# 2.6.5 Release Notes

**URL:** https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/2-6-5-release-notes/5680
**Category:** Announcements
**Created:** [March 26, 2025, 7:41pm UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/2-6-5-release-notes/5680 "2025-03-26T19:41:43Z")
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#### Post date: [March 26, 2025, 7:41pm UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/2-6-5-release-notes/5680/1 "2025-03-26T19:41:43Z")

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### Changelog for 2.6.5 (64bit)

**NEW FEATURES:**

- Display the metadata for any file directly from Windows Explorer by right clicking on the file and selecting _Show media info with MCEBuddy_ or by selecting multiple media files, right click and select _Send To → Get media info with MCEBuddy_
- The Monitor locations and Conversion tasks split pane is now height adjustable

**BUG FIXES:**

- Improve detection of scan type
- Fix failure to detect video corruption while cutting commercials leading to converted file with partial commercials cut out. Now try to fix corruption and retry cutting or fail conversion
- Fix issue with WTV h.264 encoding where some converted videos do not play back in WMC/WMP
- Fix for invalid directory name created in some cases when metadata ends with a space
- Fix for UI crash when GPU selection is enabled and hardware is changed without updating the GPU selection

**ENHANCEMENTS:**

- Allow for matching filters against empty strings using _regex:_ patterns
- When duplicating or renaming a task, use the name of the original task name as the starting point
- When moving tasks don’t lose focus on the selected task
- Requires Windows 10 and above (ffmpeg7 and handbrake requirements)
- Updated to ffmpeg7, remuxing upto 3x faster
- Updated LAVFilter to 0.79.2 for improved H/W decoding support and more codecs
- Updated Comskip to 0.83.001 and ffmpeg7 with optimized build for MCEBuddy with hardware decoding
- Improve layout to reduce dead space and enhance usability
- Added option to get list and status of conversions in queue from the CLI _MCEBuddy.UserCLI --command=query --action=queue_
- Added support for NVidia and AMD hardware AV1 decoding for [custom Comskip](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/64)
- Configure [custom comskip](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/64) hardware accelerated decoding under _Conversion task → Expert settings → Comskip options_ → 
  - Intel QSV (_–qsv_)
  - NVidia CUVID (_–cuvid_)
  - AMD AMF/VCE (_–dxva2_)

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#### Post date: [March 31, 2025, 12:00pm UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/2-6-5-release-notes/5680/2 "2025-03-31T12:00:54Z")

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