Recently my video sizes times are staying the same after cutting out commercials.
The length in converted files still shows the original even after commercials have been removed.
For example, a 1 hour and 4 minute TS, converted to a MP4 with commercial removed reduced to 45 minutes still shows up as 1 hour and 4 minutes in the converted mp4 video.
I tried to upload logs, the first slice of the video and a screenshot but the FTP is not working:
Status: Connection established, waiting for welcome message…
Response: 220 Welcome to the MCEBuddy server. If you are not a member of the Early Access program you can join at MCEBuddy - Home
Command: AUTH TLS
Response: 234 AUTH command ok. Expecting TLS Negotiation.
Status: Initializing TLS…
Error: GnuTLS error -48: Key usage violation in certificate has been detected.
Error: Could not connect to server
Don’t use TLS, just use regular FTP or ignore the TLS certificate. You can attach the logs in this forum but uploading the original TS would be useful to replicate it.
I can’t replicate the issue with the regular MP4 normal so I went through your logs.
You’re using a custom profile with a key critical change, you’ve removed PreConversionCommercialRemover=true from your profile. Any specific reason (this is the cause of the issue)?
This is what’s causing the issue. Normally, MCEBuddy will remove the commercials BEFORE the encoding, not only is this more efficient (since you don’t encode commercials) but also why you’re facing an issue. When ffmpeg tries to cut the commercials post encoding it’s messing up the timelines trying to join the segments back. It’s an issue with ffmpeg but the answer would be to include the above line in your profile and it should solve your issue.
As to the second part of your question, use the MP4 High Quality profile, it’s take a lot of a time but generates the smallest and best quality videos.
You also mentioned that your mcebuddy.log file is over 2GB is size, have you disabled the option to limit the file size in the System Settings page? The default size is 50MB (it’s keep removing older entries from the log).
I can’t remember now what possessed me to change Commercial Remover to after conversion. But I fixed it.
In my System Setting page I have logging level and Logfile age (days). I don’t see a limit for the size of mcebuddy.log.
Also I changed my profile to MP4 High Quality and corrected PreConversionCommercialRemover=true.
My first conversion was a movie that ended up with over 1139:30:59 long which is not true. The original TS file was 2:01:15 long.
I’ve watched the original TS file and it plays great, no issue. I’m reprocessing it on another computer with more power and memory and will let you know how it turns out.
I would suggest do a clean install and use the stock profiles. If you’re making a custom profile copy it and make a new one so you have a comparison point. There are other changes I also noticed.
You can also set the days age to a reasonable number to limit your log file size.
