MCEBuddy

I downloaded 1.0.6 this morning, and must say that it's superb - great job Derek.

One thing I noticed is that 1.0.6 will only convert dvr-ms files now, although a previous version I was using (not sure which) would also convert mpg's if dropped into the watched folder.  Has this functionality been removed on purpose?  I found it very useful that I could convert some old (large) mpg's with H.264 and produce small files of excellent quality.

Thanks and cheers

rushN:

I downloaded 1.0.6 this morning, and must say that it's superb - great job Derek.

One thing I noticed is that 1.0.6 will only convert dvr-ms files now, although a previous version I was using (not sure which) would also convert mpg's if dropped into the watched folder.  Has this functionality been removed on purpose?  I found it very useful that I could convert some old (large) mpg's with H.264 and produce small files of excellent quality.

Thanks and cheers

Gee, I hope not.  Haven't touched that section of code for weeks.  The app has only been out for a few of hours and I've got my first possible bug.

:-S

Derek

Hi Derek

It still works .  All I needed was a reboot - sorry.  However, audio is way out of sync.  What I did: ripped a DVD to hard drive (main movie only).  Ran VOBtoMPG to create a single .mpg file from the VOB set.  Ran through MCEBuddy using H.265 High Quality (No Resize).  Encode took around 2.5 hours on the original 3.8Gb mpg.  Audio is out of sync by around 5 secs.

 For what it's worth, video quality is superb on the resultant avi.

Cheers

rushN:

Hi Derek

 

It still works .  All I needed was a reboot - sorry.  However, audio is way out of sync.  What I did: ripped a DVD to hard drive (main movie only).  Ran VOBtoMPG to create a single .mpg file from the VOB set.  Ran through MCEBuddy using H.265 High Quality (No Resize).  Encode took around 2.5 hours on the original 3.8Gb mpg.  Audio is out of sync by around 5 secs.

 For what it's worth, video quality is superb on the resultant avi.

Cheers

Can I assume the MPEGs are not out of sync? 

Your assumption is correct

rushN:

Your assumption is correct

Hmmmm.  Not sure what the issue would be as H.264 has been very well behaved.  Why don't you just rip directly from the DVD using mencoder and the MCEBuddy H.264 profile?

This is a somewhat related post - in particular to the audio being 5 seconds. off.  I have a certain DV-RMS file (ATSC 1080i file) that when converted to any format leaves the audio being 5 seconds off.  This seems different than the audio problem reported in the other thread where it gets progressively farther off.  It's off right from the beginning.  Other files that I convert end up fine.  I am using 1.0.6.

vander1:

This is a somewhat related post - in particular to the audio being 5 seconds. off.  I have a certain DV-RMS file (ATSC 1080i file) that when converted to any format leaves the audio being 5 seconds off.  This seems different than the audio problem reported in the other thread where it gets progressively farther off.  It's off right from the beginning.  Other files that I convert end up fine.  I am using 1.0.6.

Yes, this is the same known 1080 bug.  I'm working with Jelwood to put together a new build that fixes this.

Cheers

Derek

Hey.  I have an update on this that may be of some importance.  I was mistaken as to the format of the DV-RMS file.  I was thinking it was recorded from a different channel than it was.  The show was "The Next Great American Band" and it was recorded from Fox-HD (actually my local network version of it).  I believe Fox broadcasts everything in 720p (along with ABC, while NBC and CBS and PBS use 1080i).  I tried it on a 2nd "Next Great American Band" show which I had recorded, and it has the same problem after conversion, of the audio being several seconds off right from the beginning.  Is there anything I can do to manually adjust it?  (some sort of mencoder option or something like that)?  Sorry for the confusion about the format - it doesn't show up in file properties like it does for the files that MCEBuddy converts.

vander1:

Hey.  I have an update on this that may be of some importance.  I was mistaken as to the format of the DV-RMS file.  I was thinking it was recorded from a different channel than it was.  The show was "The Next Great American Band" and it was recorded from Fox-HD (actually my local network version of it).  I believe Fox broadcasts everything in 720p (along with ABC, while NBC and CBS and PBS use 1080i).  I tried it on a 2nd "Next Great American Band" show which I had recorded, and it has the same problem after conversion, of the audio being several seconds off right from the beginning.  Is there anything I can do to manually adjust it?  (some sort of mencoder option or something like that)?  Sorry for the confusion about the format - it doesn't show up in file properties like it does for the files that MCEBuddy converts.

There's no generic option to fix this as its a mencoder bug.  However if your all recordings are out by a reliable amount of time there is a mencoder option to slew the audio by a fixed amount.  Note that this would then be applied to *all* your recordings, which you may not want.  Which is also why I am working to resolve the issue within mencoder instead.

Derek 

Phredeaux:

rushN:

I downloaded 1.0.6 this morning, and must say that it's superb - great job Derek.

One thing I noticed is that 1.0.6 will only convert dvr-ms files now, although a previous version I was using (not sure which) would also convert mpg's if dropped into the watched folder.  Has this functionality been removed on purpose?  I found it very useful that I could convert some old (large) mpg's with H.264 and produce small files of excellent quality.

Thanks and cheers

Gee, I hope not.  Haven't touched that section of code for weeks.  The app has only been out for a few of hours and I've got my first possible bug.

:-S

Derek

Hi,

I've been trying to drop .mpg files into the \Public\Recorded TV folder where MCE stores dvr-ms files and MCE Buddy does not seems to want to pick them up for conversion... Is there something else I need to do?

Everything else is working spot on: dvr-ms files are converted beautifully but .mpg files are ignored.

Any ideas? I'm running Vista Home Premium x86.

Thanks.

 Michel.

Did you set the file selection to *.* from *.dvr-ms?

Cheers

Derek

Thanks Derek. I hadn't noticed that.

All is well now...

 ...Michel.

I am using 1.0.8 now, and things seem to be much better with audio - I haven't seen anything off by a significant amount.  I do think that the audio lags on all the programs I have converted by maybe 200ms or so.  You mentioned a mencoder option (or maybe it would be ffmpeg option now that would apply) that would adjust the sync for all programs.  Is this something I could put in the mencoder.config file?  If so, could you tell me what it is?  I'd like to try it.  Thanks!