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<blockquote data-quote="mm1352000" data-source="post: 781827" data-attributes="member: 82144">HmmmI fiddled round with this when I got home, and it turns out that you don't need the files to be in a specific format... but you do need a metadata xml file for each recording. An example is attached. The name of the xml file must match the name of the of the recording exactly (apart from the extension).To be completely honest I have never used the &quot;prevent duplicates...&quot; function as my EPG data doesn't contain episode info, but I was a little surprised that it is this specific. If you're keen then I think I could help you out with this - if you can explain the recording naming format and tell me the file types that you want included then I could write a Perl script that creates the xml metadata files for each of your recordings. Interested?mm[Edit: I presume your EPG data contains the program names like &quot;Two and a Half Men&quot; rather than &quot;TwoandaHalfMen&quot;. TV Server's duplicate episode logic would require the recording metadata to match the EPG data, so there would need to be a way to recover &quot;Two and a Half Men&quot; from &quot;TwoandaHalfMen&quot; built into the filename for this to be worthwhile.]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mm1352000, post: 781827, member: 82144"] Hmmm I fiddled round with this when I got home, and it turns out that you don't need the files to be in a specific format... but you do need a metadata xml file for each recording. An example is attached. The name of the xml file must match the name of the of the recording exactly (apart from the extension). To be completely honest I have never used the "prevent duplicates..." function as my EPG data doesn't contain episode info, but I was a little surprised that it is this specific. If you're keen then I think I could help you out with this - if you can explain the recording naming format and tell me the file types that you want included then I could write a Perl script that creates the xml metadata files for each of your recordings. Interested? mm [Edit: I presume your EPG data contains the program names like "Two and a Half Men" rather than "TwoandaHalfMen". TV Server's duplicate episode logic would require the recording metadata to match the EPG data, so there would need to be a way to recover "Two and a Half Men" from "TwoandaHalfMen" built into the filename for this to be worthwhile.] [/QUOTE]

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