I am a new user as of this week as well. I am also seeing that Media Center does not play WTV (Unprocessed) format. My Media Center simply crashes. I don't even get the audio. I have checked the ffdshow video decoder config and both MPEG2 and MPEG2 in AVI are using libavcoder by default. ffdshow is the only codec I use as I prefer not to use any but let MCEBuddy install when I ran the set-up.
Anyway, I will also try the WTV profile instead.
I have the same goal is the OP and also prefer to keep the processing time to a minimum. I would actually prefer to use the EDL Files to be able to manually skip over the commercials. I trued to set this up using DVRMSToolbox years ago and it made my machine very unstable. I was very pleased to see how quickly MCEBuddy seemed to automatically configure this for me. I have tested it converting to MKV and it works great. Unfortunately but the conversion time is a bit slow and I am unable to get Media Center to recognize the files.
Anyway, I will also try the WTV profile instead.
I have the same goal is the OP and also prefer to keep the processing time to a minimum. I would actually prefer to use the EDL Files to be able to manually skip over the commercials. I trued to set this up using DVRMSToolbox years ago and it made my machine very unstable. I was very pleased to see how quickly MCEBuddy seemed to automatically configure this for me. I have tested it converting to MKV and it works great. Unfortunately but the conversion time is a bit slow and I am unable to get Media Center to recognize the files.