MCEBuddy

The search continues...

The entry of WTV/H.264 into the TV recording equation has really thrown a spanner in the works.  To support this correctly and provide what we have become accustomed to doing in MCEBuddy I need at the very least some robust directshow muxing filters and at most a whole pile of codecs.  I have searched far and wide for *robust* freeware filters that will do the job and have not come up with anything yet.

Unfortunately all the commercial licenses available so far are on a *per seat* basis which would mean that should I use them I would not be able to release MCEBuddy as freeware.  My first vendor discussion resulted in license costs such that to produce what MCEBuddy does now would have a per-copy price of ludicrous proportions - and that is without merchant fees, etc.

So I continue to search for these filters, not having time to both develop MCEBuddy and the filters themselves.  I'm talking to some nice people at the moment and I am hopeful though there is still no pricing yet.  In the meantime, does anyone have any leads?

No-gos are: Moon's mux, ATI mux, cyberlink mux, mongram mux, haali

A generic, free TS mux  directshow filter that accepts both MPEG2 and H.264 would be good.

MCEBuddy 1.1 is now released!  Thanks to all the beta testers that have helped, especially those who clipped and uploaded recordings and who provided detailed feedback.

Derek

MCEBuddy 1.1 BETA 3 is released.  Please download and test it if you have time.  Post your results (including if it works) to the 1.x Beta forum

I hope this will be the last beta and I'll be able to wrap 1.1 soon and get back to 2.0

MCEBuddy 1.1 BETA 2 is released.  Please download and test it if you have time.  Post your results (including if it works) to the 1.x Beta forum

MCEBuddy 1.1 BETA 1 is released.  Please download and test it if you have time.  Post your results (including if it works) to the 1.x Beta forum

MCEBuddy 1.1 beta is coming soon.  The goal of release 1.1 is to bed down most of the issues and critical features of 1.x so it can be put into maintenance while I work on 2.0.  A fair bit of code has been backported from MCEBuddy 2.0 into 1.0.9 and 1.1.

Timeframe for completion (released version - not beta) Mid-Late January 2010.

Key changes and features:

• Disk space check to ensure there is sufficient space for the conversion
• File history logging - remembering which files have been converted and allows re-conversion
• H264 conversions are now apple friendly
• iPhone/iTouch and new iPod profiles
• MPEG conversion now works correctly
• MMV conversion now works correctly
• Sub directory search option
• Multiple file masks
• Updated to support and include the latest comskip
• Updated to support the latest ShowAnalyzer
• Built in event log viewer for only MCEBuddy events
• Some UI tweaks
• Monitor application is not in the startup by default

This will be a fairly fast beta, so when it comes out, please test it out on your rig as quickly as you can.

Derek

Hello eveyone out there.  Apparently Windows 7 Media Center can record H.264 into WTV files if the HDTV broadcast is in H.264.  MCEBuddy currently does not support this.  If you have a copy of such a recording, please upload it to rapidshare or bittorrent and provide a link in the support forums.