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MCEBuddy Profiles Basics MCEBuddy profiles are in the profiles.conf file located in the config directory where MCEBuddy is installed. One can create new profiles or customize existing ones to tweak them and match you …

Please search the forum before posting your question, most likely your question has already been asked and answered. The search on this forum is a very good resource. Below are some guides to get you started with MCEBu…

MCEBuddy can extract metadata in many ways from a file, summarizing the sequence: Extract from WTV and DVRMS file using Windows DirectShow filters (see this thread on how to install the filters in Windows Servers) …

Thanks to JoshDi for putting this together: I created a BAT file script to help coordinate distributed MCEBuddy conversions across my two machines: HTPC and HTPC-Bedroom (Bedroom) I run the following script every 5 minu…

TRIAL VERSION A fully functional trial version of MCEBuddy’s latest stable release is available to download. It has all the features of the premium version with a 15 days or 15 successful conversions (whichever comes f…

Sometimes MCEBuddy will run into various issues while installing, uninstalling or starting the application. Listed below are some of the common error messages and resolution steps. Please make sure you DO NOT SKIP any st…

A quick view of the high level conversion process (as of 2.3.15) Prior to conversion process start, the queue manager does a check using the configured filters for Monitor taskname matching to linked conversion tasks M…

Advanced concepts to use MCEBuddy Refer to the MCEBuddy Profiles Basics page to learn about basic Profiles creation NOTE: Please DO NOT need to manually edit the mcebuddy.conf file. As of v2.3.13 ALL configurable para…

MCEBuddy doesn’t capture all my commercials or cuts too little/much of the commercials Cause MCEBuddy uses Comskip and Showanalyzer to identify commercials (Comskip comes installed by default, you can choose to insta…