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[benn600]

I cannot believe I can run Media Center as a server for my 4 Netgear MP101's!  I purchased this program not even knowing all these absolutely amazing features exist.  I was worried that using FLAC would hurt me once I wanted to get them going but this has on the fly encoding to mp3!  Exactly what I would only have dreamed of.

The question is about which encoder people see as the best for a slower computer.  I will be running Media Center on my secondary server which is only 180MHz.  It seems like the Faster CBR MP3 encoder is the fastest because on my P4 2.8GHz, I see 0%-4% CPU usage while streaming and that is about as low as it ever gets.  Other settings usually take about 40% of my CPU, which wouldn't work on my slower server.

Last question--is there a watch folder feature where Media Center will automatically add files that appear in certain folders?