Green Button member, Gelano, has written an app that will get the CRC64/DVDID for you. This is a useful tool if you’re trying to get local DVDs to show up in My DVDs.

Now’s a good time to talk about DVDIDs hit rates. The DVDID is generated by looking at various parts of a DVD in order to generate a unique identifier. Since DVD studios put out multiple versions of a DVD the bits on the disc can vary, this in turn means each version has a different DVDID. Since one movie can have multiple DVDIDs it makes it harder for us to ensure we have every DVDID mapped to it’s corresponding movie. It’s because of this our US hit rate for DVDIDs is about 80%. Which is actually both really good, and an improvement. When we first started this project it was done around 60% but with a combined effort from our group, the metadata group, AMG, and Sony, we submitted lots of missing DVDIDs and AMG has added lots more. For instance, our group actually hired someone to run a DVDID tool on all the DVDs in our internal DVD library.

So what if your DVD is not being identified? You can submit it to Microsoft.

• Load WMP
• Go to DVD Now Playing
• In the bottom right there should be a generic DVD cover art box and above it a ‘Find DVD Info’ link. Click on the link.
• Follow the steps that the link takes you to