Unfortunatly it's been downgraded to 10 Mbps max for H.264 and it won't do profile 5.0 or higher which is what most x264, XviD, ect HD encodes are done in. This will be great for H.264 TV caps and SD stuff, but it looks like WMV is still the only way to get good compressed HD on it.
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Why will you have to do that, XviD is MPEG-4 ASP, it should play without the need for any transcoding.
Unfortunatly it's been downgraded to 10 Mbps max for H.264 and it won't do profile 5.0 or higher which is what most x264, XviD, ect HD encodes are done in. This will be great for H.264 TV caps and SD stuff, but it looks like WMV is still the only way to get good compressed HD on it.