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Re: Transport Streams to DVRMS with TV Metadata

wreuvers — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 00:03:34 GMT

We are building a "Now Playing" Android app that looks at a server folder, and displays all the video's it finds, with the ability to play them. We would love to be able to pull the metadata out of .ts files - do you know where we can get this info?

Re: Transport Streams to DVRMS with TV Metadata

ghostlobster — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:56:37 GMT

Worked like a charm! Thanks as always, Andy!

In case anyone else is looking to do this, here the batch file I'm using with the following assumptions:

I installed the XML Generator plugin (yes, the sage web server is installed on my Sage rig)
My recorded TV drive on my Sage rig is mapped as x:\ on my Win7 rig
todvrms is installed in c:\todvrms on my Win7 rig
I place the batch file anywhere on my Win7 rig and edited it as follows:

x:
cd\
for %%f in ("*.ts") do ("c:\todvrms\todvrms.exe" "x:\%%f" "C:\Users\Public\Recorded TV\%%f".wtv -wtv "-xml x:\%%f.xml")

It reads the .ts files from x:\, converts them to .wtv and places them in c:\users\public\Recorded TV. Reads the metadata from the filename.xml file in the same directory as the Sage recordings and populates perfectly into 7MC.

Re: Transport Streams to DVRMS with TV Metadata

ghostlobster — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:59:37 GMT

Nice! I'll give it a run in a little bit. Thanks a bunch!

Re: Transport Streams to DVRMS with TV Metadata

babgvant — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:48:45 GMT

for %%f in ("s:\Recorded TV\*.ts") do ("E:\tools\todvrms.exe" "%%f" "%%f".wtv -wtv)

install http://tools.assembla.com/sageplugins/wiki/SageXmlInfo to dump the xml files

Re: Transport Streams to DVRMS with TV Metadata

ghostlobster — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:35:18 GMT

Andy,

Sorry, I'm still confused. Let's say I do a list *.ts to generate a listing of .ts files in that directoy. Now, how do I feed this information into todvrms using a % indicator in a batch file? I tried using /? and -? after the command for a list of available options, but that does not work with todvrms. Can you take a moment and give me an example of the batch file, given the following parameters:

Contents of X:\RecordedTV:
show1.ts
show2.ts

Contents of TSFILES.TXT:
show1.ts
show2.ts

Desired output:
c:\users\public\Recorded TV\Show1.wtv
c:\users\public\Recorded TV\Show2.wtv

Unfortunately, I don't have any .xml files that contain any metadata. Within the .properties files, however, there is what appears to be metadata that was generated by the batch metadata tool. For example:

#Generator: Batch Metadata Tools (3.0-beta-9); MediaFile: file:/x:/AnthonyBourdainNoReservations-Chicago-4077545-0.ts
#Sun Aug 16 12:05:01 EDT 2009
Actor=Anthony Bourdain -- Anthony Bourdain;
Description=Anthony heads to Chicago where he examines the cuisine and culture which the windy city has to offer.\nUser Rating\: \n
EpisodeNumber=5
EpisodeTitle=Chicago
Genre=Documentary
MediaProviderDataID=tvdb\:79668
MediaTitle=Anthony Bourdain\: No Reservations
MediaType=TV
OriginalAirDate=2009-02-02
RunningTime=3600000
SeasonNumber=6
Title=Anthony Bourdain\: No Reservations - S06E05 - Chicago
Year=2009
x-Fanart-BackgroundUrl=http\://www.thetvdb.com/banners/fanart/original/79668-2.jpg
x-Fanart-BannerUrl=http\://www.thetvdb.com/banners/graphical/79668-g2.jpg
x-Fanart-PosterUrl=http\://www.thetvdb.com/banners/posters/79668-1.jpg
x-MetadataProviderDataUrl=79668;;;;EPISODE_TITLE\=Chicago
x-MetadataProviderId=tvdb
x-ser-Cast=0|Anthony Bourdain|Anthony Bourdain|null
x-ser-Description=Anthony heads to Chicago where he examines the cuisine and culture which the windy city has to offer.
x-ser-Genres=Documentary;News;Reality

Would it work by just renaming that file to .xml or specifying .properties at the end of the file rather than .xml, while still using the "-xml x:\xxxx.properties" modifier?

Re: Transport Streams to DVRMS with TV Metadata

babgvant — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:23:39 GMT

ghostlobster:

With the CableCARD restrictions being eased up, I'm giving serious consideration to moving back to WMC. This past weekend I spent some time pulling my HD-PVR off of my SageTV rig and putting it onto a decent rig running Win7 using DVBLink. I put an old Avermedia MCE 1500 in there for analog cable channels and then installed the HDHR on it. Surprisingly enough, after the install was done, I went downstairs, fired up the 360 as an extender, and everything just plain worked. Using firewire for channel changing on the HD-PVR it's pretty smooth.

FWIW, I'm exploring what it would take to pull DCT generated content into Sage. Will be very dependent on where the Ceton tuner is priced though.

Re: Transport Streams to DVRMS with TV Metadata

babgvant — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:02:02 GMT

ghostlobster:
Before getting into the why, quick question regarding the original issue here. Can you give me an example of the syntax to convert an entire directory of .ts files to .wtv, including metadata?

create a bat/cmd file with a "for %%f in" that calls todvrms filetoprocess.ts filetoprocess.wtv -wtv

if a filetoprocess.ts.xml file exists in the folder w/ metadata it will be written to the new file, if you need to specify a different xml file w/ metadata add "-xml pathtometadata.xml" to the args

Re: Transport Streams to DVRMS with TV Metadata

babgvant — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:57:54 GMT

c0bra:
but still interested about getting the DVB subtitle streams inside the .ts file to be transcoded aswell.

WTV will take pretty much anything, but MC won't play them. I've asked MS in the past about documenting their captions, but they won't so w/o a lot of reverse engineering it won't work.

Re: Transport Streams to DVRMS with TV Metadata

c0bra — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:49:52 GMT

.. and its DVB-S2 PAL btw - Swedish :)

Re: Transport Streams to DVRMS with TV Metadata

c0bra — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:48:22 GMT

Its a clip from a HD recording done via DVB Viewer .. and i know that there is 1 video stream, 3 subtitle streams and 2 audio streams present, but only one video and one audio stream gets transcoded via todvrms. I get no errors while transcoding, and the resulting wtv file plays just fine in media center, but it would be interesting to get at least multiple audio streams working in MC :)

Re: Transport Streams to DVRMS with TV Metadata

markterborg — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:51:26 GMT

What type of Transport Stream was it? I am having problems with Mpeg-2 ATSC Transport Stream from BeyondTV. I've gotten a few to work ok, but it seems that over 50% crash Media Center or do not play at all.

Thanks!

Re: Transport Streams to DVRMS with TV Metadata

c0bra — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:47:17 GMT

hi !

successfully transcoded .ts file to wtv today, but still interested about getting the DVB subtitle streams inside the .ts file to be transcoded aswell.

I fired up graphstudio with the new MPC Mpeg Splitter filter, and it exposes a pin for subtitles ?!

I then tried to get todvrms to render all streams using the -allstreams option, but it still requires haali splitter for this, but haali doesn´t work with .ts files right ?

Any chance of trying -allstreams with the MPC mpeg splitter ?

Regards

Olov

Re: Transport Streams to DVRMS with TV Metadata

ghostlobster — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:13:35 GMT

Before getting into the why, quick question regarding the original issue here. Can you give me an example of the syntax to convert an entire directory of .ts files to .wtv, including metadata?

With the CableCARD restrictions being eased up, I'm giving serious consideration to moving back to WMC. This past weekend I spent some time pulling my HD-PVR off of my SageTV rig and putting it onto a decent rig running Win7 using DVBLink. I put an old Avermedia MCE 1500 in there for analog cable channels and then installed the HDHR on it. Surprisingly enough, after the install was done, I went downstairs, fired up the 360 as an extender, and everything just plain worked. Using firewire for channel changing on the HD-PVR it's pretty smooth.

I'm going to test it for a while before making any rash decisions, but if Saturday and Sunday were any indication, I might be buying a CableCARD tuner sooner than I would have ever expected.

Thanks!

Re: Transport Streams to DVRMS with TV Metadata

babgvant — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:36:48 GMT

ghostlobster:
OK...question here because I'm looking to do something similar. I've got a bunch of .ts files from SageTV recordings that I want to import into Windows 7, preferably with metadata. Could someone post details on this process, such as how this is done? Does it support batch processing, as in have it process the entire directory of .ts files, convert them to .wtv or dvr-ms and add the associated TV show's metadata from Sage?

Todvrms will look for an xml file with metadata when converting the file, if found it writes the contents to the SBE file. Nielm wrote an import that will create the files, or you can have DTB dump the xml as it detects the file.

you can use a cmd file w/ for %% syntax to process all the files, the EA todvrms converts hdpvr recordings to wtv very well.

gotta ask why you want to do this though...

Re: Transport Streams to DVRMS with TV Metadata

markterborg — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:24:04 GMT

I haven't done too many of them yet. I've tested some on my laptop which has Windows 7 RC, but almost everyone I've tried either starts... plays for a little bit... and then completly crashes Media Center, or doesn't play at all because it thinks the length of the video is zero. Converting to DVR-MS doesn't work at all for me. I have to convert to WTV. I don't know if it just my setup or what.

I am planning on switching my htpc from BeyondTV on Windows XP to Media Center when my preorder comes in. At this point I just think I am going to play them from the video library instead of the recorded tv library unless this problem is fixed.

Andy... do you know why this could be? Is it touchy with transport streams due to possible errors in the stream or something?

Thanks!