I downloaded the trial version of CinePlayer DVR which seems to be able to capture from my WinTV card and encode in a single process. I was not totally impress by the resulting mpeg quality so I was wondering if there was a way to pipe the output of virtualdub into TmpGEnc. I'm sure that TmpGEnc would no be able to keep up with the encoding process but if there was some sort of queue between the two (like a UNIX pipe) there would not be a need for 80-100 GB of disk space that the lossless capture codecs require. Is this what the frameserver is for? Is there such a beast or am I asking for too much and should just go out and buy a hardware encoder or 100 GB drive.