Convert or not convert?

[pwhodges 2012]

I have a show season with three files, and I want to re-encode them.  I normally use Handbrake for this, but for some reason it will not touch these files - it just says "finished" immediately.  So I thought I'd try the Emby facility instead, which I never have before.

I right-clicked on the season menu and selected Convert, chose my parameters, and away it went - the conversion was performed, quicker than I expected, but the results were fine, except that the output file was a lower resolution than I wanted because it can't be chosen independently.

So I thought I'd do it again with a higher bitrate, in the expectation that Handbrake could then handle the resulting file.  I removed the previous converted files, and told Emby to convert - nothing happened.  I renamed the source files so that Emby thought they were changed and told it to convert - nothing happened.

It seems that Emby has logic to say that a conversion can only ever be done once (what if you want both tv and mobile versions?).  If so (and indeed, if not) how do I persuade it to do what I want?

Paul

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Edited August 9, 2021 by pwhodges

[Carlo 4561]

Don't know if this will help or not but worth a try.

Run a full scan. This should remove any entries from the database that no longer exist.

Then try it again.