2.4.6 and older release notes

Announcements
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2.4.6 RELEASE

  • Fix for Fast Transfer TiVO conversion failing
  • Improved support for HDHomeRun DVR
  • Added support for two new UserCLI options to help with automation of Plex
  • Added support for directory exclusions in Monitor Tasks
  • Various improvements to metadata support
  • Added support to retain chapters markers if found in the original file even after cutting commercials out (chapter markers are adjusted for cuts)
  • Added language support for Afrikaans, Catalan, Cantonese and French

2.4.5 RELEASE

  • Improved the overall stability and killed a few nasty bugs
  • Improved metadata support, now MCEBuddy uses some fuzzy logic to match your metadata, that means more matches and less frustration
  • Improved support for SiliconDust HDHR
  • Improved the performance of NVIDIA hardware conversions

2.4.4 RELEASE

  • 20 new features, enhancements and bug fixes
  • Improve quality and stability of hardware accelerated conversions, upto 3000% (8x - 30x) faster conversion (vs 2.3.13)
  • Improved support for NVidia NVENC and Intel QuickSync for H.264 and H.265/HEVC hardware accelerated encoding with automatic encoder selection (mix and match hardware)
  • Improved metadata matching and management
  • Improved product stability
  • Improved support for TiVO and PlayOn
  • Improved customization options
  • Lots of bug fixes

2.4.4 MAJOR ENHANCEMENT RELEASE

  • 48 new features, enhancements and bug fixes
  • Improve quality and stability of hardware accelerated conversions, upto 3000% (8x - 30x) faster conversion (vs 2.3.13)
  • Added support for NVidia NVENC and Intel QuickSync for H.264 and H.265/HEVC hardware accelerated encoding with automatic encoder selection (mix and match hardware)
  • Added support for Silicon Dust HDHomeRun DVR
  • Lots of bug fixes and user interface enhancements
  • Improved metadata matching and downloading show/movie information from the internet
  • Improved support for various media recorders
  • Added support for Windows 10
  • Added support for Comskip hardware decoding

2.4.2 MAJOR ENHANCEMENT RELEASE

  • 58 new features, enhancements and bug fixes
  • Improve quality and stability of hardware accelerated conversions, upto 3000% (8x - 30x) faster conversion (vs 2.3.13)
  • New features in MCEBuddy Custom Cuts including inserting and new format support
  • Improved metadata support including seasons and episodes
  • Improved support for Playlater
  • Ability to rename and duplicate tasks
  • Improved support for International languages
  • Dropped support for WindowsXP (officially)
  • Added support for latest version of ffmpeg, handbrake, mkvmerge and other tools

2.4.1 MAJOR ENHANCEMENT RELEASE

  • 87 new features, enhancements and bug fixes
  • More profiles use hardware encoding, upto 3000% (8x - 30x) faster conversion
  • Upto 800% speed increase for hardware enabled profiles and 50% faster for corrupted recordings
  • Introducing MCEBuddy Custom Cuts, manually mark the sections of video you want to cut
  • Improved metadata and renaming manager
  • MP4 profiles now support multi channel AAC audio
  • Support for burning subtitles via the profile
  • Improved support for iTunes, WMP, TiVO and PlayLater
  • Improved support for High DPI scaling
  • Improved support for subtitle extraction and syncing
  • Added a Comskip INI GUI editor
  • Archiving and deleting original files is now a per monitor task option
  • Load of bugs squashed, the most tested and stable release to date
  • Tons of new stuff (refer here for details: https://mcebuddy2x.codeplex.com/releases/view/123675)

2.3.15 MAJOR ENHANCEMENT RELEASE

  • 109 new features, enhancements and bug fixes
  • Most profiles use hardware encoding, upto 3000% (8x - 30x) faster conversion
  • Support for TiVO Desktop and fast transfers
  • CLI program for integrating with 3rd party programs
  • Updated metadata and renaming manager from all new sources
  • Simplified user interface, easier to use
  • Brand new profiles for Roku, iPod, FireTV, Kindle, XBox, compressed WTV/TS etc
  • Unicode support, now go global with over 100 languages
  • Improved support for network files
  • Load of bugs squashed, the most tested and stable release to date
  • Tons of new stuff (refer here for details: https://mcebuddy2x.codeplex.com/releases/view/116426)

2.3.14 MAJOR ENHANCEMENT RELEASE

  • 100 new features, enhancements and bug fixes
  • Upto 40% faster conversion
  • Simplified user interface, easier to use
  • Basic support for hardware encoding and run engine as program (instead of service)
  • iTunes and WMP library support
  • Automatic best audio track and video detection support
  • Tons of new stuff (refer here for details: https://mcebuddy2x.codeplex.com/releases/view/100122)

2.3.13 MAJOR ENHANCEMENT RELEASE

  • 50 new features, enhancements and bug fixes
  • 20% - 40% Faster conversion, optimized profiles
  • Simplified user interface
  • Better support for AAC multi channel audio
  • New pre conversion custom command
  • Suspending on battery and resuming on A/C
  • Emails are stored until connection is available, customizable subjects
  • New conversion history and performance metrics management
  • Lots of bug fixes (refer here for details: https://mcebuddy2x.codeplex.com/releases/view/105099

2.3.12 MAJOR ENHANCEMENT RELEASE

2.3.11 MAJOR ENHANCEMENT RELEASE

  • Major rehaul of the remuxing algorithm, improved performance and reliability
  • Major Audio Sync issues resolved across multiple profiles
  • Many new features including deleting converted files when original files are deleted (monitored)
  • Some new profiles, many updated/enhanced profiles for speed, quality and stability
  • Revamped support for WTV output, seeking and large files are working
  • Various network performance and bugfixes
  • Remote engine is now WebServices SOAP 1.1 compliant for cross platform communication
  • Media Center native plugin supported (developed by @andrei_kr)

2.3.10 CRITICAL UPDATE RELEASE

  • Fix missing files from installer in 2.3.9
  • Update ShowAnalyzer to check for installation on remote engine rather than local machine

2.3.9 MAJOR ENHANCEMENT RELEASE

  • Support for saving to WTV and enhanced stability for other formats like TS, WMV etc
  • Minimizing to system tray
  • New features such as custom archive folders and sub-folder monitoring
  • Improved support for corrupted and OTA recordings
  • Significant improvements in metadata management and extracting
  • General performance and stability improvements

2.3.8 CRITICAL ENHANCEMENT RELEASE

  • Huge increase in GUI performance and responsiveness
  • Significantly reduce Disk IO
  • Minor bugfixes for UI
  • Faster engine stopping and uninstall

2.3.7 MINOR ENHANCEMENT RELEASE

  • Added support to Pause and Resume converions
  • Better performance for Fast profiles and priority handling
  • Better support for iTunes descriptions
  • Fallback support to source directory if network connections fail
  • ShowAnalyzer is now installed with MCEBuddy

2.3.6 MAJOR ENHANCEMENT RELEASE

  • Fixed a bug in multichannel audio conversion
  • New robust MP4 and MKV profiles
  • Added support for airhour and airminute
  • Better support for downloading information/metadata
  • Support for Windows 8
  • Better service stop/uninstall

2.3.5 MAJOR ENHANCEMENT RELEASE

  • Fixed Windows XP crashes
  • Fixed resource and memory leaks
  • Added support for TVDB and IMDB (specifying Id’s)

2.3.4 MINOR ENHANCEMENT RELEASE

  • Important bugfixes for bug introduced in 2.3.3 causing conversions to fail
  • Bugfix for SRT and EDL file handling
  • Improved unsupported options