Mcebuddy Take 20 Min to Hardware Encode
A few months ago I wrote an commodity virtually updating profiles in MCEBuddy 2.0 Beta 13. MCEBuddy is a small awarding that tin can monitor PC DVR recordings, converting to a variety of formats every bit well as removing commercials. When MCEBuddy 2.0 Beta 13 was released a basic UI was introduced meant more for testing purposes then anything else. A few weeks ago Beta xvi was released, which brought a fully functional UI along with many new features/fixes. Allow's take a closer expect at what Beta 16 brings and how to use.
Features:
- Converts from WTV, DVR-MS, TS, MPEG and many other formats
- Converts to MP4 , AVI, portable devices and others
- Removes commercials
- Converts in the background at scheduled times
Supported Platforms and Software:
- Windows Media Center, Media Portal and other DVR software
- Desktop back up Windows XP, Vista, Vista 64, Windows vii and Windows 7
- For a server deployments Windows 2003, Windows 2008
- 32 flake and 64 bit versions
Price:
- Free (although PayPal donations are more than then welcomed)
Changelog:
- Corrected file permissions upshot, fixing no changes saved for not-admin users from GUI bug and no manually added file for non-admin users issues
- Added auto-corrected x64 setup project build to save enough of fourth dimension during builds
- Corrected numerous GUI bugs
- Added sound sync fix for AVI files
- Updated MP4 contour
- Ad removal in MP4 fixed
- Ad removal for MP4 files > 2GB stock-still
- Updated MP4 profiles for improve quality
- Added Apple friendly profile
- Stock-still unclean service shutdown
- Cleaned upward GUI interface
- Improved GOP settings to let for neater ad cutting
- Moved to all abiding bitrate conversions to reduce A/V sync problems when ads removed
- Fixed file rename based upon meta data
- Added sort by series from MCEBuddy i.ten
- Fixed Wake fourth dimension
- Added Commencement and terminate times for conversions (First linked to a wake)
- Fixed non-divisible past 2/4/eight/16 errors for ffmpeg based conversions
- Service starts with engine in STOPPED condition after install to allow configuration first fifty-fifty with a reboot
- MCEBuddy service is now started automatically afterwards installation
- Numerous installation fixes (oh, I do hate msi evolution…)
- Corrected file->meta generation on Windows server as Windows Server platforms cannot extract WTV and DVR-MS meta information
Downloads:
- x32 / x64
Setting up MCEBuddy ii.0 Beta 16:
When you outset launch MCEBuddy 2.0 you will encounter a very streamlined UI. Simply clicking the "Start" button will get MCEBuddy running, monitoring any designated folders for recordings (clicking the "Rescan" button will force MCEBuddy to recheck your monitored folders for new content). Clicking the "Add" button volition allow you lot to manually add a file for MCEBuddy to process.
Selecting the "Settings" push button will bring up the Engine Settings. "Source Locations" denotes what folders MCEBuddy should monitor, and by default will be set to C:\Users\Public\Recorded TV. "Conversion tasks" is where you specify what encoding profile you want MCEBuddy to apply on your recordings. The available profiles (I will hash out briefly how to add together custom profiles momentarily) are MP4 High Quality, MP4 Fast, M4V Apple, DivX Avi, and DivX Avi Fast. The balance of the settings are straightforward, allowing you to schedule when MCEBuddy runs, delete the original file once the conversion is done, and prepare the logging level.
Equally I mentioned earlier, you can customize your Conversion Tasks and even create custom profiles. In guild to customize a conversion chore merely click the "Add" button nether the "Conversion tasks" window to add together a new task or highlight a current task and click " Change". This will bring up the "Conversion Chore" box which volition allow you assign a Job Name and Conversion profile. You can then choose where you lot want your converted files to be stored, adjust some of the encoding settings (such as width and quality), select what programme if any should be used to remove commercials (I use ShowAnalyzer), let MCEBuddy to rename and sort the converted files by series, download banners, and farther customize the Conversion Chore based on some sort of matching (for example, if you wanted a specific profile to only be used for your "Fringe" recordings you lot would but blazon in Fringe* in the Meta Match field).
In my MCEBuddy ii.0 Beta 13 article that I linked to at the kickoff of this mail service I talked about really adding your own profile. I record a lot of shows for my sons that I want converted to an Apple friendly format, and previously I had been using handbrake to achieve this. In Beta xiii I was able to replace the default x264 contour with the Handbrake contour I was using. With Beta 16 MCEBuddy comes with an Apple friendly contour, still when testing this profile I found audio video sync issues and the file only didn't wait correct compared to my handbrake created files. Following the same procedure I outlined in Beta 13, I went to C:\Programme Files\MCEBuddy\Config and made a fill-in of the profiles.conf file. In one case done I then opened upwards the profiles.conf file for editing (I use NotePad ++) and added my handbrake profile (I only called it [M4V Apple DP Pick]). After saving the new profile should appear as an pick in the Conversion Tasks.
[M4V Apple tree DP Selection]
Description=Apple tree compatible 1 pass MP4 (H.264/AAC) conversion via Handbrake.
guild=handbrake
handbrake-general=-five 2 –decomb
handbrake-video=-eastward x264 -X 720 –loose-anamorphic -k -x cabac=0:ref=2:me=umh:bframes=0:weightp=0:8x8dct=0:trellis=0:subme=6 -f mp4 -O -I -q 20
handbrake-sound=-a i -Due east faac -6 motorcar -R Auto -B 160 -D 0
handbrake-audioac3=-a 1 -E faac -six dpl2 -R 48 -B 160 -D 0
handbrake-ext=.mp4
With everything ready MCEBuddy should at present be running, monitoring your designated folder(south). Once a file is located MCEBuddy volition apply the appropriate conversion task and a progress bar will appear in the UI.
When completed you should at present see a folder for each Idiot box Series that was converted, with the respective Television set episodes named appropriately (assuming the "Rename and sort by series"conversion task selection was enabled)
Terminal Thoughts:
Overall MCEBuddy 2.0 Beta 16 is a very squeamish step upwards from Beta xiii, and I would definitely recommend giving it a try if y'all are currently using your PC as a DVR. Still, I would recommend verifying your converted files earlier deleting the original files initially to ensure in that location are no issues (such as the A/V sync bug I encountered with the default Apple contour). There are 2 features I would love to see added down the road:
- The power to convert to an mkv (although I assume the same way I added a custom Apple tree profile the same could be done for an mkv).
- Naming the converted file based on the S##E## format which many of the video jukeboxes currently support (cross referencing TVDB, similar to what WTV-MetaRenamer does).
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