Build 7048 adds in-box WTV to DVR-MS file conversion

Dragonfly · 08 Mar 2009

Credit to FutureC on TheGreenButton for this find:

You can convert WTV files in windows 7 (build 7048) to the old DVR-MS files! Just right-click on the WTV file and select: convert to DVR-MS.

If it works, this solves several issues. Among them:

*Playback of Win 7 recordings on Vista (non TV Pack) and MCE 2005 boxes.

*Editing Win 7 recordings with programs that work with DVR-MS and not WTV files. (Commercial skippers, VideoRedo, etc.)

mhealy · 10 Mar 2009

It's a nice addition but I'm not even sure why they chose the wtv format beyond the probablity of extra drm in the format.

Dragonfly · 10 Mar 2009

It's my understanding that WTV added DVB subtitles support not available in DVR-MS, plus ability to record multiple audio streams.

The conversion tool is a nice addition, but will become unnecessary as software developers update their products to handle WTV. I expect most will have done that by Win7 launch time.

pbruce · 08 Oct 2009

I don’t know if this will help you, but I ran into the same problems. I wrote a utility to automate the built-in wtvconverter.exe program. You can check it out at:
http://wtvwatcher.codeplex.com/

Dark Nova Gamer · 08 Oct 2009

pbruce said:

I don’t know if this will help you, but I ran into the same problems. I wrote a utility to automate the built-in wtvconverter.exe program. You can check it out at:
http://wtvwatcher.codeplex.com/

Psst, just a friendly note; this thread is over 7 months old, very unlikely the original poster even is on the same build.

Usually best to check when the last post was made on, and make a guess on whether or not it is too old.

Tews · 08 Oct 2009

Holy necromancy batman!