• CeeBee@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It sounds like a codec error. I would bet that if you checked the files experiencing the errors it would have some esoteric codec or be a format your host can’t easily decode, or it’s a format the playing device hardware can’t decode but the Jellyfin player doesn’t know that (somehow Jellyfin isn’t getting correct info).

    I’ve had that before with a really old avi file with divx. I re-encoded the file to MP4 with h264 and it works perfectly.

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      1 year ago

      Well, thanks friend, tried to figure it out again and couldn’t. But I did a full, I’m going to figure this out and changing some playback settings fixed it. Not sure why it only threw the error on one show, but it’s fixed now…

      Now, you wouldn’t have any clue how to setup Jellyfin (or would you be able to point me to somewhere that would help) so it has the option of skipping intros, would you? I’m running it in a docker container on a synology nas.

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          1 year ago

          It’s been a while but I saw a disturbing post about Plex recently that reminded me of this - the post was an email that Plex sent someone with something along the lines of “see what * Lemmy user * has been watching recently” which shows they track what people have and are watching from their “private” library. Huge invasion of privacy and I no longer care if it’s easier for friends/family to use, I’ve deactivated my server and been offering extra help if someone struggles with jellyfin.

          Anyway, I wasn’t able to get this working. Were you?

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            1 year ago

            To be honest, no. Work got super busy and then we had a couple colds make their rounds at my place. But it’s still on my to do list.