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How the hell does that not exist yet?]]>Feb 24th 2009 11:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/Feb 24th 2009 5:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/
Two quick points though:

1) Windows Vista with TV Pack and Windows 7 both break DVRMS-Toolbox so anyone who is using the beta won't be able to do this.

2) There are slightly easier ways. If you use uTorrent's exclusion rules you can ensure that you only get divx files. Each show can be downloaded into it's own directory and you can use an app like myTV or Media Browser to catalog your shows as opposed to the built in "Recorded TV" area. Of course this assumes that you're using Windows 7 which I guess there are people who aren't. To me though, if you're a Media Center user, the video resume feature and divx on extenders is enough to make the switch.

Maybe a lot of people would want to use recorded TV, but if you're like me and archive a lot of shows (25 shows, 1400 episodes) it gets a little bulky. 3rd party apps work great for this.

Again, awesome write-up and it'll be quoted a lot!]]>Feb 24th 2009 11:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/
1) The TV Pack breaks the MC add-in part of DTB, not the parts we're using here. Although I haven't tested this on the TV pack, I see no reason why it shouldn't work.

2) If I was interested in Divx, then that would work too, but for me I'm talking x.264 encoded mkv files and for those, not even 7 will handle them -- yet.

You have a point about collectors though, add-ins like myTV are probably the way to go. Personally, I watch and delete and don't save anything, so the Recorded TV UI that comes with MC is perfect, so it was a core requirement that I could continue to use it.]]>Feb 24th 2009 12:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/
Great write up. But I'm a little confused, I can playback x.264 (mkv) files no problems in my Windows Media Center (Vista).

I remember running some mkv.reg file to get it working.]]>Feb 24th 2009 3:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/Well kinda.

If you navigate to Videos instead of Recorded TV then you can, but that is as long as you don't try to watch them on an Extender and you don't mind not being able to fast forward, rewind or resume later. Ohh, and you have to manually add an image and there isn't any metadata.

With this process you can play the files on extenders and find them with the rest of your recorded TV. Plus it gets the data for you and of course you can fast forward, rewind and resume.

]]>Feb 24th 2009 3:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/
Thanks for the explanation, it all makes sense now. Great job on the guide, very cool process.

I'm in England, and it's almost as if I was in the U.S, and set up recordings from U.S channels.

Cheers]]>Feb 24th 2009 5:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/Feb 24th 2009 12:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/
Sounds like you need the h.264 support from Windows 7 to do this (meaning won't work in Vista) but Entertainment 2.0 brings up the point of 7 breaking DVRMS-Toolbox.

What am I missing?]]>Feb 24th 2009 12:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/Feb 24th 2009 12:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/
So you can run DTB to convert files in the background, the great thing about this, is it makes the format extender friendly and surround sound and meta data is still there.

- Josh]]>Feb 24th 2009 3:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/
One question. Are you doing a different search for every show or do you set up one and run a filter in utorrent? I know you did a search in the article but was wondering how you did it. I've been using the main feed and breaking them down by filters. Doesn't always work the best.]]>Feb 24th 2009 12:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/Feb 24th 2009 12:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/Feb 24th 2009 12:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/
What I would like to figure out though is how to use rss feeds with usenet, since there is some good stuff on there too.]]>Feb 24th 2009 12:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/ I am with you on usenet and getting some form of RSS or automated download that way.

- Josh]]>Feb 24th 2009 3:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/http://sharputils.blogspot.com/
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It would be cool if you could do a similar article using a Mac, iTunes and an AppleTV.

Not sure if the appropriate software is available, though.]]>Feb 24th 2009 12:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/
You could use this process to do it but it only runs on PC. But it will create iTunes files with metadata. In fact I use DTB to convert recordings for my iPhone.]]>Feb 24th 2009 1:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/http://forum.handbrake.fr/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=7876]]>Feb 24th 2009 11:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/Feb 24th 2009 1:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/Feb 24th 2009 1:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/ ]]>Feb 24th 2009 11:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/Feb 25th 2009 3:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/Feb 24th 2009 1:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/Feb 24th 2009 1:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/Feb 24th 2009 1:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/Feb 24th 2009 5:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/Feb 24th 2009 4:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/Feb 24th 2009 4:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/
What I meant was that with 7 we can take an mkv with AC3 audio and x.264 video and change the container to WTV and play it back with extenders and with metadata. So in other words, this same process but without the re-encode and the resultant file would be a wtv instead of dvr-ms.]]>Feb 24th 2009 4:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/Feb 24th 2009 5:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/
You can read more here.
http://babgvant.com/blogs/andyvt/archive/2009/02/14/unexpected.aspx
http://babgvant.com/blogs/andyvt/archive/2009/02/21/faketransform.aspx
]]>Feb 24th 2009 5:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/
Granted there is a subscription fee involved, but it is small and well worth the cost.]]>Feb 24th 2009 6:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/Feb 24th 2009 6:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/
The feature is described here:
http://sabnzbd.wikidot.com/configure-rss

]]>Feb 24th 2009 7:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/
How would you suggest setting up this tutorial with a HTPC for viewing but uses DIY Windows Home Server to store all my Recorded TV and Videos? I have uTorrent installed on WHS.]]>Feb 24th 2009 8:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/Setup will be almost exactly the same, the only exception may be that you have to set your own recorded tv directory as DTB won't be able to discover it automatically. It should just be a matter of editing the watched directory on the file watcher tab and editing the line that moves the dvr-ms file to the recorded tv directory.


]]>Feb 24th 2009 8:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/Feb 24th 2009 10:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/Life is so much simpler now. TV gets recorded but the Fios HD DVR.
Bluray movies are rented via netflix and played and a Panasonic Bluray player - super easy. Music is player from My Zune.
Games are played on my 360 and Xbox 1.
All are hooked up to my Sony receiver controlled by xbox harmony remote. No tweaking, hacking, etc, etc.
HTPC is dead, dead dead. Just wait until the BluVo's (Tivo HD with built in bluray player - made by OPPO). Life would be even sweeter!
Yes, BluVo's are the future.
]]>Feb 25th 2009 12:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/Feb 25th 2009 1:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/Most are 2GB per episode.]]>Feb 25th 2009 4:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/At the moment I need to manually download subtitles.
My mum has hard of hearing.]]>Feb 25th 2009 4:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/Feb 25th 2009 9:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/Feb 25th 2009 10:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/
It should also be noted that dvr-ms doesn't support DTS and mencoder can't transcode it either, so it'll only work on movies with AC3 audio.

It should be possible to create an action that would successfully generate metadata for movies. The other thing I though of was to just put in enough metadata that Windows would pull the rest down the way it does for movies recorded.]]>Feb 25th 2009 10:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/
1) Engadget should invest a few bucks in professional Technical Communicators, both writers and editors.

This "how to" guide is unacceptable. As a member of the Society for Technical Communication (www.stc.org), this almost unreadable. Not only that, but the punctuation is just wrong in so many places.

2) The US government's position is very clear regarding unlicensed downloading of any electronic media: it's against the law. That law is called the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).

Now, I'm not a fan of DMCA. I'm with Kembrew McLeod on the subject of intellectual property rights (www.kembrew.com). But, in addition to the structure and punctuation of this piece being off, it is also inaccurate-- and perhaps dangerously so for your readers.

Link to the DMCA: http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf

Please, hire a technical editor to teach your writers how to write an instruction set. More importantly, also edit for content. You could do some real damage to your readers if you don't.]]>Feb 25th 2009 11:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/how-to-automatically-download-and-import-hd-to-windows-media-cen/
As for your DMCA concerns. The DMCA only applies to the US, whereas this site is accessible around the world.

Also, the DMCA is focused on circumventing encryption and this process does not do that. ]]>Feb 25th 2009 11:15AM