General Support / Questions
Custom Cuts MCEBuddy Custom Cuts for visual editing of EDL files Commercial Removal Metadata and Renaming Custom Commands Subtitles / Closed Captions Hardware Encoding 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 | 2275 | 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 | 5542 | 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 | 4308 | 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 | 7986 | June 12, 2017 |
| About the General Support / Questions category |
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3 | 2134 | May 22, 2019 |
| Comskip Profiles for Xfinity |
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0 | 3 | November 14, 2025 |
| Post-Processing: Don't Re-encode But Simply Re-cut |
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1 | 9 | November 11, 2025 |
| Having Problems with NFL Games in Plex |
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1 | 6 | November 11, 2025 |
| No longer detecting commercials |
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3 | 38 | November 6, 2025 |
| New computer |
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3 | 38 | November 5, 2025 |
| No response... 300 seconds, process likely hung - killing it |
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14 | 34 | October 20, 2025 |
| AMD or Windows Update killed my hardware encoding |
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3 | 34 | October 20, 2025 |
| Feature Request: "Show history" throbber |
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7 | 21 | October 11, 2025 |
| Profiles missing after upgrade |
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12 | 131 | October 10, 2025 |
| Changelog for 2.7.1 Beta |
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5 | 67 | October 6, 2025 |
| Scan/compare performance issue |
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9 | 30 | October 2, 2025 |
| Output video wrong length |
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25 | 64 | October 2, 2025 |
| Unable to Retrieved Closed captions |
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22 | 118 | October 1, 2025 |
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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 | 7101 | October 31, 2025 |
| Renaming with wrong episode names |
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6 | 41 | September 26, 2025 |
| Premium account login not working on page |
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2 | 38 | September 18, 2025 |
| Custom Cuts failing during Cut selection process |
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2 | 30 | September 14, 2025 |
| Reconverting existing files |
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9 | 64 | September 11, 2025 |
| Examples of Renaming |
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15 | 206 | August 30, 2025 |
| Unable to scan folders |
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3 | 77 | August 25, 2025 |
| Question about CustomCommandCritical |
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8 | 38 | August 24, 2025 |
| Settings button not working - UI Hanging |
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7 | 37 | August 21, 2025 |
| Custom script question |
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2 | 19 | August 21, 2025 |
| Conversion task ignoring minimum age |
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4 | 11 | August 19, 2025 |
| MCEBuddy does not find directories specified and fails if file added manuallly |
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3 | 36 | August 19, 2025 |