Creating native DVR-MS metadata from metadata.xml alternate data stream

[sggoodri]

Has anyone created a post-processing utility that will take the alternate data stream "metadata.xml" (attached to a DVR-MS file recorded by GBPVR) and insert the metadata into the DVR-MS file in the native metadata format used by Media Center?

Our family uses Vista Media Center for browsing recorded shows, some of which are recorded using GB-PVR (for one of multiple video sources). However, Media Center does not display the show description or other metadata because it is expecting native DVR-MS metadata rather than the alternate data stream metadata. I was wondering if anyone has coded a postprocessing utility that would insert the native DVR-MS metadata that Media Center wants.

I could do this manually using the DVR-MS editor written by Stephen Toub http://blogs.msdn.com/toub/archive/2005/...16874.aspx
but hopefully somebody has figured out how to do this automagically based on his source code examples:
http://blogs.msdn.com/toub/archive/2007/...vr-ms.aspx

If I weren't already sleep-deprived I would take a shot at writing one myself, but perhaps this wheel's already been invented?

[whurlston]

I haven't written a utility to specifically do that but I do have a dll that is capable of doing it. I'll see if I can create a utility to do it if I have time. Next few days are pretty tight though.

[sggoodri]

I haven't written a utility to specifically do that but I do have a dll that is capable of doing it. I'll see if I can create a utility to do it if I have time.

I wonder if it's possible to update the DVR-MS metadata while the file is being played. There is a possibility that someone might be trying to play the file before recording ends, and if the metadata update happens at the end of recording, there might be a conflict.

Ideally the metadata would be written when the file is created. But if some data such as the duration is generated after recording completes, I wonder how or when the duration metadata is written by Media Center if there is concurrent playback.

[whurlston]

When I tried it previously, it couldn't be done while the file was open by another process.