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<blockquote data-quote="doveman" data-source="post: 659536" data-attributes="member: 67412">I've been trying MCEBuddy for a couple of days and whilst it's a great app that mostly does all that I need, I'm wondering if there's any alternatives that will do the job more to my liking.Firstly and most importantly, I find the encoding rather slow and I'd like the files to be compressed a bit more than MCEBuddy does. I'm compressing to Xvid AVI and it's roughly making them about three times smaller, but as they're only SD TV recordings, I think they could be compressed a bit more without the drop in quality being that noticeable (or if it is, not bothering me too much). To compress, it's roughly taking about one hour per hour of video on my Athlon II X4 630. I don't know if that's about right, but whilst mencoder's using all four cores, it's only pushing them to about 40% max. Even when I'm watching TV at the same time, it only goes to 45-50% max, so I'd prefer it if I could find something that will use more of the CPU.I don't use the commercial skipping (tried it but it was cutting parts of the programme). I like the options to only compress between certain hours and to only compress programmes that are older than x number of days, so I'd want those in any alternative. I would like a pause function, so that if I want to watch an HD video that needs the CPU, or if I need to reboot, I can pause the compression and resume it when I'm ready.So is there anything else I can use that will run in the background, checking a certain folder for .ts files over a certain age and compress them faster and smaller than MCEBuddy?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="doveman, post: 659536, member: 67412"] I've been trying MCEBuddy for a couple of days and whilst it's a great app that mostly does all that I need, I'm wondering if there's any alternatives that will do the job more to my liking. Firstly and most importantly, I find the encoding rather slow and I'd like the files to be compressed a bit more than MCEBuddy does. I'm compressing to Xvid AVI and it's roughly making them about three times smaller, but as they're only SD TV recordings, I think they could be compressed a bit more without the drop in quality being that noticeable (or if it is, not bothering me too much). To compress, it's roughly taking about one hour per hour of video on my Athlon II X4 630. I don't know if that's about right, but whilst mencoder's using all four cores, it's only pushing them to about 40% max. Even when I'm watching TV at the same time, it only goes to 45-50% max, so I'd prefer it if I could find something that will use more of the CPU. I don't use the commercial skipping (tried it but it was cutting parts of the programme). I like the options to only compress between certain hours and to only compress programmes that are older than x number of days, so I'd want those in any alternative. I would like a pause function, so that if I want to watch an HD video that needs the CPU, or if I need to reboot, I can pause the compression and resume it when I'm ready. So is there anything else I can use that will run in the background, checking a certain folder for .ts files over a certain age and compress them faster and smaller than MCEBuddy? [/QUOTE]

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