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I have a vague recollection that a recent change was made to MP2 to allow it to understand the metadata in WTV files. I am less sure whether that change was also applied to MP1.

The problem with migrating from WMC to MP1 or MP2 is your existing library of recordings. I used Vista WMC for five years, and had a large library of DVR-MS files. Although MP1 would play DVR-MS and WTV files, MP did not remember the resume point for partially-viewed DVR-MS or WTV files (that bug has since been fixed), so in the end I converted all of my DVR-MS files to TS files (I already had VideoReDo that could do this). I wrote a batch script to generate the MP XML files containing the metadata from the DVR-MS files.

However, converting recordings from one format to another is best avoided if possible, so I would suggest that you try MP1 first with your WTV files to see if it will display the metadata. If it does not, you will need to investigate other possibilities, including (perhaps) converting WTV to TS and/or extracting the metadata and generating the XML files. There is a tool written by Stephen Toub for editing DVR-MS metadata which I think also works with WTV. If you can write PowerShell or VBS scripts, that tool could probably be used to automate generation of the XML files.

-- from CyberSimian in the UK

<blockquote data-quote="CyberSimian" data-source="post: 1179905" data-attributes="member: 141969">I have a vague recollection that a recent change was made to MP2 to allow it to understand the metadata in WTV files.&nbsp; I am less sure whether that change was also applied to MP1.The problem with migrating from WMC to MP1 or MP2 is your existing library of recordings.&nbsp; I used Vista WMC for five years, and had a large library of DVR-MS files.&nbsp; Although MP1 would play DVR-MS and WTV files, MP did not remember the resume point for partially-viewed DVR-MS or WTV files (that bug has since been fixed), so in the end I converted all of my DVR-MS files to TS files (I already had VideoReDo that could do this).&nbsp; I wrote a batch script to generate the MP XML files containing the metadata from the DVR-MS files.However, converting recordings from one format to another is best avoided if possible, so I would suggest that you try MP1 first with your WTV files to see if it will display the metadata.&nbsp; If it does not, you will need to investigate other possibilities, including (perhaps) converting WTV to TS and/or extracting the metadata and generating the XML files.&nbsp; There is a tool written by Stephen Toub for editing DVR-MS metadata which I think also works with WTV.&nbsp; If you can write PowerShell or VBS scripts, that tool could probably be used to automate generation of the XML files.-- from CyberSimian in the UK</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CyberSimian, post: 1179905, member: 141969"] I have a vague recollection that a recent change was made to MP2 to allow it to understand the metadata in WTV files. I am less sure whether that change was also applied to MP1. The problem with migrating from WMC to MP1 or MP2 is your existing library of recordings. I used Vista WMC for five years, and had a large library of DVR-MS files. Although MP1 would play DVR-MS and WTV files, MP did not remember the resume point for partially-viewed DVR-MS or WTV files (that bug has since been fixed), so in the end I converted all of my DVR-MS files to TS files (I already had VideoReDo that could do this). I wrote a batch script to generate the MP XML files containing the metadata from the DVR-MS files. However, converting recordings from one format to another is best avoided if possible, so I would suggest that you try MP1 first with your WTV files to see if it will display the metadata. If it does not, you will need to investigate other possibilities, including (perhaps) converting WTV to TS and/or extracting the metadata and generating the XML files. There is a tool written by Stephen Toub for editing DVR-MS metadata which I [I]think[/I] also works with WTV. If you can write PowerShell or VBS scripts, that tool could probably be used to automate generation of the XML files. -- from CyberSimian in the UK [/QUOTE]