DVD folder not playing

[Manuel Garrido Fernández]

You have to check ALL the parent paths for an ACL.

Checked, no ACLs in the path

You can also try temporarily giving the jellyfin user a shell and testing permissions.

Code:

sudo su -u jellyfin -s bash

Error: file or directory no exists
I think it maybe due to jellyfin being a nologin user

I noted the same problem with BD folders. Maybe I missconfigured something in Jellyfin?

[TheDreadPirate]

Try this.

Code:

sudo su -u jellyfin -s /bin/bash

[Manuel Garrido Fernández]

Try this.

Code:

sudo su -u jellyfin -s /bin/bash

I really appreciate your patience.

The correct command is sudo su jellyfin -s /bin/bash. As you say, I can go to Crucero2007/ but can't arrive to VIDEO_TS folder, didn't know why. So I changed the complete films library to 777, checked that can touch a file in VIDEO_TS, restarted server and try again with an error once again.

I have waited to local time 20:48 to try again and attach this piece of log file.
  jellyfin_log.txt (Size: 110.05 KB / Downloads: 51)

[TheDreadPirate]

Now it looks like it is failing due to it needing to be transcoded and ffmpeg fails. And since this appears to be a RPi, that is pretty much not possible/viable. FYI, a surprising number of new devices no longer support decoding MPEG2.

Code:

TranscodeReason=ContainerNotSupported, VideoCodecNotSupported

If it was just a remux (only "ContainerNotSupported") your RPi would have no issues handling that.

[Manuel Garrido Fernández]

Now it looks like it is failing due to it needing to be transcoded and ffmpeg fails.  And since this appears to be a RPi, that is pretty much not possible/viable.  FYI, a surprising number of new devices no longer support decoding MPEG2.

Code:

TranscodeReason=ContainerNotSupported, VideoCodecNotSupported

If it was just a remux (only "ContainerNotSupported") your RPi would have no issues handling that.

Oh!, this is a home made DVD, I think it will lasts more than 17 years!  
Can I baypass the transcoding?. I'm sure my TV do plays mp2 videos, since I did with ReadyMedia no more than 1 month ago.

EDIT:
I have read the post https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-how-to-disable-transcoding and tried disabling transcoding for all the users (there is only two of them). Since I use DLNA for playing in my TV (it is a Samsung one and there is no Jellyfin app), there is no user loging.
Anyway, I've tried the flathub app in my linux desktop, and still the server tries transcoding.
I've reinstalled ReadiMedia (formerly miniDLNA), that do not try any transcoding, and I am able to play almost any content, mpeg2/ts included, both in my TV and in my desktop using VLC. I've tried VLC in my desktop with Jellyfin as DLNA server with the same "not possible" result.
So I think those who complaint about disabling transcoding be a real option are right.
Said this, Jellyfin is wonderful and sure i will reinstall it when users can actually disable transcoding.

Anyway, many thanks for your patience and time.

[liam.whiteside]

I think just like me, you've made an assumption that functionality is there which isn't. See this reported issue https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/8739

I found when I looked in the FFmpeg.Transcode-... files in /var/log/jellyfin it showed it was trying to get ffmpeg to process the folder not the individual video files eg
file3TB-HDD/DVDs/Test: Is a directory

I'm hoping this feature has been added in 10.9 or will be considered soon.

[Manuel Garrido Fernández]

Hi!

Thanks for your comment.

I'm hoping this feature has been added in 10.9 or will be considered soon.

I think maybe not, because Shadowghost says in that thread (and closed it) that folders must be merged as an iso file.
It make sense that they will have no plans to support it, since Jellyfin is in its 10th version and still have no DVD/BD folder support.

[prahal]

Hi!

Thanks for your comment.

I'm hoping this feature has been added in 10.9 or will be considered soon.

I think maybe not, because Shadowghost says in that thread (and closed it) that folders must be merged as an iso file.
It make sense that they will have no plans to support it, since Jellyfin is in its 10th version and still have no DVD/BD folder support.

https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/movies/

Support for DVD Folder has since been added and iso are discouraged
ISO Files and other Disc Images
While Jellyfin should work with .iso files and other images, it is explicitly unsupported. It is recommended that those be extracted to BDMV or VIDEO_TS folders or remuxed to .mkv video files. Regardless of the source format, menus are not support and only the main titles will be played.

see https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/iss...1416730011

DVD and BD folders should now work with episodes too.
Apart from that the DVD and BD playback code now properly concatenates all major title VOBs/M2TS files with the correct timestamps. This results in working skipping and proper playback (before most of the time only the first file of the main title was played). And we don't need to rely on DvdLib anymore (though it still exists in the branch).

after https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/iss...1412977793

If someone wants to test it, I've fixed up our current implementation to some point in a test branch: https://github.com/Shadowghost/jellyfin/...dvdlib-fix (based off master)
DVD folders are properly recognized and all non-menu VOBs sent to ffmpeg but at least with my test setup ffmpeg keeps getting stuck at some point - especially when seeking.
DVD ISOs seem to not work as well as I expected them to do with ffmpeg. Most likely we should deprecate support and just support DVD folders if I get them working.