breezytm 124 Posted April 6, 2015 Posted April 6, 2015 I noticed this weird bug last night. I don't know when it started. I looked through some of my older scanned contents and the problem appears there as well.
xnappo 1597 Posted April 6, 2015 Posted April 6, 2015 Can you confirm you are NOT using the Emby for Kodi beta?
breezytm 124 Posted April 6, 2015 Author Posted April 6, 2015 (edited) I am using it. I am going around fixing these manually. Should I just leave them in case the addon is what causing the problem? Edited April 6, 2015 by breezytm
olerocker 8 Posted April 11, 2015 Posted April 11, 2015 (edited) Hi guys, I am having the same issue. I reported it in the windows server thread but it appears to have something to do with the kodi plugin. I am using the old plugin. It appears that the plugin somehow corrupts the metadata on the server after you watch an episode. This has been happening since the server upgraded a couple of days ago if I remember correctly. I have 2 kodi clients and the problem appears on both of them. The strange thing is that it doesn't appear on all files, just on a few shows. Edited April 11, 2015 by olerocker
xnappo 1597 Posted April 11, 2015 Posted April 11, 2015 If you know how to recreate this, what we really need is a SERVER log to see what is happening. Seems like somehow when we send a 'watched' update it is causing something wacky to happen. It is weird because I don't really get how we can be changing the database as we consider it read only other than 'played'.
Luke 38863 Posted April 11, 2015 Posted April 11, 2015 is the addon or perhaps kodi updating the metadata to include the watched flag in the nfo? perhaps something is going on there that needs to be looked at.
xnappo 1597 Posted April 11, 2015 Posted April 11, 2015 If we were talking about just the new addon, I might think Kodi was messing the the NFO file. But I can't see how the old one would do that. Is there any way to tell Emby not to look at nfo files at all?
olerocker 8 Posted April 11, 2015 Posted April 11, 2015 The part of the log I posted in this thread doesn't help? http://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/20056-emby-suddenly-mixes-up-my-tv-shows/
Luke 38863 Posted April 11, 2015 Posted April 11, 2015 If we were talking about just the new addon, I might think Kodi was messing the the NFO file. But I can't see how the old one would do that. Is there any way to tell Emby not to look at nfo files at all? if you use old style xml then you can prioritize that over nfo, but if all you have is nfo then no, there is no ignore setting. There's nothing wrong with that, but isn't it beside the point? what if the user wants nfo metadata?
xnappo 1597 Posted April 11, 2015 Posted April 11, 2015 It might, but you need to tell us what it means. What did you do exactly the triggered that? Luke - one thing we are doing in the old addon is manually sending a post to marked watched. This is not really needed anymore since the server does it as well, but I don't see how it could corrupt anything. The new addon used to do this too - but we have removed it.
xnappo 1597 Posted April 11, 2015 Posted April 11, 2015 if you use old style xml then you can prioritize that over nfo, but if all you have is nfo then no, there is no ignore setting. There's nothing wrong with that, but isn't it beside the point? what if the user wants nfo metadata? Just for testing.
Luke 38863 Posted April 11, 2015 Posted April 11, 2015 well to trace this down i would watch the media folder for nfo changes. then if there's a change, find out who is making the change. that should solve the mystery.
xnappo 1597 Posted April 11, 2015 Posted April 11, 2015 Yeah - do you guys have NFO files? I don't use them - and I think I have seen the problem anyway but not positive.
olerocker 8 Posted April 11, 2015 Posted April 11, 2015 It might, but you need to tell us what it means. What did you do exactly the triggered that?. If you referring to me, all I did is watch an episode. After it was over I pushed stop and the media browser plugin started syncing with the server all of a sudden a season unknown folder appeared with the episode I just watched in it.
breezytm 124 Posted April 11, 2015 Author Posted April 11, 2015 I don't really maintain nfo files but some of my movies have them but not tv shows. I created this post http://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/20028-emby-for-kodi-multiple-episodes-with-00/ before I understood the issues were related. Having multiple episodes in Kodi with 00 was from the start. Right after Emby finished syncing. I went on the web client to see if it was pulling the wrong data from the server and noticed the changes.
xnappo 1597 Posted April 11, 2015 Posted April 11, 2015 Okay - so please confirm you do NOT have NFO files for the problem TV show.
breezytm 124 Posted April 12, 2015 Author Posted April 12, 2015 I do not have any nfo files for tv shows. Also I never noticed the problem with the older addon.
olerocker 8 Posted April 12, 2015 Posted April 12, 2015 (edited) This issue wasn't present with older versions of the server, I don't know for sure from what version this started happening. Is there a way that I could fix the metadata or redownload it without losing the watched status of the media? Edited April 12, 2015 by olerocker
xnappo 1597 Posted April 12, 2015 Posted April 12, 2015 @@Luke - so this has nothing to do with NFO files.. Any other ideas?
Luke 38863 Posted April 12, 2015 Posted April 12, 2015 well he said he doesn't use nfo files but that doesn't mean kodi or something else didn't save one. if that's not it then i really don't know. someone will have to reproduce and monitor who's touching what.
xnappo 1597 Posted April 12, 2015 Posted April 12, 2015 Good point @@breezytm please confirm there are no NFO files in the directory.
breezytm 124 Posted April 13, 2015 Author Posted April 13, 2015 @@xnappo I don't have any nfo files for tv shows. I do for some movies.
xnappo 1597 Posted April 13, 2015 Posted April 13, 2015 (edited) Okay @@Luke - so no NFO files involved. Any way you can possibly see a POST request for marking watched could cause the metadata on the server to corrupt? Edited April 13, 2015 by xnappo
breezytm 124 Posted April 13, 2015 Author Posted April 13, 2015 (edited) I also noticed another bug which I would create another thread for. When Kodi is running with Emby I constantly get the "loading" box popping up at random time but frequent. Looking at the logs it appears as if Emby is always doing something in the background. It would be nice to make changes base on the server events. Update Kodi library after the server finished running the "scan media library" task only. Add a manual update button for those who want to manually update their library at random time. Update the watched state when the video finished playing or stop only. Do a pull and push. My FTV can't keep up with all that transaction. Kodi constantly freezing. I can't have both Kodi and Emby for WMC running at the same time. One of them would crash. I know it's not my clients because before introducing the new Emby client for Kodi MBC been running fine for the last year and half. Edited April 13, 2015 by breezytm
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