QSV not being recognized/starting
CrazieBird (Brian) RBoy (RBoy) Goose (Goose) ZippyTheChicken (Zippy The Chicken)
I purchased MCE Buddy (tried out free version to see how it works) for the hardware acceleration but I am having a hard time to get working. I have Quick Sync working on my computer (installed a program called Action! an&hellip;
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I purchased MCE Buddy (tried out free version to see how it works) for the hardware acceleration but I am having a hard time to get working. I have Quick Sync working on my computer (installed a program called Action! and it shows QSV is active).

I have i5-3570k with Powercolor amd Radeon 7870 Myst edittion.

I have Intel HD Graphics 4000.

Am using 2.4 Beta 8 (02 Nov 2017) MCEBuddy

First try was with existing drivers:

INFORMATION> 2017-11-12T23:11:21 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.Handbrake → QuickSync encoding supported available → False

Second try was with the 64bit driver found in #2 of https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/gpu-hardware-encoding-acceleration-faqs/63/7:

INFORMATION> 2017-11-13T00:38:46 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.Handbrake → QuickSync encoding supported available → False

UPDATE - I went to check on the driver info - it seemed to me that the driver did not change after the restart showing 10.18.10.4358 even after the install and restart of the included file.

Any help would be appreciated

I was able to get hardware encoding working completely with a program called mediacoder however i link the idea of removing the commercials and the ease of use this program. The trouble is with the QSV h/w/encoding working through mediacoder i am to encode at 2.1x speed on my system, meaning it can complete the encode of an hour show in 28 mins which is quicker than possible with handbrake which is running at less than 1x so even though commercials are left in it is much faster to use mediacoder. I really want this program to work since I paid $30 under the advertisement that QSV h/w encoding was working and included which for me it is not.

Any help getting this to actually work as advertised would be appreciated.

Tried it out with a monitor hooked up and it seems to be working. After tonight’s recording Ill try without a monitor hooked up. Thanks for the help.

Quick couple of question: came upon your site from a youtuber named Lon Seidman from Lon.tv and he mentioned something about a donate version of comskip. I read here (How to install a custom Comskip and get additional INI files) about that version and was wondering if I need that to get that also (my files are all mpeg2 from OTA antenna)?

I noticed that MCEBuddy copies the file to working directory, would it improve speeds if i made the working directory on the same disk as the files? (the files are stored on a NAS and was thinking if the working directory was on same drive the copy function before process would be faster as well as the copy function of the finished product back)

RBoy you are great help and I appreciate it since it is making my “cord cutting” experiment be much better, sorry for so many questions.

Here is my complete setup for now while i figure this out.

Hdhomerun quantro tuner

Roku ultras at each tv

Plex Media Server is run on a Dell S530 Win10 pc with a Q6600 (no qsv) and 3 gb ram

Storage is on NAS which is Synology Diskstation D216j

My gaming pc is a personal build I5-3570k with a Radeon HD 7870 Myst OC and 16gb ram

I run Plex on the Dell because I play Warcraft on the gaming pc so can’t have my gaming cpu get bogged down with the plex server stuff. I use the NAS to store the shows that plex creates because then I had the chance to play them outside of plex and the transcoding delay caused (on my gaming pc plex would still cause delays of 10 secs even though the pc can natively play mpeg2).

Plan on using mcebuddy (what a great program btw) on my gaming pc from 2am to 630am every day to transcode the previous days shows into h264 so that I can load the shows without the 15-20 sec delay that Plex causes on the mpeg2 due to transocidng and have usable ff/rew from plex (again 15-20 sec delay after using rew/ff due to slow pc and transcoding I assume). Some times the wife is unwilling to wait until next day for a show so the mpeg2 version needs to accessible for her to play even if takes a long time to start up and because of the transcoding delay rew/ff are not really usable (she gets impatient for The Big Bang Theory)…

I am trying to make my existing gear work for now and after really learning if we can live cord cut then I might be willing to build a new gaming rig and make the existing gaming pc be the plex server pc (if i build something new I want it for playing game more then ota dvr lol).

I spent days buying and researching the possibliity of a different streaming box that could play the mpeg2 files natively thus requiring no transcoding but for whatever reason there just isn’t anything that I could find that fit the bill (either too costly apple tv, didn’t have amazon prime video mibox, couldn’t deinterlace amazon fire tv, no mpeg2 decoder any more new amazon fire tv, etc etc etc). So i’m trying to make the best out of the ota antenna with plex dvr with what i currently own.

Whatever advice you have for more efficient setup or workflow would be greatly appreciated.