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To add to what @goose said, if you have the MCEBuddy engine running on, say, 3 machines (all headless or remote for e.g.), you can monitor all 3 from your laptop remotely. Install the Remote Client in 3 separate folders and have each connect to the 3 engines. Now you can see in real time what all 3 engines are doing remotely.

Also see this post regarding installing the engine on multiple machines:

Licensed for multiple computers?

Each purchase gives you the license to install the engine one a single machine. You can install the remote client on unlimited machines.

You can also have multiple engines share a common queue and process files over a network/NAS drive. You can create separate folders for each engine or have different file filters so you can increase your processing power or use scripts for distributed processing:

Distributed Encoding across Multiple Machines

Thanks to JoshDi for putting this together: I created a BAT file script to help coordinate distributed MCEBuddy conversions across my two machines: HTPC and HTPC-Bedroom (Bedroom) I run the following script every 5 minutes on both machines via task manager. No schedule is set (start stop) in MCEBuddy - the script handles the starting and stopping of MCEBuddy Conversions. Essentially the script does the following: Checks to see if Media Center or Kodi is running locally. If so, stop running M…