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I'm going to give this another go and I'll report back. But in the meantime if anyone has this working (through whatever method) I'm happy to hear about it.
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2014-08-30, 00:34
(This post was last modified: 2014-08-30, 00:45 by bluenote.)
Reporting back that (oddly) as bad as my first experience was with MCEBuddy, my second attempt several versions later was easy peasy and worked well.
Using WTV unprocessed profile, and selecting to remove commercials, files are reconstituted without the commercial video (so about 2/3 original size on disk), and by not selecting a rename/folder option, the file is simply overwritten as the original title, with metadata, so WMC never appears to know the difference.
For bonus points you could use the WTV profile that re-encodes MPEG2 to H.264 but I found that was a little too time intensive for my tastes (results were very good though).. I dont need my main box burning away doing that for all the daily news crap that I dont always watch and that gets deleted within a couple days automatically.
I find the interface just a little clunky, but mousing over everything for help does make things a little easier.
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Cool, thanks for the info.
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I've discovered that this seems to break "keep until" functionality, or really, any MCE-based library management that is done automatically.
So far I haven't been able to fix it or determine where the fault lies. The media itself shows up fine in MCE as if it was the original untouched file. (runtime does not match the metadata of course though).
I might have to go back to just using comskip and not messing with the files like I have done with mcebuddy.
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If the trancoded files show up in wmc, what does wmc show as the file deletion time?
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"I've discovered that this seems to break "keep until" functionality, or really, any MCE-based library management that is done automatically." - this mirrors my experience as well.
I'm using the MCEbuddy/Comskip route as well. It works really well for culling adverts (I'm running donor versions of both products) except as you mention for the lack of WMC automatic pruning. As I'm running a dedicated 2TB drive it is a once a month chore to prune out the old files. If you find a solution though let me know.
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I am still curious, if these wtv files show up in wmc, what does wmc say about when these files will be deleted?
If wmc says they are all 'keep until delete' and the original wtv was not set this way, then it seems like this is a problem with mcebuddy not setting this meta field properly.
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2014-09-13, 19:21
(This post was last modified: 2014-09-13, 19:26 by peetee07.)
I have the same setup with MCEBuddy(paid version), that detects commercials transcodes them to h264 then transfers them in my TV Shows library folder in which xbmc scrapes and gets season,episode..etc all while deleting the original once done. There's a command line within MCEBuddy that will export it with proper season etc... after transcoding.
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I don't think that's true. In wmc go to recorded tv, then select a recording, when the synopsis screen opens, go right to 'actions'. Then under additional commands you should see 'keep until'.
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No problem. Not sure, but I think episodes of a series are marked 'keep until space is needed' if you choose that setting for a series recording.