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What can be the reason for "Chapter Image Extraction" fails in some cases? eg \What Maisie Knew\What Maisie Knew.mkv

 

Format                                   : Matroska
Format version                           : Version 4 / Version 2
File size                                : 14.7 GiB
Duration                                 : 1h 38mn
Overall bit rate mode                    : Variable
Overall bit rate                         : 21.3 Mbps
Movie name                               : What Maisie Knew
Encoded date                             : UTC 2014-01-08 23:18:57
Writing application                      : mkvmerge v6.6.0 ('The Edge Of The In Between') built on Dec  1 2013 17:55:00
Writing library                          : libebml v1.3.0 + libmatroska v1.4.1


Video
ID                                       : 1
Format                                   : AVC
Format/Info                              : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile                           : High@L4.1
Format settings, CABAC                   : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames                : 2 frames
Codec ID                                 : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration                                 : 1h 38mn
Bit rate mode                            : Variable
Width                                    : 1 920 pixels
Height                                   : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 16:9
Frame rate mode                          : Constant
Frame rate                               : 23.976 fps
Color space                              : YUV
Chroma subsampling                       : 4:2:0
Bit depth                                : 8 bits
Scan type                                : Progressive
Default                                  : Yes
Forced                                   : No


Audio
ID                                       : 2
Format                                   : TrueHD
Codec ID                                 : A_TRUEHD
Duration                                 : 1h 38mn
Bit rate mode                            : Variable
Maximum bit rate                         : 2 070 Kbps
Channel(s)                               : 6 channels
Channel positions                        : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode                         : Lossless
Language                                 : English
Default                                  : Yes
Forced                                   : No


Text
ID                                       : 3
Format                                   : PGS
Codec ID                                 : S_HDMV/PGS
Codec ID/Info                            : The same subtitle format used on BDs/HD-DVDs
Language                                 : Danish
Default                                  : Yes
Forced                                   : No


Menu
00:00:00.000                             : en:Chapter 1
00:08:47.944                             : en:Chapter 2
00:15:39.229                             : en:Chapter 3
00:23:45.215                             : en:Chapter 4
00:31:58.625                             : en:Chapter 5
00:39:14.226                             : en:Chapter 6
00:48:48.759                             : en:Chapter 7
00:56:55.036                             : en:Chapter 8
01:06:00.373                             : en:Chapter 9
01:17:18.091                             : en:Chapter 10
01:28:08.199                             : en:Chapter 11
01:35:03.572                             : en:Chapter 12
01:38:55.679                             : en:Chapter 13

 

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I think it has something to do with the chapter position on the last chapter?

 

movie length: 01:38:55.930
 
Chapter 13: 01:38:55.679 
 
EDIT
 
I thought this was the case, but from chapter two onwards failed to extract images from Sunshine.
 
Data from ffprobe
 
  Metadata:
    title           : Sunshine
    creation_time   : 2011-10-07 10:34:11
  Duration: 01:47:27.45, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 26160
    Chapter #0.0: start 0.000000, end 247.330000
    Metadata:
      title           : Kapitel 1
    Chapter #0.1: start 247.330000, end 490.573000
    Metadata:
      title           : Kapitel 2
    Chapter #0.2: start 490.573000, end 761.260000
    Metadata:
      title           : Kapitel 3
    Chapter #0.3: start 761.260000, end 1283.407000
    Metadata:
      title           : Kapitel 4
    Chapter #0.4: start 1283.407000, end 1497.245000
    Metadata:
      title           : Kapitel 5
    Chapter #0.5: start 1497.245000, end 2115.238000
    Metadata:
      title           : Kapitel 6
    Chapter #0.6: start 2115.238000, end 2355.311000
    Metadata:
      title           : Kapitel 7
    Chapter #0.7: start 2355.311000, end 2823.779000
    Metadata:
      title           : Kapitel 8
    Chapter #0.8: start 2823.779000, end 3177.340000
    Metadata:
      title           : Kapitel 9
    Chapter #0.9: start 3177.340000, end 3385.298000
    Metadata:
      title           : Kapitel 10
    Chapter #0.10: start 3385.298000, end 3845.549000
    Metadata:
      title           : Kapitel 11
    Chapter #0.11: start 3845.549000, end 3940.853000
    Metadata:
      title           : Kapitel 12
    Chapter #0.12: start 3940.853000, end 4282.945000
    Metadata:
      title           : Kapitel 13
    Chapter #0.13: start 4282.945000, end 4625.662000
    Metadata:
      title           : Kapitel 14
    Chapter #0.14: start 4625.662000, end 5076.988000
    Metadata:
      title           : Kapitel 15
    Chapter #0.15: start 5076.988000, end 5436.597000
    Metadata:
      title           : Kapitel 16
    Chapter #0.16: start 5436.597000, end 5661.363000
    Metadata:
      title           : Kapitel 17
    Chapter #0.17: start 5661.363000, end 5972.466000
    Metadata:
      title           : Kapitel 18
    Chapter #0.18: start 5972.466000, end 6052.421000
    Metadata:
      title           : Kapitel 19
    Chapter #0.19: start 6052.421000, end 6446.439000
    Metadata:
      title           : Kapitel 20
    Chapter #0.20: start 6446.439000, end 6447.446000
    Metadata:
      title           : Kapitel 21
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From the server log

 

2014-01-14 19:33:29.3423, Info, MediaEncoder, Killing ffmpeg process
2014-01-14 19:33:29.3735, Error, MediaEncoder, ffmpeg image extraction failed for file:"\\SERVER_1\Film_8\Sunshine\Sunshine.mkv"
2014-01-14 19:33:29.3735, Error, MediaEncoder, I-frame image extraction failed, will attempt standard way. Input: file:"\\SERVER_1\Film_8\Sunshine\Sunshine.mkv"
2014-01-14 19:33:39.4043, Info, MediaEncoder, Killing ffmpeg process
2014-01-14 19:33:39.4355, Error, MediaEncoder, ffmpeg image extraction failed for file:"\\SERVER_1\Film_8\Sunshine\Sunshine.mkv"
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Likely means the decode time stamps are not quire right. generally if you run it though mkvmerge it will generally fix them. There are a few threads mentioning it. If we cannot seek the file we cannot extract the image.

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If that is the case it may not be the issue then. But the most likely scenario is that for one reason or another we cannot seek the file. There are a few other things it may well be 

it could be that we are extracting black frames (do you see the default icon or a black frame)

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Ok try a remux with mkvmerge (if you want to)

 

then delete 

%appdata%\MediaBrowser-Server\data\chapter-images\failures.txt

and then run the chapter extraction task see how you fare.

 

Incidentally the files listed in this text file generally have something nqr with them. Some are fine but  the last chapter maybe too close to the end of the file or for one reason or another we cannot seek in them.

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Ok try a remux with mkvmerge (if you want to)

 

then delete 

%appdata%\MediaBrowser-Server\data\chapter-images\failures.txt

and then run the chapter extraction task see how you fare.

 

Incidentally the files listed in this text file generally have something nqr with them. Some are fine but  the last chapter maybe too close to the end of the file or for one reason or another we cannot seek in them.

 

you don't need to delete the file.

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Ok try a remux with mkvmerge (if you want to)

 

then delete 

%appdata%\MediaBrowser-Server\data\chapter-images\failures.txt

and then run the chapter extraction task see how you fare.

 

Incidentally the files listed in this text file generally have something nqr with them. Some are fine but  the last chapter maybe too close to the end of the file or for one reason or another we cannot seek in them.

 

It's weird because all my movies are muxed by myself, but after remux through mkvmerge problem is solved.

 

Thanks

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  • 3 weeks later...
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you don't need to delete the file.

 

For it to work for me, I had to delete the file otherwise "Chapter image extraction" would not work, If I left the file there (has about 13 entries) the process would take 3 seconds to complete and it wouldn't do anything (no errors in the log window), but after deleting the file it would start creating chapters (for about 5min) until it filled up the failure.txt to about 13 entries again.

 

I also tried mkvmerge on a few of the damaged files just to see if it would continue processing once it was fixed, but it didn't, the process just completed in 3 seconds again, but after deleting the failure.txt it did process, and the files that I ran through mkvmerge didn't show up on the failed list.

 

I'm on the lastest dev build.

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That's weird because every mkv is created through mkvmerge by myself ... But i give it a try. Thanks

 

 

I noticed this as well, a few of my files remuxed in mkvmerge already it could not extract images from, yet when i ran it through a newer version of mkvmerge it worked fine. The only thing in common it seemed was those files were remuxed with an older version of mkvmerge and mb3 just would not exctract those images. 

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