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I'm trying to find software which will allow me to use the chip on my TV Tuner (not my cpu) to encode TV and then stream it across my network.

All the software I've seen, downloaded, installed uses the CPU to encode the video; I don't want that.

Any advice?

Problem solved.

Well, I was planning on getting a tuner for every channel, setting up individual streams, creating a website front-end, and broadcasting it over the net.

At $130 a pop, that can get pretty expensive.

You're not going to be able to access the chipset on a card, sorry.

So, every software out there that streams video can only encode using the CPU, and not the chip on the card?

Not to mention most of those chips can only do one channel at a time.

Okay, so, let me get this right, you want to broadcast TV channels over the internet, or your own private network? If, over the internet, do you plan to charge for this service (if you answer no, then there is something wrong with you), and if so, how much.

When you get into broadcasting, you have to purchase the channel and you have to pay a certain amount per subscriber. Initial setup and equipment can be pretty expensive, but the more subs you have the more it offsets it.

If you're just doing it over your own private network, then there isn't so much involved. It depends on what kind of OS you are running, but I believe windows only recognized up to 4 tuner cards, linux will do more, but you'll have to have a \"tv server\" type setup with 4-8 channels per machine depending on how you set them up.

I don't know of any program that will combine them from the video servers, so you'll have to have that made from scratch. Altho some web security cam server software does something similar to this.

At the cost of doing that, 130bux for a slingbox isn't bad. But there are better ways of throwing video around your house than a slingbox, or the above idea, and the slingbox will work for you when you are away from home, so broadcasting like a Cable or Satellite provider over the net must be what you are after. An interesting premise, especially if you own a cable system and want to save lots of bandwidth space. IP based services like that are the future, and I'm sure there is a market for it.