2.3.15 release is available through the Early Access Program. Click here https://mcebuddy2x.codeplex.com/discussions/439439 for details and to get access to the latest releases.
The daily BETA builds and release notes are updated and kept on the early access server, this page may not always be upto date.Changelog for 2.3.15 (32bit and 64bit)
NEW FEATURES:
1. Added support for auto enabling hardware encoding for handbrake based profiles, option in Conversion Task -> Advanced Settings -> Expert Settings -> Hardware encoding. Ensure that your system has the latest OpenCL 1.2 or later drivers installed. (NOTE: Hardware encoding REQUIRES a user to be logged into the system either on the console locally or using remote desktop). If no user is logged into the system, it will fallback to non hardware encoding.
2. Added support for hardware encoding while MCEBuddy runs as a service. You can write custom hardware enabled profiles for ffmpeg and mencoder if you have builds that support hardware encoding. (handbrake build has been updated to support OpenCL 1.2 drivers, Windows XP is NOT supported for QuickSync and newer handbrake builds)
3. Added support for handbrake-UsingHardwareEncoding=true in profile to disable auto hardware encoding adjustment for profiles who’s parameters are already optimized for hardware encoding. Refer to documentation for more details.
4. Added support for TiVO fast transfer (TS) files decoding through directshow streams extraction (needs TiVO Desktop installed AND INSTALL 32Bit MCEBuddy, 64Bit MCEBuddy WILL NOT WORK with TiVO Desktop since TiVO Desktop is 32bit. Also, ensure MCEBuddy is running as a Command Line Engine, TiVO Directshow will not work with the engine running as a Service due to Windows limitations.)
5. Added support for power management in the MCEBuddy commandline engine app
6. Added support for H264 and AAC audio in WTV files (now WTV Unprocessed profiles support H264 and WTV profile now has H264 video by default)
7. Option under Conversion Task -> Advanced Settings ->Expert Settings to Skip remuxing. DO NOT USE UNLESS ABSOLUTELY SURE.
8. Added support for PreCommercialRemovalCustomCommand (custom command run just before commercial removal. Refer to https://mcebuddy2x.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Conversion%20Process for details on when the custom commands are run)
9. Added support for Unicode filenames (DO NOT REPLACE the default MCEBuddy.conf, Profiles.conf, History and ManualQueue files since these are NEW files with UTF-16 LE Unicode encoding, the old files were NOT UTF files and will mess things up).
10. Added a command line program to remux TiVO files to TS using TiVO Desktop DirectShow filters (for Fast Transfers). Program name is MCEBuddy.RemuxTiVOStreams and the Usage: RemuxTiVOStreams <TiVOFile> <TempPath> <MAK> <AudioLanguage>
11. Added support to read metadata from SageTV Properties file
BUGFIXES:
12. Fixed major bug where WTV and DVRMS Streams remuxing fails
13. Fixed issue with WTV files not playing back on Windows 7/8 and Xbox extender due to Windows Update KB2670838
14. Fixed issue when monitoring directories, if one file/directory was in accessible due to security issues, it would stop scanning any further
15. Skip copy backup now never copies the original file even if there is a zero channel audio track in the TS file
16. Fixed SRT and EDL file paths for custom actions
17. Fixed crash due to corrupted history file
18. Fixed downloading issue with TV.com, now matches episode name before trying to match original air date
19. Fix for some WTV closed captions extractions failing
20. Fix for log file not recording warning, information and error symbols sometimes
21. Fixed error in reading History file duplicate entries
22. Fixed issues with files having ];= characters in their filenames
23. Fixed an issue with MEncoder remux from avi to mp4 MP4Box failing
24. Removed comskip_old.exe as backup, does not work with newer files and hangs
25. Fixed issue with 32bit command line engine crashing on 64bit windows (you need to start the GUI manually)
26. Don't delete source support files (EDL/TXT etc) with original files if we didn't create them
27. Fixed issues with custom commands srt, edl and sourcefile names
28. Cutting srt files is now done along with commercial removal
29. Fixed handling –X for fixed resolution for handbrake
30. Fixed a bug with warning popup for credentials while loading the settings
31. Fixed a bug with 2Pass ffmpeg profiles (HighQuality MP4/MKV) where conversion would fail when volume was increased/decreased
32. Fixed a bug in automatic quality detection with handbrake profiles
33. Fixed a major bug which did not save changes to the eMail settings
34. Fixed documentation for Channel and Recording Title filters (it should be * and NOT . to select all)
35. Fixed issue with TS files having multiple video streams
36. Moved files have same case as converted file since XBMC needs files (edl, srt etc) with exact same case as the converted file
37. Fixed issue with some video segments not getting merged after commercial removal due to issue with AVIDemux
ENHANCEMENTS:
38. Put a limit on the mcebuddy.log file (50MB) after which it clears itself
39. Confirm before deleting tasks
40. Now you can rename conversion tasks (new tasks are added to the bottom, you can also use this to reorder conversion tasks)
41. Improved paused notifications on the screen
42. Added support for -crf to set constant quality in ffmpeg profiles
43. Improved detection of framerates while remuxing
44. Improved handling of no video or no audio recordings
45. Updated MediaInfo to 0.7.65 build
46. Updated FFMPEG custom build to 25th Dec 2013
47. Fixed Danish translations – thank you @Ivan
48. Reload the configuration when the user clicks on Settings button so that any changes made to the MCEBuddy.conf file manually while the engine was stopped are captured
49. Updated Comskip to 0.81.058
50. Added support for iPod profile
51. Added support for Monitoring Converted Files in Monitor Location -> Expert Settings. This can be useful when trying to link the output of one conversion task to the input for another conversion/monitor task (Daisy Chaining). CAUTION: USE THIS ONLY IF YOU KNOW WHAT YOU’RE DOING. Otherwise it can lead to an infinite conversion loop of converted files in some cases.
52. Fixed manual file addition not being removed from ManualQueue tracker if the file is locked
53. Improved check for invalid characters in filenames
54. Added support for fonts to ffmpeg folder
55. Added support for burning subtitles in ffmpeg profiles using the command ffmpeg-subtitleburn=true. Don’t forget to enable Closed Caption Extraction or have a valid SRT file with your source video to use this option. (Refer to the documentation for more details)
56. Added ShowType for Sports for filtering and also added %issport% for custom renaming and custom commands (Refer to documentation for more details)
57. Added support for regular expressions to evaluate and replace showname titles in metadata corrections under Conversion Tasks -> Expert Settings (start the pattern with regex:)
58. Added support for using network path with authentication for temp folder, connects using authentication from Setttings -> Expert Settings -> General Authentication
59. Updated AVIDemux to 2.6.7 and added 64bit build
60. Updated handbrake to 0.9.9 6013svn with OpenCL and QuickSync support
61. Speed up the conversion by about 10% when using handbrake profiles by only running crop detection for ffmpeg and mencoder at runtime
62. Added support for relative paths in CustomCommandPath and 2 new CustomCommand parameters, CustomCommandUISession and CustomCommandShowWindow. Refer to documentation for more details.
63. Improved responsiveness of engine/GUI when dealing with large directories for monitoring and history files for syncing converted files