Microsoft Windows Media Format 9' title='Microsoft Windows Media Format 9' />Windows Media Center Guide Listings Format. This documentation is archived and is not being maintained. Microsoft Corporation. Tell me about the issue and Ill help you find the solution you need. Note The. NET API Reference documentation has a new home. Visit the. NET API Browser on docs. Upcoming Release. Microsoft security updates are released on the second Tuesday of each month. Latest Release. Microsoft has updated its security update publishing model. Method 1 I would suggest you to run Windows media player settings troubleshooter. Open the Windows Media Player Settings troubleshooter httpwindows. Microsoft Windows Media Format 9' title='Microsoft Windows Media Format 9' />July 2. Applies to Windows Media Center is included in Windows 7 Home Premium, Windows 7 Professional, Windows 7 Ultimate, and Windows 7 Enterprise. Summary This document describes how to import program data into the Electronic Program Guide data store for Windows Media Center on a Windows 7 computer. The main audience for this document is developers who want to build applications to import external Guide data into Windows Media Center and are familiar with Guide and MXF file format. Contents. Introduction. Program Data Disclaimer. Load. MXFFormat of the Guide Data File MXF File Structure MXF Elements and Attributes Sample MXF File. Reindexing Guide Data. Recovering a Corrupted Guide Data Store. For More Information. Introduction. This document describes how to use Load. MXF. exe, a tool released as part of Windows Media Center, to load program data in MXF format into an existing Electronic Program Guide data store for Windows Media Center. This document describes how to use this tool with the MXF file format to author Guide data. A detailed example is also provided. Program Data Disclaimer. Microsoft makes no representations regarding and will not be responsible for any liability, failure, or inaccuracies in this document that relate to or result from. Importation of external program data with a third party application. Utilization of any external program data. Upgrading imported program data from Windows 7 to future Windows releases. Load. MXFThe Load. MXF. exe tool loads data from an MXF file into a Windows Media Center Guide data store. Load. MXF. exe is located in the in windirehome folder of a Windows Media Center PC. Syntax. Load. MXF s store. Filename i input. Filename. Parameters s store. Filename. The filename of the data store. If this is not specified, the default data store is used. Filename. The name of the MXF file to load. Example. The following command loads the data from the sample. Guide data store Format of the Guide Data File. The listings file is in XML format. The following table provides an overview of the main element types in the Guide data file. Element. Description. Example. Program. A movie or episode. An episode of Lost, titled The others strike. Series. Info. A series of a particular program. Nothing Was The Same Zip File. Lost. Season. A season of a particular program. Lost Season 1. Service. A content provider. KOMOAffiliate. Identifies who the service is affiliated to, if anyone. ABCSchedule. Entry. Defines when a program will be broadcast on a service. Lost The others strike will air on KOMO at 8pm to 9pm on 2. Channel. The number used to tune to a particular service. Channel 4 tunes to KOMO. Lineup. Defines a collection of channels. Person. A name of a person associated with the program. Joe Blogs. Actor. Role. Writer. Role. Guest. Actor. Role. Host. Role. Producer. Role. Director. Role. Defines the persons role with the program actor, writer, guest star, host, producer, or director. Joe Blogs is an actor in Lost The others strike. Keyword. A named attribute that a program can be tagged with. Keywords are displayed in the details for a program and used in the Search By Category functionality. Drama. Keyword. Group. A set, or group, of keywords. The keyword group has a primary keyword name that identifies the group and is used to define the hierarchy in the Search By Category functionality. A Keyword. Group might have a Keyword name of Movies, and group the following keywords Comedy, Drama, Horror, and Sci Fi. Provider. Provides information and copyright about who provided the listing data. Guide. Image. Specifies an image to be displayed in the Guide. A channel logo or program image. MXF File Structure. The following XML shows the general structure of the MXF file. UTF 8. lt Assembly namemcepg. Assembly namemcstore. Providers. lt Provider id1 nameFoo. Listings display. NameFoo Listings copyright 2. Foo Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Providers. lt With provider1. Keywords. lt Keyword. Groups. lt Guide. Images. lt People. Series. Infos. Seasons. Programs. Affiliates. Services. Schedule. Entries. Lineups. With. When the MXF file is loaded into Windows Media Center, the file is loaded into an internal database. Generally speaking, each XML element is transformed into a record row in a table in the database. The element name for example, lt Program describes the table in which to load the record. Note the following attributes. This identifier ID is unique within the XML document and is referenced by other elements when defining references to this element in the document. The id value is not loaded into the database. ID that is persisted in the database. The uid allows the document to be loaded many times and allows the document to update an existing record in the database rather than creating a new one each time. If the element has specified a uid, the loader first attempts to find the record in the database with this uid. If found, the record is updated with the values from the XML document. If not found, a new record row is created in the database, tagged with the uid and given the elements values. Note Everything in the file is case sensitive. When lists of IDs are specified, spaces are not allowedonly the comma, delimiter is allowed. Boolean values can either be true or false, or 1 or 0. MXF Elements and Attributes. This section describes each element in detail, including the following information about each attribute. Attribute The name of the attribute. Type The type of value expected for the attribute. Default value The value to use if the attribute is not specified. If the database record is updated, the corresponding value is not changed. Description A description of the attribute. Notes Additional comments about the attribute. Actor. Role. An Actor. Role element is defined within a Program element and defines a relationship between a Person element and the surrounding Program element whether the person is an actor. The Actor. Role element and has the following attributes Attribute. Type. Default value. Description. NotespersonstringA reference to the id value of the Person element. Used to sort the names that are displayed. Lower numbers are displayed first. Affiliate. The Affiliate element defines a network such as BBC, ABC, or MSNBC. The Affiliate element has the following attributes Attribute. Type. Default value. Description. NotesnamestringThe display name of the network. An ID that uniquely identifies the affiliate. This value should take the form Affiliate name, where name is the value of the name attribute. ImagestringSpecifies a network logo to display. This value contains a Guide. The King Of Fighter 99 Game there. Imageid attribute. Assembly. The Assembly element and its nested elements are standard header elements of the document and do not change. Channel. A Channel element defines how to access a service the channel number the user enters to tune to the service. The Channel element has the following attributes Name. Type. Default. Description. Notesuidstring A unique ID that is consistent between loads. This value should take the form Channel unique. Lineup. Name numbersub. Number, where unique. Lineup. Name is the Lineup elements uid, and number and sub. At&Amp;T Unlimited Data Wifi Hotspot. Number are the values from the number and sub.