I have a great Mediaportal setup now running with a DVB-T tuner and had hoped that I would be able to watch the recordings on my Popcorn Hour in the bedroom as it supports X264, AAC, TS etc etc however found that NZ uses HE-AAC which is about the ONLY format not supported on the PCH.

After a bit of experimentation I have got a simple way of converting the audio to AC3 which is supported on the PCH.

VLC is a pretty powerful piece of software and the using the GUI it's pretty straight forward to create a conversion profile to do the audio only transcoding however I wanted to automate mine a bit more so created a batch process to do it.

Using the latest version of VLC and the following command line script

vlc -vvv -I dummy "c:\original.ts" --sout=#transcode{acodec=a52,ab=128,channels=2,samplerate=48000}:duplicate{dst=std{access=file,mux=ts,dst='c:\converted.ts'} vlc://quit

This converts the HE-AAC audio to AC3 but leave the X264 video intact. Takes about a minute per gig to convert.

Next step is to look at somehow scripting the setup such that it automatically converts new recordings once they are complete.

Hope this helps someone.

Cheers
Matt.