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15th June 2008, 07:26
I have a couple of media players (SMS (http://home.casema.nl/eugene_plotnikov/) on PlayStation 2) on a network at home that play media files from SMB folders (windows shares) on the network.

The player only supports MPEG-1 MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 ASP (in AVI) video. Also it only supports opening files from SMB folders.

Is there a way to set up a shared folder on a PC which contains virtual *.mpg files that are transcoded on the fly from their source files when opened.

This would be similar to the way that avisynth can create 'virtual' avi files, but instead of serving uncompressed frames (as AVS does) serve a video format that is compatible with the player.

I know I could just re-encode all of my incompatible files, but that would take up a lot of space as i'd still need to keep the original files to watch on my PC.

Bye!