Some folder rips play movie out of order

[drjonz 4]

This started last week and a full reinstall has happened since then.  So both via web app and Roku, if I start a TV show or movie, it might not start at the beginning.  I've just saved logs from playing a Star Trek episode.  This is the 1st I've ever seen this issue, though I've heard my brother had it once as well.  The folders are M2TS.  I can reach them via UNC.

 

 

Log.txt

[Luke 42085]

Yea unfortunately as we've said before, transcoding these is all experimental. ffmpeg does not have native support for folder rips so we're doing our best to try to force it to handle them. For a better experience consider converting to plain video files.

[drjonz 4]

What's odd is that it's worked for years just fine.  Is it emby or ffmpeg that changed?

 

Re-ripping these would take forever and I always like the pureness of m2ts as there are no compression artifacts.  An 80" TV is unforgiving there showing any flaw.

[Deathsquirrel 745]

What's odd is that it's worked for years just fine.  Is it emby or ffmpeg that changed?

 

Re-ripping these would take forever and I always like the pureness of m2ts as there are no compression artifacts.  An 80" TV is unforgiving there showing any flaw.

 

Converting to MKV requires neither re-ripping nor introducing additional compression.  It just converts the video to a container that is actually readable by most devices.

 

Ge MakeMKV.  Open your existing M2TS file sets.  It will process the contents and allow you to choose which videos to extract and, for each one, which audio streams to keep.  If you like you can keep everything, though most people choose to drop audio streams they won't use and throw away the videos for things like studio splashes, old trailers for films they won't watch, and FBI warnings.  The output files aren't compressed at all beyond the compression that existed in the source format.  It takes about the same time to run as copying the M2TS files to a new folder.

 

You'll then need to name the files and put them in a suitable folder structure.  It's not zero effort, but it's not on par with re-ripping and running everything through handbrake to compress it further either.

[drjonz 4]

Thanks @@Deathsquirrel, I'll give it a try.