General Support / Questions
Subtitles / Closed Captions Custom Cuts MCEBuddy Custom Cuts for visual editing of EDL files Custom Commands Profiles Custom profiles. Also see: https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/mcebuddy-understanding-profiles-basics/27 Hardware Encoding Commercial Removal Metadata and Renaming
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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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0 | 2319 | 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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1 | 5594 | 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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0 | 4406 | 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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0 | 8052 | June 12, 2017 |
| About the General Support / Questions category |
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0 | 2182 | June 12, 2017 |
| TheTVdb no longer working as metadata source, others are ok |
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4 | 186 | September 12, 2026 |
| Adjusting comskip detection - sporadic |
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2 | 19 | July 16, 2025 |
| 4K TV with MCE Buddy |
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4 | 48 | August 31, 2026 |
| Comskip deletes all Jimmy Kimmel programs |
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5 | 66 | August 30, 2026 |
| [Bug] Audio Description for AC3 'Surround 5.1' input is output as 'Stereo' |
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0 | 21 | August 17, 2026 |
| Not finding metadata in TheTVDB (The Grinder 2015) |
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1 | 31 | August 5, 2026 |
| Comskip not working since upgrade to 2,71 |
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2 | 86 | July 27, 2026 |
| Will not remove commercials, even after clean install |
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5 | 71 | July 24, 2026 |
| Lost access to old my email address |
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3 | 55 | July 14, 2026 |
| Cannot access commercial version after paying license fee |
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1 | 98 | July 2, 2026 |
| Metadata taking a long time and then failing |
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2 | 43 | June 26, 2026 |
| Remove interstitials? |
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1 | 58 | June 11, 2026 |
| Can't download 2.7.1 |
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3 | 124 | May 23, 2026 |
| Comkip error |
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1 | 66 | May 12, 2026 |
| Embedded Subtitles with MP4 Unprocessed |
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3 | 117 | May 12, 2026 |
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How to install a custom Comskip and get additional INI files
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… |
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4 | 20605 | June 13, 2024 |
| MCEBuddy 2.7.1 and Donor version Comskip not removing commercials- CODE 2 ERROR |
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5 | 123 | April 23, 2026 |
| Profile Configuration Order |
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1 | 81 | April 18, 2026 |
| Conversions are crashing and stopping |
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4 | 46 | April 8, 2026 |
| Trying to rename movies to "movie name (year)" |
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13 | 4865 | March 29, 2026 |
| Made Donation But No Email |
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2 | 66 | March 28, 2026 |
| NVIDIA vs. AMD Transcoding Giving Different File Sizes |
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1 | 128 | March 23, 2026 |
| Skipping "short" recordings |
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1 | 38 | March 18, 2026 |
| Install problem with version 2.7.1 |
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4 | 98 | March 16, 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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6 | 7271 | September 30, 2025 |