Playing specific media with two versions in library item

abaggett

Hi, I've set up ErsatzTV and have been enjoying it, but have run across a problem I am not sure how to solve. I have a "TV Shows" Library in Plex that has some shows with both a 4K HDR, and 1080p SDR version. In Plex this works perfect as the client chooses the correct version for the devices capabilities, and plays it back. (an option to manually choose is also presented) (https://support.plex.tv/articles/200381043-multi-version-movies/)

When Tuning an ErsatzTV channel, and media with two versions comes up, I get the following error displayed on the stream, and in the log.

I am wondering if there is a way to set ErsatzTV to play the 1080p versions of multi-version content, and avoid any 4K HDR copies.

2024-07-14 20:24:13.681 -04:00 [WRN] Unexpected pixel format null may have playback issues
2024-07-14 20:24:14.312 -04:00 [ERR] HLS process for channel 1 has terminated unsuccessfully with exit code -22: [Parsed_colorspace_4 @ 0000025ee360cb00] [Eval @ 000000ab669fe960] Undefined constant or missing '(' in 'smpte2084'
[Parsed_colorspace_4 @ 0000025ee360cb00] Unable to parse option value "smpte2084"
Error applying option 'itrc' to filter 'colorspace': Invalid argument
Failed to set value '[0:1]aresample=async=1:first_pts=0,apad[a];[0:0]scale=1920:1080:flags=fast_bilinear,setsar=1[v];[v]colorspace=irange=tv:ispace=bt2020nc:itrc=smpte2084:iprimaries=bt2020:all=bt709:format=yuv420p[vpf]' for option 'filter_complex': Invalid argument
Error parsing global options: Invalid argument

jason

I would try using smart collections using video_dynamic_range:sdr to filter out HDR content. See https://ersatztv.org/docs/user-guide/search

abaggett

Thanks for the suggestion, this works as a way to exclude those episodes from being played at all, but I am wondering if there is a way to have ErsatzTV use the 1080p versions.
As an example, here is media info in Plex vs. ErsatzTV for a show I have in 4K HDR and 1080p SDR. (I attempted to bold the most relevant portions in the code block, but it doesn't appear you can bold in a code block, sorry - plex file paths start about 1/2 way down the XML snippet)
Plex discovers and has record of both files under the same episode listing, so the client can pick the right one.
ErsatzTV only shows the 4K HDR version, and does not have any record of the 1080p file (the one I would like played/transcoded by ErsatzTV)

"Id": 7657, "Kind": "PlexEpisode", "LibraryKind": "PlexLibrary", "ServerName": "my media server", "LibraryName": "TV Shows", "State": "Normal", "Duration": "00:54:17.6000000", "SampleAspectRatio": "1:1", "DisplayAspectRatio": "1.78", "RFrameRate": "23.976", "VideoScanKind": "Unknown", "Width": 3840, "Height": 2160, "Streams": [ { "Index": 0, "Kind": "Video", "Codec": "hevc", "Profile": "main 10", "Default": true, "ColorRange": "tv", "ColorSpace": "bt2020nc", "ColorTransfer": "smpte2084", "ColorPrimaries": "bt2020", "BitsPerRawSample": 10 }, { "Index": 1, "Kind": "Audio", "Title": "", "Codec": "eac3", "Profile": "", "Language": "eng", "Channels": 6, "Default": true }, { "Index": 2, "Kind": "Subtitle", "Codec": "srt", "Language": "eng", "IsExtracted": false }, { "Index": 3, "Kind": "Subtitle", "Codec": "srt", "Language": "eng", "IsExtracted": false }

and Plex:

OcifferAction

I am running into this same issue. Mine is caused by having 4K HDR versions of movies. I have a Plex smart collection created to convert these movies to a Universal TV 1080p version. When Plex creates these versions it places the converted movie in another folder within the original movie folder. ErsatzTV does not recognize additional versions of movies in these folders.