Question about my video files

[Marc_G 92]

Hi folks, 

 

Sorry for the odd title... but it's hard to be concise with this.  For some media while it is playing, if I click (with mouse, on the progress bar) to a position near the end, the video stops playing and just remains on the first frame at the new clicked-to position EDIT: it remains at the last frame played before the click to the new position. Hitting pause/resume doesn't fix it. It just stops there.  If I hadn't clicked to that position, it would have kept playing to the end of the file.

 

I've attached logs.  I see this reproducibly on my bluray rips of The Walking Dead Season 6. here is a picture of what the mediainfo says about the file:

 

 

The ET log records the positionclick events... everything was fine after each click except the last one (after which, I hit the stop button and exited).

 

I've noticed this since starting watching this series, since the series has a LONG end title sequence and if I just stop watching when the credits start rolling, ET doesn't necessarily mark the episode as "watched." So, I click to the end of the episode to make sure it records the episode as fully done. But when I do that, I notice it "gets stuck" and won't restart playing. I can back out to the main series page and start watching something else... it's not "crashed" just it's odd that the video stops playing at this point.

 

Not all shows do this. I've only noticed it on TWD; but EVERY episode of TWD shows this problem. Nothing intermittent about it.

 

I updated to the latest windows Emby Server build prior to running the tests with the logs attached, to make sure it wasn't caused by an old build.

 

Please recommend troubleshooting from this point. It's not a horrible thing, but seems to me to be a bug. If it's a feature, let me know...

 

Marc

 

EDIT: I have reproduced this on my desktop machine, which acts identically to what my HTPC does as described above. I imagine this relates to some behavior involving what ET thinks is the "end of the show" for marking watched purposes.

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Edited February 19, 2017 by Marc_G

[Guest asrequested]

Try a quick remux with mkvtoolnix, and see if that resolves it. I've seen other posts where makeMKV has been used and there have been issues like this with those files.

[Marc_G 92]

I will try this.

 

I seem to recall differences between the length of episodes reported by MakeMKV and the length reported by MPC-HC (which I use to sort out which episode is which, prior to adding to Emby library). Perhaps that has something to do with it.

 

I'll dig up my MKVToolnix and see what happens.

[Marc_G 92]

OK, after remuxing the file, the resultant file shows a length about 4 minutes shorter than the original file, as reported by MPC-HC. Apparently there was an empty chapter or some such in the original. Emby was probably going to the "real" point in the file based on the time points I was clicking to; since the file was artificially reported as being longer than it really was, clicking to a time point later than actually existed caused the error.

 

OK, Emby is exonerated here. There's something messed up with this set of files; not sure why!

 

Thanks Doofus! Great idea.

[Luke 36991]

Thanks for reporting back.