Emulated television tuner

A system comprising:

• a processing circuitry configured to:
• receive, a channel tuning request from an application for a legacy tuner interface, wherein the channel tuning request comprises data indicative of a channel's frequency and a request to configure a physical tuner to the channel's frequency;
• transfer, via the legacy tuner interface, the channel tuning request to a tuner emulator;
• a networking circuitry configured to:
• access, at direction of the tuner emulator, a network address corresponding to the channel's frequency using a mapping that maps frequencies to network addresses;
• access video data using a network protocol from the network address corresponding to the channel's frequency;
• wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to:
• format video data into a format suitable for the application;
• and
• deliver reformatted video data to the application, wherein the application is not aware that the tuner emulator is emulated.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium having non-transitory computer-readable instructions encoded thereon that, when executed by a processing circuitry, cause the processing circuitry to:

• receive, a channel tuning request from an application for a legacy tuner interface, wherein the channel tuning request comprises data indicative of a channel's frequency and a request to configure a physical tuner to the channel's frequency;
• transfer, by the legacy tuner interface, the channel tuning request to a tuner emulator;
• and
• wherein the non-transitory computer-readable instructions, when executed by the processing circuitry, further cause networking circuitry to:
• access, by the tuner emulator, a network address corresponding to the channel's frequency using a mapping that maps frequencies to network addresses;
• access video data using a network protocol from the network address corresponding to the channel's frequency;
• and
• wherein the non-transitory computer-readable instructions, when executed by the processing circuitry, further cause the processing circuitry to:
• format video data into a format suitable for the application;
• and
• deliver reformatted video data to the application, wherein the application is not aware that the tuner emulator is emulated.