Chapters

[nuke11 24]

I use MKV files with an embedded chapters file.

Some movies the chapters file is not read and I get the default 5 minute for each chapter instead of the correct minutes as outlined in the chapters file.

This is not specific to any version of Emby as this has been happening for a few versions.

Has anyone else run into this?

 

[Carlo 4560]

Hi there, let's look at an example. Please attach the information requested in how to report a media playback issue. Thanks!

 

[nuke11 24]

I don't see any issues with the file in the Emby logs, it gets processed correctly and logs show the file processed when I added it to the library.

I don't see anything in the logs about processing information from the MKV file.

This I guess would be in a different log not present in the web interface.

 

[Luke 42077]

HI there, can you please provide a specific example? What do you mean by chapters file?

[nuke11 24]

Here is the extracted "chapters.xml" file from the MKV file.

It looks good to me when compared to other files I have.

 

chapters.xml

[Luke 42077]

Does ffmpeg read this information? That would be the question.

[nuke11 24]

I'm going to say yes.

I have many movies with a "chapters.xml" file in the MKV file, 4 new ones added this morning with the chapters being read correctly.

This only occurs on rare occasions, 5 or 6 movies in the past 6 months in my case.

I've extracted the chapters.xml file, used chapterEditor 1.45 to re-save the file, edit the chapters, etc and added it back to the MKV file, with no change with Emby not able to pick up there is a chapter file in the MKV file so then gives the default 5 minute chapters when I play the movie..

[Luke 42077]

OK we'd have to look at a specific example then. Thanks.