Failed to read media characteristics

[pietpara]

Hi, I wanted to use Filebot Node on a recent download of a TV series after quite a while of not using it.
However, I noticed that the episodes were not saveed in the Organized Folder / TV Shows folder.

It seems Filebot Node stops and I see two possibly relevant messages for this:
1) Generate CDS archive...
/var/packages/filebot/target/jsa/generate-app-cds: line 19: 25154 Aborted (core dumped) java -Xshare:dump -XX:SharedClassListFile="$CDS_ARCHIVE.lst" -XX:SharedArchiveFile="$CDS_ARCHIVE" -jar "$CDS_CLASSPATH" > "$CDS_ARCHIVE.log" 2>&1

2) Failed to read media characteristics: /volume1/video/Downloads/Severance.S01E02.720p.BluRay.x264-BORDURE/severance.s01e02.720p.bluray.x264-bordure/Severance.S01E02.720p.BluRay.x264-BORDURE/Severance.S01E02.720p.BluRay.x264-BORDURE.mkv [Last-Modified: Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 CET 2098]: [/var/packages/MediaServer/target/bin/ffprobe, -show_streams, -show_format, -print_format, json, -v, error, /volume1/video/Downloads/Severance.S01E02.720p.BluRay.x264-BORDURE/severance.s01e02.720p.bluray.x264-bordure/Severance.S01E02.720p.BluRay.x264-BORDURE/Severance.S01E02.720p.BluRay.x264-BORDURE.mkv] failed (1)

After this it places these episodes on the ignore list, annoyingly so, even though they were not processed correctly (they were unpacked but not renamed).

Does anyone know what I need to do to fix this?

Thanks

[rednoah]

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/var/packages/filebot/target/jsa/generate-app-cds: line 19: 25154 Aborted (core dumped)

What does System Information say? Core dump while Generating CDS archive suggests that the issue could be caused by running outdated versions of FileBot and OpenJDK.

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Failed to read media characteristics: /volume1/video/Downloads/Severance.S01E02.720p.BluRay.x264-BORDURE/severance.s01e02.720p.bluray.x264-bordure/Severance.S01E02.720p.BluRay.x264-BORDURE/Severance.S01E02.720p.BluRay.x264-BORDURE.mkv [Last-Modified: Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 CET 2098]: [/var/packages/MediaServer/target/bin/ffprobe, -show_streams, -show_format, -print_format, json, -v, error, /volume1/video/Downloads/Severance.S01E02.720p.BluRay.x264-BORDURE/severance.s01e02.720p.bluray.x264-bordure/Severance.S01E02.720p.BluRay.x264-BORDURE/Severance.S01E02.720p.BluRay.x264-BORDURE.mkv] failed (1)

The ffprobe binary shipped with the Media Server package on your Synology NAS cannot read the file at hand. This is either because the file is corrupt, or - more likely - because Synology ships an outdated version of ffprobe that just doesn't work for some files.

You can work around ffprobe issues by instructing FileBot to not read media files, either via the --def minLengthMS=0 option or via the -no-probe option. See FileBot Node Reference Manual for details:

After this it places these episodes on the ignore list, annoyingly so, even though they were not processed correctly (they were unpacked but not renamed).

Sorry for the inconvenience. Unfortunately, the primary purpose of the exclude list is to prevent infinite loops. If the file wasn't added to the exclude list, then repeated calls would repeatedly try and fail to process the file, indefinitely.

FileBot Node is designed for setting up unattended automation but as soon as think about manually using FileBot Node to process files, you're probably better off just using the FileBot Desktop application from your Desktop that you're currently using to access the DSM WebUI.