The logs are unhelpful; they say basically nothing. On the GUI side, you see it begin to work on the file - the last update is that it is "Getting information and banner from Internet sources".
Things I have tested to try to resolve this - none of which have worked:
1) I've turned off auto-scanning for files, and only manually handed it a file.
2) Normally, my source directory is a shared drive on another computer. Trying a local file instead did not fix it.
3) Rebooting the computer and service.
4) Disabling looking up internet metadata.
5) Turning on the firewall exception.
6) Trying multiple profiles for Conversion
7) Changing the Temp directory
The oddest thing - it was working, until I had to reboot the computer after installing other software. It only happens at the beginning of a conversion. It will sit "Idle" indefinitely without any problems.
I have seen this issue happening off and on for a couple of weeks now. The fresh windows install I did tonight was partially in hopes of fixing the issue, but I had it come back before I even installed anything except drivers.
I've attached the logs for the file I am manually starting and mcebuddy both.
Comments: ** Comment from web user: sideswipeitman **
I don't still have the file; however, I don't believe this is specific to any one file - I can make it happen on virtually any files.
After doing a lot of further playing around with this...I'm only seeing it happen on Windows 8.
I've tried running MCEBuddy on 4 different computers; 3 of them have been running Windows 8/8.1, and one has been running Server 2012. The Server 2012 machine has never had it happen, the other 3 have all had it happen.
I just created a VM that's running Windows 7 ultimate, and it has started right up without any issues, and I've been unable to get the "hang" to happen, where it happens almost constantly in Windows 8.
I think my next move will be reverting to Windows 7 outside of the VM environment and seeing if I can make it break.