Files with Creation date before 1970
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I have a number of video files of movies released in the 1940s to 1960s. I have changed the modify & creation dates of these files to the date the original movies were released. This would, I thought, help create the navigation tree by year, correctly. I am running Twonkyserver 6 on a Windows Home Server. However, I find that Twonkymedia Server (and Manager) does not recognize any files with a creation date earlier than 1st January 1970. (These files do not show up in the folder, year, album listing etc). Is this a bug I need to live with or can somebody suggest a work around? Thank you very much
Re: Files with Creation date before 1970
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Re: Files with Creation date before 1970
What format are the videos?
I would recommend converting them to a format that supports tagging.... For example, convert them to MP4, and use mp3tag to set the date as you see fit...
I know that works (as I have example cases).
I would recommend converting them to a format that supports tagging.... For example, convert them to MP4, and use mp3tag to set the date as you see fit...
I know that works (as I have example cases).
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Re: Files with Creation date before 1970
PeeBee...
The OS is Windows Home Server... I have not been able to find any documentation tata WHS runs on Unix time. Is there any way to change to UTC?
edrikk...
My videos are mostly Xvid encoded and in AVI format. It would be very time consuming to convert my entire library to MP4. However, would appreciate your advice on whether this would degrade quality in any way and what would be the best tool to use to convert. Thanks
The OS is Windows Home Server... I have not been able to find any documentation tata WHS runs on Unix time. Is there any way to change to UTC?
edrikk...
My videos are mostly Xvid encoded and in AVI format. It would be very time consuming to convert my entire library to MP4. However, would appreciate your advice on whether this would degrade quality in any way and what would be the best tool to use to convert. Thanks
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Nothing to do with WHS. Twonky's database implementation must store dates in Unix time format so can't go earlier than 1/1/1970.pvohra wrote:PeeBee...
The OS is Windows Home Server... I have not been able to find any documentation tata WHS runs on Unix time. Is there any way to change to UTC?
PB
Samsung LE37B650T2WXXU; Liteon 5055GDL+ HDD/DVD Recorder; Playstation 3; Iomega Screenplay HD 500GB; Buffalo Linkstation Pro LS-320GL (running Twonky 6.0.30, SqueezeBox Server 7.6 and acting as a Print Server)
Re: Files with Creation date before 1970
pvohra wrote:PeeBee...
The OS is Windows Home Server... I have not been able to find any documentation tata WHS runs on Unix time. Is there any way to change to UTC?
edrikk...
My videos are mostly Xvid encoded and in AVI format. It would be very time consuming to convert my entire library to MP4. However, would appreciate your advice on whether this would degrade quality in any way and what would be the best tool to use to convert. Thanks
I personally use Xvid4PSP, as it gives me enough advanced features, but simplifies most items... I'm converting to the "Sony PS3 Profile", but then manually editing settings to increase quality (which also does increase encoding time, but that's a one time "spend")
Re: Files with Creation date before 1970
PeeBee wrote:Nothing to do with WHS. Twonky's database implementation must store dates in Unix time format so can't go earlier than 1/1/1970.pvohra wrote:PeeBee...
The OS is Windows Home Server... I have not been able to find any documentation tata WHS runs on Unix time. Is there any way to change to UTC?
PB
Nope... Twonky's database stores dates properly. I have MP4 files which have the dates tagged in standard UTC format of yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ssZ and it is displayed perfectly well for all dates earliest date being in the '40s.
For non-MP4 files, twonky takes the date from the file timestamp, so THAT may be an issue...
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Re: Files with Creation date before 1970
Thanks folks for your inputs. The only solution I see therefore is to convert the files to MP4... while the 'spend' would indeed be worthwhile, I am just left wondering whether the solution is not bigger than the problem!