Hi all,

So here's a question regarding Media Browser. I've posted this in their forums as well but in general this place seems to get more traffic so I'm being redundant.

I understand how to organize the folder structure of non-tuner generated video files into the 'tv' and 'movies' folders with seasons and specials as sub-folders when needed, and files being named according to S--E-- conventions and have this working pretty well.

However, how is this app supposed to work with the 'Recorded TV' folder in windows 7 (which in my case writes out ALL files as .wtv to a single flat folder in C:\Users\Public\Recorded TV)?

Is there some way to configure media center to get the recordings to arrange themselves by show in subfolders? Or some way to get Media Browser to deal with the flat structure and use the same metadata that windows media center uses to sort out which show/movie/season the file belongs to?

I'm sure I'm missing something basic as this is probably a very common use case of the media browser app.

Thanks for any guidance,

-Fahad

I'm sort of in the same boat as you.  I haven't tinkered with getting "RecTV" into MediaBrowser yet, but from what I've read, you need something like Meta Browser which can be set up to watch your "RecTV" folder and will then rearrange them automatically and toss in the metadata.  I think that's the only way to get it to work autonomously, but i haven't tried setting that up yet. 

Ah, I already use MetaBrowser to manually download metadata for existing media files, but hadn't tinkered with or realized its capabilities regarding folderizing and renaming files on a monitored basis. I'll give that a try and report back.

Thanks for responding!

-F

 Unfortunately (from my experience) MetaBrowser is unable to change the metadata.

I have added .wtv as the type of file to look up metadata for and it just doesn't seem to work. If I change the file from .wtv to .dvr-ms it sorts/renames the data but doesn't apply the metadata. 

The only way to do this (that I'm aware of) is to convert all your files from .wtv to .dvr-ms. You can use dvrmstoolbox but you can also create a batch file which can do it (my preferred method).  I hope I'm wrong about this but I know that MediaBrowser has a hard time with thumbnails and metadata with .wtv files and they just don't mesh well.

I also think that the creators of MediaBrowser don't have a .wtv fix on there priority list. In fact when I heard that they were going to start charging for MediaBrowser my first thought was that they would have to fix this problem for me to get my wallet out.

Again if I'm wrong about this please tell me and point me in the right direction.

-Chris