I just came across a program called Transcode 360. Free application to run on MCE 2005 or now Vista and will take a bunch of encoding formats and stream them to an XBox 360.

I will have to look more into this, but it should allow the recording of TV and movies (if you wanted) to the HTPC in a higher compression format like Divx and Xvid, and yet re-encode them in what they claim is "faster than real-time" for direct streaming to the XBox 360. Hmmm....

Transcode 360

Farewell - June 4, 2020