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I've been really interested to see what these .meta files contain. They're generated alongside replay files (.dem files) from Steam, so I'm really curious if there's a known way to view their contents.

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  • If someone downvotes my question, could you please at least explain why? I don't know where would be a better place to ask something like this.
    – user3625087
    Commented Nov 21, 2016 at 23:24
  • I don't know what .meta files are but I assume they are not limited to gaming. Also reading these files does not pertain to playing games so not really on-topic here. I haven't voted but I thought I'd give some outside perspective.
    – VanBuzzKill
    Commented Nov 22, 2016 at 3:52
  • @VanBuzzKill Thanks for the input. I thought it'd be more relevant here instead of Game Development since it's more related to the game itself and not the development of it. I guess I'll look elsewhere then, thanks!
    – user3625087
    Commented Nov 22, 2016 at 9:17
  • Meta files in general (and I don't see why Dota 2's metas would be any different) contain information about the file itself and its contents. My guess wold be a timestamp, stats from the game (kills, wins etc.), names of the players/team, a hash sum for the file etc. Metas are often used for easily indexing data. For example in this case if you are looking for a specific team and the games it has participated in in the last week the info inside the meta allows the search engine to locate and sort accordingly the results.
    – rbaleksandar
    Commented Nov 29, 2016 at 11:55

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Yes there is a know way to read their content using the clarity replay parser.

Especially this example :

https://github.com/skadistats/clarity-examples/tree/master/src/main/java/skadistats/clarity/examples/metadata

The file contains various information used by the game to display post game stats. Like graph data, item purchase time, ...

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