my apologies, i forgot to attach the log - https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6317570/mcebuddy/mcebuddy.log
i'm using 2.3.12
the word "flicker" is not really accurate to describe what i was seeing, my apologies for using it.... the gui was hanging with the "service unavailable", but then would come back to life - sort of... basically, it would be about 5-10 (much longer than that the first time) minutes of hang, and then it would pop up the queued files list for a minute, then hang again.... rinse/repeat.... this kept going for a while... even when the gui did show the files, there was no progress bar or any other indication to show that an actual conversion was taking place, but it turns out there was.... some files have completed successfully even though the gui looked like mcebuddy was hanging or nothing was happening etc...
so it works, i'm happy :)
i had much less luck with profiles, though... actually, let me rephrase that - i had great luck, and could manipulate the handbrake cli pretty much any which way i wanted to when the width was set at 720... however, once i upped it to 1280 my luck ran out... i simply could not get mcebuddy to lock on to the set bitrate no matter what i tried.... you mentioned earlier that mcebuddy is setup for 720 and processes 1280 differently, so i'm guessing my luck had something to do with that and that i won't be able to fix this problem.... so i gave up - for now...
i'm glad that i found out that mcebuddy can handle a large pool of files, but that alone was half the battle for me and it wasn't even the biggest half... the fact that i can't lock the bitrate once i up the width kind of defeats the purpose of scanning that large pool to begin with... i know you mentioned using the quality slider instead, but i'm after a consistent filesize and that's something that will be very tricky to achieve by playing with quality...
i guess i'll have to stick to using HBbatchencoder, or look for some other tool to handle this particular task.... that said - i absolutely love mcebuddy... i already mentioned that it's been running problem free (through various versions) on my htpc for well over a year now... no hickups, no issues, i don't even remember that it's there sometimes... i don't have the skill or the knowledge to make it do everything i want i to do, but the things it's meant to do it does very well, and i am very happy with it... so happy i just donated :)
i'm using 2.3.12
the word "flicker" is not really accurate to describe what i was seeing, my apologies for using it.... the gui was hanging with the "service unavailable", but then would come back to life - sort of... basically, it would be about 5-10 (much longer than that the first time) minutes of hang, and then it would pop up the queued files list for a minute, then hang again.... rinse/repeat.... this kept going for a while... even when the gui did show the files, there was no progress bar or any other indication to show that an actual conversion was taking place, but it turns out there was.... some files have completed successfully even though the gui looked like mcebuddy was hanging or nothing was happening etc...
so it works, i'm happy :)
i had much less luck with profiles, though... actually, let me rephrase that - i had great luck, and could manipulate the handbrake cli pretty much any which way i wanted to when the width was set at 720... however, once i upped it to 1280 my luck ran out... i simply could not get mcebuddy to lock on to the set bitrate no matter what i tried.... you mentioned earlier that mcebuddy is setup for 720 and processes 1280 differently, so i'm guessing my luck had something to do with that and that i won't be able to fix this problem.... so i gave up - for now...
i'm glad that i found out that mcebuddy can handle a large pool of files, but that alone was half the battle for me and it wasn't even the biggest half... the fact that i can't lock the bitrate once i up the width kind of defeats the purpose of scanning that large pool to begin with... i know you mentioned using the quality slider instead, but i'm after a consistent filesize and that's something that will be very tricky to achieve by playing with quality...
i guess i'll have to stick to using HBbatchencoder, or look for some other tool to handle this particular task.... that said - i absolutely love mcebuddy... i already mentioned that it's been running problem free (through various versions) on my htpc for well over a year now... no hickups, no issues, i don't even remember that it's there sometimes... i don't have the skill or the knowledge to make it do everything i want i to do, but the things it's meant to do it does very well, and i am very happy with it... so happy i just donated :)