2024-06-19, 05:04 PM
There is a program out there called AviDemux that will do lossless chops on I-frames. I do some minor censoring of movies for my family sometimes, and will occasionally take out sections of a film that I'd rather the fam not see, using AviDemux to do it so that I don't have to have the quality loss associated with re-encoding it.
My edited films play great in VLC on my PC, and my buddy (who also owns the same film) threw it on his Plex server and it played without issue, but Jellyfin is another matter...
In the AndroidTV client, when exoplayer reaches the place in the movie where I chopped things, it fails, retries a few times, and then gives up.
If I use VLClib to play it instead, playback won't hard-fail on an error like it does with exoplayer, but it shows some garbled frames for a second or two where I cut, then resumes playback, and it's jarring enough to totally take you out of the movie.
I hope what I'm describing makes sense, but I have no idea what information I can offer to help you guys troubleshoot this issue. Please let me know whatever info I can get you and I'll try to track it down.
My edited films play great in VLC on my PC, and my buddy (who also owns the same film) threw it on his Plex server and it played without issue, but Jellyfin is another matter...
In the AndroidTV client, when exoplayer reaches the place in the movie where I chopped things, it fails, retries a few times, and then gives up.
If I use VLClib to play it instead, playback won't hard-fail on an error like it does with exoplayer, but it shows some garbled frames for a second or two where I cut, then resumes playback, and it's jarring enough to totally take you out of the movie.
I hope what I'm describing makes sense, but I have no idea what information I can offer to help you guys troubleshoot this issue. Please let me know whatever info I can get you and I'll try to track it down.
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