Hey RobT - transcoded files are stored in .cedb on your hard drive. This is a directory that includes your transcodes as well as the database and index of all your files.

Transcodes are usually a small fraction of the original file - somewhere between 1% and 3% of the original file, depending on it's quality to begin with - if the file is already relatively low quality (postable to you tube), then the transcoded version can be a much larger fraction of that.

@EricsonDR - nope - the transcodes are fairly low quality, designed to be viewed on the web (think YouTube). IF you want to see your original video, go to the Media Settings page at my.pogoplug.com, and you'll see the name of your Pogoplug there. Click the settings link, and under "Allow Pogoplug to optimize videos for playback:" select "Never" - now that drive will always present the original video, not the transcoded version.

Hope that helps!
J

Right now it's one or the other - we have it in our roadmap to separate out, by client, which version of your video you want to consume on which client. I can think of two admittedly clunky solutions to this issue:

1) Flip that toggle when you want to consume on one vs the other platform

2) Create a separate partition or add another drive, and set that one to auto-transcode full video - use that one for iPhone/web video consumption. The first one, which you keep at transcode=never would be for your PS3.