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Good morning.
I recently purchased a new PC and re-upped my subscription to MCEBuddy for an additional year.
I was able to successfully navigate to and download the Latest BETA version of the software and successfully install it on my new PC. This is a Dell Inspiron CORE i7 10th Gen running Windows 11 Home Edition.
However, MCEBuddy will not scan the directories or files that I have configured. I double checked that the correct directories for scanning are included and that it also scans for sub directories. I also checked that all of the referred directories have read/write share permissions for Everyone on the network.
I cannot drag and drop a *.ts file into the window of the GUI Client. I can manually select the file from within the GUI and it starts to process but subsequently fails.
I have tried the following:
Completely uninstall the BETA version and reinstall the last stable release (2.6.6) Same results
Reinstall the BETA over the STABLE without first uninstalling Same Results
Completely uninstall the STABLE and replace with the BETA Same Results
At this time I am unable to process any files through MCEBuddy. I am attaching my log files so that you can see the failed attempts and hopefully put me on the right path to a solution.
Thanks for the logs. It appears that you’re forcing Comskip to use NVIDIA hardware decoding but you don’t have an NVIDIA graphics card so it’s failing
2025-08-17T12:26:32 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.Comskip → “C:\Program Files\MCEBuddy2x\comskip\comskip.exe”
2025-08-17T12:26:32 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.Comskip → --cuvid
2025-08-17T12:26:32 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.Comskip → “–output=C:\Program Files\MCEBuddy2x\working0”
2025-08-17T12:26:32 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.Comskip → “C:\Program Files\MCEBuddy2x\working0\Good Morning America Sunday_20250817_0855.ts”
2025-08-17T12:26:32 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.Comskip → Using C:\Program Files\MCEBuddy2x\comskip\comskip.ini for initiation values.
2025-08-17T12:26:32 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.Comskip → Enabling use_cuvid
2025-08-17T12:26:32 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.Comskip → Comskip 0.83.001-20250228, made using ffmpeg
2025-08-17T12:26:32 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.Comskip → Donator build
2025-08-17T12:26:32 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.Comskip → Using Codec: mpeg2_cuvid instead of mpeg2video
2025-08-17T12:26:32 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.Comskip → Unsupported codec!
2025-08-17T12:26:32 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.Comskip → C:\Program Files\MCEBuddy2x\working0\Good Morning America Sunday_20250817_0855.ts: could not open video codec
→ Process exited with code -1
WARNING> 2025-08-17T12:26:34 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.Comskip → Comskip failed
ERROR> 2025-08-17T12:26:34 MCEBuddy.CommercialScan.Scanner → Comskip failed
ERROR> 2025-08-17T12:26:34 MCEBuddy.Engine.ConversionJob → Advertisement scan failed
2025-08-17T10:19:32 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.NVidiaQuery → -> no CUDA-capable device is detected
2025-08-17T10:19:32 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.NVidiaQuery → Result = FAIL
Remove the —cuvid option you’ve entered in the Conversion task → Expert settings → Comskip options and that will solve your issue.
And regarding it not finding files in your monitor directory, it’s is finding the files but the file conversions have all files because of the forcing it to use an invalid hardware decoder above. Once a file has failed conversion it remembers that and won’t retry the conversion until to clear the history.
MCEBuddy.Engine.QueueManager → Monitor task VIDEOS WITH COMMERCIALS : File F:\VIDEOS WITH COMMERCIALS\Videos\Good Morning America Sunday_20250817_0855.ts already converted with status Error
If you want it to retry all the failed files then click on the History link on the MCEBuddy screen, select all the failed files you want it to convert and click on delete history log and that will kick the process down the failed conversions again
Thank you for helping me sort this out. Here’s a good one for you:
There is actually an installed NVIDIA T600 in the PC. So I manually added the --cuvid comskip parameter to take advantage of hardware acceleration when I installed MCEBuddy.
Your email tipped me off to check in Device Manager. Sure enough, the card was not recognized as NVIDIA.
I reinstalled the Quadro driver and it fixed everything. I am now reconverting from history.