hmm my bad, I guess there is a field called WM/WMRVKeepUntil in the metadata.
Anyways MCEBuddy doesn't disturb this setting, it just copies all metadata over. MCEBuddy only updates the WM/WMRVEndTime and Duration tags to update the file length.
New Post: WTV and Keep Until Deleted Location in File?
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New Post: WTV and Keep Until Deleted Location in File?
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. dvredit.zip file wouldn't work on Windows 8.1 I found something that did and your metadata copying is more comprehensive with latest MCEBuddy. Here is what I found and a request.
Use http://blogs.msdn.com/b/toub/archive/2005/05/12/416874.aspx
Download EditDvrmsMetadata.exe
Open Program and Select .
Open WTV File
Near the properties bottom you will see this
WM/WMRVKeepUntil DWORD
By experimentation I found what the number represented
0= Keep Until I Delete
-1= Keep Until Space Needed
-2= Keep Until I Watch
-1= Keep Until (date) 1 Week cant find any difference between this and Keep Until Space Needed. Must be some value not viewable with editor.
Cant find anything to batch edit the metadata would be great to run batch over all WTV and change WM/WMRVKeepUntil 0 = Keep Until I Delete, someone suggested Powershell but no idea how to write something like that.
Running MCEBuddy 2.3 Release 13 deletes the WM/WMRVKeepUntil metadata field completly and WMC then assumes = 0 so never deletes which is what I want.
Running MCEBuddy 2.4.2 Keeps the WM/WMRVKeepUntil metadata field completly and WMC then uses the original value recorded. Not so good as I need to batch change all recordings to = 0 Keep Until I delete or it seems just delete the metadata field completly WM/WMRVKeepUntil but that may have unintended consequences so best to change value.
Conversion from WTV to WTV H264 even with only HD4000 Intel onboad Graphics is reasonable time so looking at doing that.
So still need a way to batch change the WM/WMRVKeepUntil metadata field when processing to Zero happy for someone by PayPal to charge me to do this or add feature to MCEBuddy 2.4.2 Advanced Setting.
Thanks for your time getting me to this rboy1
Use http://blogs.msdn.com/b/toub/archive/2005/05/12/416874.aspx
Download EditDvrmsMetadata.exe
Open Program and Select .
Open WTV File
Near the properties bottom you will see this
WM/WMRVKeepUntil DWORD
By experimentation I found what the number represented
0= Keep Until I Delete
-1= Keep Until Space Needed
-2= Keep Until I Watch
-1= Keep Until (date) 1 Week cant find any difference between this and Keep Until Space Needed. Must be some value not viewable with editor.
Cant find anything to batch edit the metadata would be great to run batch over all WTV and change WM/WMRVKeepUntil 0 = Keep Until I Delete, someone suggested Powershell but no idea how to write something like that.
Running MCEBuddy 2.3 Release 13 deletes the WM/WMRVKeepUntil metadata field completly and WMC then assumes = 0 so never deletes which is what I want.
Running MCEBuddy 2.4.2 Keeps the WM/WMRVKeepUntil metadata field completly and WMC then uses the original value recorded. Not so good as I need to batch change all recordings to = 0 Keep Until I delete or it seems just delete the metadata field completly WM/WMRVKeepUntil but that may have unintended consequences so best to change value.
Conversion from WTV to WTV H264 even with only HD4000 Intel onboad Graphics is reasonable time so looking at doing that.
So still need a way to batch change the WM/WMRVKeepUntil metadata field when processing to Zero happy for someone by PayPal to charge me to do this or add feature to MCEBuddy 2.4.2 Advanced Setting.
Thanks for your time getting me to this rboy1
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New Post: WTV and Keep Until Deleted Location in File?
Try this program VideoToolsUpdater (version 1.5.1)
You can find it here:
It has a CLI program called WMCMetadataUpdater which allows you to update Metadata items for Windows Media files (like WTV, DVR-MS, WMV, ASF, anything that uses Windows Streams metadata).
It's simple to use:
E.g. WMCMetadataUpdater "C:\update me\test.srt" WM/WMRVKeepUntil "-1" dword
E.g. WMCMetadataUpdater "C:\update me\test.srt" WM/MediaIsSport "true" bool
E.g. WMCMetadataUpdater "C:\update me\test.srt" Title "Doctor Who" string
You can run a batch script to iterate through all your files/directories and use the filenames inputs to the WMCMetadataUpdater.exe file and update the values.
Taken from:
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Remove Commercials and Ads, Convert Videos and Organize your video collection for your Windows Media Center, DVR, Recorded TV, and recorded videos.
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PREMIUM ACCESS PROGRAM
"Just wanted to let you all know that I wish I had donated earlier. Joining your Early Access Program is a more than reasonable cost for what you're offering. The latest version of MCE Buddy and Comskip are super fast and so much more accurate. Having an evening's television show(s) converted, all the commercials removed and ready to be put onto my iPad for the train commute to work in the morning is never a problem now. With the "free" version of the software, while still a solid product, sometimes the conversion was still going on the next morning and I would have to wait until the next day to watch. With your latest, 50% faster, version the conversion never goes past 2 am for a night with several TV programs I record with Windows Media Center. Thank you to everyone who worked on the project and contributed."
The work you put into MCEBuddy makes its use limitless
Absolutely love your program! ... the ability to cut commercials & convert Media Center useless file type to an mp4 without any work is priceless. Thank you so much!
Brilliant developers have completely revolutionized entertainment in my home
...just wanted to add that, with Custom Cuts, this program is now an incredible value...
MCEBuddy featured on Discovery Revision3 channel
MCEBuddy featured on How-To-Geek
MCEBuddy featured on Mediaputer.com
Description
Convert Videos, Remove Commercials/Ads and Organize your Media Center (WTV, DVRMS, TS, MP4, MKV, AVI, WMV), TV Recordings (SiliconDust DVR, WMC/MCE, nPVR, Media Portal, Sage TV, Argus TV, ICE TV, PlayLater, HDHomeRun), DVR and
any other Video.
MCEBuddy Removes Commercials and Advertisements from your video recordings while converting them into formats that are usable on other systems and portable devices. It does all of this automatically in the background with a minimum of fuss and
little technical knowledge required.
Converts from WTV, DVR-MS, TS, MPEG and many other formats to WTV, MP4 , AVI, MKV, portable devices and others. Organizes and renames videos, monitor folders and batch conversion in the background at scheduled times. It also integrates with your iTunes and
WMP libraries to keep them up to date.
Very easy simple user interface for basic users and an advanced options interface for power users to tweak the quality, volume, trim videos, extract subtitles, schedules, custom file renaming, eMail notifications, downloading show information from the internet,
selecting audio language and many more features.
If you have a newer computer, it provides super fast conversion using the latest generation QuickSync, NVENC and OpenCL hardware encoders to reduce your conversion time from hours to minutes.
Check out the Getting Started User Guide here. More documentation here.
Features
- Remove Commercials & Advertisements
- Convert Videos and TV Recordings (HDX/HD/SD)
- Convert WTV, DVR-MS, TS, MPG, MKV, MP4, AVI, WMV, TiVO (with MAK) and more
- Shrink TV Recordings & Videos
- Schedule Conversions
- Batch Conversions
- Multiple Simultaneous Conversions
- Monitor Folders (runs in the background as a lightweight service even without user logon)
- Batch processing, queue files manually (drag and drop) or monitor folders for new files
- Multi-channel Audio Support (AC3, DTS, AAC)
- Multilingual Audio Language Selection
- Multiple Audio Tracks
- Simple Controls to Skip Cropping, Limit Video Width, Volume Adjustment, Quality Adjustment and more
- Extract and Embed Closed Captions, Teletext, DVB Subtitles and Subtitles, burn Subtitles into the Video
- Trim Videos
- Custom File and Folder Renaming
- eMail Notifications
- Creating Chapters as Commercial Markers instead of Cutting Commercials
- Archiving, Syncing Folders and Conversions
- International/Regional Languages Support (44+ languages) and Unicode files
- Support for Accessibility (Large Fonts / DPI Scaling)
- Import converted/processed files automatically into the iTunes library and Windows Media Player (WMP) Library with categorization (TV Shows, Movie etc based on metadata)
- Supports iTunes Metadata
- Supports IMDB, MovieDB, TVDB, TV.com and advanced Metadata processing
- Convert Windows Media Center, SiliconDust DVR, nPVR, Media Portal, Sage TV, Argus TV, ICE TV, PlayLater, HDHomeRun DVR etc with metadata support
- Supports multiple displays (TV, Monitors etc) and ultra low resolution
- Converters include support for FFMPEG, Handbrake and MEncoder
- Supports NVENC and QuickSync based hardware encoders and OpenCL for Intel, NVidia and ATI graphics cards
- Supports Comskip and ShowAnalyzer
- Write Custom Commands/Programs
- Manually mark sections of the video to cut, reads VideoRedo project files and save as an EDL file for automated processing
- Convert to WTV, MP4, MKV, AVI, M4V, TS, WMV, MPG and more
- Convert to Mobile/Portable devices (iPhone, iPad, Roku, TiVO, Kindle, FireTV, Samsung, Blackberry, Zune, iRiver, Nokia, Meizu, PSP, PS3, XBox, Zen etc)
- UPnP / NAT and Remote connections (control multiple engines from a mobile/desktop client remotely)
- Power Management Support (Allow Sleep / Prevent Sleep / Wake Up)
- Support for Windows XP (SP3), Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003/2008/2012/R2, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10
- Windows Media Center Plugin (separate installation)
NOTE: NO software can remove, edit or convert DRM protected (encrypted copy once) WTV files. If unsure, check your WTV file properties for the Protected flag. Some cable providers encrypt a few premium channels, most channels including Free to Air Channels (FTA) are not encrypted.
Love it? Click to donate to
mcebuddy2x@gmail.com ![Click here to donate]()
Our Rules
#1 Focus on the user and all else will follow (thanks Google)#2 Refer to #1
Personal End User Software License
MCEBuddy 2.x is an open source software project licensed under the GNU General Public License v2. MCEBuddy 2.x End-User license is for NON-COMMERCIAL personal use.
Download MCEBuddy 2.x here
Download the Media Center Plugin here
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Updated Wiki: Home
Remove Commercials and Ads, Convert Videos and Organize your video collection for your Windows Media Center, DVR, Recorded TV, and recorded videos.
Follow MCEBuddy on FaceBook ![Facebook Like MCEBuddy]()
Check out our new website www.mcebuddy2x.com
PREMIUM ACCESS PROGRAM
"Just wanted to let you all know that I wish I had donated earlier. Joining your Early Access Program is a more than reasonable cost for what you're offering. The latest version of MCE Buddy and Comskip are super fast and so much more accurate. Having an evening's television show(s) converted, all the commercials removed and ready to be put onto my iPad for the train commute to work in the morning is never a problem now. With the "free" version of the software, while still a solid product, sometimes the conversion was still going on the next morning and I would have to wait until the next day to watch. With your latest, 50% faster, version the conversion never goes past 2 am for a night with several TV programs I record with Windows Media Center. Thank you to everyone who worked on the project and contributed."
The work you put into MCEBuddy makes its use limitless
Absolutely love your program! ... the ability to cut commercials & convert Media Center useless file type to an mp4 without any work is priceless. Thank you so much!
Brilliant developers have completely revolutionized entertainment in my home
...just wanted to add that, with Custom Cuts, this program is now an incredible value...
MCEBuddy featured on Discovery Revision3 channel
MCEBuddy featured on How-To-Geek
MCEBuddy featured on Mediaputer.com
Description
Convert Videos, Remove Commercials/Ads and Organize your Media Center (WTV, DVRMS, TS, MP4, MKV, AVI, WMV), TV Recordings (SiliconDust DVR, WMC/MCE, nPVR, Media Portal, Sage TV, Argus TV, ICE TV, PlayLater, HDHomeRun), DVR and
any other Video.
MCEBuddy Removes Commercials and Advertisements from your video recordings while converting them into formats that are usable on other systems and portable devices. It does all of this automatically in the background with a minimum of fuss and
little technical knowledge required.
Converts from WTV, DVR-MS, TS, MPEG and many other formats to WTV, MP4 , AVI, MKV, portable devices and others. Organizes and renames videos, monitor folders and batch conversion in the background at scheduled times. It also integrates with your iTunes and
WMP libraries to keep them up to date.
Very easy simple user interface for basic users and an advanced options interface for power users to tweak the quality, volume, trim videos, extract subtitles, schedules, custom file renaming, eMail notifications, downloading show information from the internet,
selecting audio language and many more features.
If you have a newer computer, it provides super fast conversion using the latest generation QuickSync, NVENC and OpenCL hardware encoders to reduce your conversion time from hours to minutes.
Check out the Getting Started User Guide here. More documentation here.
Features
- Remove Commercials & Advertisements
- Convert Videos and TV Recordings (HDX/HD/SD)
- Convert WTV, DVR-MS, TS, MPG, MKV, MP4, AVI, WMV, TiVO (with MAK) and more
- Shrink TV Recordings & Videos
- Schedule Conversions
- Batch Conversions
- Multiple Simultaneous Conversions
- Monitor Folders (runs in the background as a lightweight service even without user logon)
- Batch processing, queue files manually (drag and drop) or monitor folders for new files
- Multi-channel Audio Support (AC3, DTS, AAC)
- Multilingual Audio Language Selection
- Multiple Audio Tracks
- Simple Controls to Skip Cropping, Limit Video Width, Volume Adjustment, Quality Adjustment and more
- Extract and Embed Closed Captions, Teletext, DVB Subtitles and Subtitles, burn Subtitles into the Video
- Trim Videos
- Custom File and Folder Renaming
- eMail Notifications
- Creating Chapters as Commercial Markers instead of Cutting Commercials
- Archiving, Syncing Folders and Conversions
- International/Regional Languages Support (44+ languages) and Unicode files
- Support for Accessibility (Large Fonts / DPI Scaling)
- Import converted/processed files automatically into the iTunes library and Windows Media Player (WMP) Library with categorization (TV Shows, Movie etc based on metadata)
- Supports iTunes Metadata
- Supports IMDB, MovieDB, TVDB, TV.com and advanced Metadata processing
- Convert Windows Media Center, SiliconDust DVR, nPVR, Media Portal, Sage TV, Argus TV, ICE TV, PlayLater, HDHomeRun DVR etc with metadata support
- Supports multiple displays (TV, Monitors etc) and ultra low resolution
- Converters include support for FFMPEG, Handbrake and MEncoder
- Supports NVENC and QuickSync based hardware encoders and OpenCL for Intel, NVidia and ATI graphics cards
- Supports Comskip and ShowAnalyzer
- Write Custom Commands/Programs
- Manually mark sections of the video to cut, reads VideoRedo project files and save as an EDL file for automated processing
- Convert to WTV, MP4, MKV, AVI, M4V, TS, WMV, MPG and more
- Convert to Mobile/Portable devices (iPhone, iPad, Roku, TiVO, Kindle, FireTV, Samsung, Blackberry, Zune, iRiver, Nokia, Meizu, PSP, PS3, XBox, Zen etc)
- UPnP / NAT and Remote connections (control multiple engines from a mobile/desktop client remotely)
- Power Management Support (Allow Sleep / Prevent Sleep / Wake Up)
- Support for Windows XP (SP3), Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003/2008/2012/R2, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10
- Windows Media Center Plugin to control MCEBuddy (separate installation)
NOTE: NO software can remove, edit or convert DRM protected (encrypted copy once) WTV files. If unsure, check your WTV file properties for the Protected flag. Some cable providers encrypt a few premium channels, most channels including Free to Air Channels (FTA) are not encrypted.
Love it? Click to donate to
mcebuddy2x@gmail.com ![Click here to donate]()
Our Rules
#1 Focus on the user and all else will follow (thanks Google)#2 Refer to #1
Personal End User Software License
MCEBuddy 2.x is an open source software project licensed under the GNU General Public License v2. MCEBuddy 2.x End-User license is for NON-COMMERCIAL personal use.
Download MCEBuddy 2.x here
Download the Media Center Plugin here
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Released: MCEBuddy 2.4.3 (Dec 23, 2015)
2.4.3 release is available through the Premium Access Program at premiumaccess.mcebuddy2x.com
Refer to www.mcebuddy2x.com to get access to the latest releases premium program. 2.3.13 is the last release you can download from here.
All new Hardware Encoding (upto 20x faster than 2.3.13) with 400+ new features and enhancements.
Introducing MCEBuddy Custom Cuts to manually mark sections of video to cut out.
Changelog for 2.4.3 (32bit and 64bit)NEW FEATURES:
1. Added support for SiliconDust HDHomeRun DVR to Read (TS/MPG) and Write Metadata (TS) files (uses a random series ID, program ID and DisplayGroupID (10402869) by default to HDHR metadata when original metadata is not from HDHR files. Done to improve compatibility with HDHR Kodi App)
2. Added a HDHomeRun Original and HDHomeRun H.264 profile
3. Minimum age of file removed from General Settings and moved to per Monitor Task in Expert Settings. The values now range from 1 minute to 90 days. The minimum age is calculated from the last modified time of the file.
4. Added support for auto enabling NVidia NVNEC encoder for H.264 and H.265 for FFMpeg if supported hardware and profile is found
5. Added support for QuickSync h265 (hevc) for handbrake and improved support for x265
BUG FIXES:
6. Fixed an issue with MCEBuddy screen not showing when clicked in the system tray. Now clicking on MCEBuddy in the system tray toggles between showing and minimizing the window.
7. Fixed a bug in remuxing TiVO files causing it to fail
8. Fix for media info failing causing it to remux the audio
9. Added check for comskip failure
10. Handbrake updated to 20151008180809-f9c5593 build (fixes fixed frame rate profiles issues)
11. Fix GUI crash for right click menu when no tasks are selected
12. Bugfix for TS handbrake profiles creating non-compliant TS files
13. Fixed an issue with Unicode filename detection
14. When forcing TVDB Id in metadata correction, then only get metadata from TVDB
15. Improved TV.com lookup reliability
16. Fixed issue with not reading the Release Year with some WTV movie files. Release year for movies is stored in OriginalBroadcastDateTime
17. Fixed an issue where the Original Broadcast Time wasn’t being read from the nPVR filenames
18. Fix for conversion failing when only renaming files when the source extension and profile rename extension are the same
19. Set a minimum 100MB free disk space criteria for temp/destination folders so that MCEBuddy doesn't accidentally hang due to insufficient space even if user has asked to ignore free disk space
20. Fixed a bug that could cause a conversion to crash in very rare cases while doing a rename only operations
21. Fixed a bug in custom renaming with nested conditional renaming commands
ENHANCEMENTS:
22. Check for invalid file size and set error message accordingly
23. The minimum age feature now measures from the file creation date
24. Added support for reading nPVR and SiliconDust DVR filenames
a. Movie (year)
b. Showname.Sx.Ex.Subtitle (where dot can be replaced any character like space, dash etc and it will ignored by MCEBuddy)
25. Updated Handbrake CLI to SVN7349 to improve conversion stability
26. Clarified options for filtering by Show Types
27. Added support for Windows 10
28. Updated MKVMerge to 8.6.1
29. Added support to supplement metadata from filename and also add support for parsing playlater filenames for metadata
30. Added support to extract Broadcast /Recorded Date and Network from Playlater files
31. %convertedfile% now gives the name of "expected" post conversion filename for Pre CustomCommand and PreCommercialRemovalCustomCommand
32. Optimization, don’t extract metadata from files is not required (increases file processing speed)
33. Improved detection for checking for locked files (write locked)
34. Added support for HEVC streams remuxing
35. Updated TsMuxeR to 2.6.12
36. Added ability to increase height of the settings page to expand the conversion task list
37. Improved TS MPEG2 profile stability
38. Added support for NetworkAffiliate metadata
39. The General Settings Delete original file and Archive original file options will now only apply to manually added files. Each Monitor Task have their own Delete/Archive original file options to avoid confusion.
40. Added support for reading WTV and DVRMS metadata when MCE filters dont’ exist on the system using ffprobe
41. Added support for QNAP NAS, skip directories containing the words @recycle in them while monitoring files
42. Added support for hardware decoding for Comskip when running as a Service
43. Added support to update Duration and Recording Start/End time when writing metadata for WTV files to improve compatibility with some players
44. Added support to match Series premiere year and Movie year when available while downloading metadata from the internet
45. Updated FFMPEG to build 2015-12-03-1331 with WTV and Mux Patches
46. Quicksync now supports 2 pass encoding
47. Improved the performance by optimizing ffprobe queries by 90% (especially for unprocessed profiles and rename operations)
48. Update Comskip to version 0.81.089
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Updated Release: MCEBuddy 2.4.3 (Dec 23, 2015)
2.4.3 release is available through the Premium Access Program at premiumaccess.mcebuddy2x.com
Refer to www.mcebuddy2x.com to get access to the latest releases premium program. 2.3.13 is the last release you can download from here.
All new Hardware Encoding (upto 20x faster than 2.3.13) with 400+ new features and enhancements.
Introducing MCEBuddy Custom Cuts to manually mark sections of video to cut out.
Changelog for 2.4.3 (32bit and 64bit)NEW FEATURES:
1. Added support for SiliconDust HDHomeRun DVR to Read (TS/MPG) and Write Metadata (TS) files (uses a random series ID, program ID and DisplayGroupID (10402869) by default to HDHR metadata when original metadata is not from HDHR files. Done to improve compatibility with HDHR Kodi App)
2. Added a HDHomeRun Original and HDHomeRun H.264 profile
3. Minimum age of file removed from General Settings and moved to per Monitor Task in Expert Settings. The values now range from 1 minute to 90 days. The minimum age is calculated from the last modified time of the file.
4. Added support for auto enabling NVidia NVNEC encoder for H.264 and H.265 for FFMpeg if supported hardware and profile is found
5. Added support for QuickSync h265 (hevc) for handbrake and improved support for x265
BUG FIXES:
6. Fixed an issue with MCEBuddy screen not showing when clicked in the system tray. Now clicking on MCEBuddy in the system tray toggles between showing and minimizing the window.
7. Fixed a bug in remuxing TiVO files causing it to fail
8. Fix for media info failing causing it to remux the audio
9. Added check for comskip failure
10. Handbrake updated to 20151008180809-f9c5593 build (fixes fixed frame rate profiles issues)
11. Fix GUI crash for right click menu when no tasks are selected
12. Bugfix for TS handbrake profiles creating non-compliant TS files
13. Fixed an issue with Unicode filename detection
14. When forcing TVDB Id in metadata correction, then only get metadata from TVDB
15. Improved TV.com lookup reliability
16. Fixed issue with not reading the Release Year with some WTV movie files. Release year for movies is stored in OriginalBroadcastDateTime
17. Fixed an issue where the Original Broadcast Time wasn’t being read from the nPVR filenames
18. Fix for conversion failing when only renaming files when the source extension and profile rename extension are the same
19. Set a minimum 100MB free disk space criteria for temp/destination folders so that MCEBuddy doesn't accidentally hang due to insufficient space even if user has asked to ignore free disk space
20. Fixed a bug that could cause a conversion to crash in very rare cases while doing a rename only operations
21. Fixed a bug in custom renaming with nested conditional renaming commands
ENHANCEMENTS:
22. Check for invalid file size and set error message accordingly
23. The minimum age feature now measures from the file creation date
24. Added support for reading nPVR and SiliconDust DVR filenames
a. Movie (year)
b. Showname.Sx.Ex.Subtitle (where dot can be replaced any character like space, dash etc and it will ignored by MCEBuddy)
25. Updated Handbrake CLI to SVN7349 to improve conversion stability
26. Clarified options for filtering by Show Types
27. Added support for Windows 10
28. Updated MKVMerge to 8.6.1
29. Added support to supplement metadata from filename and also add support for parsing playlater filenames for metadata
30. Added support to extract Broadcast /Recorded Date and Network from Playlater files
31. %convertedfile% now gives the name of "expected" post conversion filename for Pre CustomCommand and PreCommercialRemovalCustomCommand
32. Optimization, don’t extract metadata from files is not required (increases file processing speed)
33. Improved detection for checking for locked files (write locked)
34. Added support for HEVC streams remuxing
35. Updated TsMuxeR to 2.6.12
36. Added ability to increase height of the settings page to expand the conversion task list
37. Improved TS MPEG2 profile stability
38. Added support for NetworkAffiliate metadata
39. The General Settings Delete original file and Archive original file options will now only apply to manually added files. Each Monitor Task have their own Delete/Archive original file options to avoid confusion.
40. Added support for reading WTV and DVRMS metadata when MCE filters dont’ exist on the system using ffprobe
41. Added support for QNAP NAS, skip directories containing the words @recycle in them while monitoring files
42. Added support for hardware decoding for Comskip when running as a Service
43. Added support to update Duration and Recording Start/End time when writing metadata for WTV files to improve compatibility with some players
44. Added support to match Series premiere year and Movie year when available while downloading metadata from the internet
45. Updated FFMPEG to build 2015-12-03-1331 with WTV and Mux Patches
46. Quicksync now supports 2 pass encoding
47. Improved the performance by optimizing ffprobe queries by 90% (especially for unprocessed profiles and rename operations)
48. Update Comskip to version 0.81.089
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Reviewed: MCEBuddy 2.4.3 (Dec 23, 2015)
Rated 5 Stars (out of 5) - Thank you so much guys! I love the new hardware encoder and HDHomeRun support. Great job and awesome support as always.
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Commented Unassigned: MCEBUDDY service is unavailiable [2847]
Im running windows 7 and the latest beta version but I have tried other versions including non beta. When ever I try to launch the software I get the error:
The MCEBUDDY service is unavailiable, Please start from windows control panel or check engine connection.
I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling and also do not have any commercial skipp software installed.
Comments: ** Comment from web user: rboy1 **
The MCEBUDDY service is unavailiable, Please start from windows control panel or check engine connection.
I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling and also do not have any commercial skipp software installed.
Comments: ** Comment from web user: rboy1 **
you have an issue with your windows installation, the startup is corrupted and not starting the mcebuddy service. You may need to reinstall windows (drastic i know but the easiest/cleanest option or you can be debugging this for a very long time).
Deleting is per monitor task option now.
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Closed Unassigned: MCEBUDDY service is unavailiable [2847]
Im running windows 7 and the latest beta version but I have tried other versions including non beta. When ever I try to launch the software I get the error:
The MCEBUDDY service is unavailiable, Please start from windows control panel or check engine connection.
I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling and also do not have any commercial skipp software installed.
Comments: Windows issue, reinstall
The MCEBUDDY service is unavailiable, Please start from windows control panel or check engine connection.
I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling and also do not have any commercial skipp software installed.
Comments: Windows issue, reinstall
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Commented Unassigned: Xbox Extender won't play Conversions from ABC [2843]
So I've done as much troubleshooting as I can, but I am stumped.
TV shows recorded on the ABC channel Honolulu (KITV) when converted by MCEBuddy stutter when trying to play them on an Xbox 360 Extender.
I moved to Honolulu recently and did a clean install of my HTPC. My host HTPC that the Xbox Extenders connect to is an i3-2100 on a Z68 Gigabyte MoBo running Windows 7 Home Premium using Intel integrated graphics (no GPU). This is also the PC MCEBuddy resides on. The post MCEBuddy converted shows play fine on the host PC via WMP or Emby for WMC, they play fine on my Mac, and they play fine on my iPads via the Emby iOS app. However, they stutter continuously when trying to play them through WMC on the Xbox Extenders.
I've narrowed it down to only shows on ABC. Shows converted by MCEBuddy for NBC and Fox play fine.
It is not the specific Xbox, because both my Xbox 360s have this problem.
I thought it was MCEBuddy 2.4.2, so I tried the 11/20/15 build of 2.4.3 but it still happened, so I reverted to a version of 2.4.1 from before I moved that had always worked fine and it still happened.
I use a modified profile of the HQ MP4 profile where I also add in a AC3 audio track (H.264/AAC 2-ch/AC3 6-ch). So I reverted to the default HQ MP4 profile but it still did it. So I tried the HQ MKV profile and it still did it. I also tried the Fast MP4 profile, still stutters.
I unchecked hardware encoding and it still did it. I also made sure I had the most up-to-date Intel Graphics drivers. Still did it.
I unchecked 'detect and optimize video quality' but still did it.
I unchecked 'multichannel audio' but still stutters.
I thought maybe the beginning of the wtv files were corrupted, so I changed the 'start at' parameter of all profiles from 3 seconds to 60 seconds, but the converted files still stutter on the Xbox's.
I use the latest donator version of comskip and a custom comskip.ini.
I've uploaded the conversion logs for Modern Family and Agents of SHIELD (ABC shows) as well as the first 100,000 KB chunk of one of the original Modern Family wtv files (split using File Splitter from MCEBuddy ftp site), to a folder on the MCEBuddy ftp site called UPLOADS\ABC Shows.
If anyone else has a similar setup or uses MCEBuddy and Xbox extenders, can you try and convert the wtv file and see if the resultant mp4 or mkv play fine on your PC but stutters on the Xbox extenders?
This is driving me crazy!
Comments: ** Comment from web user: rboy1 **
TV shows recorded on the ABC channel Honolulu (KITV) when converted by MCEBuddy stutter when trying to play them on an Xbox 360 Extender.
I moved to Honolulu recently and did a clean install of my HTPC. My host HTPC that the Xbox Extenders connect to is an i3-2100 on a Z68 Gigabyte MoBo running Windows 7 Home Premium using Intel integrated graphics (no GPU). This is also the PC MCEBuddy resides on. The post MCEBuddy converted shows play fine on the host PC via WMP or Emby for WMC, they play fine on my Mac, and they play fine on my iPads via the Emby iOS app. However, they stutter continuously when trying to play them through WMC on the Xbox Extenders.
I've narrowed it down to only shows on ABC. Shows converted by MCEBuddy for NBC and Fox play fine.
It is not the specific Xbox, because both my Xbox 360s have this problem.
I thought it was MCEBuddy 2.4.2, so I tried the 11/20/15 build of 2.4.3 but it still happened, so I reverted to a version of 2.4.1 from before I moved that had always worked fine and it still happened.
I use a modified profile of the HQ MP4 profile where I also add in a AC3 audio track (H.264/AAC 2-ch/AC3 6-ch). So I reverted to the default HQ MP4 profile but it still did it. So I tried the HQ MKV profile and it still did it. I also tried the Fast MP4 profile, still stutters.
I unchecked hardware encoding and it still did it. I also made sure I had the most up-to-date Intel Graphics drivers. Still did it.
I unchecked 'detect and optimize video quality' but still did it.
I unchecked 'multichannel audio' but still stutters.
I thought maybe the beginning of the wtv files were corrupted, so I changed the 'start at' parameter of all profiles from 3 seconds to 60 seconds, but the converted files still stutter on the Xbox's.
I use the latest donator version of comskip and a custom comskip.ini.
I've uploaded the conversion logs for Modern Family and Agents of SHIELD (ABC shows) as well as the first 100,000 KB chunk of one of the original Modern Family wtv files (split using File Splitter from MCEBuddy ftp site), to a folder on the MCEBuddy ftp site called UPLOADS\ABC Shows.
If anyone else has a similar setup or uses MCEBuddy and Xbox extenders, can you try and convert the wtv file and see if the resultant mp4 or mkv play fine on your PC but stutters on the Xbox extenders?
This is driving me crazy!
Comments: ** Comment from web user: rboy1 **
any difference with different encoders?
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Released: MCEBuddy 2.4.3 (Dec 23, 2015)
2.4.3 release is available through the Premium Access Program at premiumaccess.mcebuddy2x.com
Refer to www.mcebuddy2x.com to get access to the latest releases premium program. 2.3.13 is the last release you can download from here.
All new Hardware Encoding (upto 30x faster than 2.3.13) with 400+ new features and enhancements.
Introducing MCEBuddy Custom Cuts to manually mark sections of video to cut out.
Changelog for 2.4.3 (32bit and 64bit)NEW FEATURES:
1. Added support for SiliconDust HDHomeRun DVR to Read (TS/MPG) and Write Metadata (TS) files (uses a random series ID, program ID and DisplayGroupID (10402869) by default to HDHR metadata when original metadata is not from HDHR files. Done to improve compatibility with HDHR Kodi App)
2. Added a HDHomeRun Original and HDHomeRun H.264 profile
3. Minimum age of file removed from General Settings and moved to per Monitor Task in Expert Settings. The values now range from 1 minute to 90 days. The minimum age is calculated from the last modified time of the file.
4. Added support for auto enabling NVidia NVNEC encoder for H.264 and H.265 for FFMpeg if supported hardware and profile is found
5. Added support for QuickSync h265 (hevc) for handbrake and improved support for x265
BUG FIXES:
6. Fixed an issue with MCEBuddy screen not showing when clicked in the system tray. Now clicking on MCEBuddy in the system tray toggles between showing and minimizing the window.
7. Fixed a bug in remuxing TiVO files causing it to fail
8. Fix for media info failing causing it to remux the audio
9. Added check for comskip failure
10. Handbrake updated to 20151008180809-f9c5593 build (fixes fixed frame rate profiles issues)
11. Fix GUI crash for right click menu when no tasks are selected
12. Bugfix for TS handbrake profiles creating non-compliant TS files
13. Fixed an issue with Unicode filename detection
14. When forcing TVDB Id in metadata correction, then only get metadata from TVDB
15. Improved TV.com lookup reliability
16. Fixed issue with not reading the Release Year with some WTV movie files. Release year for movies is stored in OriginalBroadcastDateTime
17. Fixed an issue where the Original Broadcast Time wasn’t being read from the nPVR filenames
18. Fix for conversion failing when only renaming files when the source extension and profile rename extension are the same
19. Set a minimum 100MB free disk space criteria for temp/destination folders so that MCEBuddy doesn't accidentally hang due to insufficient space even if user has asked to ignore free disk space
20. Fixed a bug that could cause a conversion to crash in very rare cases while doing a rename only operations
21. Fixed a bug in custom renaming with nested conditional renaming commands
ENHANCEMENTS:
22. Check for invalid file size and set error message accordingly
23. The minimum age feature now measures from the file creation date
24. Added support for reading nPVR and SiliconDust DVR filenames
a. Movie (year)
b. Showname.Sx.Ex.Subtitle (where dot can be replaced any character like space, dash etc and it will ignored by MCEBuddy)
25. Updated Handbrake CLI to SVN7349 to improve conversion stability
26. Clarified options for filtering by Show Types
27. Added support for Windows 10
28. Updated MKVMerge to 8.6.1
29. Added support to supplement metadata from filename and also add support for parsing playlater filenames for metadata
30. Added support to extract Broadcast /Recorded Date and Network from Playlater files
31. %convertedfile% now gives the name of "expected" post conversion filename for Pre CustomCommand and PreCommercialRemovalCustomCommand
32. Optimization, don’t extract metadata from files is not required (increases file processing speed)
33. Improved detection for checking for locked files (write locked)
34. Added support for HEVC streams remuxing
35. Updated TsMuxeR to 2.6.12
36. Added ability to increase height of the settings page to expand the conversion task list
37. Improved TS MPEG2 profile stability
38. Added support for NetworkAffiliate metadata
39. The General Settings Delete original file and Archive original file options will now only apply to manually added files. Each Monitor Task have their own Delete/Archive original file options to avoid confusion.
40. Added support for reading WTV and DVRMS metadata when MCE filters dont’ exist on the system using ffprobe
41. Added support for QNAP NAS, skip directories containing the words @recycle in them while monitoring files
42. Added support for hardware decoding for Comskip when running as a Service
43. Added support to update Duration and Recording Start/End time when writing metadata for WTV files to improve compatibility with some players
44. Added support to match Series premiere year and Movie year when available while downloading metadata from the internet
45. Updated FFMPEG to build 2015-12-03-1331 with WTV and Mux Patches
46. Quicksync now supports 2 pass encoding
47. Improved the performance by optimizing ffprobe queries by 90% (especially for unprocessed profiles and rename operations)
48. Update Comskip to version 0.81.089
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Updated Release: MCEBuddy 2.4.3 (Dec 23, 2015)
2.4.3 release is available through the Premium Access Program at premiumaccess.mcebuddy2x.com
Refer to www.mcebuddy2x.com to get access to the latest releases premium program. 2.3.13 is the last release you can download from here.
All new Hardware Encoding (upto 30x faster than 2.3.13) with 400+ new features and enhancements.
Introducing MCEBuddy Custom Cuts to manually mark sections of video to cut out.
Changelog for 2.4.3 (32bit and 64bit)NEW FEATURES:
1. Added support for SiliconDust HDHomeRun DVR to Read (TS/MPG) and Write Metadata (TS) files (uses a random series ID, program ID and DisplayGroupID (10402869) by default to HDHR metadata when original metadata is not from HDHR files. Done to improve compatibility with HDHR Kodi App)
2. Added a HDHomeRun Original and HDHomeRun H.264 profile
3. Minimum age of file removed from General Settings and moved to per Monitor Task in Expert Settings. The values now range from 1 minute to 90 days. The minimum age is calculated from the last modified time of the file.
4. Added support for auto enabling NVidia NVNEC encoder for H.264 and H.265 for FFMpeg if supported hardware and profile is found
5. Added support for QuickSync h265 (hevc) for handbrake and improved support for x265
BUG FIXES:
6. Fixed an issue with MCEBuddy screen not showing when clicked in the system tray. Now clicking on MCEBuddy in the system tray toggles between showing and minimizing the window.
7. Fixed a bug in remuxing TiVO files causing it to fail
8. Fix for media info failing causing it to remux the audio
9. Added check for comskip failure
10. Handbrake updated to 20151008180809-f9c5593 build (fixes fixed frame rate profiles issues)
11. Fix GUI crash for right click menu when no tasks are selected
12. Bugfix for TS handbrake profiles creating non-compliant TS files
13. Fixed an issue with Unicode filename detection
14. When forcing TVDB Id in metadata correction, then only get metadata from TVDB
15. Improved TV.com lookup reliability
16. Fixed issue with not reading the Release Year with some WTV movie files. Release year for movies is stored in OriginalBroadcastDateTime
17. Fixed an issue where the Original Broadcast Time wasn’t being read from the nPVR filenames
18. Fix for conversion failing when only renaming files when the source extension and profile rename extension are the same
19. Set a minimum 100MB free disk space criteria for temp/destination folders so that MCEBuddy doesn't accidentally hang due to insufficient space even if user has asked to ignore free disk space
20. Fixed a bug that could cause a conversion to crash in very rare cases while doing a rename only operations
21. Fixed a bug in custom renaming with nested conditional renaming commands
ENHANCEMENTS:
22. Check for invalid file size and set error message accordingly
23. The minimum age feature now measures from the file creation date
24. Added support for reading nPVR and SiliconDust DVR filenames
a. Movie (year)
b. Showname.Sx.Ex.Subtitle (where dot can be replaced any character like space, dash etc and it will ignored by MCEBuddy)
25. Updated Handbrake CLI to SVN7349 to improve conversion stability
26. Clarified options for filtering by Show Types
27. Added support for Windows 10
28. Updated MKVMerge to 8.6.1
29. Added support to supplement metadata from filename and also add support for parsing playlater filenames for metadata
30. Added support to extract Broadcast /Recorded Date and Network from Playlater files
31. %convertedfile% now gives the name of "expected" post conversion filename for Pre CustomCommand and PreCommercialRemovalCustomCommand
32. Optimization, don’t extract metadata from files is not required (increases file processing speed)
33. Improved detection for checking for locked files (write locked)
34. Added support for HEVC streams remuxing
35. Updated TsMuxeR to 2.6.12
36. Added ability to increase height of the settings page to expand the conversion task list
37. Improved TS MPEG2 profile stability
38. Added support for NetworkAffiliate metadata
39. The General Settings Delete original file and Archive original file options will now only apply to manually added files. Each Monitor Task have their own Delete/Archive original file options to avoid confusion.
40. Added support for reading WTV and DVRMS metadata when MCE filters dont’ exist on the system using ffprobe
41. Added support for QNAP NAS, skip directories containing the words @recycle in them while monitoring files
42. Added support for hardware decoding for Comskip when running as a Service
43. Added support to update Duration and Recording Start/End time when writing metadata for WTV files to improve compatibility with some players
44. Added support to match Series premiere year and Movie year when available while downloading metadata from the internet
45. Updated FFMPEG to build 2015-12-03-1331 with WTV and Mux Patches
46. Quicksync now supports 2 pass encoding
47. Improved the performance by optimizing ffprobe queries by 90% (especially for unprocessed profiles and rename operations)
48. Update Comskip to version 0.81.089
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New Post: WTV and Keep Until Deleted Location in File?
Thanks very much for the Links, I have the VideoToolsUpdater.
Ok you have found me out. I can't work out what this would look like in my world. I don't know how to write batch files but if easy to understand can edit them from time to time.
WM/WMRVKeepUntil "0" dword
Is the only bit I can follow.
Would you mind writing the batch file so I can just edit the directory?
Sorry I know you have already spent a lot of time with me.
Let me know what you want and I can send you an extra donation to your PayPal.
Ok you have found me out. I can't work out what this would look like in my world. I don't know how to write batch files but if easy to understand can edit them from time to time.
WM/WMRVKeepUntil "0" dword
Is the only bit I can follow.
Would you mind writing the batch file so I can just edit the directory?
Sorry I know you have already spent a lot of time with me.
Let me know what you want and I can send you an extra donation to your PayPal.
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New Post: WTV and Keep Until Deleted Location in File?
Here you go.
Copy this into a batch file and place the batch file in the directory you want it to start working. It will take all the WTV files (*.wtv) in the directory and all sub directories and run them through the WMCMetadataUpdater.exe and set the KeepUntil flag to 0.
Things to note:
Copy this into a batch file and place the batch file in the directory you want it to start working. It will take all the WTV files (*.wtv) in the directory and all sub directories and run them through the WMCMetadataUpdater.exe and set the KeepUntil flag to 0.
Things to note:
- Set the location of the WMCMetadataUpdater.exe correctly in the script in the variable VTU
- Make sure you put this batch script in the folder you want it to start looking
- You can change the filter from *.wtv to anything else you like (e.g. *.dvr-ms)
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It is set to work recursively by default, if you DO NOT want it to work recursively in all sub directories then REMOVE the /R in the for statement
@echo off
set VTU="C:\VideoUpdaterTools\WMCMetadataUpdater.exe"
for /R %%f in (*.wtv) do (
%VTU% "%%f" WM/WMRVKeepUntil "0" dword
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New Post: WTV and Keep Until Deleted Location in File?
Thanks very much rboy1
Very easy instructions.
I ran the bat file and looked all ok put test files in WMC Recorded TV and what the Keep Unil still showed old settings.
Looked at the Metadata for WM/WMRVKeepUntil and it had updated to = 0
Had a think then decided probably the database needed deleting and updating. Not sure if it can be forced to update or not but deleting is a pain to set everything up again.
What I did is
If you delete the database you have to do a full re setup WMC so painful but if you need to the details are below.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/22442.how-to-rebuild-windows-media-center-database-in-windows-8-1.aspx?tduid=(7f23beadf580d7ea1f0d5aebadbc7424)(256380)(2459594)(TnL5HPStwNw-H0n0AAU.psWBTrcRhwUzng)()
Hope this helps someone else.
Thanks for all your time. I will send some money.
Very easy instructions.
I ran the bat file and looked all ok put test files in WMC Recorded TV and what the Keep Unil still showed old settings.
Looked at the Metadata for WM/WMRVKeepUntil and it had updated to = 0
Had a think then decided probably the database needed deleting and updating. Not sure if it can be forced to update or not but deleting is a pain to set everything up again.
What I did is
- Removed WTV files from Recorded TV to separate folder.
- Opened Windows media center for a while assuming it would see files not there and delete from database
- Ran the batch file in Temporary folder not viewable in WMC Recorded TV
- Shutdown WMC
- Copied updated metadata WTV files to Recorded TV
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Opened WMC and Recorded TV recordings now showed the Correct Keep Until details.
If you delete the database you have to do a full re setup WMC so painful but if you need to the details are below.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/22442.how-to-rebuild-windows-media-center-database-in-windows-8-1.aspx?tduid=(7f23beadf580d7ea1f0d5aebadbc7424)(256380)(2459594)(TnL5HPStwNw-H0n0AAU.psWBTrcRhwUzng)()
Hope this helps someone else.
Thanks for all your time. I will send some money.
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New Post: WTV to WTV x264 and Xbox 360
Did a test convert WTV to WTV x264 and only plays audio and black screen. Looking to save some disk space. Plays great on Windows.
Windows 8.1 x64
Xbox 360 all updates
Sharky007 Codecs set for Xbox
Xbox plays all content from xvid, mov, wtv (mpg2), mkv (subtitles disabled) and any other format I can throw at it.
I assume a tweak of the codec is required so Xbox can stream the video or did I miss something in the conversion.
I have read of people having problems and workarounds when coming from other formats and Handbrake but not WTV to WTV x264
Windows 8.1 x64
Xbox 360 all updates
Sharky007 Codecs set for Xbox
Xbox plays all content from xvid, mov, wtv (mpg2), mkv (subtitles disabled) and any other format I can throw at it.
I assume a tweak of the codec is required so Xbox can stream the video or did I miss something in the conversion.
I have read of people having problems and workarounds when coming from other formats and Handbrake but not WTV to WTV x264
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New Post: WTV to WTV x264 and Xbox 360
> workarounds when coming from other formats and Handbrake
What workarounds for handbrake?
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New Post: WTV to WTV x264 and Xbox 360
Sorry ignore Handbrake comment, I don't use it I just saw some discussions you had with people on converting from different formats to WTV and Xbox so ignore that bit and...
I just want to convert WTV from WMC to WTV x264 using latest MCEBuddy 2.4.2 and have them play picture on Xbox 360.
Cheers
I just want to convert WTV from WMC to WTV x264 using latest MCEBuddy 2.4.2 and have them play picture on Xbox 360.
Cheers
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New Post: Extracting metadata (episode, showname etc) from files and supplementing from internet
Based on the list above, as well as results from my own conversion tests, it appears that any metadata - show title, air date - contained in the WTV file overrides any subsequent values contained in NFO file or filename. Is there any way to change this behavior?
I'm struggling to get source data that has been recorded from Windows Media Center and HDPVR Capture processed and moved to Plex in a format where all show/episode information is usable. Two main issues so far, (1) my programs are sports related. i.e. non-episodic and not available thru online meta databases, and (2) the air date metadata contained in WTV file is corrupt in some recordings. I found a DVR-MS metadata editor from 2005 that seems to work okay for now, but any suggestions or options you can offer will be appreciated.
Thanks
I'm struggling to get source data that has been recorded from Windows Media Center and HDPVR Capture processed and moved to Plex in a format where all show/episode information is usable. Two main issues so far, (1) my programs are sports related. i.e. non-episodic and not available thru online meta databases, and (2) the air date metadata contained in WTV file is corrupt in some recordings. I found a DVR-MS metadata editor from 2005 that seems to work okay for now, but any suggestions or options you can offer will be appreciated.
Thanks
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