plex_import_sage_recording.py is a simple Python-2 command-line application I wrote to import SageTv DVR recordings into a Plex library. It was written to run on Linux. I don't remember doing anything that's Linux-specific, so there's a good chance it will work on Windows (maybe with some minor tweaking).
It gets metadata from one of two places:
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It looks for metadata tags that newer versions of the SageTv backend appends to the ATSC transport stream recording files. If present, those tags contain series name, eipsode name, season and episode numbers, and various other info.
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If SageTv metadata tags aren't found, then it assumes that the existing filename is in a specific format used by SageTv comprising the series name and episode title. Then it connects to TheTvDb to try to try to look up season and episode numbers (which are required by Plex).
Once it has the series name, season number, and episode number, it creates directories expected by Plex and moves the recording into the correct place with the filename as expected by Plex.
In the end, it worked for most of the old recordings, and the rest I just moved manually.
If you what TheTvDB stuff to work, you'll need to sign up for a developer/application key at https://www.thetvdb.com/ and then modify the source code to fill in your apikey, userkey, and username:
# You must fill in legit values here to access TheTvDb.
db = TheTvDb(apikey='YOUR-HEX-APIKEY', userkey='YOUR-HEX-USERKEY', username='your.username')
$ plex_import_sagetv_recording.py [--pretend] --libpath=<plex-library-path> <sage-recording-file> [...]