Quote Originally Posted by blueuk808 View Post
... having to dedicate my receiver and a pc to generate it seemed like a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
Exactly !! And that's why I was looking at options like Android TV dongle+some transcoding app. These cheap devices with their quad-core CPUs/GPUs and 1GB RAM have enough hardware processing power for the job...the challenge is finding the right SERVER app that can do the transcoding/streaming.

Quote Originally Posted by blueuk808 View Post
The best on-stop(ish) solution I found was dvblink. There's a free trial to see if you can get it working. I did get it going with xmbc but there are a number of other options.
Can you please elaborate? Are you running XBMC on a PC with the dvblink PVR add-in? If that's the case, what's wrong with using a VLC server on PC for transcoding/streaming (although I'd still have to figure the configs)