I searched and did not find anything about this. I am new here and trying to get my feet wet. I have MCEBuddy running on a Windows 10 PC and it seems to be working fine with the default settings. My question is how long should it take to convert a single MPEG-2 show to MPEG-4 without commercials? Ri…

Wow how embarrassing … typical windows error I took the file at the top of the list instead of the bottom of the list when I opened the FTP server site… my bad… thank you @RBoy for having a look at my logs. Updating to stable version now… will update on my results which I am sure will be better.

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That’s long for sure. The speed depends upon a lot of factors Comskip processing speed (free version has a speed limitation of about 30fps that means it’s takes an hour to process an hour long show) Hardware vs software encoding. Software encoding for mpeg2 to mpeg4 is anywhere between 30 to 1…

Thanks RBoy for the detailed explanation. I am using a mini PC with a USB 3.0 RAID 5 array attached to ti. The metrics for one show are below. I looked through the rest of is and see FPS=5.3 in most of it. I wonder if doing a 2 step convert on these files would improve things. First covert show to s…

I think you missed copying the metrics description column. I see two big time taking activities. Maybe attach the entire log file so we can go through and analyze it.

I can’t seem to get the logs to upload… maybe there is a size limit?

So the original log file was way too large so I cut out all the redundent entries hopefully the required info is still there… Stripped down Log Sample.log (211.6 KB)

Okay I noticed quite a few things in your logs including comskip processes that have hung after running for 9 hours and had to be terminated amongst other and they would all be attributed to the fact that you’re running a very old release that has about a 1000 fixes and enhancements since. --> MCEB…

Yes sir like night and day… we are cooking with gas now… Thanks again @RBoy for your assistance.

So it has been going a while and now have more log files but still no new converted shows… a current log file has been attached… am I once again missing the obvious? The Christmas Note 20150101 [20171206-1000].mpg-Convert to MP4-2017-12-11T00-40-41.6592987-05-00.log (2.1 MB)

The good news it’s now running 12x faster than before. If you look at the end of the log it’s shows that I can’t find the Comskip file you’ve configured in your settings located in the temp folder and it’s failing. Not sure why you’ve put the Comskip in the temp folder. That’s cleared out by MCEBud…

How long should the proces take - trying to manage my expectation

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