File shows in the wrong date on timeline
I have multiple files that, even though they have the date properly extracted and displayed in the side info, they are displayed in a incorrect year on the timeline.
I have used version 1.79 before updating to 1.8 recently and have done a full refresh of the metadata with no changes to this behaviour.
My setup is quite simple as it mostly consists of a NFS share and immich running on docker. Feel free to ask me whatever questions you might have that will help pinpoint this issue in an effective manner for you.
From what I can tell I have a bunch of the errors I showed on the screenshot, probably related to all the files and I have out of place.
One of those files is this one https://we.tl/t-kv4sgkQ85s (let me know if there is a better way of sharing this file instead of wetransfer)
C0069_11.MP4
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noticed the link has expired so here is another file that suffers from the exact same issue
C0012.MP4
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220mb?
hah
220mb?
it is a big file
that's the size of that particular video file
I can try something smaller if that helps
no that's fine
it has happened mostly with video files
what is the actual problem, just wrong place in timeline?
for example the file that I sent you is detected in immich with the correct date
11th Aug 2018
should it be augu 11, 2018?
on the timeline however it shows as September 2023
ok makes sense.
along with dozens of other video files
the is a bug parsing the duration which causes metadata extraction to fail, so it can't update the timestamp that's used for where it shows up in the timeline
ok
anything I can do to fix it?
It's funny because I literally just fixed a related case a few minutes ago. I've updated it to handle your situation as well #4541
ahahha so that should help?
Yeah, it should be in the next release and it should fix the issue for your videos.
I just understood something else, another bug that I have had for a long while is there is in a lot of videos 0:00 duration in the previews
Yes, probably related.
that is great to hear
0:00 duration is related to wrong place in timeline for the same reason.
metadata extraction is failing to parse duration and that's why it has a default duration of 0, and in the wrong place in the timeline.
I really appreciate the effort to look into this and all the effort you guys are putting into this app, and as soon as most things are good enough to migrate my library here I will throw some money your way because it is starting to feel more and more like a great way of doing photo/video library stuff 🙂
got it
I will be on the lookout for the changelog with your fixed and will update this post if it somehow still fails to address it
When it is released you can try just missing first or run all if you want. Or, you can just mult-select in the web and run the metadata extraction for just specific assets.
I will try all those options to see if the works in all those scenarios and update it here incase it can help someone else
They will probably be fixed by just running missing fwiw
got it