Anyone know the best profile I should select for MCEBuddy? My tuner records as a TS file, and I don’t care about space, just the best quality, and I want to play to my Apple TV without transcoding.
I have premium versions of both MCEBuddy and comskip.
M4V High Quality?
I don’t want the conversion to take hours mind you!
Cheers 
I use MP4 Unprocessed. HD recordings 30 minutes take between 4-6 minutes to process, 60 minutes take 7-11 minutes to process generally. The MP4 Normal was taking the same amount of time as the show was in length for me, so a 30 minute show was taking 30+ minutes to process. During Fall season I was seeing major backlogs in the mcebuddy queue so I switched to MP4 Unprocessed.
I completely agree with @johnm_ColaSC if space doesnt matter either MP4 or MKV unprocessed - I have a separate process setup for sports recordings I tend to delete after watching that just strips commercials and then stores to mkv , to expand the thread what do you guys use for the ones you want to keep and make compatible with as many deivces as possible so transcoding isnt needed, still look like quality HD but make smaller in size.
I have been using Handbrake manually after recordings are in library to convert to HEVC or h.265. Much smaller file sizes, the clients I use all seem to play the files without transcoding and no quality difference from the MP4 Unprocessed from what I can tell. One day I will automate the Handbrake conversions just haven’t taken the time yet to do it. After Handbrake is done I move the files to a RecordTV_HEVC folder in my library that Plex also looks at for TV Shows. Before Handbrake they are in a folder called RecordTV, so the only files in that folder are MP4 files that have not been converted to HEVC so an automated process will just look for files in the RecordedTV folder and when Handbrake is done the automated process will move the new file to the RecordedTV_HEVC folder and remove the original file.
For speed like they said (unprocessed) but if you are trying to reduce size, I use mp4 normal… with a beefy setup (see sig specs below) it takes me 50% of the time the show runs… 30m for 1h show for instance… with comskip running too…
The biggest thing with comskip and commercial detection is the detect_method. I use a value of 107.
So… I tried MP4 unprocessed. The conversion fails. I tried TS unprocessed, and that works fine. I presume then, that I cannot do MP4 unprocessed from a TS file?
I’m considering going HEVC now that the Apple TV supports it - I do realise that Plex needs updating to support direct play of HEVC.
I do MP4 Unprocessed with every conversion from a recording on my system. Did mcebuddy give an error in the conversion log?
I had logging turned off for individual conversions. Turned it on and ran another…
Log attached - seems to fail due to the audio codec I think?
You might have to use MKV Unprocessed instead of MP4. Just some quick searching it appears that the AAC-LATM audio codec might not be supported in mp4. Can you try the MKV with the same ts file?
I just changed it to MKV unprocessed. There’s a recording in progress, so I’ll see if the stuck on 100% recording bug rears its head again!
MKV works just fine
Good. Does it play fine on your clients?
Well… it converts without error… however it is full of artifacts on playback. Unfortunately I didn’t try playing them before conversion, so can’t tell what that relates to!
Until the recordings stuck issue is resolved, then I can’t really go much further, as DVR in its current state for me is unusable.
