OK, so it wasn’t quite as straight forward as I anticipated beyond the transfer of content from the 9200T to the Mac. As it turns out, the end DVD product of carefully transcoded MPEG TS to MPEG-2 ended up being particularly clippy.

The finger of blame is pointing squarely at Roxio for compressing the video down again, though it has to be said that these are unsubstantiated rumours at this point.

Anyhoo – one thing I did notice on the TS output from the Humax was that occasionally some of the BBC channels swiitched audio channels in their output. Whilst this has never been a problem on the DVB receivers we have, it would seem that fusspot applications on the desktop take a particular exception to audio appearing on channel 2 and not on 1. VLC can switch between the channels but defaults to 1 and so Bob The Builder is suddenly broadcast in silence.

Some might say that this a ‘Good Thing’^TM.

I’m inclined to agree. [sssh - don't tell the kids]

Next stop is MPEG Streamclip to see what’s possible there.