>> Not currently. I think someone (Chris Pinkham?) was working on either<br>>> allowing recording to MPEG-2 directly or at least allowing transcoding<br>>> to MPEG-2. So, right now your options include:
<br>>><br>>> a) patience (could be quite a while, though)<br>>> b) get a different frontend<br>>> c) get a hardware encoder like the PVR-150<br><br><br>>Hauppauge now claims that the MVP can play mpeg-4. As far as I can
<br>>tell this is by transcoding the mpeg-4 file to mpeg-2 on the fly with<br>>software and then sending the result to the MVP, because the MVP<br>>hardware has not changed.<br><br>It is true the windows server for the MVP can handle mpeg-4 by transcoding on the fly, it works ok, but if you have to pause, or jump ahead, more often then not, your sound will get out of sync.
<br><br>>>OTOH I don't see why you couldn't create a user job to transcode a<br>>>file to mpeg-2.<br><br>>>But the cost of a PVR is about the cost of one hour of labor on such<br>>>a project, and is thus probably the better solution.
<br><br>Nah, monthly fees, frequent checkins with the 'mother ship', and working right out of the box... bah, what fun is that.<br><br>