I have a lot of videos....  And I mean a LOT.  I'm an avid tv recorder.  I started back in the mid 80's with my vcr and when I got a computer & tv tuner, I continued my recording binge.

I'm putting a lot of the shows & movies into a 1.5tb hard drive that I'm going to plug into my PogoPlug.  When that gets full, I'll buy another and keep copying old stuff off my dvds and VHS tapes.

I've been doing this a while and have lots of formats & bit rates.  As a result, many of the videos are too big to watch 'online'.  (Locally they are fine.  But I'm not always local.)  I need the lower bit rate streaming version the plug does.  (And since the plug doesn't actually 'stream' the other video files, I need the transcoded version for all of them.)

The problem, of course, is the video transcoding the plug does is just too darn slow.  Figure it takes the plug a couple hours per show.  Figure 5,000 shows so far.  You do the math....

Is there any way I can speed the transcoding up?  Do a batch transcoding on my desktop and then transfer them to the plug as part of its own automatic transcoding effort?

I know the plug wasn't really designed for this heavy duty stuff, but since I have it and its way too late to return it, I might as well try to make it work.

I figure the answer is probably "No, there is no way to help the plug transcode faster." but I figured it wouldn't hurt to ask.