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<blockquote data-quote="mm1352000" data-source="post: 1179856" data-attributes="member: 82144"><p>That's a very big question, and the answer varies depending on the file type and any plugins you might end up using. Due to the scope of the question, I don't feel able to give an adequate answer.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Well, WTV are only used for WMC recordings, but if your question is about recording files and meta-data...</p><p></p><p>MediaPortal's TV Server recordings are .TS (MPEG 2 transport stream) files like most other non-proprietary TV applications.</p><p></p><p>Like WTV, the TS format is a container format (which means that the internal content format/encoding - eg. MPEG 2, h.264 - can vary widely). The contents of a TV Server recording includes all the channel's video, audio, sub-titles and teletext stream(s) as received without any re-encoding. There's no meta-data at present because there's no cross-application-standard way of storing meta-data with a TS file.</p><p></p><p>Unlike WTV, TS files are very widely supported by hardware and software players as well as editors.</p><p></p><p>Recording meta-data is stored in two places:</p><ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The TV Server proprietary-format database.<br /> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">A separate XML file in the same directory as the TS file.</li> </ol><p>The database is used to populate the views in MediaPortal (eg. recordings by channel, program, date). WMC probably has something similar.</p><p>The XML files are to enable cross-compatibility with other programs. They're just structured text files, which means you can open and edit them in any text editor (eg. notepad, wordpad, word). Developers can also easily write code to ingest the contents of the file.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mm1352000, post: 1179856, member: 82144"] That's a very big question, and the answer varies depending on the file type and any plugins you might end up using. Due to the scope of the question, I don't feel able to give an adequate answer. Well, WTV are only used for WMC recordings, but if your question is about recording files and meta-data... MediaPortal's TV Server recordings are .TS (MPEG 2 transport stream) files like most other non-proprietary TV applications. Like WTV, the TS format is a container format (which means that the internal content format/encoding - eg. MPEG 2, h.264 - can vary widely). The contents of a TV Server recording includes all the channel's video, audio, sub-titles and teletext stream(s) as received without any re-encoding. There's no meta-data at present because there's no cross-application-standard way of storing meta-data with a TS file. Unlike WTV, TS files are very widely supported by hardware and software players as well as editors. Recording meta-data is stored in two places: [LIST=1] [*]The TV Server proprietary-format database. [*]A separate XML file in the same directory as the TS file. [/LIST] The database is used to populate the views in MediaPortal (eg. recordings by channel, program, date). WMC probably has something similar. The XML files are to enable cross-compatibility with other programs. They're just structured text files, which means you can open and edit them in any text editor (eg. notepad, wordpad, word). Developers can also easily write code to ingest the contents of the file. [/QUOTE]
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