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When you've configured your conversion task to write back to the original location with the exact same original filename, MCEBuddy won't be able to archive the original file, instead it will end up overwriting it. This…

How to transcode MKV to MP4 (change containers without recoding) and preserve subtitles and chapters Here’s a great way to use MCEBuddy to transcode MKV files to MP4 files automatically using the power of MCEBuddy to b…

If your converted video has about half the screen as “Green” or shaded green/grey, that is due to a problem with the hardware encoder. When hardware encoding is enabled, MCEBuddy (ffmpeg or handbrake) hands over the enc…

The biggest improvements that users can do are: Use hardware acceleration for Comski if supported (see this topic on speeding up commercial detection) Use the latest build of MCEBuddy since there have been many opt…

Starting version 2.6.4 MCEBuddy now includes a custom donator build of Comskip with 8K hardware acceleration and support for native decoding of additional file formats (including MPEG2, H.264, HEVC, AV1, VP8, VP9 etc). A…

MCEBuddy can automatically convert image based subtitles (e.g. DVB or burned in subtitles) into a text subtitle (SRT) using OCR (Optical Character Recognition). This feature requires additional files to be downloaded bec…