A week ago I downloaded e1 and e2 via my private tracker of murderbot. My setup is that my jellyfin library directly points to the downloads folder for TV shows. This has always worked in the past, but now last week for murderbot e1 and e2 and now again this friday for e3, jellyfin only recognizes the file but cannot pull any metadata and is somehow unable to stream it to any of my clients.

I haven't tried any usual troubleshooting steps yet since I was really busy this past week, but was wondering if this is some Apple mechanism to hinder piracy.

Thoughts?

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[–] yaroto98@lemmy.org 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Careful, I've seen an uptick in malicious files being uploaded for popular tv shows. Including murderbot. You likely downloaded one of those. There shouldn't be any DRM in pirated media. I've noticed it mostly in episodes before they are released. So the day after murderbot episode 2 came out my sonarr started trying to download episode 3. They were all malicious files, on all my trackers except for my private one. Carefully look at the file, if it isn't legit, since you got it from a private tracker, flag it and boot the user uploading crap.

If not, could be a transcoding issue. Try watching it directly with VLC.

[–] hash@slrpnk.net 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Care to expand on the filetypes? Are they actually trying to exploit vulnerabilities in video players?

[–] yaroto98@lemmy.org 1 points 1 month ago

No they aren't that sophisticated. I can't think of them off the top of my head, they've all been blocked by sonarr.

I did a quick search and here are the malicious filetypes I found for Murderbot s01e04 right now: .arj .lnk

if you do a search on thepiratebay and rargb you'll find a bunch. Many of them have been blocked and reported, but they get reuploaded as fast as they get taken down. I've seen other types before though. I actually blame the *.arr stack for this. These files wouldn't get downloaded, except by the most ignorant, but the easy automation makes people complacent and more easily fall victim to the scam.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

Metadata is pulled from your external metadata source.
So either no volunteer/bot provided data yet or you misonfigured something.
Jellyfin usually doesnt refresh metadata daily but only every 30 days or so if the configuration wasnt changed.

Regarding the streaming issue: Check if VLC or smth can play the file.