DVD files not processed correctly

[Kyroma 0]

I have an issue with Emby processing DVD files of series.

I have the following structure

 

Series

  The Strain

    Episode 1

      The Strain S01E01-E03

        VIDEO_TS

      The Strain S01E04-E06

        VIDEO_TS

      The Strain S01E07-E09

        VIDEO_TS

      The Strain S01E10-E13

        VIDEO_TS

The result of a library scan of The Strain is that there are 52 episodes in season 1. Which is a bit much.

If I open episode 1, I see that Emby is listing all the DVD files in the VIDEO_TS folders as separate episodes.So I get a bunch of VIDEO_TS files, then all the VOB files. Totaling 52 files

 

I noticed this happened after updating to version 4.4.2.0, but it might not be related to that as I did a new library scan of all the files recently as well.

Emby is running on Debian 8.11.

 

What am I doing wrong, or what can I do to find out what I am doing wrong?

[Luke 42077]

Do you have the DVD folders plugin installed?

[Kyroma 0]

Yes, DVD Folders Support 1.0.0.0

[CSUCMB19 0]

Hi,

 

After the most recent server update (Emby Server for Windows - 4.4.2.0), I noticed that video_ts files listed under the TV Show format are no longer displaying correctly.  I use emby theater (3.0.11) for windows.   The TV show library is listing all of the video_ts folders as files and also listing all subsequent DVD files (VTS_01_0,VTS_01_1, VTS_01_2, ...) as objects in the library.

 

The first shows the folder view in the library:

 

The other image shows the individual files displaying:

 

I have used the following file naming convention on all shows:

TV Shows 1 \ The adventures of Young Indiana Jones \ Season 1 \ s01e01 [TITLE]

TV Shows 1 \ The adventures of Young Indiana Jones \ Season 1 \ s01e02 [TITLE]

 

I do not see an issue with movie files in the Video_ts format.  I do not see an issue with other file formats or folders.  It appears to only pertain to video_ts files in libraries using the TV show format.  I have tried re-creating the libraries in emby server, and loading individual shows as folders in the library, and have the same display issues.

 

Has anyone else observed this behavior or know a possible fix?

 

Thank you in advance for the help, I really love the program!

 

Edited April 27, 2020 by CSUCMB19

[Kyroma 0]

I went back to the previous install file of Emby I still have on my server, which is 4.3.1.0 and the problem does not exist there. With that version the series are processed correctly.

[Luke 42077]

@@CSUCMB19 I've merged your topic into here. Thanks.

[negativzeroe 80]

+1 me as well on 4.4.2.0

[Luke 42077]

+1 me as well on 4.4.2.0

Can you please go over an example? thanks.

[negativzeroe 80]

Can you please go over an example? thanks.

I converted to mkv but it was the movies from dragon ball z ocean dub.

 

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[Luke 42077]

Thanks for the feedback.

[TheGrimKeeper 30]

I'm having this problem with my TV Show files as well.  New install on Windows, version 4.4.3.0.  Movies with VIDEO_TS folder structure are fine, but TV shows with VIDEO_TS files don't import properly, exactly as described above.  Has there been any progress made on this, or anyone else find a solution?

[TheGrimKeeper 30]

I decided to open a thread over here since the one I tried to hijack is in the Linux forum, and I'm running Windows.  Anyway, following up on this ticket:

I did a fresh install of Emby 4.4.3.0 on Windows 10, and just like in the other ticket, all of my TV episodes in VIDEO_TS format are not importing properly.  Emby is seeing all of the individual IFO files as separate videos, and ignores the sXXeXX numbering convention.  Folder structure is, for example:

\TV1\Futurama\Season 1\s01e01\VIDEO_TS\
\TV1\Futurama\Season 1\s01e02\VIDEO_TS\

Etc.  Unlike the other thread all of my files are one title per rip, and there are no menus or anything - just the video.  I tried importing with and without the VIDEO_TS folder, placing the video files directly in the sXXeXX directory in the latter case (since the documentation suggests the VIDEO_TS may not be necessary), but got the same results.  I verified the behavior on a separate VM with a fresh install, so it's not my server either.

This behavior occurs when the library type is both TV Shows and Mixed Content.  Interestingly, my VIDEO_TS movie files, which are ripped in the same way, import and play fine in the Movies library type.

I know this is a recent change/bug/whatever because these TV episodes worked fine on my old Emby server, which I decommissioned about 6 months ago.

I get that there's not a lot of love for this format anymore, but for those of us who've been building our libraries for 20+ years it would be nice to continue this support.  I'd prefer not to spend my nights and weekends remuxing thousands of episodes if this is something that can be fixed easily on the server side (I knocked out about 18 series this past weekend; only 230+ to go!).  I appreciate any support you can provide.  Thank you!

[Carlo 4560]

Do you have the DVD Support plugin installed?

I haven't used this format in years so I can't even test easily but wanted to ask that question.

[TheGrimKeeper 30]

1 hour ago, cayars said:

Do you have the DVD Support plugin installed?

I do, yes.  Both the DVD Folder Support and Bluray Folder Support plugins are installed and active.

[Carlo 4560]

Can you show the contents of the two folders used for these?

I want to try and duplicate it for testing best I can unless you could perhaps make them available to download?

[TheGrimKeeper 30]

Not sure where I could post such files to make them legal, but renaming txt files with the appropriate extensions should approximate the effect.  A view inside a VIDEO_TS folder from one of the episodes is attached (they all look like this, just with slightly different files sizes).

 

[Carlo 4560]

That's good enough and all I needed.

Is this an actual DVD rip?  I might dig one out and rip it to test with as well.

Thanks

[TheGrimKeeper 30]

3 minutes ago, cayars said:

Is this an actual DVD rip?

It is indeed, ripped using DVD Shrink!  I started collecting the format in the late 90s, and never looked back.  As you can see from the properties that episode was ripped almost 10 years ago!

[Carlo 4560]

I know the program well.  Now I've got to actually find a DVD I've got packed in cartons in the attic of my garage.

[TheGrimKeeper 30]

Good luck on the hunt!  And thanks in advance for all the help!

[Luke 42077]

3 hours ago, cayars said:

That's good enough and all I needed.

Is this an actual DVD rip?  I might dig one out and rip it to test with as well.

Thanks

You could actually just dummy up zero-byte files with the same names. The media probe will fail but that won't matter for the purposes of testing this issue.

[Carlo 4560]

@cayars Yea, that's what I ended up doing Luke.

\Futurama (1999)\Season 1\s01e01\VIDEO_TS\ was the format I used.

Inside the video_ts directory I had:

VIDEO_TS.BIP
VIDEO_TS.IFO
VTS_01_0.BPU
VTS_01_0.IFO
VTS_01_1.VOB
VTS_01_2.VOB

This is what scanned in the system

No match to S01E01 but it also used files that aren't video files as well.

[TheGrimKeeper 30]

16 hours ago, cayars said:

No match to S01E01 but it also used files that aren't video files as well.

This is exactly the behavior I'm seeing - I have about 20 seasons of the Simpsons on the server, which is in the neighborhood of 450 episodes, but Emby is reporting 1411 episodes because it's picking up multiple files for each episode.  I wonder if the connection between the TV series scraper and the DVD plugin has been broken, so the scraper doesn't understand the VIDEO_TS format anymore.

Keep in the mind the movie scraper is still working correctly; if you plug those files into a structure like \Iron Man (2008)\VIDEO_TS\ in a Movie library, you should get a normal result.

BTW, there are two typos in your file list: "BIP" and "BPU" should both be "BUP".  It won't change your results, just wanted to eliminate variables in your follow-up.

[Baenwort 118]

I was looking to play an old TV show and ran into this issue today.

Is this a ongoing problem or is it solved and I need to do something to clean up a series that is in DVD format that got corrupted to look like the above problem?

[TheGrimKeeper 30]

I haven't heard any updates on this bug.  My guess is that, even if it's on the list to be fixed, it's probably a low priority since not a lot of people are still pulling files from DVD.

Rather than wait for a fix that may not come, I converted all of my TV episodes from VIDEO_TS format to MKV using MakeMKV.