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Interest seems low, but just in case someone does a search...

Tversity is still working well using ver 1.7.4.

If I rip to MP4 format at 1024kbitrate for the video, the file sizes are about 700MB, but TVersity has to transcode real-time while it streams because the DirecTV boxes accept mpeg2 video by default. The transcoding causes my PC to spike it's CPU which causes some issues during playback. The video isn't smooth. It's watchable, but not good. And if you pause the video and restart it, it will crash.

I tried ripping to mpeg-2 format at 1024k bitrate and the quality was crap. I did some searching online and discovered that you had to rip at a much higher rate in mpeg-2 to get decent quality. If I rip at 3000k bitrate, I get a 2Gig file and decent quality. If I rip at 6000k bitrate it's better. Both seem to stream better because TVersity isn't having to transcode the stream.

As cheap as hard drive space is, 4 gigs per movie isn't that big a deal. For now, for my cheap setup, I'm going to keep using TVersity. It's mostly for my wife. When I want to watch something in HD, I'll be watching a Bluray, but this will be adequate for many/most movies.