WTV File Support
Build 1.3.3 - July 30, 2009
Developer's Note: Thanks to the supporter who
directed me to a
post by Daniel Zilczak on the Windows Media Center Team Blog. That
post provided me with some clues which allowed me to find at least a partial
solution for full WTV file support in Recorded TV Manager.
When Hosted on a system running Windows 7 (RC1 or later),
Recorded TV Manager Console now provides FULL WTV file support.
There is no difference between DVR-MS files and WTV files in Recorded TV
Manager Console when running on Windows 7. See
Release Notes.
On systems running XP and Vista, the same limitations with WTV files
still apply, as discussed below:
Recorded TV Manager extracts the following information from the file name
of the WTV file:
- Series Name
- Channel name of recording
- Recorded date and time
- The original-air-date is set to the recorded date.
Differences with DVR-MS files:
- Episode details are not available. See example
here.
- Original-air-date is not necessarily correct because it cannot be
retrieved from the metadata.
- Duplicate episodes cannot be determined because the episode name is
not available.
Using AutoCopy rules with WTV files:
- AutoCopy rules work correctly for first-run content because the
original-air-date is usually the same as the recorded date.
- Mixed collections of DVR-MS files and WTV files will work, but may
order or select episodes incorrectly due to the lack of an episode title
and correct original-air-date.
- Multiple recordings of the same series on the same day (such as a
marathon) will look like duplicate recordings because they will
all have a blank episode name and the same original-air-date. Use
caution with the AutoDelete options in this case.
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