taglib questions - 2.3.0

Uwe Dippel udippel at gmail.com
Thu Jun 25 20:22:04 BST 2026


Dear all,

I hope to have hit the correct address for two questions / qualms that I
have with taglib, as a user in this case, not a developer?

To simplify things, here my two topics w.r.t. indexing my video (movie)
collection of several thousand files with gerbera, that had never bugged me
over the earlier years/versions with this collection:

1. There is an old file (2008), .mkv, that went through indexing a dozen
times over the years, but recently it crashes taglib/gerbera, without any
trace that I could provide.

2. Similar, with the version of taglib as in the subject, taglib informs
about "TagLibHandler [...] does not appear to be a valid xyz file". This
occurs for several dozen video files of different format; and had never
been seen earlier.
Using ffprobe, all those that I checked (they play perfectly well, despite
the message), all indicate some "Cannot find an index entry before
timestamp: 512", never observed earlier.

Sorry, but I don't have a development environment to do more than described
in https://github.com/gerbera/gerbera/issues/3888

And my excuses, if this wasn't the correct address to send my concerns.
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