So, quite a bit has happened, inspired by mythtv podcast post.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1118209
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/iPodVideoEncoding
Video podcast client Miro works really well
TVersity is a upnp media server that will pull in content from an RSS feed, such as the one on my MythTV box… This enables playback on the Xbox 360
Of course, this is the reason for the Apache2 bandwidth control post, since I am not very happy with the bandwidth shaping options in pfsense
I suspect a firewall upgrade is in order… My friend just raves about Untangle, and for good reason. The latest version now includes captive portal, and I will not have a network without multiple separated interfaces… Perhaps soon.