MCEBuddy 2.5.3 Not Detecting New Show

General Support / Questions
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Longtime supporter and user of MCEBuddy.

I just got a new machine and installed MCEBuddy 2.5.3. Working great…eventually. When a new show is recorded on WMC, it doesn’t detect a new show - even when I press Rescan. An old trick to re-encode something is to change the name or duplicate the show. That doesn’t work either.

It does eventually notice the new show - usually an hour or so later. Don’t know what I can check to see what’s going on.

QUICK UPDATE - A show I recorded from 11AM-12PM EST just started converting at 1:30PM EST.

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If you open MCEBuddy.log and search for your filename it’ll show you what’s going on. It’s usually one of two things in this case:

  1. The monitor location advanced settings has a minimum age (delay) configured (the default is 1 minute)
  2. The file is locked by another process preventing MCEBuddy from starting the conversion until the lock is released

Either way the log file will tell you what’s going on.

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Hmmm…just checked the log and the advanced setting is set to default of 1. As to the lock, the show that ran from 11AM-12PM shows a lock at 10:58AM (probably at the time that MCE is starting to record) and then no other scan till like 12:58 or in some instances 14:04. Can I upload the log somewhere or is there something I am missing?

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Just an update - the lock problem seems to be continuing. Again - very strange. It’s the only computer this is happening on. A show records, it ends (and actually moves on to record another show), and MCEBuddy is still not able to start processing for often an hour or more. Anything I can do or check?