No consistancy

[ddc3264 0]

I am trying to figure out why there is no consistency with Emby playback. Some movies play just fine, some only play the first few minutes, some play the movie somewhere in the middle. All of the movies were done with the same software in the same manner and stored the same way. So there should be no discrepancies. I had one movie start playing and then it jumped to a completely different movie that is in a different folder. Another played the 1st almost 5 minutes and stopped, another only 16 seconds. Then the next played the whole movie normally.

[Abobader 3464]

Hello ddc3264,

Please wait for someone from staff support or our members to reply to you.

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Emby Team

[Luke 42080]

Hi there, yes can you please go over an example by providing the information requested above? Thanks.

[Ronstang 294]

I'm not sure if this is even a thing anymore since hardly anyone uses FAT anymore but that sounds like crosslinked files.  Yes, the file structure looks fine but the content within a file is now jumbled. I had this happen on a music hard drive many years ago.  I'm no expert but it happened to me after a defragmentation of the drive so I never ran that again.  Yes, the file structure looks fine but the content within a file is now from more than one file.  If the same types of files are crossed. like media files, then they play fine but all of a sudden you have a different song or video.

If you know the files that play this way please try playing them in a stand alone video player like VLC or POT or WMP and report back.

Edited November 29, 2020 by Ronstang