You might want to check out Aten, Extron and Kramer, these folks make very 
nice video equipment
and I'm almost positive they can all be controlled via RS-232 with very 
simple serial instructions as well as manually, ebay always has a good list 
of equipment for less too.

Jesse


>
>I am browsing source forge for a video switcher project, but am not
>finding anything. Anyone aware of a project that can switch between 4 live
>video feeds, with a single (or more) ntsc output?
>
>
>Raymond
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>From: "Erik Anderson" <erikerik at gmail.com>
>To: "admin at lctn.org" <admin at lctn.org>
>CC: tclug-list at mn-linux.org
>Subject: Re: [tclug-list] video switcher
>Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 14:36:07 -0500
>
>On 4/2/07, admin at lctn.org <admin at lctn.org> wrote:
> >
> > This would be strictly video. All audio runs separate.
>
>Now - I obviously don't know the whole situation here, but to me, this
>sounds like a classic sledgehammer/thumbtack issue.  Just because you
>*can* use linux/technology to accomplish a task doesn't mean it's
>always the best idea.
>
>If you don't have an explicit need for this to be run through a PC,
>just buy an off-the-shelf video switch.  That'll free up your cards
>for you to do something more enjoyable with...MythTV perhaps?
>
>-erik
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