Luke 42077 Posted October 5, 2025 Posted October 5, 2025 OK you said tvdb is first for movies. Try putting movie db first and then refreshing the metadata.
rdf52 5 Posted October 5, 2025 Author Posted October 5, 2025 Thanks for the suggestion. It didn't change anything. Still no actors in any movie I refreshed metadata, just a director name and image.
Happy2Play 9780 Posted October 5, 2025 Posted October 5, 2025 2 hours ago, rdf52 said: Thanks for the suggestion. It didn't change anything. Still no actors in any movie I refreshed metadata, just a director name and image. Can you post the server log for a specific example as all I can think of is locked metadata. As there is no provider with only the director.
Luke 42077 Posted October 5, 2025 Posted October 5, 2025 8 hours ago, rdf52 said: Thanks for the suggestion. It didn't change anything. Still no actors in any movie I refreshed metadata, just a director name and image. Hi, can you please tell us exactly what you did as well as provide the emby server log from when you did that? Thanks.
rdf52 5 Posted October 5, 2025 Author Posted October 5, 2025 Here is exactly what I did before refreshing metadata. I chose one of the Bond movies, Goldeneye, as all 8 of the movies in my library have had the actors removed their details. All 5 of the Bond movies had the full list of actors after the importing of the movies several days ago. Here is the detail page of Goldeneye. Details are correct. Note, that only the director is shown. Here is the people section of the "edit metadata" page of the above detail page. Only the director is listed and NOT LOCKED. The image below is from the IMDB page for Goldeneye. I wanted to show the top billed actors: Pierce Brosnan, Sean Bean ,and Izabella Scorupco. I then opened up the people folder in the location shown: C:\Users\bobf\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\programdata\metadata\people\p To be complete I also looked for the next 2 actors and both of them can be found in my current people database. At this point I have not refreshed metadata Just refreshed the metadata from the details page of this movie.. Server log is below. When I did the refresh I told it to replace all metadata. I left the "replace existing images" off and left "Replace existing video preview thumbnails" off embyserver(1).txt I hope this will help you guys figure this out. embyserver(1).txt
rdf52 5 Posted October 5, 2025 Author Posted October 5, 2025 I did not mean to repeat the IMDB image or the server log at the very bottom of the previous post.
Happy2Play 9780 Posted October 5, 2025 Posted October 5, 2025 Honestly can't say as the query got the information. 2025-10-05 16:03:17.259 Info HttpClient: GET https://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/710?api_key=x_secret3_x&append_to_response=alternative_titles,reviews,casts,releases,images,keywords,trailers&language=en-US&include_image_language=en-US,null Spoiler { "adult": false, "gender": 2, "id": 517, "known_for_department": "Acting", "name": "Pierce Brosnan", "original_name": "Pierce Brosnan", "popularity": 3.8097, "profile_path": "/dzXVwwJLPwiZeXOnf7YxorqVEEM.jpg", "cast_id": 1, "character": "James Bond", "credit_id": "52fe426ec3a36847f801e10d", "order": 0 }, { "adult": false, "gender": 2, "id": 48, "known_for_department": "Acting", "name": "Sean Bean", "original_name": "Sean Bean", "popularity": 3.2026, "profile_path": "/kTjiABk3TJ3yI0Cto5RsvyT6V3o.jpg", "cast_id": 2, "character": "Alec Trevelyan", "credit_id": "52fe426ec3a36847f801e111", "order": 1 }, { "adult": false, "gender": 1, 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Do you write nfo files? If so can you attach.
Luke 42077 Posted October 5, 2025 Posted October 5, 2025 In the metadata editor, are all of the external ids correct? Also can you show a screenshot of the cast list in the metadata editor? Thanks.
Luke 42077 Posted October 5, 2025 Posted October 5, 2025 1 minute ago, Happy2Play said: Honestly can't say as the query got the information. 2025-10-05 16:03:17.259 Info HttpClient: GET https://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/710?api_key=x_secret3_x&append_to_response=alternative_titles,reviews,casts,releases,images,keywords,trailers&language=en-US&include_image_language=en-US,null Reveal hidden contents { "adult": false, "gender": 2, "id": 517, "known_for_department": "Acting", "name": "Pierce Brosnan", "original_name": "Pierce Brosnan", "popularity": 3.8097, "profile_path": "/dzXVwwJLPwiZeXOnf7YxorqVEEM.jpg", "cast_id": 1, "character": "James Bond", "credit_id": "52fe426ec3a36847f801e10d", "order": 0 }, { "adult": false, "gender": 2, "id": 48, "known_for_department": "Acting", "name": "Sean Bean", "original_name": "Sean Bean", "popularity": 3.2026, "profile_path": "/kTjiABk3TJ3yI0Cto5RsvyT6V3o.jpg", "cast_id": 2, "character": "Alec Trevelyan", "credit_id": "52fe426ec3a36847f801e111", 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Do you write nfo files? If so can you attach. If my current questions don't lead to any clues then the next thing will be that I wonder if the video file has a cast list in it's embedded metadata. 1
Happy2Play 9780 Posted October 5, 2025 Posted October 5, 2025 Always forget about that one but may need to see the results of this ffprobe. C:\Users\bobf\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\system\ffprobe.exe -i file:"F:\Movies\GoldenEye (1995)\GoldenEye (1995).mp4" -threads 0 -v info -print_format json -show_streams -show_chapters -show_format -show_data
rdf52 5 Posted October 5, 2025 Author Posted October 5, 2025 The only content in each media folder is the mp4 video with the exact same name and (year). There is an nfo file in the folder with a Sept 27, 2025 date. My original intent was to read this nfo file once when I import and then in the long run only write nfo files for all metadata changes. Since my first import of these 8 movies, both read and write nfo has been disabled in the library setting. The nfo file in the folder is something I created with a third party nfo writer. In my Plex library I had added some custom genres to movies, like Bond, Disney, etc, then in Plex I could sort on the custom genre. This was my attempt to add my custom genres into Emby but I never got that there.
Happy2Play 9780 Posted October 5, 2025 Posted October 5, 2025 May need to see that nfo but if nfo reader and writer is disabled it shouldn't matter then. Now we need to see the output of the ffprobe command above.
rdf52 5 Posted October 5, 2025 Author Posted October 5, 2025 @LukeI 14 minutes ago, Luke said: In the metadata editor, are all of the external ids correct? Also can you show a screenshot of the cast list in the metadata editor? Thanks. The second image from the top is the people section of the metadata editor. There is no "cast" section in the metadata editor. And yes, I just checked and all the external id's are correct.
Happy2Play 9780 Posted October 5, 2025 Posted October 5, 2025 That is fine, if there is embedded metadata in this mp4 it may be the overall issue.
rdf52 5 Posted October 5, 2025 Author Posted October 5, 2025 Bingo! The movie poster is embedded as are the actors and genre. For my Plex library, I always added my own metadata before adding it to Plex and Plex has a setting that tells it to use the custom metadata. I can run the Goldeneye thru my tag editor and remove all metadata and then put the video file back into the library folder and refresh. I won't do that until you sat to as I don't want to change things while tracking down other clues.
Happy2Play 9780 Posted October 5, 2025 Posted October 5, 2025 Yes I was looking that up in a different topic as there needs to be a option to use or not to use embedded metadata as right now Embedded data takes top priority.
rdf52 5 Posted October 5, 2025 Author Posted October 5, 2025 38 minutes ago, Happy2Play said: Always forget about that one but may need to see the results of this ffprobe. C:\Users\bobf\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\system\ffprobe.exe -i file:"F:\Movies\GoldenEye (1995)\GoldenEye (1995).mp4" -threads 0 -v info -print_format json -show_streams -show_chapters -show_format -show_data Do I just copy and paste into a command prompt window? Admin privilege?
Happy2Play 9780 Posted October 5, 2025 Posted October 5, 2025 4 minutes ago, rdf52 said: Do I just copy and paste into a command prompt window? Admin privilege? Should be just a copy and paste as it came out of your server log.
rdf52 5 Posted October 5, 2025 Author Posted October 5, 2025 3 minutes ago, Happy2Play said: Should be just a copy and paste as it came out of your server log. You have my server log in the response to performing the last refresh. Is it in there?
Happy2Play 9780 Posted October 5, 2025 Posted October 5, 2025 1 minute ago, rdf52 said: You have my server log in the response to performing the last refresh. Is it in there? Logging does not show the results of the ffprobe.
rdf52 5 Posted October 6, 2025 Author Posted October 6, 2025 Was I supposed to execute the ffprobe command? ffprobe.txt
Happy2Play 9780 Posted October 6, 2025 Posted October 6, 2025 6 minutes ago, rdf52 said: Was I supposed to execute the ffprobe command? ffprobe.txt 14.81 kB · 0 downloads @Lukewill have to comment further as I do not know all the embedded fields Emby parsers here. But would have thought it would have gotten artist but would have expected it to be parsed incorrectly as Emby does not parse on commas. The special characters (Tch├⌐ky) might be breaking things also. Quote "artist": "Pierce Brosnan, Sean Bean, Izabella Scorupco, Famke Janssen, Joe Don Baker, Judi Dench, Robbie Coltrane, Tch├⌐ky Karyo, Gottfried John, Alan Cumming, Desmond Llewelyn, Samantha Bond, Michael Kitchen, Serena Gordon, Simon Kunz, Pavel Douglas, Olivier L...",
Happy2Play 9780 Posted October 6, 2025 Posted October 6, 2025 (edited) Think it comes back to limited info in plist. Note only director is used by Emby as there is no cast per my link example below but will have the limitations of No Role per embedded metadata also so there needs to be a option to ignore embedded data. As you have to remove it for online providers to work. : <plist version="1.0"> : <dict> : <key>directors</key> : <array> : <dict> : <key>name</key> : <string>Martin Campbell</string> : </dict> : </array> : <key>producers</key> : <array> : <dict> : <key>name</key> : <string>Michael G. Wilson</string> : </dict> : <dict> : <key>name</key> : <string>Anthony Waye</string> : </dict> : <dict> : <key>name</key> : <string>Barbara Broccoli</string> : </dict> : </array> : <key>screenwriters</key> : <array> : <dict> : <key>name</key> : <string>Jeffrey Caine</string> : </dict> : <dict> : <key>name</key> : <string>Bruce Feirstein</string> : </dict> : </array> : <key>studio</key> : <string>EON Productions</string> : </dict> : </plist> Similar talks over here. Edited October 6, 2025 by Happy2Play
Happy2Play 9780 Posted October 7, 2025 Posted October 7, 2025 1 hour ago, rdf52 said: Any more thoughts or ideas on this? Only current option is removing embedded info
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