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MCEBuddy 2.x

Convert Videos, Remove Commercials and Ads for your Windows Media Center, Recorded TV and any Video.

Description

Convert Videos, Remove Commercials and Ads for your Windows Media Center, TV Recordings and any other Video.

MCEBuddy takes your video recordings and REMOVES COMMERCIALS and Advertisements while converting your recordings 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. Converts to WTV, MP4 , AVI, MKV, portable devices and others. Removes Commercials. Converts 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.

Check out the Getting Started User Guide here. More documentation here.

Features

Remove Commercials & Advertisements
Convert TV (HD/SD) Recordings and Videos
Shrink TV Recordings & Videos
Schedule Conversions
Multiple Simultaneous Conversions
Monitor Folders (runs in the background even without user logon)
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 as Subtitles
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 (39+ languages)
Supports WTV, DVR-MS, TS, MPG, MKV, MP4, AVI, WMV, TiVO (with MAK) and more
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 Style Metadata
Supports IMDB, MovieDB, TVDB, TV.com and advanced Metadata processing
Support metadata extraction from Windows Media Center, nPVR, MediaPortal, SageTV, ArgusTV and more
Supports FFMPEG, Handbrake and MEncoder
Supports Comskip and ShowAnalyzer
Supports Custom Commands/Programs
Support for Mobile/Portable devices (iPhone, iPad, Roku, 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, Windows 7 and Windows 8
Windows Media Center Plugin (separate installation)

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 free of charge for NON-COMMERCIAL personal use.