Home Videos and Photos

[Starry8600]

I've set up a library for home videos where I've added a few videos. When browsing the library, it doesn't show any content. I've tried refreshing and restarting the server (container). I couldn't find anything specifically about this in the documentation, what's missing to make this work?

[gnattu]

Home videos have a very loose requirement for it to work and for most of time it will just display the filesystem as is.

But for a few reasons it might not show the video:

- The video is not in a supported format
- The video's file name contains reserved word to be ignored

You can try with different video format and change file and refresh the library to see if it detects your video.

[mtoss]

mp4 movies work great. Never had issue with this format.

[Starry8600]

I'm using a mp4 file (H.264/AVC codec)

Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : Base Media / Version 2
Codec ID : mp42 (isom/mp42)
File size : 156 MiB
Duration : 59 min 22 s
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 367 kb/s
Frame rate : 25.000 FPS

Video
ID : 2
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L5
Format settings : CABAC / 11 Ref Frames
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, Reference frames : 11 frames
Format settings, Slice count : 4 slices per frame
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
Duration : 59 min 22 s
Bit rate : 239 kb/s
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 25.000 FPS
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.005
Stream size : 102 MiB (65%)
Title : H.264/AVC video
Color range : Limited
Color primaries : BT.601 PAL
Transfer characteristics : BT.709
Matrix coefficients : BT.470 System B/G
Codec configuration box : avcC

Audio
ID : 1
Format : AAC LC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec Low Complexity
Codec ID : mp4a-40-2
Duration : 59 min 22 s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 126 kb/s
Maximum bit rate : 166 kb/s
Channel(s) : 1 channel
Channel layout : M
Sampling rate : 32.0 kHz
Frame rate : 31.250 FPS (1024 SPF)
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 53.6 MiB (34%)
Title : AAC audio


I also have a file that is playable in another library, it does not show up under "Home Videos and Photos".

[TheDreadPirate]

Does the container have permissions to access the file? Is it stored locally or on a NAS?

[Starry8600]

The container is running on an Unraid server. It has read access to the folder, just like the other folders that are used for other libraries. When I open a shell inside the container I can cd to the folder, and do ls to see all files. (ls -lrt says all three r flags are set).

[Starry8600]

Checked now, for some reason it started working and all videos are visible. I haven't touched anything since yesterday.