On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 13:45 +0100, Simon Baxter wrote:

Does anyone know of a (cheap?) LCD panel with a built in mpeg (etc) decoder, that can sit on a LAN and receive unicast or multicast video streams?

I'm not aware of any.

The idea would be to stream video from a single location to multiple video endpoints. Rather than use an expensive full blown PC, I'm looking for an addressible LAN attached video display.

For a DIY solution; what about a mini-itx (or nano?) motherboard with case and monitor, that boots up over the network?

I've looked at polycom and touch-panels, but they have too many features (and the price to match).

As VDR can demux all channels from the same transponder, I'd like to stream each (encoded) channel to a different display unit. But don't want a dedicated PC.

DVBstream may be better than VDR as it supports multicast and is designed just to stream!

Is doing it over IP important? If it's just over CAT5 http://www.svideo.com/videobalun1.html may be cheaper.