400+ Movies not showing in Movies folder

Fri Jan 24, 2020 7:18 pm by kittmaster

I am having a problem which has been like this since day 1. I have the movies folder active in presentation and not a single movie shows up.

They all show up in folder view, just not in movie view.

Exactly like this thread here:

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=21337

My movies are file named multiple ways:

A Quiet Place (2018).mp4
A Quiet Place tt6644200.mp4

There are no meta tags in the files themselves.

So the question is....does there need to be? If so, what fields to make them show up in the movies folder?

I can't get any clear info on the requirement to make the mp4 files show up in the movies folder.

Thoughts?

Thanks,
Chris

Fri Jan 24, 2020 8:09 pm by atc98092

I am assuming that in the Folder view the titles are appearing with accurate metadata. That would indicate there's nothing wrong with your file naming.

When titles don't appear in the Movies or Titles presentation, it usually indicates that the player has told Serviio it can't play those titles, so they are hidden from view. It's possible the profile Serviio selected for that playback device is inaccurate. Do you have more than one player, and are the titles appearing on any of them. Do the titles appear in MediaBrowser under Movies or Titles? If they aren't showing anywhere, then I suspect there's something amiss with your Serviio database. I don't know if there's any solution other than completely uninstalling Serviio, rebooting the computer, and installing Serviio fresh.

With MP4 files, I would have expected any player to work with it, so I'm leaning towards the DB problem. I have close to 4000 titles, and they all appear without a problem. So it's not a quantity issue.

Fri Jan 24, 2020 9:19 pm by kittmaster

They don't show up in mediabrowser either.

This is a brand new install on a Synology NAS that I just bought and it works identically to the i5 laptop that it replaced.....every feature every function.

So I'm wondering if like an MP3 is there supposed to be a field like:

Track
Artist
BPM
Date

Whatever.......that is missing.....as of now, if I load my mp4's into mp3tag which is an MP4 editor, every field is blank.

So I guess there is a question, are those fields or something that needs to be there that serviio reads in order to put it into the Movies for viewing.

This has never worked since day 1 of installing Serviio.......ever........everything else has always worked.

The following is what I use:

Samsung TV 2016 Series 6 4K
Roku Media stick
Mediabrowser on multiple computers

All work flawlessly....except for Movies.....which is why I've been asking and scratching my head about this.

Hopefully my feedback points to something I"m simply doing incorrect?

Thank you.
Chris

Fri Jan 24, 2020 11:55 pm by atc98092

Well, that certainly isn't expected. If they appeared in MediaBrowser, then I would be sticking with my original thought. But if they don't appear in MediaBrowser, something else is at play. To my knowledge, Serviio doesn't read metatags in MP3 files, and of course that has nothing to do with movie files. I don't know if the Serviio log will offer anything of value, but we should probably look at it.

For the example file name you included in the original post, I checked it against themoviedb.com and it appears accurate. I've occasionally encountered movies that the year was different than my file name had, so it wouldn't pull metadata. But it still appeared in the Titles section, just with no DVD cover image nor metadata info. I've never played with a NAS device, so can't say if there's some peculiarity to them that needs to be addressed. I sure can't think of anything.

Sat Jan 25, 2020 3:42 am by kittmaster

Well what is interesting is that in mediabrowser, when viewing by folder, the meta data pulls in and it shows synopsis, rating etc etc...

It's just the movie folder presentation that is always blank.

So that shows it's not an internet access thing....

Is there a "folder structure" that needs to be followed for it to find it in "movies"?

I want to emphasize again that "movies" has NEVER worked since I found Serviio.....at least this one area of it.

I'm pretty confident this isn't a NAS issue in any way since I've seen this back in 1.10 and still in 2.0.37 (current NAS build).

I typically have had movies turned off......but now i'm really interested in solving this issue......like the thread I referenced in the first post, it was never really solved there either.

Hopefully someone can help me sort this mess out..........

Thanks for trying, hopefully something will pop.

Sat Jan 25, 2020 6:49 pm by freaknik

I have only one movie showing in movies, have never used it.

Folder view works.

Sat Jan 25, 2020 8:05 pm by kittmaster

I'm sure it does, just hasn't worked here.

Where did you get the video file from and what does your path look like to it?

Thanks,
Chris

Sun Jan 26, 2020 1:15 am by freaknik

The movie the one that works in Movies is titled “The Green Hell 2017” I’ll get mediainfo later and edit this post, I’m watching something on tv now on my couch. But later.....

Sun Jan 26, 2020 2:16 am by atc98092

While I have the Movies section enabled, I almost never use it. With the number of titles I have it takes far too long to load on all my players. I mainly use Titles and Playlists. Do you have Titles enabled, and if so is your media appearing there? I doubt it, since they don't appear in Movies but worth verifying.

As I said, usually when a title doesn't appear it means that Serviio and the player have agreed that they can't play that title, so hide the title. But not appearing in MediaBrowser makes zero sense. All I can think of is something out of whack in the database itself. The fact you have metadata when viewing the titles in folder view shows your file naming is accurate. There are no folder structure conventions that need to be followed. I have folders with no sub-folders, as well as folders with multiple sub-folders, and everything appears as expected under Titles and Movies.

I honestly can't think of anything other than removing Serviio and starting from scratch. I can't think of any other way to ensure the DB is cleaned up.

Wed Jan 29, 2020 5:31 pm by freaknik

At kittenmaster sorry this took so long. I get all my movies from stream sites, this one was a few years ago I think openload or streamandgo one of those. Here is the mediainfo with path (dont hack me bruh):

Code:: Complete name : E:\aint you seen my movies\The+Green+Hell+(2017).mp4 Format : MPEG-4 Format profile : Base Media Codec ID : isom File size : 617 MiB Duration : 1h 36mn Overall bit rate : 895 Kbps Season : 0 Movie name : The Green Hell 2017 Part : 0 ContentType : Short Film Writing application : Lavf57.83.100 Comment : {name} Video ID : 1 Format : AVC Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec Format profile : High@L3.1 Format settings, CABAC : Yes Format settings, ReFrames : 5 frames Codec ID : avc1 Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding Duration : 1h 36mn Bit rate : 768 Kbps Width : 720 pixels Height : 480 pixels Display aspect ratio : 3:2 Frame rate mode : Constant Frame rate : 30.000 fps Color space : YUV Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0 Bit depth : 8 bits Scan type : Progressive Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.074 Stream size : 524 MiB (85%) Writing library : x264 core 148 r2795 aaa9aa8 Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=5 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=hex / subme=7 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=7 / lookahead_threads=7 / sliced_threads=1 / slices=7 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=25 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc=abr / mbtree=0 / bitrate=768 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=69 / qpstep=4 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00 Language : English Audio ID : 2 Format : AAC Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec Format profile : LC Codec ID : 40 Duration : 1h 36mn Bit rate mode : Constant Bit rate : 128 Kbps Channel(s) : 2 channels Channel positions : Front: L R Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz Compression mode : Lossy Stream size : 88.2 MiB (14%) Language : English

Sat Feb 01, 2020 12:52 pm by freaknik

For me this was a metadata problem. I have metadata set to read external *.nfo files and had generated metadata nfo files for my cartoons collection but not tv and movies.

There are a lot of tools to scrape and parse the files I used Kodi some like MovieManager.

Here are some screenshots to see what I mean, it gave the poster for Tombstone to a lot of movies that aren't Tombstone but almost 400 are showing up now, big improvement:

Sat Feb 01, 2020 6:35 pm by kittmaster

Which is more leg work no? You're adding an external dependency that needs to be updated every time you add a movie correct?

In my case I created a new folder share on the system and in the root of the share called it /movies

I recently tried again and put the files in place and suddenly they all showed up in the movies category.

Then when I added media in a totally different folder from movies i.e. music videos circa MTV .....all those started to show up in movies with the actual movies......when I removed the media videos......now I got nothing at all once again in the movies folder on either mediabrowser or the Samsung TV via DLNA. The movies in the movies folder are still there.....you'd think it would still display them.....but it doesn't.

I don't think it makes sense to have to keep uninsalling and reinstalling this to "get it to work" because it isn't smart enough to correct the modifications without messing up the existing/remaining in the console shared library areas.

I was happy to at least see it work once.....but there is something seriously screwed up there.

I reverted back to my old presentation mode of not having the movies category show up.

It is very disappointing to say the least......it would be nice to have @zip comment.

Sat Feb 01, 2020 7:53 pm by freaknik

Yes mine is an extra step and not perfect I mean I like Tombstone hahaha but a lot of them basically anything the scraper didn't know by naming convention it jut slaps the Tombstone poster on which is fine at least its not a cover from a porno movie or slasher flick or something like that.

I agree something with it is messed up and idk if it is relevant but the version I am using is 1.10 since I have a 1.x license only.

Most of my dlna clients have a search so the only categories I use are last added and folders but maybe in version 2.0 it works, gotta pay if you wanna play haha.

Part of the problem is the scrapers all pull from open source volunteer databases that are not perfect neither is any of the community supported freely developed code. I have seen many errors in tmdb that have never been fixed (mostly anime series). Dragon Ball GT they are missing the last season for example so if you are dependent on Serviio scraping there for your meta tags season 4 will be SOL for you.

None of them are perfect but most are free and made by fans in their spare time. I doubt very seriously that Serviio is zip's bread and butter it seems more like a hobby project we all help out on and the fee just is there to keep it going. DLNA is great but I have no idea how it works or how to write java or any of that so better to have it, flawed as it is.

Some like plex and the others I thought they were not for me or my machines last time I tried. (had memory leaks)

Sat Feb 01, 2020 7:58 pm by freaknik

And the only movies I have that serviio doesn't show in mediabrowser are codecs that are too new, such as AV1. According to wikipedia:

AV1
aomedia.org
AOMedia Video 1 is an open, royalty-free video coding format designed for video transmissions over the Internet. It was developed as a successor to VP9 by the Alliance for Open Media, a consortium founded in 2015 that includes semiconductor firms, video on demand providers, video content producers, software development companies and web browser vendors.Wikipedia
Developed by:Alliance for Open Media
Initial release:28, 2018
Latest release:1.0.0 Errata 1, (09, 2019)

So for software that was written before this codec was in existence it has no way of playing the movie or knowing what it is. I just got a AV1 movie from vimeo is the only reason I know it was a thing and I re-encoded to x264 and all is good.

Sat Feb 01, 2020 10:08 pm by kittmaster

Appreciate the feedback, wish it was more robust.....hopefully it will get sorted in the long run.

Thanks,
Chris

Thu Feb 13, 2020 8:36 pm by freaknik

Yea it's messed up the metadata part. Just looking at my last added I got some Droopy cartoons from vimeo they dont get any tags, Uncut Gems gets correct movie poster, Lupin III gets tagged correctly, and Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious world and The FIFTY get tagged correctly and thumbnails pulled from the video.

For some strange reason Epic Yellowstone which is a miniseries from Smithsonian Channel, gets all the tags right but hte movie poster from Weird Science hahaha wtf?

Code:: General Complete name : E:\aint you seen my movies\Yellowstone Fire and Ice.m4v Format : MPEG-4 Codec ID : M4V File size : 1.67 GiB Duration : 52mn 26s Overall bit rate mode : Variable Overall bit rate : 4 554 Kbps Collection : Epic Yellowstone Season : 1 Album : Epic Yellowstone, Season 1 Album/Sorted by : Epic Yellowstone, Season 1 Part : 1 Part/Position : 1 Part/Total : 1 Track name : Fire and Ice Track name/Position : 1 Track name/Total : 4 Performer : Epic Yellowstone Performer/Sorted by : Epic Yellowstone Genre : Nonfiction ContentType : TV Show Description : Winter in Yellowstone. Driving snow and temperatures 50 degrees below zero collide with spewing heat / It’s a place where snow meets fiery underground forces, where waters travel from Rocky Mountain peaks to the Great Plains, and where age-old battles between predator and prey take place. This is Yellowstone, home to some of the most spectacular landscapes and wildlife in America. Join host Bill Pullman on an exploration of its colorful springs and raging waters, its glittering winters and lush summers, and its returning packs of predators and vast array of winged creatures. Recorded date : UTC 2019-03-10 08:00:00 Encoded date : UTC 2019-03-02 23:31:59 Tagged date : UTC 2019-03-02 23:32:29 Cover : Yes AppleStoreCatalogID : 381192781 AlbumTitleID : 1453568810 PlayListID : 1453568811 GenreID : 4006 HDVideo : Yes Part_ID : 101 PurchaseDate : 2020-02-05 12:17:30 Title/Sort : Fire and Ice ContentRating : us-tv|TV-PG|400| LongDescription : Winter in Yellowstone. Driving snow and temperatures 50 degrees below zero collide with spewing heat from subterranean forces, creating dramatic, otherworldly displays. Host Bill Pullman embarks on a journey over vast blankets of snow, through sparkling prisms of “diamond dust,” and across rivers warmed by geothermal springs. Marvel at the park’s wildlife and see how the area’s extreme conditions pose challenges even for animals that have evolved to survive its winters. Video ID : 1 Format : AVC Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec Format profile : High@L3.1 Format settings, CABAC : No Format settings, ReFrames : 2 frames Codec ID : avc1 Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding Duration : 52mn 26s Bit rate : 4 006 Kbps Width : 1 280 pixels Height : 716 pixels Display aspect ratio : 16:9 Frame rate mode : Constant Frame rate : 23.976 fps Color space : YUV Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0 Bit depth : 8 bits Scan type : Progressive Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.182 Stream size : 1.47 GiB (88%) Title : Core Media Video Language : English Encoded date : UTC 2019-03-02 23:31:59 Tagged date : UTC 2019-03-02 23:32:29 Color range : Limited Color primaries : BT.709 Transfer characteristics : BT.709 Matrix coefficients : BT.709 Audio #1 ID : 2 Format : AAC Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec Format profile : LC Codec ID : 40 Duration : 52mn 26s Source duration : 52mn 26s Bit rate mode : Variable Bit rate : 160 Kbps Maximum bit rate : 233 Kbps Channel(s) : 2 channels Channel positions : Front: L R Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz Compression mode : Lossy Stream size : 58.6 MiB (3%) Source stream size : 58.6 MiB (3%) Title : Core Media Audio Language : English Encoded date : UTC 2019-03-02 23:31:59 Tagged date : UTC 2019-03-02 23:32:29 Audio #2 ID : 4 Format : AC-3 Format/Info : Audio Coding 3 Mode extension : CM (complete main) Format settings, Endianness : Big Codec ID : ac-3 Duration : 52mn 26s Bit rate mode : Constant Bit rate : 384 Kbps Channel(s) : 6 channels Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz Bit depth : 16 bits Compression mode : Lossy Stream size : 144 MiB (8%) Title : Core Media Audio Language : English Encoded date : UTC 2019-03-02 23:31:59 Tagged date : UTC 2019-03-02 23:32:29 Text ID : 3-CC1 Format : EIA-608 Muxing mode : Final Cut Codec ID : c608 Duration : 52mn 19s Bit rate mode : Constant Stream size : 0.00 Byte (0%) Title : Core Media Closed Caption Language : English Encoded date : UTC 2019-03-02 23:31:59 Tagged date : UTC 2019-03-02 23:32:29

Fri Feb 14, 2020 12:52 am by kittmaster

So that speaks volumes right there..........and begs the question...........what is going on with this???

I really wish the author would chime in here.

Anyone have any ideas???

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