The Gearbox™ II 8VSB 16 Tuners/IP 104ch is a real time multichannel streamer, integrated RF receiver, and transcoder designed to receive SMPTE 310M (8VSB) signals and transform them into IP streams that are optimized for streaming. It is designed to be scalable, easily adaptable, and field upgradeable to meet the needs of streaming service users who are very comfortable with embedded Linux® based appliances. It relies on an Intel® Dual 16 Core CPU for encoding. We have optimized the encoder to obtain Telco grade reliability. The Gearbox II 8VSB 16 Tuners/IP 104ch is an MPEG-2 to H.264 transcoder or transcaler. It receives multiple 8VSB transport streams, transcodes them to H.264 or optional H.265, and outputs them to an IP network. Resulting streams can be viewed with standard transport stream compatible set-top boxes, streaming video, smart phones, or software clients such as VLC or JW Player. The Gearbox II 8VSB 16 Tuners/ IP 104ch receives transport streams, demultiplexes the requested services and streams these services using UDP, RTP, RTMP, Adaptive, or HTTP via IP networks as either IP multicast or IP unicast streams. The system transcodes individual streams into H.264 format up to a maximum individual bitrate of 15Mbps.