After month of working fine, h/w encoding taking 3x longer

**MOVING TO continue on a previous post since same thing happend at Intermittent hardware encoding failure - #4 by Goose

Mcebuddy was operating fine for about month and I noticed now that my h/w encoding which used to take 20mins is now taking 60 mins plus.

Any help appreciated

Included log to get started:
Blindspot (2015) - S03E09 - Hot Burning Flames.ts-Convert to MP4-2018-01-12T23-32-47.7302035-06-00.log (1.1 MB)

Taking a crack at this after a long time, from your logs:

ERROR> 2018-01-12T23:46:39 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.Handbrake → Hardware encoding appears to have hung, no progress in the last 300 seconds.
This is likely due to an unstable Intel Display Driver. Try updating or using a stable Intel Display Driver.
Terminating process.

Looks like your graphics driver may have updated and the new one is unstable and it’s falling back to software encoding. Try to use a recommended version.