The primary goal of the IvyTV Project is to create a kernel driver for the iTVC15 familiy of MPEG codecs. The iTVC15 family includes the iTVC15 (CX24315) and iTVC16 (CX24316). These chips are commonly found on Hauppauge's WinTV PVR-250 and PVR-350 TV capture cards.

The driver has achieved stable capture and is rapidly approaching a general release that is V4L2 compliant. Initially the cards will only support MPEG 1 and 2 compressed capture but research continues on the card's YUV and VBI capabilities and playback of compressed streams.

Plugins have been created for Xine and one for MythTV is in progress.