Comments on: Bulk fetching images for dvr-ms files

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:00:07 +0000

Many thanks

By: dmehers

dmehers — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:28:54 +0000

Hi Paul,

I thought I’d lost the source to this program, but recently rediscovered it – I’ll try to get round to updating it.

I’ll post to my blog when I do.

/Damian

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 13:54:46 +0000

Hello, I love this little program, But I now have tv pack 2008 installed, and It’s driving me nuts that there is no thumbnails in dvd libary would pay for an update please please.

By: Terry

Terry — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 05:31:49 +0000

I tried edigint the Title and WM/SubTitle keys but I’m not getting the movies to group. Were there any other metadata fields to edit to make grouping happen?

(possible caching is playing an issue. Is there a steadfast way to clear the cache without screwing any scheduled recordings up?)

By: Wayne

Wayne — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:24:57 +0000

Hi, this will save me some time – many thanks. To perhaps offer an option to group movies out of recorded TV – I had a play with the meta data (using editDVRMSMetadata).

Copy the title of the movie to the clipboard
Change the Title field of the movie to something generic – like ‘My Movies’
Paste the movie name into WM/SubTitle key
Usually have to move the DVRMS file into a subfolder to get MC to recognise the metadata change.

Once done for all movies they are all grouped under My Movies under recorded TV.

The only downside I found was that they were then sorted by the air date of the movie rather than alphabetically – and I wasn’t using any movie sorting applications then. Maybe someone with a bit more knowledge could auotmate the process if its useful.

By: James Pierce

James Pierce — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:05:50 +0000

Hi, Could you also send me a blank metadata file for the changes mentioned above. I have tried creating an image file with the same name as the movie but it doesn’t show up. I am running Vista Home Preminum Media Center.

As far as getting the cast, cover, reviews and similar movies to show up – it looks like the “Title”, “WM/OriginalReleaseTime”-(year only), “WM/MediaIsMovie”-(True) need to be set. Then it will look it up from AMG’s database. I’d be happy to send you a blank DVR-MS file with the required metadata if you’d like to try it.

By: dmehers

dmehers — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 20:59:51 +0000

If someone sends me a WTV file I can look at updating this tool to process them too.

Cheers,
Damian

By: Damian Mehers Blog » Blog Archive » Small utility to generate summary of your Media Center recorded movies

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 20:47:18 +0000

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By: Pete

Pete — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 17:54:20 +0000

Just wanted to say thanks for your help on attaching jpgs to recorded TV movies.
Pete

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:21:17 +0000

Possibly, but i’m not a developer
The WTV files are about 20% larger to contain additional languages, subtitles and other content but strangly the metadata exposed in Windows Explore is less than dvr-ms.
The .wtv films still do get displayed in the DVD library, so some similar mechanism must be at work.

Steve