Some files do not play

[tesla1886 3]

I assume like many of you, I have ripped all of my DVD's to my PVR.

Some files will play on some devices, but not on others.

The files in question will not play on the Roku app or in Web Browsers (Chrome and Firefox)

They will play on Android devices.

Anybody have any idea why these files will not play on all devices. I used the same software to rip these DVD as I did all the others (DVD Fab).

[Abobader 3464]

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[GrimReaper 4739]

1 minute ago, tesla1886 said:

I assume like many of you, I have ripped all of my DVD's to my PVR.

Some files will play on some devices, but not on others.

The files in question will not play on the Roku app or in Web Browsers (Chrome and Firefox)

They will play on Android devices.

Anybody have any idea why these files will not play on all devices. I used the same software to rip these DVD as I did all the others (DVD Fab).

You'd need to be a bit more descriptive about "will not play" as in: Any error messages displayed? What were you trying to play? and provide an example with accompanying logs:

how to report a media playback issue

 

[tesla1886 3]

28 minutes ago, GrimReaper said:

You'd need to be a bit more descriptive about "will not play" as in: Any error messages displayed? What were you trying to play? and provide an example with accompanying logs:

how to report a media playback issue

 

No error messages provided.

Some of the files in question will not play for more than a few seconds, then rebuffer but never start again. Some of the files in question never start playing and buffer right from the start. In both instances they get up to about 75% (re)buffering with the Roku app, but never re(start) playing.

Even when playing on Android for a while and stopping it, then attempting to resume from a web browser, the same behavior is experienced although from where playing was stopped on Android.

The video below shows what occurs.

Log files attached

 

embyserver.txt ffmpeg-transcode-98e2578d-b44e-4a4f-bc82-ead194bd4233_1.txt

[GrimReaper 4739]

If you play that item without subs selected (or with downloaded text subs instead), how does it behave? 

[tesla1886 3]

9 minutes ago, GrimReaper said:

If you play that item without subs selected (or with downloaded text subs instead), how does it behave? 

I haven't watched that file all the way through, but without subtitles it does play further than 5 seconds.

Thank You!

[Happy2Play 9780]

Dev would have to comment but looks like a issue with subtitle scaling.

    13:36:18.631 Stream mapping:
    13:36:18.631   Stream #0:0 (h264) -> overlay
    13:36:18.631   Stream #0:2 (dvdsub) -> scale:default
    13:36:18.631   overlay:default -> Stream #0:0 (libx264)
    13:36:18.631   Stream #0:1 -> #0:1 (copy)
    13:36:18.631 Press [q] to stop, [?] for help
    13:36:18.631 subtitle_kickoff: call subtitle_resend_current 20184814 frame->format: 1
    13:36:18.643 subtitle input filter: decoding size 0x0
    13:36:18.643 Auto-inserting subfeed filter
    13:36:18.643 Auto-inserting graphicsub2video filter
    13:36:18.651 [swscaler @ 000001d77d38cc80] 282x25 -> 0x0 is invalid scaling dimension
    13:36:18.651 Cannot initialize the conversion context. dstW=0 dstH=0
    13:36:18.651 Error while filtering: Invalid argument
    13:36:18.652 [subfeed @ 000001d77d34d280] EOF timestamp not reliable
    13:36:18.652 Error marking filters as finished
    13:36:18.660 Conversion failed!
    13:36:18.660 EXIT

Edited November 23, 2025 by Happy2Play
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