[SoulKiss]

You misunderstand Tim

You can use VLC to transcode to file using the CLI - I even found a page with a PERL script to batch convert.

VLC is great, but its not, as you say, something you should need to have installed to view web content.

The link I posted was instructions on how to stream a file as a FLV stream which any Flash player should be able to connect to - not what Baph wants, but a pointer in the direction and proof that VLC can do FLV