Can MP import win mce dvr-ms or wtv recordings? (1 Viewer)

[bob808]

I currently have a win 7 MCE setup, but am looking at moving over to MediaPortal following a good test of 1.1.1 over the last couple of weeks... the problem is I have a large number of tv recordings that I would want to be accessible in MP.

Will Mediaportal be able to show these recordings in the recorded tv section, and if so will they be able to show the metadata? I dont mind converting the wtv's to DVR-MS if need be, but just want to understand what will and wont work, or if there are any tools to make it easier.

I did a search but all posts were from 2008, so not sure how relevant they are if anythign has changed since.

Thanks

bob808

 

[bob808]

ok.. I have taken the plunge and setup mediaportal... gone are my 2 xbox extenders, and I now have 3 PCs in the house all running MP... one as a client/server, and 2 clients.

i have setup my pictures, music, movies (moving pictures) and tv series (mptv series) and all is good, and live tv is up and running well... but I still have all my old recordings from MCE that I would like to be able to show in the recorded tv section.

Is there a tool or process to get these recordings converted if need be, and imported and showing along with episode information/metadata?

thanks

bob

 

[wonkyd]

ok.. I have taken the plunge and setup mediaportal... gone are my 2 xbox extenders, and I now have 3 PCs in the house all running MP... one as a client/server, and 2 clients.

i have setup my pictures, music, movies (moving pictures) and tv series (mptv series) and all is good, and live tv is up and running well... but I still have all my old recordings from MCE that I would like to be able to show in the recorded tv section.

Is there a tool or process to get these recordings converted if need be, and imported and showing along with episode information/metadata?

thanks

bob

It should just be a case of adding wtv to the video format extensions in the config tool and they should play through the videos section of Mediaportal. I don't believe there is any way that you can retain the metadata from the files though sorry.

If you have any problems with playback I suggest installing SAFv5 found here https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/...xperimental-based-ffdshow-dxva-decoder-77591/

 

[thlucas]

Hi Bob808,

I am recently new to MediaPortal myself and still use Windows7 Media Center (64-bit) for live TV watching, though I like to watch recorded TV in MP. I haven't had good luck with the MPTV server, so I'm sticking with WMC7 for live TV watching - for now anyway. Like you, I quickly became irritated at MP not recognizing WTV files so I wrote a C# program to fix it.

The program is set up to process a single "Recorded TV" folder, with all of your .WTV files in the same folder. ie if you have them seperated out in sub-directories you will have to execute the program multiple times (1 for each folder). It simply reads the metadata in the .WTV file, does a search of TheTVDB.com database for matching series name, and renames the .WTV file to "<series> - <season>x<episode> - <title>.wtv". For example, "Chuck_2010_12_31_07_00_00.wtv" would be renamed to "Chuck - 4x7 - Chuck versus the Intersect.wtv". Note that you can rename the .WTV files in the WMC7 Recorded TV folder to anything, as long as you keep the .WTV file extension; WMC7 still lists and plays them correctly, as it uses the metadata in the file to list the episode in the WMC7 interface.

All of this assumes the following MP requirements:
1) MP-TVSeries installed.
2) MP configuration - add ".wtv" file extension to "Video File Extensions".
3) MP-TVSeries configuration - add and enable the following "Import.Parsing Expression":
"<series> - <season>x<episode> - <title>.wtv"

Also note that this will NOT work on Windows XP, as only WMC7 recognizes the .WTV format / extension. This might work for DVR-MS files on Vista, but I have not tested it as I don't have Vista installed anymore.

Please PM me if you would like the program, and I will send it to you.

Thanks,

Todd Lucas

 

[thlucas]

I created a new thread for the plugin, and moved the attachment to it. Here's the link:
https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/...indows-7-media-center-files-94669/#post725255