Convert, Shrink and Remove Ads for Your Media Center. MCEBuddy takes your LARGE Digital Video Recorder recording (and other video) files and makes them small saving you disk space. It also removes commercials and converts your recordings into formats that are usable on other systems and handheld devices. It does all of this automatically in the background with a minimum of fuss and little or no technical knowledge required.

Main features
1. Converts from DVR-MS, WTV, TS, MPEG and many more formats
2. Converts to MP4 , AVI and others
3. Removes commercials
4. Converts in the background at sheduled times

Supported platforms and software
1. Windows Media Center, Media Portal and other DVR software
2. Desktop support Windows XP, Vista, Vista 64, Windows 7 and Windows 7
3. For a server deployments Windows 2003, Windows 2008
4. 32 bit and 64 bit versions

MCEBuddy also removes commercials and converts your recordings into formats that are usable on other systems and handheld devices. The three provided by MCEBuddy are WMV, DivX and H.264.

MCEBuddy does all of this automatically with a minimum of fuss and little or no technical knowledge required.

MCEBuddy is an automated service that converts the Media Center native video format (DVR-MS) to a user-configurable file format (WMV, DivX or H.264).

MCEBuddy is probably converting a show in the background and your system does not have enough CPU to perform both actions at once, especially if you are using H.264 which is very CPU intensive.

Note: There is no user interface provided in Beta 11. You must configure the service by editing the mcebuddy.conf file.

There's very little to configure to get MCEBuddy working for automatic video conversions. That is a good, and bad thing, in my opinion. It's good since it makes it very easy to setup and use, but in some ways that's bad because you are limited in what you can customize.

The "Convert To" setting allows you to convert your videos to several various formats, including "Zune". When I used this setting, the converted file that was created is in MP4 format. This is perfectly conformable for the Zune, and doesn't require transcoding (re-converting) when you sync with your Zune. I personally like the WMV format, since that format allows me to add in various meta data tags for show description, episode title, video type (Movies, TV Show, etc). The MP4 format doesn't allow for such extra meta data tagging.

Requirements:
* NET framework 2.0
* Windows Media Center

The license of this software is Freeware, you can free download and free use this video converter software.