VRD COM interface question

[acgaustin]

I'm converting a large batch of vob's and mpgs into DVR-MS.. I have the title for each movie as the name of the folder in which the movie resides.

So for example... G:\vobs\Pulp Fiction (1994)\Pulp Fiction (1994).mpg

Converting in a batch is easy enough and I have scripted things to automatically traverse the folders and convert to dvr-ms..

My question is, is there any way of setting the "Title" and "Subtitle/StationID" using the COM interface? In MCE when I watch a video it shows the file name as the title when no title has been embedded in the dvr-ms and it shows "Edited by VideoRedo" as the subtitle... It's a minor cosmetic issue but one that really bugs me.

I've managed to script the EditDVRMS script by Toub but that is a seperate EXE and it sure would be easier to just be able to pass a /TITLE switch or flag of some kind when i'm doing the conversion.

Are there possibly some subsitutions that aren't listed in the help guide?

Any help is appreciated.

[DanR]

Did you play with the titling options on the Tools>Options>MCE page?

[acgaustin]

I understand the titling options on the main page but there are only 3 values it references, time, date and orig... I don't see how any of these 3 would allow me to set the Title of the resulting dvr-ms from the command line.

[DanR]

Originally Posted by acgaustin

I understand the titling options on the main page but there are only 3 values it references, time, date and orig... I don't see how any of these 3 would allow me to set the Title of the resulting dvr-ms from the command line.

You can't, there isn't a feature to do that. I was only mentioned the option page so you could remove the "edited by VideoReDo".

You could change the registry entries for those tilting options from your own script prior to outputting your file. Then VideoReDo would pick them up.

[acgaustin]

Originally Posted by DanR

You can't, there isn't a feature to do that. I was only mentioned the option page so you could remove the "edited by VideoReDo".

You could change the registry entries for those tilting options from your own script prior to outputting your file. Then VideoReDo would pick them up.

If VRD honored the reg entries when processing batch entries that idea would work wonderfully... VRD doesnt though. I have confirmed that the entries for both Title and Subtitle are changed, they show up correctly in the VRD interface so I'm positive VRD sees the entries, but when running a batch it always always always uses an empty title and the default "Edited with video redo" subtitle..

Booo VRD. I don't really want to advertise my use of your product to my wife and kids. Hopefully EditDVRMS from that fellow at microsoft will do what I want, otherwise I get the pleasure of manually editing the title and subtitle of a ton of movies.

*edit* I didn't mean that to sound ungrateful for your help, just disappointed that the Titling doesn't work as I'd hoped.

[DanR]

I find that hard to believe. Are you running the batch from a service or as another user? The contents of the title for non-dvrms files are taken from the registry whether running from batch or not.

[acgaustin]

No service, not a different user. Nothing else is problematic about it.

[DanR]

Having trouble duplicating your behavior.

Which version are you using (Help>About)?

Is source DVR-MS or something else?

What settings are showing on Tools>Options>MCE?