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Possible Bug: Movies with multiple versions cause Jellyfin to crash during scan - JANONYMOUS - 2025-01-02
It took me a while to find the culprit but it seems that movies with multiple versions cause Jellyfin to crash when attempting a full library scan.
In my case it was a movie with two versions: Director's Cut.mkv and Extended Version.mkv.
After removing the movie folder from the library the scan finished successfully.
Is anyone able to reproduce this?
Thanks.
RE: Possible Bug: Movies with multiple versions cause Jellyfin to crash during scan - TheDreadPirate - 2025-01-02
Many many people have multiple versions of a movie. Including me.
Can you provide the file folder and file names of these movies and what kind of storage they were one? Local disk or network share?
RE: Possible Bug: Movies with multiple versions cause Jellyfin to crash during scan - JANONYMOUS - 2025-01-02
Yeah I imagine, haha. Maybe just not with the same setup and movie. I should have been clearer on that.
I set up Jellyfin only recently so it's the only multi-version movie I have uploaded so far, hence no other movie to compare with.
The movie in question is Dances With Wolves, and this is the folder/file structure on a local HD:
- Dances With Wolves [1990] [imdbid-tt0099348]
- Dances With Wolves [1990] [imdbid-tt0099348] - Director's Cut.mkv
- Dances With Wolves [1990] [imdbid-tt0099348] - Extended Version.mkv
The extended version was merged from two discs but I have others that don't cause any issues so I doubt it has anything to do with that.
Let me know what else you need.
Thanks.
RE: Possible Bug: Movies with multiple versions cause Jellyfin to crash during scan - TheDreadPirate - 2025-01-02
Put "1990" in parenthesis instead of square brackets.
RE: Possible Bug: Movies with multiple versions cause Jellyfin to crash during scan - JANONYMOUS - 2025-01-02
Are you certain that this will fix it or is it just for testing? Because all my movies use square brackets. My entire media collection for that matter.
RE: Possible Bug: Movies with multiple versions cause Jellyfin to crash during scan - TheDreadPirate - 2025-01-02
For testing. But if all your movies are named like that had me rethink it a bit. It would cause Jellyfin to straight up hang.
Are the files themselves corrupt? What happens when you run ffprobe on the files?
RE: Possible Bug: Movies with multiple versions cause Jellyfin to crash during scan - JANONYMOUS - 2025-01-02
Now it had me rethink the issue with scanning the music library. I hope it's not the square brackets causing it.
Parenthesis are part of a title while square brackets are for additional information--and the year isn't part of the title. That's how I've been using them since forever.
RE: Possible Bug: Movies with multiple versions cause Jellyfin to crash during scan - Efficient_Good_5784 - 2025-01-02
From my understanding, parenthesis are used for the year to help Jellyfin ID the file on a metadata site.
Square brackets are usually ignored unless they follow some things like the ID from a metadata provider.
An example would be this: "Spider-Man (2002) [tmdbid-557].mkv"
RE: Possible Bug: Movies with multiple versions cause Jellyfin to crash during scan - JANONYMOUS - 2025-01-03
Yeah I read that in the docs but I figured that title plus ID should suffice. I really prefer not to mix parenthesis with square brackets and change my entire concept for that.