With the most recent update to MCEBuddy, my file conversions have gone up in size significantly. A MPEG2 recording from Plex that is getting converted to H265 MKV would go from a 5.5GB file to 48GB for the resulting MKV. Even when re-encoding it, in some cases the file would still be larger at 6-7 G…

H265 MKV Files Significantly Larger than MPEG2 Source

Goose (Goose) Split this topic June 30, 2024, 1:51am 8

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