MCEBuddy is an automated service for Media Center and Recorded TV that removes advertisements and commercials and converts the Recordings into a compressed or mobile friendly format.
Convert, Shrink and Remove Ads for Your Windows Media Center
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 MP4 , AVI, MKV, portable devices and others. Removes Commercials. Converts in the background at scheduled times.
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.
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)
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, 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)
Added support for 2 GUI start up command (/startmin and /startengine). Refer to documentation for more details
Added support to show the history of converted files, status, profile, conversion duration etc and copy to clipboard
Added support for user provided translations to be loaded at runtime on the fly. User can create custom translations by creating a <language>-fixed.txt in the Localization directory (e.g. de-fixed.txt). The format of the files is a tab separated translation, one row for each phrase (no quotes), i.e.
<english text><TAB><translated text>
Added support for Klingon language (go start trek!)
Added a new window for expert settings, no more meddling with mcebuddy.conf (use carefully!)
Users can now define a custom profiles.conf file so they don’t need to keep replacing it after each upgrade. NOTE: if you use this feature you will miss out on new enhancements and performance improvements to profiles.conf that comes with mcebuddy upgrades.
Added support for pre conversion Custom Commands (prefixed with the letters Pre). This custom command is run BEFORE the conversion process (before copying EDL/SRT file and before remuxing) starts but after extracting the metadata. Refer to documentation for more details.
Added option for suspending conversion on battery power and automatically resuming on a/c
Added performance metrics to conversion log
Emails are now stored in a new email engine and retried every 5 minutes until they are successfully sent (indefinitely), even if the engine is in stopped mode.
ENHANCEMENTS:
Upgraded ffmpeg to build Apr 28th 2013
Improved remote engine connect and GUI responsive performance
GUI now shows a message if conversion is paused because it’s outside the programmed schedule
Updated CCExtractor to 0.65 and improved validation of SRT files to avoid failed conversions due to non compliant SRT files
Improved encoding performance by up to 50% by rationalizing bitrates and encoders
Better handling of crashes due to corrupted or incorrect profiles
Added ffmpeg encoding of aac multichannel audio
ffmpeg and handbrake profiles are about 30% faster
Sync converted files now works with manual files and even after restarting the engine, it scans all converted files in the History file and sync them
Improved the quality of high quality profiles by upto 60%
Improved the performance of Monitor Tasks and processing conversion queues over extended periods of time and for very large filesystems
Two new custom command parameters added, %taskname% and %profile%
Added support for customized eMail subjects
In some cases MCEBuddy can prevent system hibernation when Allow Sleep is unchecked
Updated MKVMerge to 6.2.0
Removed header compression from all tracks in MKV and added meta seek data for better seeking and compatibility with hardware
Optimized bitrate of profiles for size, speed and quality
Added support for pause event in service, improved shutdown support
FixedResolution=true now also fixes the bitrate specified in the profile, refer to the documentation for more detail
Updated handbrake to 0.9.9 (support for fast deinterlacing Bob filter)
Engine and conversion status now shown in status bar
Now notifications and custom eMail subjects for adding a conversion to the queue
BUG FIXES:
GUI reporting incorrect info sometimes
MCEBuddy drash due to CCExtractor parsing corrupted closed caption file
Prevent any 3rd party apps from crashing mcebuddy
Sometimes remote event logs didn’t display properly
Fix announcement text size, sometimes too large, is now scrolling
Change and Delete button in the Settings page sometimes caused an error when nothing is selected and the buttons are pressed
MKV profile incorrectly used AAC instead of AC3 for handbrake fallback
Multichannel audio output did not work when audio language was selected
Original TS files would get overwritten
Original EDL and SRT files would get deleted when using Rename Only option without checking Delete Original
Original files would not get deleted after checking Delete Original if Show or Network metafilters were set
Once a file has been processed for matching metafilters (show or network) it would not reprocess the file when the filters where changed
MCEBUDDY does not install ffdshow anymore since it breaks WTV playback (MPEG2)
Skip crop checking if cropping is disabled (speed improvement)
Upgraded MediaInfo to 0.7.63 (hanging with some WTV files)
Issues with some files not converting due to ffmpeg MediaInfo parsing crash
Test eMail timeout fixed
Handbrake not creating 6ch AAC files (profiles should either remove -6 or add -6 5point1, -6 auto will downmix the channels for AAC audio)
Test emails are now sent from the engine instead of the client
Default audio and video information selection which could prevent multichannel audio from being created
Fixed issue with large lists and event logs overloading the communication channel
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MCEBuddy 2.3.13 64bit.zip
Getting Started with MCEBuddy
