Media Center Plugins Part 4: Crunchie
Anyone who uses their Windows XP Media Center Edition PVR / DVR a lot knows that video files can easily grow out of hand. If you are gone for a week and you program MCE to record your favourite shows, it doesn’t take long for a 250gb hard drive to get filled. The reason behind this is that MCE does not natively compress the video that it records. If it did, overall system performance would take a hit.
Enter Crunchie. Crunchie is a handy utility for that can be scheduled to compress MCE recordings into a xvid format which dramatically reduces their file size. The great part is that it can be run as a scheduled task (at say 3 A.M.) so you needn’t worry about remembering to run it.
Installation instructions, as well as download links, can be found here.
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