Deathsquirrel 741 Posted May 9, 2014 Share Posted May 9, 2014 I noticed this last night and did a bit of checking today. On my server, between April 5 and April 9, chapter detection stopped working. The server scans pick up the correct number of chapters but the chapter times are all marked at time 0:00 and have the same lovely black screencap for their extracted picture. Movies added before April 5 are fine. All movies added since have the issue. All movies have chapters working correctly in MPC-HC. They playback fine in MBT, IE, to my Xbox One via DLNA play-to, and using the Windows 8.1 app. Just no chapters. Suggestions or logs that would be helpful to review? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deathsquirrel 741 Posted May 12, 2014 Author Share Posted May 12, 2014 Before I remove & reinstall the server, figured I'd check one more time to see if anyone else is seeing this same issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14935 Posted May 23, 2014 Share Posted May 23, 2014 I don't rip to mp4 so can't help diagnosing that but my mkvs are finding chapters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deathsquirrel 741 Posted May 23, 2014 Author Share Posted May 23, 2014 OK, I've had a chance to reinstall everything and now it's happening with all movies. This appears to be an issue with newer versions of the server software on at least my system. Do any of you see correct chapter markers in MP4 movies you've added to your collection in the last month? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deathsquirrel 741 Posted May 24, 2014 Author Share Posted May 24, 2014 EBR, that does seem like that may be the issue. I checked and the very small number of MKVs I have worked normally. Every MP4 I've checked is failing but MKVs appear to work fine. So was there an update to the server in early April that might explain this? I thought it might be a caching problem but since a full uninstall & reinstall made everything worse, that points to a server bug of some sort. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37116 Posted May 24, 2014 Share Posted May 24, 2014 you should try running the files through ffprobe to see what it produces for chapter times Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deathsquirrel 741 Posted May 24, 2014 Author Share Posted May 24, 2014 Luke you happen to know the switch that will show the chapter times? Happy to run it but that's not outputting when I run FFPROBE so I'm surely missing something in my command line. Note that this used to work fine with the same exact files so either there is an issue with the server processing the data it gets on the file or there's a problem in the probe that retrieves the data on the files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bertbert72 14 Posted May 24, 2014 Share Posted May 24, 2014 You shouldn't need anything else on the command line. Just ffprobe myfile.mp4 This should list out all the chapters. If it doesn't, try opening in MPC-HC or running Mediainfo and see if either of them shows the chapters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deathsquirrel 741 Posted May 24, 2014 Author Share Posted May 24, 2014 OK, overthinking this clearly. MPC-HC shows the chapters, that I tested before reporting this and noted in the initial report. FFPROBE shows the chapters correctly. MB3 server shows the correct number of chapters but their start times are all 0:00 except for chapter 1 which is -1:59:60. That's typical of all the titles in my collection except MKVs right now. Of course I only have MKVs where I had to join a 2-disc movie so there aren't many of those Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14935 Posted May 24, 2014 Share Posted May 24, 2014 Okay, so something has gone wrong with the times on chapters in mp4s (at least). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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