Thumbnais extraction for Trailers instead of Movie

[rOis89 4]

Hi all,

 

i am runnung Emby 4.4.2.0 on my Synology DS1019+ (DSM 6.2.2-24922 Update 4).

 

I organized my media files in folders including the movie itself and also local media informateion (like poster, banner, fanart, discart, ...).

Additionaly I have stored local trailers with naming according to the convention "<movie>-trailer.mp4"

 

When i am running the thumbnail image extraction task via emby, the thumbnails will be also stored in the movie folder as BIF-File.

But sometimes the thumbnails will be created for the trailer file instead of the actual movie file, which doesn't make much sense.

 

I think this is a bug?

Is there any setting or option to exclude local trailers from the thumbnail image extraction process?

 

This is how my content in the movie folder looks like after thumbnail extraction:

 

This is how my chapters look like:

 

 

 

This are the current settings for thumbnail extration in my libary:

 

 

Thansk for help and kind regards!

 

[Luke 42078]

Hi, that's interesting, i've never seen this before. Are these still being created now, or were they created before on older server releases?

 

@@Happy2Play are you able to reproduce?

[Happy2Play 9780]

Hi, that's interesting, i've never seen this before. Are these still being created now, or were they created before on older server releases?

 

@@Happy2Play are you able to reproduce?

 

Only time I have really seen something similar is with media that has bad timestamps, but a bif is usually still present. 

 

Do interval image failure write to "thumbnail-failures.txt"?

 

The "quick-extract-imageseries" log for that item may help also.

 

@@softworkz's tools may provide more information.

Edited May 17, 2020 by Happy2Play

[rOis89 4]

Hi, that's interesting, i've never seen this before. Are these still being created now, or were they created before on older server releases?

 

@@Happy2Play are you able to reproduce?

This issue is still on the current release 4.4.2.0

I just started to switch from PLEX to EMBY the last week, so I didn't use an older EMBY version before....

 

Only time I have really seen something similar is with media that has bad timestamps, but a bif is usually still present. 

 

Do interval image failure write to "thumbnail-failures.txt"?

 

The "quick-extract-imageseries" log for that item may help also.

 

@@softworkz's tools may provide more information.

Where can i find the thumbnail-failures.txt"?

If I go to Manage Emby Server -> Advanced -> Logs i can't find them.

 

Maybe the movie file itself is corrupt, because this behavioir is only some times.

I figured out, that if everything is working a BIF-File will be created for the movie and trailer, see screenshot below.

 

 

 

So my current workaround was to search fol all files matching name "*-trailer-320-10.bif" and delete them.

Afterwards I performed Settings -> Libary -> Refresh Meta Data -> Search for missing metadata

This way I removed the wrong images in the chapter section for movies missing the BIF files.

 

Can you confirm, that the thumbnail extraction is running for all video files in a folder (movie and local trailers)?

I would suggesst to exclude the local trailer files (e.g. filenames ending with "*-trailer" ) from the thumbnail extraction process.

 

So you won't get each time the same picture in your chapter overview, if the BIF-File for the movie itself is missing or extraction is failing (like you can see in the screenshot of the chapters in my first post).

Also you would get a slight runtime improvement, if you skip local trailer files in the thumbnail extraction process.

Edited May 18, 2020 by rOis89

[Luke 42078]

Ok we'll take a look at this. Thanks for reporting.

[rOis89 4]

Hi,

 

thanks for checking!

 

I just recognized that the BIF files are also created for the theme movie files.

I am using the "Movie Theme Videos" Plugin from Radeon.

 

Using this plugin will download theme video, which will be stored in a subfolder backdrops of your movie folder.

Also for this theme file a BIF file will be created during the thumbnail image extraction process.

 

I would also suggest to exclude them.

 

 

Thanks a lot!

Edited May 19, 2020 by rOis89