Movies showing very short or no Run Times / Movie Length

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I've been using Emby for some time, but this is my first post to the forums. 

 

I recently did a complete (removing all traces of the software) uninstall of my Emby Server 4.0.1.0. in an attempt to correct a problem with my movie run times being wrong on many recent titles that I've added - many showing very short lengths.  I thought this would be a surefire fix for the problem.  But after doing a fresh install of the latest 4.0.2.0 the problem only seems to have gotten worse.  After adding back my movie library and doing a full scan - it seems that most ALL of my movies are showing incorrect run times or movie length.  If it matters, the movies are stored in Native DVD format copied from my collection of discs using DVDFab.  I'm using the WMC Emby client to play the DVD's.   I've never had good luck in trying to rip the movies into MKV format, so I've just stuck with the native formats (VIDEO_TS / VOB files)  I've never had a problem with this before until I'm thinking Version 4 was installed.  

I also tried using the Beta Version of WMC Emby client, but that didn't help.  When I play a movie in WMC using Emby, and pause it, it shows the Timeline at the bottom with only 0:00 as total length.  If I play the movies in another DVD Player (Cyberlink PowerDVD) the length/run time and timelines are accurate - so I know the movie files are fine.   I also checked in the Emby Web Client, it also is affected in a similar way - showing the short lengths. This doesn't make any sense.  It seems on the surface that something has changed in the Emby software to cause this mis-identifying of the video file length. I've attached a sample screenshot showing the short length of one of my movies.  I've searched and could not find anyway to manually update the video file length - it's not in Metadata.

 

Any help with this would be appreciated.

 

[Carlo 4561]

Only guessing here but I wouldn't doubt Emby is getting confused and is pulling in a time from one of the files other then the main movie.

 

You would be much better off most likely if you tried to move away from the DVD disc based approach and went to single file movie files.

 

Have you tried MakeMKV which can make it very easy to create a single file movie from a DVR disc or image (as you already have)?

If not I would give that a shot.

 

Carlo

[ebr 16212]

Hi.  Our support for folder rips is experimental and could have issues like this.  I second cayars recommendation to look to rip to a more modern/stream-able format.

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Carlo, 

 

Per your suggestion I downloaded MakeMKV and converted 1 movie.  It seemed to work pretty easy and displayed the correct run time / length.  My question now turns to how do I easily convert my entire library (approx 600 movies) over to MKV ?  I would need some automated method.   Are you aware of a solution? 

[Luke 42093]

I'm not aware of a way to automate makemkv, although if you do a few a day, you'll gradually get there.

[RobWayBro 28]

A quick search revealed there are was to have makemkv run in batch, here are a few:

 

https://www.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=15426

https://www.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=16437

https://www.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6556

https://www.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9345

 

There are some CLI solutions and a GUI.  

 

I use makemkv a lot, but I have not ever tried running a batch like this.

 

HTH

[Luke 42093]

Thanks !

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RobWayBro, 

 

Thanks for the info - I'll let you know how things work out with the batch processing.