General Support / Questions
Custom Cuts MCEBuddy Custom Cuts for visual editing of EDL files Hardware Encoding Subtitles / Closed Captions Custom Commands Commercial Removal Metadata and Renaming Profiles Custom profiles. Also see: https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/mcebuddy-understanding-profiles-basics/27
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Archiving when destination filename is exactly the same as the source filename
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… |
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3 | 2291 | June 13, 2017 |
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How to automatically convert MKV to MP4 and retain the Subtitles and Chapters
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… |
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2 | 5569 | April 24, 2020 |
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How to fix Half Green Video screens after conversions
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… |
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1 | 4346 | June 12, 2017 |
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How to Speed Up Conversions
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… |
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1 | 8011 | June 12, 2017 |
| About the General Support / Questions category |
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3 | 2150 | May 22, 2019 |
| Conversions are crashing and stopping |
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4 | 1 | April 8, 2026 |
| Can't download 2.7.1 |
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1 | 34 | April 8, 2026 |
| Subtitle/Closed captions extraction failing on OTA recordings |
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4 | 24 | April 1, 2026 |
| Trying to rename movies to "movie name (year)" |
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13 | 4776 | March 29, 2026 |
| MCEBuddy 2.7.1 and Donor version Comskip not removing commercials- CODE 2 ERROR |
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6 | 37 | March 28, 2026 |
| Made Donation But No Email |
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2 | 9 | March 28, 2026 |
| NVIDIA vs. AMD Transcoding Giving Different File Sizes |
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1 | 23 | March 23, 2026 |
| Skipping "short" recordings |
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1 | 5 | March 18, 2026 |
| Install problem with version 2.7.1 |
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4 | 33 | March 16, 2026 |
| Extracting closed captions failed |
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4 | 26 | March 10, 2026 |
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How to Enable DVB and Image Subtitle Extraction
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… |
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9 | 7164 | October 31, 2025 |
| Conversion of TS/H264 to MPG/H265 increasing file size? |
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2 | 29 | February 26, 2026 |
| No GPU Acceleration since crash |
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5 | 34 | February 20, 2026 |
| Failed Conversion - Comskip |
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2 | 6 | February 20, 2026 |
| No access credentials received after purchase |
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2 | 18 | February 9, 2026 |
| Software is no longer removing ads |
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3 | 70 | January 29, 2026 |
| Comskip not detecting commercials |
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29 | 7346 | December 15, 2025 |
| Comkip error |
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1 | 30 | December 15, 2025 |
| Unable to access beta site |
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1 | 36 | December 12, 2025 |
| Question remove wartermarks from video files |
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3 | 48 | December 12, 2025 |
| Having Problems with NFL Games in Plex |
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2 | 36 | December 8, 2025 |
| Failed conversions |
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4 | 41 | December 4, 2025 |
| Question about MCEBUDDY SOFTWARE colorize black and white video files |
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1 | 24 | December 3, 2025 |
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GPU/Hardware Encoding/Acceleration FAQs
This topic addresses questions related to GPU and Hardware encoding 1. What platforms and devices are supported for GPU encoding MCEBuddy supports Intel (QuickSync), NVidia (NVENC/CUDA) and AMD (VCN/VCE/AMF) which a… |
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2 | 23055 | July 16, 2017 |
| AMD or Windows Update killed my hardware encoding |
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4 | 68 | November 30, 2025 |