Validating ALL files on NAS

[BarryEgan 0]

Hi everyone, long time listener... first time caller. Latest Emby 4.9 on Windows Server 2016.

For reasons bordering on the absurd I have a compelling need to verify every video file on my NAS that the files will in fact "play". Some files are corrupt and I don't know which ones.

When I look at my Emby logs during the Scan for Media process, I notice a program being called, "ffprobe" and when a corrupt file is encountered a log entry is generated.

For example:

2024-06-02 07:54:13.975 Info MediaProbeManager: ProcessRun 'ffprobe' Execute: C:\Users\XXXXXXXXXX\appdata\Roaming\Emby-Server\system\ffprobe.exe -i file:"\\NAS3\PUBLIC\TV\! NEW\Maury\Season 19\Maury - S19E125 - I've Been Married 3 Times ... Is My 4th Fiance a Cheater.mp4" -threads 0 -v info -print_format json -show_streams -show_chapters -show_format -show_data
2024-06-02 07:54:14.278 Info MediaProbeManager: ProcessRun 'ffprobe' Process exited with code 0 - Succeeded
2024-06-02 07:54:14.283 Error App: Error in ffprobe
    *** Error Report ***
    Version: 4.9.0.22
    Command line: C:\Users\XXXXXXXX\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\system\EmbyServer.dll
    Operating system: Microsoft Windows 10.0.14393
    OS/Process: x64/x64
    Framework: .NET 8.0.5
    Runtime: C:/Users/XXXXXXXXX/AppData/Roaming/Emby-Server/system/System.Private.CoreLib.dll
    Processor count: 1
    Data path: C:\Users\XXXXXXXX\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\programdata
    Application path: C:\Users\XXXXXX\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\system
    Emby.Server.MediaEncoding.Unified.Ffmpeg.FfRunException: Emby.Server.MediaEncoding.Unified.Ffmpeg.FfRunException: ffprobe failed - streams and format are both null: -i 

Thats exactly what I want to do... I want to run something in Emby or manipulate the probe program which will examine all existing media in all Libraries and return an error in the log when the probe process fails.

Moving the media files in the Libraries to other directories, re-scanning them, adding them back and rescanning again is not something I want to do.

I suppose I could write a Powershell script but would like to know if such scenario can be resolved within Emby itself before spending time going that route.

Any feedback appreciated,

 

Edited June 2, 2024 by BarryEgan

[Abobader 3464]

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[Neminem 1519]

You could try with Tdarr

And run a health check on your media files.

The 1's that fail, you would have to look into.

[BarryEgan 0]

Will look into this asap, thanks!

[visproduction 315]

If you have a lot of .mp4 files, try using MP4Box.

I run a batch file to check and update the language ID for any incoming mp4 media files.  Once MP4box is installed, put the batch file in any directory with any number of .mp4 files you want to add a language ID into the metadata which shows up in Emby on the media page.  This batch file command also checks some part of the video timeline quality, as well.   You have to read more from the manual.  If you put this batch file in a library directory with 2000 media files in subdirectory.  It would do all of them with the one command.

set2en.bat

for /R %%f in (*.mp4) do "C:\Program Files\GPAC\MP4Box.exe" -lang 2=en "%%f"
echo completed
pause

To change to some other language, you just edit the 2=en to some other code and this makes the metadata language code match whatever you pick.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639_language_codes

 

Hope that helps.

[BarryEgan 0]

Tdarr does exactly what I need. Thanks @jaycedk