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Reading existing BIF files? - casperse - 2025-09-04
Hi All
I have a load of existing bif files created from before all in the mediafolder and correct named, but for some reason it only works sometime?
They are all created by Emby and they are working in Emby. But I am trying to make a shift to Jellyfin.
So far I have tested read/write access and I can see that Jellyfin tries to read the file, but I get a dark square over the timeline with no picture?
If anyone have fixed this or tried the same then please share :-)
Best rgards
Casperse
RE: Reading existing BIF files? - theguymadmax - 2025-09-04
Bif is no longer a thing. That functionality was integrated into Jellyfin as Trickplays.
You should be able to convert them, see here for details: https://github.com/nicknsy/jellyscrub
"Trickplay functionality has been upstreamed into Jellyfin 10.9.0, and as such, Jellyscrub's trickplay functionality will not be maintained after 10.9.0 is officially released. However, Jellyscrub has been updated to version 2.0.0 which only allows for the conversion of your already generated .bif files to Jellyfin's new native format."
RE: Reading existing BIF files? - casperse - 2025-09-05
Thats sounds like the solution!
I am running Jellyfin v. 10.10.7
And for some reason when I install the plugin it cant find any BIF files....
In the config it says:
If no .BIF files are found during conversion, verify that the save location is correctly set in the Jellyscrub plugin config.
But I cant see any path in the Jelleyscrub config file only a local path that is said to true.
Before I run over to the Jellyscrub github if anyone have the solution here :-)
Trickplay is almost not working I get 0,1% in a day...
I have the Intel with the iGPU and HW encoding should work but it still seem "Dead" so converting all the existing bif files sounds like the way to go!