Hi All,

About a year ago I transferred all my files to a new drive. I used filzezilla which did mostly ok-ish, but I didn’t notice that some of the video files were corrupted. Random files will have a green tinge to them (like someone put a green filter over the lens).

It seems random, although if it’s a series it’s usually the whole series.

I’ve been replacing them as they come up, but I was wondering if anyone had any bright ideas to expedite the process.

Thanks for any help!

  • bazsy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    green tinge to them

    Are you sure it’s corrupted and not an unsupported HDR color format?

    Corrupted files usually skip frames or get blocking and ghosting errors.

    • batmaniam@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      6 months ago

      I certainly am not sure lol. I did try disabling the HDR tone mapping to no affect. It’s possible this is the issue as when I transferred the library, it was to new hardware with a different GPU.

      Is there a way to tell the color format from the file info?

      Thank you!

      Edit: I wanted to add context, as I think this may be the culprit. I initially transferred the files from one machine to another via filezilla. About a week after, we had a power outage, which screwed up the SSD that had the operating system (lesson learned about surge protectors). To get the Plex back and running quickly, I simply pulled the physical hard-drive, and popped it into a 3rd machine. So it does make sense to me that the file itself may be fine.

      edit2: @bazsy@lemmy.world you are definitely onto it! I just downloaded the file to another machine, and it played with no color issues. So my guess is it’s something to do with the GPU on the machine hosting plex?