Archiving Recorded TV on Your Network
When you record TV in Windows Media Center, the program stores the resulting files—which use the Microsoft Recorded TV Show file type with the .dvr-ms
extension—in the following folder:
%SystemDrive%\Users\Public\Recorded TV
If you have Windows Home Server and you want to stream your recorded TV shows to Windows Media Connect programs and to devices on your network, you need to move or copy the Recorded TV files to Windows Home Server’s Recorded TV
share.
This extra step is a pain, particularly because Recorded TV files are often multigigabyte affairs that can take quite a while to transfer. A better solution is to record TV shows directly to Windows Home Server. In early versions of Windows Home Server, ...
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