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<blockquote data-quote="thlucas" data-source="post: 713962" data-attributes="member: 111098">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. 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 &quot;Recorded TV&quot; 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 &quot;&lt;series&gt; - &lt;season&gt;x&lt;episode&gt; - &lt;title&gt;.wtv&quot;. For example, &quot;Chuck_2010_12_31_07_00_00.wtv&quot; would be renamed to &quot;Chuck - 4x7 - Chuck versus the Intersect.wtv&quot;. 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.It searches the TVDB.com database for series name that &quot;Starts With&quot; the **** data series name.&nbsp; It will process all episodes of each found series until it matches on the episode name and original air date.&nbsp; For example, when it searches for &quot;Castle&quot;, it finds &quot;Castle&quot;, &quot;Castle (2009), etc&quot; from TVDB.com.&nbsp; It process all episodes of &quot;Castle&quot; and does not find a match, then it processes all episodes of &quot;Castle (2009)&quot; and finds the match based upon episode name and air date.&nbsp; If it can't find a match, then the .WTV file is not renamed and will not appear in the MP-TVSeries list.All of this assumes the following MP requirements:1) MP-TVSeries installed.2) MP configuration - add &quot;.wtv&quot; file extension to &quot;Video File Extensions&quot;.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.&nbsp; It uses the DirecShow &quot;StreamBufferRecordAttributes&quot; interface to retrieve WTV metadata.Please PM me if you would like the program, and I will send it to you.Thanks,Todd Lucas</blockquote>

[QUOTE="thlucas, post: 713962, member: 111098"] 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. 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. It searches the TVDB.com database for series name that "Starts With" the **** data series name. It will process all episodes of each found series until it matches on the episode name and original air date. For example, when it searches for "Castle", it finds "Castle", "Castle (2009), etc" from TVDB.com. It process all episodes of "Castle" and does not find a match, then it processes all episodes of "Castle (2009)" and finds the match based upon episode name and air date. If it can't find a match, then the .WTV file is not renamed and will not appear in the MP-TVSeries list. All of this assumes the following MP requirements: 1) MP-TVSeries installed. 2) MP configuration - add ".wtv" file extension to "Video File Extensions". 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. It uses the DirecShow "StreamBufferRecordAttributes" interface to retrieve WTV metadata. Please PM me if you would like the program, and I will send it to you. Thanks, Todd Lucas [/QUOTE]

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