Jump to content

Changing Emby's handling of missing episodes


Recommended Posts

Posted

Apologies if in wrong area as im using beta version (latest) via Docker but it's not the setup thats an issue but the following:

Im not sure why Emby's logic with missing episodes is the way it is:

Example: 

A folder had become unmounted thus the episodes could not be found, thats fair enough. But the way Emby handles this is in my view mind bogglingly stupid . The first episode played fine then the next episode was in an unmounted folder, so it sat there spinning as expected as it cannot locate the file and you get the "too many erros giving up" at this point logic would say stop attempting and go back to home screen, but no Emby's current logic this -

Emby Server (sarcasm) " apologies i cannot seem to play that episode, but i will tell you what i will do, i will try the next episode instead i mean its not like that episode was worth watching now is" it then attempts to play the next episode and this repeats for every single eipisode and ever single season following the one that played. What makes it worse is that this repeats until it goes through every single episode until it comes to the end of the series. 

And no you cannot stop it in the dashboard, if you hit the stop button is does not respond and just continues the loop, the only way to stop is rebooting the server restarting from the dahsboard goes back to trying the next episodes

Im not sure where this logic comes from but in my view its seriously flawed it should gracefully back out to the series view.

Posted

Hi, the current behavior is designed so that if you have a play queue, and one particular file can't be played for whatever reason, then you'll still be able to continue playing other things.

There's definitely room for improvement though based on the example you're saying. Maybe we could put up a dialog and have you choose between advancing to the next item or stopping all playback altogether.

 

  • Like 1

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
×
×
  • Create New...