Asturaetus 4 Posted April 25, 2017 Share Posted April 25, 2017 Hi guys, I know that for video files without chapters emby defaults to creating 'virtual' chapters & chapterimages in a constant interval of 5min. Is there any way to force that behavior even for files that contain a chapter XML? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37131 Posted April 25, 2017 Share Posted April 25, 2017 Hi, no, there are currently no settings related to this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asturaetus 4 Posted April 25, 2017 Author Share Posted April 25, 2017 Sad to hear that but ok. Since it also concerns embys handling of chapters please allow me to add another issue/question: I currently have some MKV files that make use of ordered chapters. Setting up emby to play them correctly wasn't that much of a problem. At least not if I use direct play. But the chapters in emby aren't correctly registered and handled for those files. If for example the chapters XML of the MKV contains: Chapter 1 0:00 - 2:50 Chapter 2 0:00 - 1:30 with <ChapterSegmentUID> referencing a different MKV file in the folder Chapter 3 2:50 - 4:00 emby creates for both chapter 1 and 2 chapter images at time code 0:00 of the main file - disregarding the referenced other file. And if I try to play the file starting at chapter 2 (clicking on the chapter) - emby also tries to play it from time code 0:00 while correctly it would be from timecode 2:50 since the play length and the actual time codes during playback would incorporate all referenced parts. Similarily chapter 3 starts at 2:50 instead of 4:20. Is there any way for me to fix this behavior and is this a currently known bug? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37131 Posted April 25, 2017 Share Posted April 25, 2017 We have not done any work on supporting some kind of chapters XML file, so that would be all new development. I hadn't even heard of it to be honest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asturaetus 4 Posted April 25, 2017 Author Share Posted April 25, 2017 (edited) No, sorry - I think you misunderstand me - the chapter XML is nothing new. I am not talking about a separate chapters file. Chapters in an MKV container are essentially nothing more than an XML. The main issue I was talking about is just this particular method of linking different video parts/MKV files together which is done via the chapters in the MKV container. Or more specific with the ChapterSegmentUID element (as specified in the MKV standard https://www.matroska.org/technical/specs/index.html -> see: ChapterSegmentUID). And how emby currently can't handle it (makes mistake during the generation of the chapters/chapters images and how it handles starting a file from such a chapter). Edited April 25, 2017 by Asturaetus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37131 Posted April 25, 2017 Share Posted April 25, 2017 Yea we haven't looked at that at all. Haven't even really seen much demand for it to be honest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37131 Posted April 25, 2017 Share Posted April 25, 2017 Also I think the request should potentially go to ffmpeg. If it handled them out of the box then there would not be very much work for us to do. See here: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/3123 Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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