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…

According to your log, you’ve set your quality multiplier to +20% and consequently your file size is increasing accordingly from about 5GB to 6GB. 2019-12-22T18:24:00 MCEBuddy.Transcode.ConvertWithHandbrake → Original file size [KB] 5,221,935.00 2019-12-22T18:24:00 MCEBuddy.Transcode.ConvertWithH…

Thanks. Do you know when the quality slider changed functionality? Before I could leave it at 100% and I never got file sizes this large. I only saw this when I moved to 2.5.1 and later. I’ll leave everything at 0% for now but these files are still larger than what I was seeing 2-3 months ago.

It could be related to a profile setting or handbrake. Try this, open your profiles.conf, locate your profile and from the ffmpeg-video line remove the -preset medium and then save it. Test it with this change and see how it responds. Did you use a custom version of handbrake or what ships with MC…

I used the version of Handbrake that shipped with MCEBuddy. Removing the -preset medium dropped the file size to what I was seeing before. Quality appears to about the same. NCIS (2003) - S17E10 - The North Pole.ts-Com Removal-2019-12-27T20-32-37.2969273-05-00.log (1.6 MB)

Fyi, I experienced a similar problem on an update where my h265 mp4 files became larger than the original files after an update. I never really figured out what the issue was as none of my settings changed. I also was using handbrake that comes with mcebuddy. In my case, I was using hardware acceler…

Check your quality slider settings, if it’s > 0% it’ll be larger. Also if you attach your conversion log we can see what’s going on.

H265 MKV Files Significantly Larger than MPEG2 Source

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