I'm reading right now the whole thread, but before I'll give a try of your utility, I think it's a good idea to... make a little, very simple nothing too much elaborated, graphical interface in "Other programs", that can, through a check, enable / disable automatic conversion after tv recording is finished, and, that's my wish, convert a recorded show of my choice, with output by default, in the Video folder. That's because I really don't need to convert every recording, 99% of times I simply watch them, then delete them, just very few recordings I need to convert, like F1 GPs, for late DVD Authoring (with DVD Lab Pro).
How long does it take for conversion ?
Cyberlink Power Producer 4 (or is it Power Director ?
), takes 5 min for 4,5GB of dvr-ms.
keep on working, excellent work ! 
