So, quite a bit has happened, inspired by mythtv podcast post.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1118209
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/iPodVideoEncoding

Video podcast client Miro works really well

http://www.getmiro.com/

TVersity is a upnp media server that will pull in content from an RSS feed, such as the one on my MythTV box… This enables playback on the Xbox 360

http://tversity.com/

Of course, this is the reason for the Apache2 bandwidth control post, since I am not very happy with the bandwidth shaping options in pfsense

http://www.pfsense.com/

I suspect a firewall upgrade is in order… My friend just raves about Untangle, and for good reason. The latest version now includes captive portal, and I will not have a network without multiple separated interfaces… Perhaps soon.

http://www.untangle.com/