[Bug]: videos treated as images when length not defined in metadata

[ux-git]

What happened?

When importing custom media (tried 5 different files), it's imported as images (?) with no pause, timeline and even timestamp on the thumbnail.

To Reproduce

Import a custom media and play it

What did you expect to happen?

To behave like every video used to

Version

v24.12.0

What platform are you seeing the problem on?

Windows

Relevant log output

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Screenshots

Additional context

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[sircharlo]

I just tried and it worked fine for me; what kind of files are you trying to import? (extension, origin, etc.)

[ux-git]

@sircharlo all of them were mp4 – from meeting recordings to other videos from the computer storage.

Restarting the app didn't help. I'll try to reproduce this more times to find any reasons that may cause the bug

[ux-git]

For now I can reproduce this weird behaviour only with videos recorded with OBS. Quite weird, and I see no reason, since it's just an mp4 file that has no other issues other than importing into M³.

Other long videos are imported with no issues, but the ones recorded in OBS not, neither older long ones nor freshly recorded short ones for testing purposes.

[mtdvlpr]

Could you share a demo video where this behavior happens?

[mtdvlpr]

@ux-git, could you share a video file that we can test ourselves? A video file that gets imported as image.

[mtdvlpr]

@ux-git, I found the issue and fixed it in 75e6ca5 :)

The video length is missing from the video metadata, which caused it to be treated as an image. If you add the video length manually, it will work in the current version and in the next release it will work even if the video length is missing.

Video is correctly added:

Video gets treated as image:

[ux-git]

Well done! Thanks for fixing!