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MCEBuddy takes your LARGE Windows Media Center television recording (and other video) files and makes them small saving you disk space(DVR-MS to a WMV, DivX or H.264). It also removes commercials and converts your recordings into formats that are usable on other systems and handheld devices. It does all of this automatically with a minimum of fuss and little or no technical knowledge required.
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Latest version: 2.1.9 (May 11, 2012) Download sites: Visit developer's site More download options: Download 64 bit version (direct link) Supported operating systems: Sections/Browse similar tools: Media Center/HTPC/PS3/360 |
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Changelog for 2.1.9 (32bit and 64bit) Hide changelog 1. Added support to Uninstall MCEBuddy from the Start Menu 2. Added support for create a XBMC compatible NFO file (XML) for tv episodes and movies. If MCEBuddy find a NFO file with the WTV or DVRMS files it copies it to the output directory else it extracts the information from the WTV/DVRMS file, if enabled in the GUI. 3. Added support for high resolution DPI scaling (large fonts/accessibility/200dpi) 4. Bugfix in conversion times, if start time is before midnight and endtime after midnight MCEBuddy stopped converting new files at midnight. This has now been fixed. 5. Custom rename – can now handle if the rename starts with a directory separator (\) 6. Bugfix for WriteMp4Tags 7. Bugfix in SRT cutting with EDL file, fix sequence numbers 8. Bugfix in CCExtraction offset 9. Bugfix in CC-SRT EDL cutting 10. Minor change in SRT extraction logic. MCEBuddy will always check for a SRT file with source video (even if CC Extract is enabled) and uses that if it finds it, if not then it will extract the CC. 11. Fixed a minor bug in audio language name 12. Bugfix in downloading movie thumbnails Changelog for 2.1 Release 8 (32bit and 64bit) 1. Significantly improvement in audio/video sync and WMP compatibility for NoRecode profile. Added a new NoRecode profile for slower conversion but better audio video sync. 2. Added support for Extracting Closed Captions from WTV, DVR-MS and TS files (also supports adjusting them for commercial removal and also a manual adjustment for syncing with video). If it finds a SRT file with the original video, it uses that and trims it for commercial removal. 3. Added support for disabling and enabling conversion tasks in the settings page 4. Added support for multi file selection in the Add Files command (use control/shift) 5. Added support for sending eMail notifications on start of a conversion job 6. Added support for %sourcefile% and %remuxfile% (intermediary .ts file generated in the temp working folder from the original source WTV or DVR-MS file) for custom command parameter 7. Bug fix for critical announcements 8. Modified the behaviour of SRT file copying. MCEBuddy now looks for SRT file along with the original source video AND in the temp working directory (with the same source video filename). If it finds in either place it copies the SRT file to the output working directory (with preference given to a SRT file in the temp working directory). 9. Cleaning up after comskip runs 10. Better support for trimming. For TS, WTV and DVRMS files trimming is not done before Commercial Scanning and conversion. Other files are trimmed during conversion. 11. Improved stability of Remux video – not using threads for copying 12. Fixed mencoder theads bugs (limit threads to 8 for lavcopts and lavdopts) on CPU’s with more than 8 cores Changelog for 2.1 Release 7 (32bit and 64bit) 1. Simplified the user interface, advanced settings are collapsed by default now, new color scheme 2. Added support for custom file naming and creating directory structures (refer to MCEBuddy guide for details on commands) 3. Added support for sending eMails after a successful, failed or cancelled conversion 4. Added support for creating MKV files through <encoder>-remuxto=.mkv 5. Added support for running a custom command at the end of the conversion process. Refer to the MCEBuddy Wiki for more details on how to configure custom commands. 6. Added support to directly enter 3 letter language code for audio language selection in the Conversion Task form GUI 7. Added support to trim the start and end of the recording (BEFORE commercial removal) 8. Added better support for DVR-MS files and corrupted files resolving jittery video issues 9. Better support for AVI files (DivX/NoRecode), avoid failures due to PTS/DTS errors in source streams 10. Improved A/V Sync. <encoder>-audiodelay=skip now default for all profiles. 11. Bug fix for DRC failure on some non English regional code pages where the “.” is converted into a “,” by Windows causing the converter to fail 12. Improved international support, regional code page changes would cause MCEBuddy to fail on the international version of windows. 13. Fixed a bug in extracting non WTV and non DVR-MS metadata tags 14. Fixed ticket #22, creating unique filenames when no series information available 15. MCEBuddy now saves the History file while uninstalling to the user profile (%HOMEPATH%) directory and restores it while installing. This will prevent MCEBuddy from reconverting all the files again. NOTE: This will come into effect ONLY after 2.1.7, i.e 2.1.8 onwards. Uninstalling any version prior to 2.1.7 will NOT save the History file. Please ensure you save the History file before uninstalling previous versions. 16. Fixed a minor bug in some WTV files which ended up with 0 channel audio 17. Added better support for writing MP4 tags (genres, movies/TVShows etc) 18. Fixed a minor bug in mencoder failing on some crop settings Changelog for 2.1 Release 6 (32bit and 64bit) 1.Simplified the user interface, advanced settings are collapsed by default now, new color scheme 2.Added support for custom file naming and creating directory structures (refer to MCEBuddy guide for details on commands) 3.Added support for creating MKV files through <encoder>-remuxto=.mkv 4.Added support for running a custom command at the end of the conversion process. Refer to the MCEBuddy Wiki for more details on how to configure custom commands. 5.Added support to directly enter 3 letter language code for audio language selection in the Conversion Task form GUI 6.Improved A/V Sync. <encoder>-audiodelay=skip now default for all profiles. 7.Fixed a bug in extracting non WTV and non DVR-MS metadata tags 8.Fixed ticket #22, creating unique filenames when no series information available 9.MCEBuddy now saves the History file while uninstalling to the user profile (%HOMEPATH%) directory and restores it while installing. This will prevent MCEBuddy from reconverting all the files again. NOTE: This will come into effect ONLY after 2.1.6, i.e 2.1.7 onwards. Uninstalling any version prior to 2.1.6 will NOT save the History file. Please ensure you save the History file before uninstalling previous versions. 10.Fixed a minor bug in some WTV files which ended up with 0 channel audio 11.Added better support for writing MP4 tags (genres, movies/TVShows etc) 12.Fixed a minor bug in mencoder failing on some crop settings Changelog for 2.1 Release 5 (32bit and 64bit) 1. Added support for selecting Audio language during conversion when source video contains multiple languages (language needs to be specified in source video) 2. Added support for volume adjustment (increase or reduce) 3. Added support for DRC (Dynamic Range Compression) levelling (decoding only) 4. Added Drag and Drop support for adding new files to the conversion queue 5. Added support to right click the files in the queue to get media information 6. Added support for selecting multiple Jobs and deleting them simultaneously 7. Added support for parameter 2ChannelAudio=true to limit output to 2 channel audio 8. Added support for writing tags to M4V files 9. Fixed a bug in matching series information from the internet when multiple matches were found and only date aired matched (not time) 10. Fixed a bug in Queue Management that could lead to a crash under heavy load 11. Added support for FFMPEG based media information for files that fail with MediaInfo 12. Fixed a bug in ffmpeg aac encoder, does not support > 2 channel audio 13. Fixed a bug in fallback converter, ad’s were not being removed 14. Fixed the localization engine and added new updated translations for MCEBuddy (now stored as Tab delimited Text files) 15. Fixed a bug in network share authentication connect for destination paths, now more details on failure 16. Bug fix, service stop/close sometime caused a service crash 17. Fixed a bug in DivX conversions causing some conversion to fail with an invalid pixel aspect ratio 18. Added a new profile for DivX Fast based on the mpeg4 codec, much faster and more resilient but slightly lower quality with libxvid 19. Minor bugfix for service crash at start due to conflict in pipe name 20. Better support for comskip and corrupted video 21. After pressing Stop conversion Engine remains off until start is pressed Changelog for 2.1 Release 4 (32bit and 64bit) 1. Ticket #16, now stop time can be after start time it’ll assume next day stop time 2. Added support for multi channel audio with ffmpeg 3. Added support for SkipCropping=true for Handbrake encoder (since it does it automatically) 4. Added support for handling corrupted WTV/DVRMS files 5. Speed up cropdetect by 2x 6. Added support for critical announcements 7. Ticket #14, added support for MC and MB compatible file naming convention Changelog for 2.1 Release 3 (32bit and 64bit) 1. Fixed a bug in the conversion start and stop time. 2. Added a separate option to allow system waking from sleep. 3. Added support to prevent system from sleeping during active conversions. 4. Fixed bug in conversion routine that deleted an interim file preventing the backup conversion from working 5. Put in a better check for free space which can cause random conversions to fail if it runs out of space. Now MCEBuddy needs 2X free space in installation directory (or temp folder if defined in mcebuddy.conf) for EACH simultaneous conversion. E.g. if you have 4 simultaneous conversions and each file is 3GB in size, you need 4x2x3 = 24GB of free space 6. Fixed a bug in WriteMP4Tags, duplication of data in season and episode tag 7. Fixed canonical directory issues installation, directories are now created at runtime 8. Fixed a bug if rename by series is unchecked, the conversion fails 9. Fixed bug with FFMPEG parameters for fallback conversion to support new version of ffmpeg and aac encoder 10. Fixed bug in encoder routine which prevented fallback encoder from working 11. Added support for avoid lists (start pattern with ~) in showname matching 12. Fixed a bug in comskip and mencoder for non-wtv file when the directory name contains a space 13. Fixed bug for multiple conversions with comskip enabled for non WTV/DVRMS files 14. Fixed a bug for creating log files during multiple conversions of the same task 15. Added more help tooltips (refer to MCEBuddy Wiki Guide for more details https://sourceforge.net/p/mcebuddy2x/wiki/browse_pages/ ) 16. Queue on status screen now shows the Conversion Task rather than Conversion Profile 17. Fix for handling handbrake audio 18. Fix for handling non standard video width in FFMPEG 19. Modified queuing logic, oldest monitored at the head of the queue, manual entries at the head of the queue (after last running job). All new entries monitored at the end of the queue. 20. Added support to move SRT file to destination if found (can be set to be generated with comskip.ini) 21. Added link on Main page to open logs folder 22. Fixed a bug in commercial cutting which caused the end of the file to be delete accidentally 23. Fixed a bug causing audio to go out of sync when using mencoder and Comskip 24. Reverted Audio Sync code to BETA 19 25. Added support for Alternate Commercial cutting using mEncoder instead of MP4Box (some .ts files don’t report details to MediaInfo, MP4Box will not work with the, so a new routing using MEncoder is now used which support AAC, AC3 and EAC3. If TS file is not reporting any MediaInfo then AAC is used by default) 26. Added support for skipping cutting commercials and copying EDL file to destination if CommercialSkipCut=true is set. Refer to Wiki for more details. 27. Put a workaround for FFMpeg which doesn’t always report the % completion causing the conversion routines to fail 28. Set skipcropping=true for HandBrake profile since Handbrake automatically does its own cropping 29. Added support for switch CutMP4Alternate=true as an alternative fallback option to use MEncoder based cutting (for .MP4 and .AVI output) and MP4Box for .M4V files by default. Refer to wiki more details. Changelog for 2.1 Release 2 (32bit and 64bit) 1. Fixed a major bug which caused the remixing to fail due to an unsupported H.264, HD or some WTV video formats. Now an alternative failback remux mechanism is used using ffmpeg when remuxsupp fails. 2. ReAdded support for ShowAnalyzer (version 1.0 or higher), enhanced support to stop ShowAnalyzer if job is deleted 3. Fixed bug when pressing delete without any files in the queue caused the app to crash 4. Fix a bug on the GUI when parallel jobs are running, they do not show 5. Fixed bugs when pressing the delete button without selecting any entries caused a crash and validation for directory entries in the add buttons 6. Fixed closing log files on cancelling jobs 7. Fixed manual queue file not deleting entries after job being cancelled or finished 8. Fixed a bug in commercial removal to remove commercials from m4v and mpg files 9. Fix a bug in progress indicator and return status 10. Speed up mencoder decoding and encoding by dynamically enabling multithreading and automatic calculation of threads based on number of processors. Can we overridden explicitly in the profiles.conf encoding/decoding parameters 11. Added limited support for .mpg stream commercial cutting (may cause audio sync issues) 12. Bugfix in FixAudioDelay routine would cause it to fail 13. Fixed a bug that prevented it from converting a readonly file 14. Using the -hr-edl-seek option for mEncoder while cutting commercials to make it more accurate but it slows down the process 15. Fixed a bug with file renaming at the end by metadata (episode, series etc) now happening consistently 16. Revalidated and fixed the entire the conversion logic so that the process fails and exits of each failure better. This will now prevent MCEBuddy from deleting the original file UNLESS the FINAL file is completed and delivered. 17. Fixed a bug to terminate existing jobs when pressing stop or delete 18. Added support for getting an % complete while Getting Video Information 19. Added support for deleting mcebuddy service during a uninstall if left behind 20. New conversion jobs are added at the end of the list now (first come first serve) 21. Fixed video resizing, now the video will resize to smaller size the video width > max width set in the profile parameters page (if fixedresolution is not set to true) 22. One can now skip cropping for each profile through the skipcropping=true parameter (can be coupled with fixedresolution = true) 23. Fixed 6ch audio handling for Handbrake profiles 24. Temp fix for file corruption while writing show information for HD AVI files 25. Fixed DivX conversion profiles which caused failures in the past 26. Fixed bugs in the settings forms where after deleting a task or a source it would leave a blank space in between two entries 27. Fixed bugs in source and conversion forms which would not accurately check the profile names causing missing profiles 28. Fixed a bug in the delete original checkbox on the settings form 29. Added support for archiving files after conversion (will create a directory called MCEBuddyArchive) 30. Fixed a bug in the queuing logic where deleting one job with multiple tasks would stop the others from completing after stopping and restarting the engine 31. Improved audio sync handling for avi and mp4 files 32. Fixed support for checking for new versions of MCEBuddy 33. MCEBuddy engine starts automatically on reboot 34. Added flag “forceedl=true” in the profile.conf which indicates that comskip should use the EDL and NOT the EDLP file for that profile. Needed to fix audio sync for some avi files 35. Added support to automatically restart service in case of a failure on startup 36. Added tool tips on the GUI pages 37. Added a link for getting started and advanced commands guide (refer to Wiki for help guides) 38. Fix a bug in the wildcard name matching code and regex matching code 39. Added support in name matching pattern for avoid lists (i.e. select all names expect the matching pattern, prefix with the ~ operator).Refer to Wiki for more details 40. Fix a bug in the FFMPEG setresize which sometimes caused libxvid to fail due to invalid scale, now set to auto scale and maintain aspect ratio 41. Updated LibMediaInfo libraries 42. Updated FFMPEG executable to 02/15/12 release – performance and stability improvements 43. Fixed a bug in the creation of conversion parameters leading to Audio Sync issues (off by 3 seconds) in ffmpeg driven profiles 44. Fixed an issue with MCEBuddy service crashing during shutdown leading to system error to start MCEBuddy service 45. Fixed a bug in manual tempworking path when using multiple simultaneous conversions Changelog for BETA 20 1. Fixed access to username/password protected network shares. Now the username and password is correctly used to access remote network shares (DOMAIN optional) 2. Added support for changing the priority of the application (effective the next job in queue) 3. Added support for changing the temporary working paths in MCEBuddy.conf file (Blank means default, else the whole path needs be specified explicitly, e.g. D:Temp) 4. Fix crash if ReMux fails while extracting graph 5. Wrote a new encryption module to save encrypted network passwords to MCEBuddy.conf 6. Fix some build and installation files, installation and upgrade should be smoother now Changelog for BETA 19-1 7. Fixed show/segment reordering when using commercial skipping 8. Added a WTV to MPEG2 “Stream Copy” profile 9. Disabled support for ShowAnalyzer (for now) MCEBuddy 2.0 BETA 18 49.96 MB Changelog for BETA 18 1. Corrected bugs in simultaneous conversions 2. Corrected conversions for tv recordings with junk at start 3. UI now indicates profile with file being converted 4. Corrected scaling->bitrate conversions 5. Updated profiles 6. Fixed bug for some 2 pass conversions 7. Improved speed for some 2 pass conversions 8. Added corrected dutch language file 9. Corrected scale and crop issues 10. Added corrections for recordings with junk at beginning 11. Corrected installation permissions for non-english platforms 12. More A/V sync handler code 13. Better hang detection (let’s hope for no false positives!) 14. Handler for unicode (non latin based) file names 15. Some UI fixes 16. Fixed XP path detection bug MCEBuddy 2.0 BETA 17 49.97 MB Changelog for BETA 17 1. Big change – MCEBuddy is now has international language support! It’s simple phrase substitution, but no longer uses anything proprietary and allows you to customise it. If you speak a non-english language, please edit the appropriate csv file under the localisation directory using an app like Excel and correct the mistakes for your country! Then post a download link to the MCEBuddy forums. Bear with me on the localisation as I’ve gone down the code-free localisation resources path to allow you to edit them yourself using non-programming tools. To do this I’ve used my own code so it’ll take a while to work the edges off. 2. Improved mencoder based conversion support 3. Corrected post conversion remux bug 4. Cleaned up MCE remuxed source 5. Fixed incorrect month for renamed filename 6. Fixed async drift under some ff-based conversions (thanks freak!) 7. Fixed unicode filename remux bug, unicode file names supported correctly 8. Completely new dump filters to allow support for 64 bit platforms 9. DVR-MS now supported on 64 bit platform (yay!). There are now no limitations in the 64 bit version. 10. Updated GPAC code 11. Added libfaac to mencoder 12. Changed “Cancel” to “Delete” in status form 13. Added A/V sync value for DVR-MS remixed sources 14. Updated native RemuxSupp from modified remuxTool source 15. Added ability to specify locale language 16. Fixed wake setting bug in GUI 17. User locale on first GUI run based upon logged in user. This is to resolve the issue where the system or default locals are another language to the user locale. The MCEBuddy engine would use the default locale instead of the user one as it runs as a separate service. Eg. English system locale and Chinese user locale. 18. Wake from sleep fix when disabled between service restarts 19. Reworked meta data download to allow server based installations to get as much as is possible, albeit limited. 20. Download of meta data is now more robust. 21. Added automatic Season/Episode rename of file. NOTE! This will only succeed if the Original Broadcast Date information in the recording is correct and downloading details is enabled. SERIES AND EPISODE IS NOT PROVIDED AS PART OF THE ORIGINAL RECORDING META DATA. 22. Downloaded meta data now uses specific locale and language 23. Failure to obtain available free disk space no longer halts conversion, with just a warning posted to log (Linux NAS) 24. Further profile tweaking 25. Fixed automatic bitrate calculator for Handbrake based conversions 26. Added version update check 27. Updated ffmpeg and mencoder codebases MCEBuddy 2.0 BETA16MCEBuddy 2.0 BETA16 45.77 MB Before Installing MCEBuddy 2.0 BETA 16: 1. Uninstall the existing version 2. Delete the MCEBuddy installation directory C:Program FilesMCEBuddy During the betas, settings and their defaults will change and will not always carry across cleanly. Stable releases (eg. 2.0 to 2.1) will carry across. Changelog for BETA 16 1. Corrected file permissions issue, fixing no changes saved for non-admin users from GUI bug and no manually added file for non-admin users bug 2. Added auto-corrected x64 setup project build to save plenty of time during builds 3. Corrected numerous GUI bugs 4. Added audio sync fix for AVI files 5. Updated MP4 profile 6. Ad removal in MP4 fixed 7. Ad removal for MP4 files > 2GB fixed 8. Updated MP4 profiles for better quality 9. Added Apple friendly profile 10. Fixed unclean service shutdown 11. Cleaned up GUI interface 12. Improved GOP settings to allow for neater ad cutting 13. Moved to all constant bitrate conversions to reduce A/V sync issues when ads removed 14. Fixed file rename based upon meta data 15. Added sort by series from MCEBuddy 1.x 16. Fixed Wake time 17. Added Start and stop times for conversions (Start linked to a wake) 18. Fixed non-divisible by 2/4/8/16 errors for ffmpeg based conversions 19. Service starts with engine in STOPPED condition after install to allow configuration first even with a reboot 20. MCEBuddy service is now started automatically after installation 21. Numerous installation fixes (oh, I do hate msi development...) 22. Corrected file->meta generation on Windows server as Windows Server platforms cannot extract WTV and DVR-MS meta data MCEBuddy 2.0 BETA15 Bug fixes in this release 1. Corrected file permissions issue, fixing no changes saved for non-admin users from GUI bug and no manually added file for non-admin users bug 2. Added auto-corrected x64 setup project build to save plenty of time during builds 3. Corrected numerous GUI bugs 4. Added audio sync fix for AVI files 5. Updated MP4 profile 6. Ad removal in MP4 fixed 7. Ad removal for MP4 files > 2GB fixed 8. Updated MP4 profiles for better quality 9. Added Apple friendly profile 10. Fixed unclean service shutdown 11. Cleaned up GUI interface 12. Improved GOP settings to allow for neater ad cutting 13. Moved to all constant bitrate conversions to reduce A/V sync issues when ads removed 14. Fixed file rename based upon meta data 15. Added sort by series from MCEBuddy 1.x 16. Fixed Wake time 17. Added Start and stop times for conversions (Start linked to a wake) 18. Fixed non-divisible by 2/4/8/16 errors for ffmpeg based conversions 19. Service starts with engine in STOPPED condition after install to allow configuration first even with a reboot 20. MCEBuddy service is now started automatically after installation 21. Numerous installation fixes (go I hate msi development...) MCEBuddy 2.0 BETA14 Believe it or not, after ages MCEBuddy Beta 14 is here. This the complete drop-in replacement for the existing MCEBuddy. It runs as a service and converts your files, removes ads, etc. Known bugs: MP4 files of greater than 2GB will not have their ads removed Stream based remux and DVR-MS files are not supported in the x64 version Internationalisation is not there yet The sample video that comes with Windows 7 does not convert (Landscapes.wtv) Service sometimes stops with an error Please read the following!! Uninstall any existing MCEBuddy installation first Change your settings before starting the engine service The engine service can be started from control panel-administrative tools-services (under Windows 7) or simply by restarting your system It's still beta, but it's just bug fixing from here, all the core functionality is now there MCEBuddy 2.0 BETA13 MCEBuddy 2.0 Betas have recommenced with MCEBuddy 2.0 Reloaded - BETA13 This beta is simply to test the core MCEBuddy engine. I have wrapped a simple GUI around it to allow manual testing. Simply select the recording file and press START. Please report bugs as defined in the "report bugs" button on the UI. Also, please let us know if it does work as well. THIS IS NOT A DIRECT REPLACEMENT FOR THE FULL MCEBUDDY PROGRAM Currently the beta is a GUI program to test the core MCEBuddy engine, which means (in steps): Extracting meta data and getting more from the internet (title, description, banner picture) Remuxing WTV or DVR-MS (if needed) Scanning for commercials Converting the video (including any weirdness required to support unusual codecs) Removing commercials Writing the meta data to the converted file This beta is an x86 build only and may not work with 64 bit Windows. MCEBuddy 2.0 BETA11 THIS BETA DOES NOT HAVE A USER INTERFACE YET After lots of work, BETA11 is available for download. Unfortunately the UI did not make it into the build as I simply ran out of time (it was getting to be a big exercise), however the full blown service is there. Remember that this is a big beta release so expect bugs. For all the other details, download the BETA and read both readme files. MCERemux BETA 5MCERemux BETA 5 16.26 MB MCERemux BETA 5 will remux a WTV or DVR-MS recording to a TS file for use by other systems or conversion or processing by open source software. I have returned to TS. BETA 5 fixes: Option to dump streams only Improved fps detection and alignment Option to force fps Three muxing methods Supports H.264! This process forms the basis of the new MCEBuddy 2.0 WTV/DVR-MS extraction. I've had to wait for the codec development to be completed to do this. Sync issues should be corrected now. Everything should work. Playback should work under all player types Usage: This is a command line utility. Once installed open up a command window (preferably as admin) and type "C:Program FilesMCERemuxMCERemux.exe" File Name , where File Name is the full path to the WTV or DVR-MS file you wish to remux. It will put a new remuxed TS file of the same name in the same location. Developer notes: Please test this if you can. I have included this code into the next MCEBuddy 2.0 beta code. What happened to BETA 4? It simply didn't work reliably enough, so it died a natural death and I proceeded along this path. MCEBuddy 1.1 for Windows Media Center and other DVR software For Windows Media Center 2005, Vista 32 Bit, Windows Server 2003 32 bit, Windows Home Server, Windows 7 32 bit New in 1.1 * Disk space check to ensure there is sufficient space for the conversion * File history logging - remembering which files have been converted and allows re-conversion * H264 conversions are now apple friendly * iPhone/iTouch and new iPod profiles * MPEG conversion now works correctly * WMV conversion now works correctly * Better Mediaportal support * Sub directory search option * Multiple file masks * Updated to support and include the latest comskip * Updated to support the latest ShowAnalyzer * Better conversion failure support * Volume correction * Updated PS3/XBox 360 profile * Built in event log viewer for only MCEBuddy events * Some UI tweaks * Monitor application is not in the startup by default * Fixes to file mask * New version update checker * Completion check fixes BETA 3 build of MCEBuddy 1.1 for Windows Media Center and other DVR software New in 1.1 * Disk space check to ensure there is sufficient space for the conversion * File history logging - remembering which files have been converted and allows re-conversion * H264 conversions are now apple friendly * iPhone/iTouch and new iPod profiles * MPEG conversion now works correctly * WMV conversion now works correctly * Better Mediaportal support * Sub directory search option * Multiple file masks * Updated to support and include the latest comskip * Updated to support the latest ShowAnalyzer * Better conversion failure support * Volume correction * Updated PS3/XBox 360 profile * Built in event log viewer for only MCEBuddy events * Some UI tweaks * Monitor application is not in the startup by default * Fixes to file mask * New version update checker * Completion check fixes New in 1.0.9 - WTV support! (Windows 7 only) - Wake from sleep to convert (wakes at the start time of conversion hours) - Stop sleep/hibernate while converting - Updated conversion profiles from MCEBuddy 2.0 beta.H264/MP4 is now default All features / Full description: DVR-MS to WMV, DVR-MS to DivX, DVR-MS to H264, DVR-MS to AVI
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My review of MCEBuddy will be mostly on a functional level, as I'm no videophyle, so I haven't tried all the different options and configurations. But so far, as I've used it, MCEBuddy does what it's advertised to do. I set it to watch a folder of DVR-MS files, and boom, it converts them all to Divx automatically! The conversion looks pretty darn good too. But like I said, I'm no videophyle, so what I think looks good, I'm sure someone else will say looks crappy. Ease of use is great. I'm pretty sure a non-technical person could pick it up and use it no problem. Point it to your source directory, give it a destination directory, choose your format, and you're done. But there seem to be enough configurations to satisfy the pickier users. I've only tested out the Divx conversion, which worked great. But it's got a list of formats longer than my... well, it's pretty long. I'm excited to try out the Zune configuration, cause I'd love to have it convert some of my shows for my Zune. The only reason I didn't give it a 10 for functionality is that it takes a while to convert the files. I don't do a whole lot of encoding/decoding, so I'm sure it's on par for the course, but it's seems a bit long for me. But if you record a lot of stuff, which I'm sure most people running MCE do, don't point it to your main Recorded TV folder. Your machine will be encoding all day long, and it will never catch up to all the shows you've got. What I do is use a tool to move specific shows out of that folder automatically to another folder, say called "Converting Queue", then run MCEBuddy on that folder only. It might be nice in future releases of MCEBuddy to allow it to create some filters so you could tell it to only convert certain shows. But my setup works great. (If you're curious what I'm using to move the shows, it's Belvedere, from Lifehacker: http://lifehacker.com/341950/belvedere-automates-your-self+cleaning-pc) I have not yet tested out the commercial detection/skipping functionality. Anyway, all around great tool, and named very aptly, because I can assure you it will be my buddy with MCE from now on.
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