Movies take up to 2 minutes to start in DirectStream

[Alfsvag 2]

I have issues with movies taking forever to start. I checked the logs and the culprit seems to be "quick-extract-imageseries".

2020/Pixar Animation Studios (1995-)/Toy Story (1995)/Toy.Story.1995.1080p.BluRay.Remux.AVC.DTS-HD-HK.mkv" -threads 0 -v info -print_format json -show_streams -show_chapters -show_format -show_data
2020-12-08 11:07:33.694 Info MediaProbeManager: ProcessRun 'ffprobe' Process exited with code 0
2020-12-08 11:07:33.721 Info App: ProcessRun 'quick-extract-imageseries' Execute: /app/emby/ffmpeg -f matroska -threads 1 -skip_interval 10 -copyts -i file:"/data/movies/Pixar Animation Studios (1995-)/Toy Story (1995)/Toy.Story.1995.1080p.BluRay.Remux.AVC.DTS-HD-HK.mkv" -an -sn -s 320x180 -vsync cfr -r 0.1 -f image2 "/config/cache/temp/afd439b1239844d5be418afec667857d/img_%05d.jpg"
2020-12-08 11:09:12.658 Info App: ProcessRun 'quick-extract-imageseries' Process exited with code 0
2020-12-08 11:09:12.898 Info App: User policy for Henrik. EnablePlaybackRemuxing: True EnableVideoPlaybackTranscoding: True EnableAudioPlaybackTranscoding: True
2020-12-08 11:09:12.899 Info Server: http/1.1 Response 200 to 192.168.0.4. Time: 99367ms. http://192.168.0.2:8096/emby/Items/284/PlaybackInfo

What exactly does that do? And if it's only done once can it all be done in the background then? Quite annoying to have to wait that long every time I watch a "new" movie. My NAS is connected with 10Gbit so whatever is happening in the background seems to take a lot longer than in should.

[ebr 16195]

Hi.  That is run in the background.  Please go through a specific example and attach the appropriate logs from it.

Thanks.

 

[Alfsvag 2]

On 08/12/2020 at 15:23, ebr said:

Hi.  That is run in the background.  Please go through a specific example and attach the appropriate logs from it.

Thanks.

 

I think I have nailed down the problem. There seems to be something wrong with the latest build of chromium 87.0.4280.66 with emby.

When I initially scanned the library (on emby server 4.5.3.0 w/ OMV5) all other metadata etc was added, but the quick-extract-imageseries did not run. Therefore no movie initially had the runtime, audio or subtitles select. That whole row was missing. I initially used Chromium 87.0.4280.66 when I imported the library so I wonder if there is a connection between them because triggering  quick-extract-imageseries using that browser is very sketchy. I have since upgraded the server to the beta version while troubleshooting. This issue meant that I couldn't add movies that was missed by the automatic scanner because the quick-extract-imageseries didn't trigger so when I hit save after  finding the movie by inputting imdb information it never finished. To add to that, since the imageseries wasn't triggering, if I attempted to play a movie that didn't have the quick-extract-imageseries run yet it would just load indefinitely most of the time. While it was loading I could hit play again and it would start, but then the time of the movie would show the buffer instead of the length of the movie. In Firefox the quick-extract-imageseries triggers as it should so using that browser I could add the missing content. The only problem was with movies that I had previously attempted to play with Chromium, with those movies the quick-extract-imagesseries did not trigger and thus the buffer was showed instead of the length of the movie. This was solved by refreshing the metadata.

I refreshed all metadata from Firefox and now all the quick-extract-imageseries is being run one after another. When I manually forced the Thumbnail image extraction to run (which I assume is the same thing?) from Chromium it took 2 hours to go from 3,9% to 5,2% (about two movies).

Another bug with this browser is in the log I have attached. For some reason a particular movie would not play on Chromium but it worked fine in Firefox.

A final question, this quick-extract-imagesseries, where is that info stored? Doesn't seem to be with the movie like all other metadata.  Would be nice if I didn't have to run that again if I change paths of movies.

ffmpeg-remux-5a6d5208-933c-4848-841a-a7c5d2c329f4_1.txt embyserver(1).txt

Edited December 9, 2020 by Alfsvag

[Luke 42086]

Hi there, are you still running into this with Emby Server 4.5.4?