware on these cards. Is that so? Ruling out saa7162, and since I can't find other such dual-tuner cards, I am also looking at single tuner devices with a hardware encoder. According to what I've read in the v4l2 wiki and elsewhere, it seems I should go for some ivtv or cx88-supported device with pvr functionality onboard, i.e. devices featuring some blackbird or vixs mpeg encoder. However I am somewhat lost at this point, since there is a wide range of devices supported by these drivers and not all have the same features (more specifically the hardware encoder chip) or are supported to the same extent. The extensive commercial re- branding of these cards also doesn't help when trying to identify them. I therefore decided to ask for suggestions from folks more knowledgeable than me. I am rather new to v4l and linux-dvb, but not totally new: for the past few months I've successfully used a saa7134 based card (Lifeview FlyDVB Trio) to experiment with analog, DVB-T and DVB-S channels. In any case please bear with me and my ignorance, in case I have gotten wrong the few facts stated above. Finally I apologize for cross-poting; My questions probably pertain to rather generic v4l hardware matters (as opposed to being DVB specific), however I would value suggestions by members of both lists. Thanks, Z. _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
