Last week I blogged about a new project I found on codeplex called WTVWatcher that delivers a fantastically simple process for decommercialising TV shows recorded in Windows Media Center with Windows 7. Well a weeks rolled on and thanks in tiny part to encouragement from readers of this blog Paul has updated the tool, actually twice. The new version includes a GUI rather than a console, runs in the notification area (which is sweet) and the GUI pops things up like toast.
It’s nice, I think you’ll like it too.
With this update it’s really clear to see what’s happening and Paul’s lost none of the simplicity. The tools easier to work with now too. There’s a wrench icon that lets you set the location of your recorded TV, that WTV Watcher will watch, and that’s about all there is to it.
The extra new feature is also handy, there’s now an installer with auto update.
So here are the new steps to getting it working, all 5 steps
- Install the tool from here
- Set your Recorded TV folder by clicking the wrench
- Move the desktop shortcut to your Start > All Programs > Startup folder
- Install Lifextender
- Configure Lifextender as per the next image.
TIP: It’s possible to do the conversion your network and if you’ve got a fast network it can be quicker if your main Media Center isn’t a massive multi core system
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Simon, man, thanks for the write-up. Very encouraging!
Just to keep this post up to date, I wanted to share that I have posted an update (v 1.0.0.32), which includes a slew of helpful preference additions, such as:
* Shutdown time, in conjunction with Windows Scheduled Task to run within a daily ‘processing window of time’
Cheers!
Paul Bruce
* Processing Rules, to selectively include/exclude certain shows
* More at: http://wtvwatcher.codeplex.com/documentation
Paul, great app!
I’m having a problem with the processing rules though. I have set one to ignore any file with ‘BBC’ in it as there are no ads to remove. WTV Watcher finds a show with BBC in it and correctly ignores it but then 10 seconds later it ignores the same file again. This is continuous in a loop. In other words it never passes the first ignored file so I have to remove the filters.