I recently purchased a pogo pro and have been reading a lot of topics about watching video and whether to transcode or not to transcode. When trying to view media outside of my home network, I have had problems getting the media to stream. This is the case whether I am on 3G or a wired internet connection. I have played around with many of the settings and currently have it set up with the stream to PS3, etc, "Enabled", "Auto-generate full transcode", and both meta data and thumbnails to "ASAP". 

Now when I go to view files, it doesn't ever seem to pull them up outside of my home network and even inside it seems to take a while. But the thing I don't understand the most of the transcoding. All comments I have read over the forums state that transcoding takes FOREVER. I would have to say that is wrong in my case. Transcoding takes no time at all. And with that, I don't think it is actually transcoding. 

A file, whether full 2 hour movie, 50 minute show, takes probably 20 seconds to transcode per watching it on my.pogoplug.com. The percentage doesn't even get to 1% and it is off to the next movie in the list. What gives? I don't believe that should be the case. It also does not show my drive decreasing in storage capacity. So am I right in thinking these aren't transcoding?

I encode all of my media using Handbrake with the AppleTV preset. Movie file size range from 1-1.5 gb and shows around 400-600mb depending on length obviously. 

Anyone have any ideas? Is this right? 

Thanks for any help and information.