Recorded TV Manager 3.7.6

Recorded TV Manager is a great application for managing Media Center recorded TV files and there is an addon for Windows Home Server and Media Center. Version 3 added WTV (Windows 7 format Media Center TV files) support and the Windows Home Server Add-in has been updated to Version 3.7.6 which includes WTV support

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WTV File Support

Windows 7 and Vista Media Center with TV Pack produce recorded TV files in the WTV file format.  Microsoft has not publicly released the file format and/or metadata access details for WTV files.  As a result, the episode name and description, and all the other episode information in the file are not accessible at this time.

Developer's Note: When Microsoft releases those details and/or provides some other access to the metadata, Recorded TV Manager Add-in for Windows Home Server will be updated.

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 (Collections) with WTV files:

• Collections 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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