New user - 100+ Benny's Video in library... Don't even own it.

[NomaddUK 0]

Hi all,

I only started using Emby yesterday and, so far, it looks great apart from the following issues to which I cannot find a resolution.

 

Issue 1 - 100+ listings of "Benny's Video (1993)" in most of my libraries.

(see attached image for just one of the libraries.  This has at least 30 copies of that entry)

I do not even have a single version of this in any of my NAS folders.  I would try to delete them but there are over 100 of them which will take me ages to do.  I am not even sure if I delete them if they will reappear when I do my next scan.

I need a way to permanently remove them from all libraries.  Is there a way to find out where they are even coming from?

This could be the single issue that prevents me from buying this product.  I will buy it if the two issues listed can be resolved.

 

 

Issue 2 - My folder structure is generally as below

Movies

-- movie 1

-- movie 2

etc.

 

But sometimes it is like this

Collections - Anime

-- Deathnote

-- -- Series One 

-- --  -- Disk One

-- Mardoch Scramble

-- -- Series One

-- -- -- Disk One

-- -- -- Disk Two

etc.

 

How can I add a single title e.g. Deathnote that when you click on it shows each DVD (as they are DVD folders) as playable in the next page?

 

I have some series such as Battlestar Galactica that have all the seasons in individual folders with each DVD in a sub folder below that.

 

I hope this is an easy pair of fixes that I just have not been able to find the answers to.

 

As I said it is a great looking interface but these two issues will kill it for me.

 

Many thanks all.

[Carlo 4561]

For issue #1 in a web browser as the admin user click on one of these bogus movies that got added. This should open just that movie in the browser.

Scroll all the way to the bottom of the page and you should see the full path of the movie.

 

Post back in this thread what the path is for two or three of those files that are bogus.

 

For #2 have you checked the Emby Wiki on file naming?  This should show how to do this.

[NomaddUK 0]

Hi Cayars,

I have done just that.  It occurred to me that there must be a way to locate a title.

Here are some of them.

\\NAS01\Movies\War of the Worlds (1953)\VIDEO_TS.IFO

\\NAS01\Movies\Telstar\VIDEO_TS.VOB

\\NAS01\Movies\Meet Joe Black\VIDEO_TS.IFO

 

It looks like it is wrongly identifying titles.

Interestingly these movies do not show in the search.

It would appear that they have all been named "Benny's Movie (1993).

 

Is there a way to fix this?  This would take a VERY long time to fix otherwise.

 

UPDATE - I have set the flag to use embedded titles over filenames.  I will refresh the metadata fully and update you soon.

Edited January 20, 2019 by NomaddUK

[NomaddUK 0]

With regard issue 2 I have looked through the wiki but, unless I am looking in the wrong area, I didn't find the answer.  I will look again though.  Thanks.

[NomaddUK 0]

Sorry, still can't find an answer to issue 2 but issue 1 will make issue 2 impossible to fix until that is resolved first.

 

I have tried refreshing the metadata completely for issue 1 but it made no difference.  BV still shows everywhere that a DVD cannot be identified.

I wonder if this is due to the name of the DVD folder?  e.g. War of the worlds (1953).  Maybe it cannot find that DVD.  

 

Is there a way to name the movies as their folder names as these are all correct when I stored them on the NAS?  I will check that out too.

[Carlo 4561]

Hi Cayars,

I have done just that.  It occurred to me that there must be a way to locate a title.

Here are some of them.

\\NAS01\Movies\War of the Worlds (1953)\VIDEO_TS.IFO

\\NAS01\Movies\Telstar\VIDEO_TS.VOB

\\NAS01\Movies\Meet Joe Black\VIDEO_TS.IFO

 

It looks like it is wrongly identifying titles.

Interestingly these movies do not show in the search.

It would appear that they have all been named "Benny's Movie (1993).

 

Is there a way to fix this?  This would take a VERY long time to fix otherwise.

You can probably guess what I'm going to suggest.

 

I know Emby can support file names in the folder structure but I always see issues like you have above, thus I always  recommend that the filename itself is the name of the movie and include the year similar to "War of the Worlds (1953).mp4".

 

I'm also going to mention this and take it with a grain of sand but you're asking for trouble using VOB and non-streamable file types.  You would be much better off converting your files to MP4 or MKV using H.264 or H.265 if you have devices that can play H.265.

 

To me the "hardest" or "longest" phase of working with Emby is the PRE-formatting of all media before Emby ever sees it.  If you always get your media into a format that can direct play the enjoyment factor is much better.

 

How many media files do you have roughly that aren't using MP4 or MKV containers?

[Carlo 4561]

Is there a way to name the movies as their folder names as these are all correct when I stored them on the NAS?  I will check that out too.

I haven't tried this but I'd give FileBot a try.  This is what I use to name all my media correctly.

[NomaddUK 0]

Hi Cayars,

Unfortunately, as these are all DVD rips, it would take a very long time to convert them all.  I am not even sure I want to do that as I would lose the extra features on each DVD.  That is why I stored them as DVD folders.

 

I have found that they do stream to my Android devices etc. fine so I don't have that issue.

 

As I mentioned above I have set the flag to use embedded titles over filenames to ensure that the names all get re-analysed.

 

I have just restarted the metadata scan so will update you soon.

 

BTW - I have over 1000 movies that is why I prefer not to convert them all to MP4s.  If MP4s do retain the extra features then I will give that a try.  I will test this.

[Carlo 4561]

No the extra features would have to separate files in the same directory.  That's what I do for the bonus content I want to keep like that.

I use MakeMKV to rip the discs which can give you just the movie or the bonus content as separate files.

I then rename them and then put them in a directory where I have a set of conversions scripts that take it from there.

 

The conversion scripts will convert o H.264 or H.265 (depending on settings), deinterlace the content, remove language tracks I don't want (only English for me), pull subtitles (English only) and convert them to external SRT files. It also creates a 2 channel AAC audio track and marks it as the default if one isn't present.  Does all this automatically, just takes time.  That makes files that playback on every device I've ever tried (H.264).

[Carlo 4561]

@@Luke can you take a look at the folder/name structure as used in message #3 and comment.  Should this be able to identify those movies based on the folder names?

[Luke 42083]

Did you try turning off the setting about the embedded title and then refreshing metadata on one of these?

[legallink 187]

No the extra features would have to separate files in the same directory.  That's what I do for the bonus content I want to keep like that.

I use MakeMKV to rip the discs which can give you just the movie or the bonus content as separate files.

I then rename them and then put them in a directory where I have a set of conversions scripts that take it from there.

 

The conversion scripts will convert o H.264 or H.265 (depending on settings), deinterlace the content, remove language tracks I don't want (only English for me), pull subtitles (English only) and convert them to external SRT files. It also creates a 2 channel AAC audio track and marks it as the default if one isn't present.  Does all this automatically, just takes time.  That makes files that playback on every device I've ever tried (H.264).

Wanna post those scripts?

[NomaddUK 0]

Hi Luke

I will give that a try on one of the smaller collections as it takes ages on the movies one.  Just about all collections have BV titles rather than the correct ones.

[Carlo 4561]

Wanna post those scripts?

https://github.com/mdhiggins/sickbeard_mp4_automator

 

I just use customized versions of this..

[Luke 42083]

Hi Luke

I will give that a try on one of the smaller collections as it takes ages on the movies one.  Just about all collections have BV titles rather than the correct ones.

 

Let us know how you get on. Thanks.