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Edit DVR-MS Metadata

I was asked earlier this week if I knew of any tools that would let one easily edit the metadata associated with a DVR-MS file.  Specifically, the person wanted to edit the title and description of a recorded show.  There may very well be such a tool out there, but I'd never seen one, so I threw one together:

This tool is a pretty simple wrapper around the code from my Fun with DVR-MS article, specifically the DvrmsMetadataEditor class.  It loads the metadata into a DataGrid, let's you edit existing metadata or add new metadata (doesn't let you delete right now), and then saves any additions or modifications back to the target file.  Kind of handy, so I've made it available for download.  I hope you find it useful.  Of course, if it ends up destroying your DVR-MS files, blowing up your computer, or something bad like that, I take no responsibility. :)

-Steve

Published Thursday, May 12, 2005 11:02 AM by toub
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Monday, May 16, 2005 4:34 AM by Daniele Bochicchio

# Cambiare i metadata dei file DVR-MS

Tuesday, May 31, 2005 5:06 PM by Zig Fowler

# re: ConvertToWmv.exe

Is there a way, with command line options, to specify the amount of compression. A 2.5 GB DVR-MS File is compressed to about 70 MB. This generates a poor quality WMV. Can this be changed?
Tuesday, May 31, 2005 6:20 PM by toub

# re: Edit DVR-MS Metadata

Sure, just specify a Windows Media Profile (.prx) as the second arg on the command line and that profile will be used instead of the poor-quality default. You can easily create profiles using the Windows Media Profile Editor that's included with the Windows Media Encoder, available for free on the Microsoft site.

-Steve
Friday, June 17, 2005 9:15 AM by gwalters

# re: Edit DVR-MS Metadata

Tried using your program on a few files to change the Title Name field. This doesn't seem to work. The name is changed in the wrapper, but for some reason MCE still shows the old title...do I have to do something in MCE to refresh the file wrappers on recorded TV?
Friday, June 17, 2005 9:39 AM by toub

# re: Edit DVR-MS Metadata

Tim Moore reports a possible solution to your problem at http://thegreenbutton.com/community/shwmessage.aspx?forumid=26&messageid=109007, though I haven't tried this to see if it works. It has nothing to do with the metadata being stored correctly in the DVR-MS file... what the editor shows is what's there. Whether MCE uses a cached version of the data from somewhere else is a different story.
Friday, July 08, 2005 9:11 PM by thaurgon

# re: Edit DVR-MS Metadata

Is there anyway I can change protected DVR-MS files that WMC has created so they can be burned to DVD through SONIC?
Thursday, July 14, 2005 10:01 AM by toub

# re: Edit DVR-MS Metadata

I don't believe so.
Thursday, July 21, 2005 4:18 PM by toomuchwin32

# re: Edit DVR-MS Metadata

The download URL for the metadata editor does not work. Is it no longer available for download?
Friday, July 22, 2005 2:18 AM by Stephen Toub

# re: Edit DVR-MS Metadata

Hmmm, I didn't take it down, and I'm able to access it now. It's possible there was a blip in network connectivity to the server or something like that. Try again, and please let me know if you're still having trouble.
Friday, July 22, 2005 4:57 AM by toomuchwin32

# re: Edit DVR-MS Metadata

Looks like winisp.net was down for a while. It is up now and my download worked. Stephen, I am a Windows internals programmer (working on both usermode and kernelmode stuff), have done a lot of reverse engineering and poking under the hood. So I really appreciated your using SetWindowsHookEx when the existing MCE framework did not give you enough control (just something that I would have done - that or intercepted some API :) ). I also appreciated the abundance of comments in the code (if only all other MSDN samples were so well documented :( ). I am itching to mess around with my new Media Center and create add-ins to solve everyday problems I have. Your article and sample code was a GREAT starting point. Thanks for that.

By the way, I am looking for a programmatic way to control the IR emitter that my MCE PC uses to control my Dish Network satellite receiver (I want to be able to emit more than just Channel Up- Down and numbers). This is probably outside the scope of the MCE framework itself and I might have to write code to talk to the IR emitter myself. Or maybe MCE does have something for this. I know, I can read the MSDN Media Center SDK reference, but if can you point me in the right direction that would be hugely helpful.
Monday, July 25, 2005 3:41 PM by toub

# re: Edit DVR-MS Metadata

Glad you've found the articles useful! I've never tried to do what you're doing with the IR emitter, so unfortunately I don't have an answer for you. I'd suggest posting your question on one of the Media Center forums at www.thegreenbutton.com; hopefully someone there can help you out more. Best of luck, Stephen
Saturday, September 24, 2005 9:08 AM by Zig Folwer

# Won't play on Stand Alone DVD Players

Hello,

Let me start buy stating that I think this is a great program. I only have one problem with it. When I have the finished product and copy it to a DVD, it will not play on a stand alone player. When I try to convert it to an avi so it will. It will not let me. I don't care about the container, I just want it to play on the player. Is there anything you can do to help, maybe some coding. Thanks in advance.
Tuesday, October 04, 2005 6:17 PM by Phred

# re: Edit DVR-MS Metadata

I have a dvr-ms related question I haven't been able to find an answer to. Is it possible to insert "chapter" markers into dvr-ms files? What I have in mind is something like the chapters you can set up when you're burning a DVD.

Would I use something like the SetMarker method in the WM API? Does the DVR-MS API have a similar call (if so, what)? Finally, would MCE honor those chapter marks and allow me to navigate around using them?

Thanks, Phred
Friday, October 07, 2005 6:30 PM by toub

# re: Edit DVR-MS Metadata

While there may be a way to set and access chapter-like markers, I've never tried, and I don't know of any way you could get MCE to make use of them even if you could. My suggestion to you would be to check out my position changer add-in, which lets you jump around in a DVR-MS file while viewing it by entering time codes on the remote control's number pad; it also lets you set bookmarks in videos so that you can later jump to them.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnxpmce/html/positionchangeraddin.asp
Tuesday, November 08, 2005 11:34 AM by Me

# re: Edit DVR-MS Metadata

Nice util!

Why is it that Media Center does not show program detail from a wmv file containing all the medata copied from a dvr-ms file.

dvr-ms metadata looks great in Media Center. Movies for example.

Am I not copying all the data to my WMV?
Friday, November 11, 2005 5:25 PM by Zig Fowler

# re: Edit DVR-MS Metadata

I have a file that I recorded using media center. The "Is_Protected" and "Is_Trusted" fields are both FALSE. The "WM/WMRVContentProtected" is FALSE and "WM/WMRVContentProtectedPercent" is 0. I still cannot view this in WMP10. It plays just fine in Media Center. It is acting like a protected file but it isn't protected. Any thoughts? I have a screenshot of the DVR-MS Metadata if that would be helpful.
Friday, November 11, 2005 5:34 PM by Zig Fowler

# re: Edit DVR-MS Metadata

Also, when I mouse over the file, amongst other things like type, title, duration, it displays Protected: No. Again, any thoughts would be helpful, or am I missing something when trying to detect protected vs. non-protected dvr-ms files.
Wednesday, December 21, 2005 9:11 AM by gio

# re: Edit DVR-MS Metadata

hi you can find a very good site to edit dvr ms files here:
http://powercompress.reviewsdotcom.com
Tuesday, January 17, 2006 9:08 PM by PtD

# re: Edit DVR-MS Metadata

I don't have any problem in editing the DVR-MS files with your very handy utility, but when I go to burn them to a DVD Media Center gets to about 1% complete and then doesn't go any further. Any ideas?
Tuesday, January 17, 2006 11:32 PM by toub

# re: Edit DVR-MS Metadata

Glad you like the editing utility. If I remember correctly, this was a known issue with Sonic's DVD burning solution, but I unfortunately don't know if Sonic has resolved the problem in any fashion or published a workaround. You might be able to find more information over on thegreenbutton.com. Good luck.
Friday, January 20, 2006 12:23 PM by mabudon

# re: Edit DVR-MS Metadata

Does anyone know of an application that allows you to edit the commercials (or anything else for that matter) out of dvr-ms files?
Friday, January 20, 2006 12:31 PM by toub

# re: Edit DVR-MS Metadata

Several tools are available. I wrote a DVR-MS editor which you can download from my article at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnxpmce/html/dvr-ms.asp. Scroll to the bottom of the article for a discussion of the tool's implementation, in the section titled "Editing DVR-MS Files". The source is available, too, if you want to tweak it.
Monday, February 20, 2006 6:20 PM by Julius

# re: Edit DVR-MS Metadata

Dear Stephen,

I like the articles that you wrote on DVR-MS-files a lot and it inspires me to have some more fun. I wonder, do you have the source-code of the EditDvrmsMetadata.exe available, so I can use it for further exploration? Thanks in advance.

Julius
Monday, February 20, 2006 7:29 PM by toub

# re: Edit DVR-MS Metadata

EditDvrmsMetadata is just a simple wrapper around around the DvrmsMetadata class, which is available with the article source code.  The app simply retrieves all of the metadata and dumps it into a grid; when you go to save it back, it just retrieves the changed rows and again uses DvrmsMetadata to write back the changed values to the DVR-MS file.
Thursday, March 30, 2006 9:23 AM by James Y. Wilson

# re: Edit DVR-MS Metadata

Very useful.  At last I can see the metadata on non Media Center PC's.
Monday, April 03, 2006 10:14 PM by Chad

# re: Edit DVR-MS Metadata

Nice app, great for what it does. What I was looking for was a little app or script to dump the Metadata for all my dvr-ms files into a CSV so I can import them into excel.

I didn't see an "extract" only in the code and I am not dev enough to try.

Any suggestions?
Tuesday, April 04, 2006 2:18 PM by toub

# re: Edit DVR-MS Metadata

Using the same library that EditDvrmsMetadata relies on, you can implement this very easily with code like the following (this would be a command-line app that assumes the path to the dvr-ms file is the first arg and that the path to the CSV file to be created is the second):

using(DvrmsMetadataEditor editor = new DvrmsMetadataEditor(args[0]))
using(StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter(args[1]))
{
  IDictionary meta = editor.GetAttributes();
  foreach(string name in meta.Keys)
  {
       writer.WriteLine(name + ", " + MetadataEditor.GetMetadataItemAsString(meta, name));
  }
}
Tuesday, April 04, 2006 6:32 PM by Chad

# re: Edit DVR-MS Metadata

Excellent, Thank you .. now If I can only find a compiler I am set. :-) I was hoping for a VBScript. :-p

What do I need to compile this into a command line tool? I am a dabbler to VBscript but then only for Exchange 2003 ... But I can learn, or test one for you. :-)
Tuesday, April 04, 2006 11:58 PM by toub

# re: Edit DVR-MS Metadata

I compiled it into a tool I've called DumpDvrmsMetadata and posted it to http://toub.members.winisp.net/code/DumpDvrmsMetadata.zip.  Standard disclaimers apply: this is completely untested and unsupported, and if it blows up your computer, it's not my fault. Etc.  The tool accepts the path to the dvr-ms file as the first argument, and it writes the metadata to stdout.

As far as getting a compiler, you should download Visual C# 2005 Express Edition: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/
Wednesday, April 05, 2006 7:53 AM by Chad

# re: Edit DVR-MS Metadata

:-) Thank you, I downloaded both VP & C# with the SQL SP1 and a few of the web tools. Past time I sharpened the blade ... pun intended.

I will test the little app and give feedback.

Thanks again,
Chad
Monday, May 01, 2006 10:01 PM by Jason

# re: Edit DVR-MS Metadata

What would really be useful is a tool that would do this all from the command line (no GUI).

Basically take a DVR-MS file as argument #1, the Metadata parameter to edit as #2, and the new value as parameter #3. Or something similar.

That way you could populate DVR-MS meta data via script.

This would be very useful for users that convert MPEG (or other format) to DVR-MS for use in Media Center.
Monday, May 08, 2006 10:45 PM by Danny

# Copy and Save Files from DVR receiver?

Does anyone know if you can copy a TV show off of a DVR receiver somehow and then convert it to an MP$ or windows media player file that you could load on your PC?
Tuesday, May 30, 2006 1:25 AM by John Ericson

# A command line application already exist Jason!

A command line program that can read, add and change Metadata in dvr-ms, wmv, wma and asf files already exists.

Try MetadataEdit.exe that is a sample program that comes with Windows Media Format SDK 9.5.

I think it will do what you want Jason.
Thursday, June 22, 2006 5:56 PM by Jeremy

# re: Edit DVR-MS Metadata

Can anyone give me some pointers as to how to use this to rename dvr-ms files based on the metadata - ie, i want the filename to be <title>:<subtitle>:<genre>.dvr-ms but I'm struggling with C# at the moment and am unable to extract the necessary info from a file to then rename.
Saturday, July 08, 2006 12:32 AM by Joe

# re: Edit DVR-MS Metadata

I like the tool but it is not working.  I moved the file out of the recorded tv directory and edited the meta data.   After saving I move the file back but MCE does not show the change in the text field.   I've also used the suggestions in the posts to kill ehrec and ehschedule witout success.

Is there another way to force MCE to pickup the meta data changes?

Where is recordings.xml?
Saturday, July 08, 2006 1:35 AM by Stephen Toub

# re: Edit DVR-MS Metadata

The tool does accomplish its purpose, which is simply to allow the retrieval and modification of the metadata in the DVR-MS file.  I've never tried getting MCE to report the modified data, as that was never my goal for the tool, though it might be possible, and others might have been successful in getting it to work for that purpose.

Recordings.xml on my machine is in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\eHome\Recordings.

Hope that helps.
Wednesday, July 19, 2006 1:28 AM by S Dodd

# re: Edit DVR-MS Metadata

All very interesting.  I have a Sony PC running Media Centre 2004 with Sony's Click-to-DVD software.  I can load any size recording, edit out commercials, break the program into multi-parts if it's huge and won't fit nicely on one DVD, burn the DVD, and watch it through just about any DVD player. Now we have a new HP Media Centre 2005 computer which came with the Sonic software.  The remote control CD/DVD creator will, with a couple of clicks, directly move a DVR-MS file onto a DVD (no editing).  But the Sonic MYDVD software pre-installed on this computer doesn't work at all and HP has no solution.  Sonic won't take support calls on pre-installed software and their website doesn't really allow for determining whether they have a viable solution.  However, comments on multiple forum sites say not.  I'm going to investigate whether the Sony Click-to-DVD software is available for installation on the HP computer.  Otherwise, I'll have to see if I can find a way to use tool listed on this blog. 15gb files are what I'm working with.
Friday, July 21, 2006 3:12 PM by Aaron

# re: Edit DVR-MS Metadata

Stupendous work Stephen! Thanks for making this available. I've created two command line utilities that your readers may find useful. One will extract the tags for a set of DVR-MS files to XML format, the other will rename files based on a user-configured format string using the metadata as input. The tools are very basic since my needs were pretty simple, but they get the job done. The source code is also available.

http://www.spicypixel.com/xwiki/bin/view/DvrmsTools/WebHome
Friday, July 21, 2006 10:07 PM by toub

# re: Edit DVR-MS Metadata

Cool.  Thanks for putting those tools together.
Thursday, October 19, 2006 10:40 PM by Dave

# re: Edit DVR-MS Metadata

Neat tool.  Has anyone figured out which data needs to be edited to get the various recordings of a show to all appear in the same "sort by title " heading?  Or I am I mistaken in the assumption that the correction can be made in the Metadata?

Wednesday, December 06, 2006 11:06 AM by Mathew Fernandez

# Capturing frames from DVR-MS files

Hi, I need your help. Is there any way I can capture single frames from dvr-ms files and save them as jpg or bmp images? Thanks

Wednesday, December 06, 2006 11:51 AM by toub

# re: Edit DVR-MS Metadata

I'm assuming you mean programmatically?  Sure.  There are multiple ways this can be done.  The easiest I've found is using WPF, with code similar to that at http://thewpfblog.com/?p=30 used to extract whatever frame you want from the video.  You can then use WPF's support for saving images to save it out to whatever format you desire.

Tuesday, December 12, 2006 2:00 AM by Troy

# re: Edit DVR-MS Metadata

What if you want the little picture icon that is associated with a DVR-MS file?  I have a dvr-ms file that I edited then I saved it with what I thought was all the metadata but the icon is not there.  Is there a tool that will copy the icon from one dvr-ms file to another?

Sunday, December 17, 2006 3:04 PM by toub

# re: Edit DVR-MS Metadata

I wrote a tool that will do it, but I haven't found the time yet to clean it up.  As soon as I do, hopefully soon, I'll post it.

Friday, January 12, 2007 6:33 PM by Tom Jeffery

# re: Edit DVR-MS Metadata

Has anyone figured out which data needs to be edited to get the various recordings of a show to all appear in the same "sort by title " heading?  Or I am I mistaken in the assumption that the correction can be made in the Metadata? i.e like when a series is recorded?

Thursday, February 01, 2007 3:52 AM by Larry Pierce

# re: Edit DVR-MS Metadata

I believe the Metadata field that controls the way titles are grouped in Media Center is "WM/WMRVRequestID".  Also, if you make a change to the Metadata title or other fields and those changes are not shown in Media Center, try changing field "WM/WMRVScheduleItemID".  These fields are used in the file called "Recordings.xml" to save information about your recordings.  This is also the file where your series settings are stored.

Sunday, February 11, 2007 9:53 AM by charles

# re: Edit DVR-MS Metadata

I'm trying to find the MetaDataEdit.exe file in Windows Media Format SDK 9.5.  However the current  version seems to be 9.00.00.2980 and doesn't include the MetaDataEdit.exe needed.

How do I find 9.5?

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Saturday, April 14, 2007 8:30 AM by charles

# re: Edit DVR-MS Metadata

Hey Stephen,

I was wondering if I can ask you a few questions regarding metadata in dvr-ms files.

I am working on deleting commercials out of dvr-ms files so I can keep them on my computer and save space.

What I notice when i use a program called dvrcut is it loses the metadata tags.  And without this it causes a lot of trouble since I can't in any detail what I recorded for the episode.

Would you know how I could pass the data to dvrcut (i have the source it's also available on the internet) so it would be included when the dvr-ms file is cut and reattached with the frames adjusted to remove the commercials?

Thank you for your help,

Charles

Saturday, April 14, 2007 12:57 PM by toub

# re: Edit DVR-MS Metadata

Charles, sure.  You can just use the DvrmsMetadataEditor class to read the metadata from the first file and write it to the second.  If you look in the sample code from the Fun with DVR-MS article, you'll see that several of the apps do this; for example, the DvrmsEditor app that splices together pieces from other DVR-MS files takes the metadata from the first file and writes it onto the output file after it's been created.

Sunday, April 15, 2007 12:11 AM by charles

# re: Edit DVR-MS Metadata

Thank you.  I will check in to this now.  However, I am not affluent in programming as I once was.

Thank you,

Charles

Monday, April 30, 2007 8:11 AM by Jim

# re: Edit DVR-MS Metadata

Is there a listing anywhere of all of the metadata tags, possible values of each and what the tags do?

I'm having a real hard time finding any information about the individual tags.  I ran across a list once but I can't seem to find it again.

Thanks

Jim

Monday, April 30, 2007 11:18 AM by toub

# re: Edit DVR-MS Metadata

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/aa384495.aspx

Sunday, May 13, 2007 3:16 PM by grindersguide

# re: Edit DVR-MS Metadata

Stephen,

One thing that I noticed is missing from media center is the ability to sort recorded TV shows by the original air date.  It seems like it would be possible to do this with the metadata by setting the recorded date to the original air date.  Have you heard of anything that's been created to do this?  If not, do you take suggestions for future projects? ;-)

Sunday, May 13, 2007 4:22 PM by toub

# re: Edit DVR-MS Metadata

To do that as a simple console app you run every now and then (easily scheduled through Task Scheduler to run periodically) should be very straightforward.  You just loop through every .dvr-ms file and copy its WM/MediaOriginalBroadcastDateTime attribute (if it has one) to its WM/WMRVEncodeTime attribute.  The only tricky part is that WMRVEncodeTime is a QWORD representing the equivalent FILETIME, so you'll need to convert from a string format like "2004-02-12T00:00:00Z" to a FILETIME value like 633086190017940000.

Another option is to build in MCML an app that displays all recorded shows within MCE in order by their original recording date.  That would be a bit more work, but you could make a very nice app out of it, and it wouldn't require any file modifications to the .dvr-ms files.

-Stephen

Friday, June 08, 2007 11:54 AM by silverkings12

# re: Edit DVR-MS Metadata

Have you had a chance to post the program for inserting the icon into a dvr-ms?

Tuesday, June 12, 2007 8:28 AM by idbirch

# re: Edit DVR-MS Metadata

Is there anyway I can edit the duration field?  Some DVR-MS files output by VideoReDo have incorrect durations and I'd like to be able to change these.  I'm currently playing around with a hex editor but is there an easier way?

Tuesday, June 12, 2007 8:28 AM by idbirch

# re: Edit DVR-MS Metadata

Is there anyway I can edit the duration field?  Some DVR-MS files output by VideoReDo have incorrect durations and I'd like to be able to change these.  I'm currently playing around with a hex editor but is there an easier way?

Friday, August 17, 2007 3:16 PM by Thomas Schmidt

# re: Edit DVR-MS Metadata

Hi Stephen,

the link to your fun article in MSDN is not working anymore. Can post a current link please.

Thanks,

Thomas

Friday, August 17, 2007 4:03 PM by toub

# re: Edit DVR-MS Metadata

The article was unfortunately accidentally taken down.  I've been trying to get it back up, and I'll post when it's available again.

Saturday, September 22, 2007 7:44 PM by toub

# re: Edit DVR-MS Metadata

The article is now on my blog at: http://blogs.msdn.com/toub/archive/2007/09/22/fun-with-dvr-ms.aspx

Thursday, December 06, 2007 9:43 PM by Bill Martin

# Mr

where can I get it? I don't see any download link.

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Thursday, January 10, 2008 10:53 PM by Kprigge

# re: Edit DVR-MS Metadata

Stephen,

  I am no programmer by any stretch.  I was sent the link for your Metadata edit program from VideoReDo (very good program by the way).  I am on MCE200.  Is your program really for the computer savee? or is it safe for me to run it.  I take your "blow up the computer" comment seriously.

-Karl

Sunday, January 27, 2008 8:55 PM by Kprigge

# re: Edit DVR-MS Metadata

Stephen,

  I tried out your program and it seemed to work well, but now the "balloon" that pops up when you mouse over a dvr-ms file no longer shows all the information it used to.  Just the file type and size.  Is there some default setting somewhere that defines what is displayed?  Thanks.

-Karl

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Wednesday, January 30, 2008 4:52 AM by Tim

# re: Edit DVR-MS Metadata

Is it possible to add parental control values to dvr-ms (that are unrated)? I have tried editing WM/ParentalRating but I am unsure if this is the correct entry to use or what values are acceptable. (have tried PG-14, PG-MA), but vista media center still plays the files (despite it being configured not to play anything over TV-G without a pin)

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Wednesday, February 27, 2008 7:30 PM by BermudaLamb

# re: Edit DVR-MS Metadata

The app looks pretty straightforward.  Any idea how to get an image (like a dvd cover) to show up in the Media Center?

Thursday, February 28, 2008 10:36 AM by BermudaLamb

# re: Edit DVR-MS Metadata

Can the application be enhanced?  Specifically, can it be modified so that the columns are dropdown comboxes, allowing text entry, but also offering suggested values?

Would it also be possible to have it be able to import a dvdid.xml file?

Sunday, March 02, 2008 1:05 PM by BermudaLamb

# Use the MetadataEditor Class

I've written my own mini application to extract the information from a dvr-ms file.  Any idea how to get the type of the metadata element.  Your Editor shows three columns name, value, and type.  From your examples I've been able to figure out the name and value components but where can I get the type?

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Friday, June 13, 2008 10:10 AM by Dana

# re: Edit DVR-MS Metadata

One thing to pay attention to, Vista users, is the file's permission settings. Make sure that all users have full rights to the file (Right click/Properties/Security/...)

Sunday, August 10, 2008 6:58 PM by Nico Oosterwijk

# re: Edit DVR-MS Metadata

Any change it would be possible to use the new format .wtv files with this utility?

At the moment it doesn't recognize the files.

kind regards,

.Nico

Monday, October 06, 2008 10:32 PM by dvr-ms converter

# re: Edit DVR-MS Metadata

http://www.dvr-msconverter.com can help you converte DVR-ms to avi, mpeg, wmv, mp4, mpg, etc.

Monday, November 10, 2008 11:26 AM by Vics

# re: Edit DVR-MS Metadata

Now that Vista can deal quite easy with Metadata, no software is needed to change any properties of DVR-MS files, just right click on it, choose properties and go to the Details tab, there you will find a very big list of things you can change, i.e. Title, Subtitle, Episode Name, Artits, Year, TV Network, Channel Number, Station call Sign, Program Description, Rerun, HDTV content, directors, producers, writers, parental rating and on ...

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# Managing my recordings | keyongtech

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Tuesday, April 14, 2009 2:41 AM by dvr ms converter

# re: Edit DVR-MS Metadata

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# re: Edit DVR-MS Metadata

DVR MS Converter is good for me to slove the problem

Friday, May 29, 2009 1:11 AM by Rilesman

# re: Edit DVR-MS Metadata

Is it possible to add metadata fields, for example season number and episode number?  I assume the type would still be a string

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