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<blockquote data-quote="CyberSimian" data-source="post: 1253430" data-attributes="member: 141969"><p>The problem is that there are very few active developers working on MP1 now, and I think that MP2 is in the same situation. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /> We all have things to do with our lives other than working on MP, and we must accept that some bugs will go unfixed, and some suggested improvements will go unimplemented. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /></p><p></p><p>I used Vista WMC for five years, during which I accumulated a large number of DVR-MS recordings. When I moved to MP in 2014, I too was disappointed to find that support for DVR-MS was worse than the support for TS (particularly not remembering the resume point). In the end I decided to convert all of my DVR-MS files to TS.</p><p></p><p>I happened to have a licensed copy of "VideoReDo", which can convert video DVR-MS to TS (but not audio-only DVR-MS to TS), so I used that to convert the TV recordings (but not the radio recordings). I wrote a bespoke tool to extract the metadata from the DVR-MS file and create the XML file that MP uses (so all of the converted files have the relevant info displayed in MP).</p><p></p><p>I never used Win7 WMC other than for testing, so I had no WTV files to convert. This was just as well, as I believe that it is only the "premium" version of "VideoReDo" that can convert WTV (not the version that I have), and my bespoke tool cannot extract the metadata from WTV files.</p><p></p><p>If you want to go the conversion route for a solution to this problem, you will need a tool to convert the files that you have (DVR-MS, WTV, audio-only), plus a tool to extract the metadata. There may now be freeware programs that will do this conversion (VLC would be the first one to investigate, although I found its conversion syntax to be incredibly obscure and difficult to understand). For the metadata, there is a tool by Stephen Toub that can display metadata (and I think that it works with WTV too), but I don't know whether it can be used in batch mode:</p><p><a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/toub/archive/2005/05/12/416874.aspx" target="_blank">Edit DVR-MS Metadata</a></p><p></p><p>-- from CyberSimian in the UK</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CyberSimian, post: 1253430, member: 141969"] The problem is that there are very few active developers working on MP1 now, and I think that MP2 is in the same situation. :( We all have things to do with our lives other than working on MP, and we must accept that some bugs will go unfixed, and some suggested improvements will go unimplemented. :( I used Vista WMC for five years, during which I accumulated a large number of DVR-MS recordings. When I moved to MP in 2014, I too was disappointed to find that support for DVR-MS was worse than the support for TS (particularly not remembering the resume point). In the end I decided to convert all of my DVR-MS files to TS. I happened to have a licensed copy of "VideoReDo", which can convert video DVR-MS to TS (but not audio-only DVR-MS to TS), so I used that to convert the TV recordings (but not the radio recordings). I wrote a bespoke tool to extract the metadata from the DVR-MS file and create the XML file that MP uses (so all of the converted files have the relevant info displayed in MP). I never used Win7 WMC other than for testing, so I had no WTV files to convert. This was just as well, as I believe that it is only the "premium" version of "VideoReDo" that can convert WTV (not the version that I have), and my bespoke tool cannot extract the metadata from WTV files. If you want to go the conversion route for a solution to this problem, you will need a tool to convert the files that you have (DVR-MS, WTV, audio-only), plus a tool to extract the metadata. There may now be freeware programs that will do this conversion (VLC would be the first one to investigate, although I found its conversion syntax to be incredibly obscure and difficult to understand). For the metadata, there is a tool by Stephen Toub that can display metadata (and I think that it works with WTV too), but I don't know whether it can be used in batch mode: [URL="http://blogs.msdn.com/toub/archive/2005/05/12/416874.aspx"]Edit DVR-MS Metadata[/URL] -- from CyberSimian in the UK [/QUOTE]
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