metadata xml formats

[SLR_65]

I see. I've been away too long and even when I was doing programming I was doing more industrial software so we didn't have proportional fonts or anything.

Things here are about to slow down (I hope!) and it's still winter here so playing with C again may be a good way to fill a few evenings - thanks for the links!

Steve

[zehd]

ADS format has always been stored by GB-PVR on recordings it makes. Its primary reason for existing is for recovering the meta data if recordings needed to be reimported at some later stage. Its format pretty much matches the data the GB-PVR has on its recording object.

Several years later, I decided to add functionality to display data from metadata files along with cover art etc. It made sense to use a format for this that was already in existing, and tools already existed for downloading this info, rather than only supporting the GB-PVR recording metadata. Most people watch recordings in the Recording Screen and see this data in its various screens. When it came to video library, I thought most of the videos will be downloaded or ripped videos.

In summary the second of those two formats was my preferred metadata for showing in the Video Library, and the former was just really as a backup in case there was no specific meta data file supplied.

So GB-PVR never uses the file's inherent metadata except when importing orphaned files back into the database?

[sub]

So GB-PVR never uses the file's inherent metadata except when importing orphaned files back into the database?

That was true for the last few years. With 1.3.x the metadata is also be read for a backup source of data displayed in the slick skin's video library. Its not used for the Recordings - this info comes from the database.

[zehd]

That was true for the last few years. With 1.3.x the metadata is also be read for a backup source of data displayed in the slick skin's video library. Its not used for the Recordings - this info comes from the database.

Sorry for being dense. Does that mean that a show that is recorded (and may even be still in the database) that has metadata that was created at time of record will display data when viewing that file in the Video Library?

I don't see any information.

[sub]

Does that mean that a show that is recorded (and may even be still in the database) that has metadata that was created at time of record will display data when viewing that file in the Video Library?

Yes, but only in skins that display the metadata, like the slick skin.

[zehd]

Yes, but only in skins that display the metadata, like the slick skin.

OK, I think I know why I not seeing it. Almost all of my recordings were renamed in post processing and I guess the metadata didn't go with that.

What happens to the orphaned metadata. It's basically small text files right? Does it build up or does Windows clean up?

[sub]

Its stored in an alternate data stream (ADS) on the file itself. You only get this if you're using NTFS.

If you just rename a file it'll stay intact. If you transcode a file (ie create a new file, then delete the original), then the ADS would have been deleted with the original.

[zehd]

Its stored in an alternate data stream (ADS) on the file itself. You only get this if you're using NTFS.

If you just rename a file it'll stay intact. If you transcode a file (ie create a new file, then delete the original), then the ADS would have been deleted with the original.

One more question. If a program would overwrite the ADS metadata with the newer format metadata used by video library, would that hurt anything at all? (except the reimport)

[sub]

If its in the correct format, then it shouldnt cause any problems.