[psionic]

All of the command line utilities that I put out can take a username, a password, and the btv license key. If any of them are missing, it uses "dummy" values. The dummy values work fine on the local machine with security turned off.

Usage:
    MetaDataExtractor --mode=[extract|import] <options> "c:\the\target\recording.mpg"

    Options:
        --mode=[extract|import]
        --server=dnsname_or_ip:port
        --license=btv_license_string
        --user=username
        --password=password

so, if BTV is on the local machine, WITH security enabled, this should work, provided the user has created a BTV user called 'autoxvid' with the password 'mysecret' that has the appropriate access rights (EditShow):

btvmetadata --mode=extract --user=autoxvid --password=mysecret "C:\tv\Law and Order - blahblah.mpg"

Lee, you might want to expose these options in AutoXvid.ini. "BTVServer=", "BTVUser=", "BTVPassword", "BTVLicense", etc. You can either specify the defaults (shown below) on the command line or omit them to let BTVMetaData automatically use them.

The defaults are:
--server=localhost:8129
--user=
--password=
--license=