Many Thanks for your input, Tom!
It should not be very difficult to add such a US format. I will add this to my todo list for a later/next version.
Note that most use the date/time format to sort the files by name and have also sorted them by time/date.
In case the files are renamed to month/day/year you can't sort them correctly.
Is this the only US-format or should SDcopy support other formats as well?
If yes please specify, I just know the formats available in europe.
Regards
Sektionschef

Please,.. That would be really great! How about using _ (underscore).

Date displayed like this:  03_11_09  for March 11th 2009.

and the time with AM or PM stamp.


Thanks,

Tom

Your example above would work perfectly!

Tom T

Dear all
Please find attached the new version V1.9994beta of my tool SDcopy!

new features:
-added 2 new time/date formats for US users(US locale in control panel must be set):
"mm-dd-yy_HH-MM-SS-AMPM"
"yy-mm-dd_HH-MM-SS-AMPM"
-added a new key "modify_rdi-pck" for the ini-file. With this key SDcopy will also set the 16:9 Widescreen flag in the privatestream2 headers of the mpeg2 files.
Investigations have shown that Panasonic Camcorders do not set the correct aspect ratio in the privatestream2 headers while JVC and Canon Camcorders work correct here.
Beside the sequence header the privatestream2 header is another location inside a mpeg2 file where the 16:9 aspect ratio can be specified.
Thanks to user "eustonstreet" for helping me on this.
-added a second help page that describes the undocumented keys of the ini-file.
-in this version "yyyymmdd_HHMMSS" is now the default date/time format.

bug fixes:
-in WS-flag patch mode the file date/times will now be preserved after patching/renaming
-in rare situations previous versions of SDcopy renamed files of Panasonic SDR-S100 camcorders with a fixed date of 1.1.1980.
-in rare situations previous versions of SDcopy produced short glitches/distortions inside the video data.
Thanks to user "sonnytwins" for providing MOD files for me. 
-Cyberlink codec did not work with certain MPG files that were patched by SDcopy V1.9991beta. This is now corrected in V1.9994beta.

Regards
Sektionschef

Dear all

Please find attached the new version V1.9997beta of my tool SDcopy.
new features:
- via "overwrite existing files without warning" the user can choose whether existing files should be overwritten by SDcopy or not.
If this option is unchecked then SDcopy will not overwrite existing files, instead it will add a running number to the new filename.
bug fixes:
-Files with a creation time of 1.1.1980 01:00:00 will now be treated as files without a creation time(which is 1.1.1980 00:00:00).
-in rare situations SDcopy has output the error message "run-time error '9': Subscript out of range". This is now  fixed in V1.9997beta.

Regards
Sektionschef

Dear SDcopy users!

Please find attached the new Version V1.9998beta.
It mainly includes a fix that corrects a problem where VLC media player showed the video in double-wide aspect ratio.

new features:
-the help page now also shows the currently set key values of the ini-file.
bug fixes:
-in the previous versions V1.9994beta to V1.9997beta the ini-key modify_sde did not modify the sequence display extension headers regardless what value was assigned(1 or 2).
For certain kind of camcorders(Panasonic) this resulted in a double-wide display with VLC media player. This is now corrected.

If you encounter any problems then please let me know.

Regards
Sektionschef

Dear all

A new version V1.99985beta of my tool SDcopy is available:

new features:
-added new ini-key use_modificationtime, usage:
use_modificationtime=1...will always use the modification time of the original mod file
use_modificationtime=0...will always use the creation time of the original mod file
use_modificationtime=2(default, in case no key is present): use the oldest of these two. If you haven't encountered any problems with the file modification time in previous versions then just omitt this key or set it to 2.
- if the key datetimeformat of the ini-file is left blank then SDcopy will use the original filename instead of renaming the file with its date and time.
- added the ability to specify a source file and a target file via SDcopy's commandline interface.
If a source file is specified then just this single file will be processed. If a target file is specified then the source file will be copied to the target file.
It is possible to specify a source file and a target folder but it is not possible to specify a source folder and a target file.
In case a target file is specified option /T: will also append the user text to the target file while the key datetimeformat of the ini-file will be ignored.

bug fixes:
- in rare situations SDcopy hung in previous versions and needed to be closed via task manager.Fixed.
- SDcopy now correctly preserves the file times, in previous versions this
only worked in manual mode.

As usual, please report any problems with this version directly here into this board.
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Regards
Sektionschef