Remove Chapters Thumbnails for TV shows

[Kyrunner 86]

How can you remove the Chapter Thumbnails and recreate them? I want to use Thumbnail images with Intervals of 10 seconds and save the video preview thumbnails into media folders. I have done a complete refresh metadata but the chapter thumbnails are still there and when I run Thumbnails image extraction under the scheduled task nothing happens and I would assume it's because the chapter markers are all already there but I don't know where they are located to delete.

 

For my movies, everything works fine when I run Generate intro video markers it puts a .bif file in the same folder as the movie but I can't get this to work for TV shows.

 

[Happy2Play 9780]

39 minutes ago, Kyrunner said:

I have done a complete refresh metadata but the chapter thumbnails are still there and when I run Thumbnails image extraction under the scheduled task nothing happens

Sorry I don't follow as Emby will pull the chapter display images from the interval file created ie the bif file.  Minus permissions issue the library option should be honored if there are issues saving with media it will/should default back to /metadata/library/xx/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.

 

[Kyrunner 86]

13 minutes ago, Happy2Play said:

Sorry I don't follow as Emby will pull the chapter display images from the interval file created ie the bif file.  Minus permissions issue the library option should be honored if there are issues saving with media it will/should default back to /metadata/library/xx/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.

 

The .bif files are located in the emby server metadata library folder I want to resync and have them in my media folder 

[Happy2Play 9780]

4 minutes ago, Kyrunner said:

The .bif files are located in the emby server metadata library folder I want to resync and have them in my media folder 

Think your only option is wildcard searching the /metadata/library folder for *.bif files and manually moving them or deleting them and rerunning the task.

[Kyrunner 86]

13 hours ago, Happy2Play said:

Think your only option is wildcard searching the /metadata/library folder for *.bif files and manually moving them or deleting them and rerunning the task.

 

figured out a pretty simple way to remove the .bif files in the metadata folder. What I did was use filebot to scan the tv show folders removing everything except the episodes then run file bot and it will create a new folder of the tv show with the episodes. Then re run the thumbnail scheduled task and it will but everything in the media folder next to the episode 

 

 

 

[thsrite 7]

On 6/9/2024 at 9:16 AM, Happy2Play said:

Think your only option is wildcard searching the /metadata/library folder for *.bif files and manually moving them or deleting them and rerunning the task.

hi，I don't want the thumbnail anymore, how can I delete these records? I looked at the records stored in Chapters3 in the library. db. Can I directly clear the Chapters3 table?

*.bif files already manually delete

Edited July 10, 2024 by thsrite

[Happy2Play 9780]

7 minutes ago, thsrite said:

hi，I don't want the thumbnail anymore, how can I delete these records? I looked at the records stored in Chapters3 in the library. db. Can I directly clear the Chapters3 table?

*.bif files already manually delete

Yes that should clear the UI from showing them altogether.

[thsrite 7]

5 minutes ago, Happy2Play said:

Yes that should clear the UI from showing them altogether.

I downloaded library. db from NAS to the local system, and after modifying it, I found that it would generate a .db-wal and .db.shm file. Do I also need to replace these two files, or do I just need to replace library. db

Edited July 10, 2024 by thsrite

[thsrite 7]

13 minutes ago, Happy2Play said:

Yes that should clear the UI from showing them altogether.

thanks  I have completed it

[Luke 42078]

Has this answered your questions?

[sa2000 674]

2 hours ago, thsrite said:

, and after modifying it, I found that it would generate a .db-wal and .db.shm file. Do I also need to replace these two files, or do I just need to replace library. db

A tidy close of the database should flush the extra files and leave just the one file.

But if you do have the 3 files and the database is not in use and not open, I would advise replacing all 3. If the Emby Server is shutdown tidily when you copy the files over to the NAS data folder, there would be only the library.db file there and you would be copying 3 files over with the library.db getting replaced and the .db-shm and .db-wal files added to the data folder. 

[thsrite 7]

On 7/10/2024 at 4:28 PM, sa2000 said:

A tidy close of the database should flush the extra files and leave just the one file.

But if you do have the 3 files and the database is not in use and not open, I would advise replacing all 3. If the Emby Server is shutdown tidily when you copy the files over to the NAS data folder, there would be only the library.db file there and you would be copying 3 files over with the library.db getting replaced and the .db-shm and .db-wal files added to the data folder. 

3ks

[Luke 42078]

13 hours ago, thsrite said:

3ks

@thsrite

Hi, what does 3ks mean? Has this helped you resolve your issue?

[Happy2Play 9780]

5 minutes ago, Luke said:

@thsrite

Hi, what does 3ks mean? Has this helped you resolve your issue?

I will guess thanks.

Quote

3ks means 'thanks', usually used by Chinese, because the pronunciation of Chinese '3' plus 'ks' is very similar to 'thanks'

 

[pwhodges 2012]

Same works in Japanese.

Paul

[thsrite 7]

On 7/16/2024 at 1:36 AM, Luke said:

@thsrite

Hi, what does 3ks mean? Has this helped you resolve your issue?

yeah,  thanks == 3ks

[TVTech 7]

How do I prevent Emby from creating chapter markers in the first place? Jellyfin has an option whereby if the video file does not contain chapters, then it won't create chapter markers. 

 

[Luke 42078]

On 4/13/2025 at 3:54 PM, TVTech said:

How do I prevent Emby from creating chapter markers in the first place? 

 

This has been added on the 4.9 beta channel for the next build. Thanks.

[TVTech 7]

On 4/15/2025 at 1:33 AM, Luke said:

This has been added on the 4.9 beta channel for the next build. Thanks.

When will that be released? Will there also be an option to completely remove all chapter markers from an existing library? I don't mean just remove thumbnail images, I want the actual chapter markers gone as well. 

Edited April 16, 2025 by TVTech

[Luke 42078]

Just now, TVTech said:

When will that be released? Will there also be an option to completely remove all chapter markers from an existing library?

Hi, no eta but we’re working hard on it. Existing can be removed by refreshing metadata.

[TVTech 7]

1 minute ago, Luke said:

Hi, no eta but we’re working hard on it. Existing can be removed by refreshing metadata.

Refreshing metadata doesn't currently remove chapter markers. 

[Luke 42078]

1 minute ago, TVTech said:

Refreshing metadata doesn't currently remove chapter markers. 

With the new release I mean.