Question about DLNA media scan log files

[ikosheen]

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[RMerlin]

That depends on the nature of the corrupted file. Some damaged file might cause minidlna's scanner to flat out crash, or eat up all the available memory and crash the whole router.

I know minidlna can be run in debug mode where it logs files as it parses them. However it's been a few years since I've played with the minidlna code itself, so I don't remember how debug mode worked.

 

[RMerlin]

Thanks RMerlin,

I guess I will have to do it folder by folder and find the corrupt files.

There's one more thing, I read somewhere on these forums doing a CHKDSK /f might do a similar job fixing the corrupt files on the HDD, if I plug the HDD into a PC. I have a backup of these media files, I can afford to try it, sorry if this is a novice question, I'm not very technically inclined, just learning through these forums.

The corruption I'm talking about is at the codec level, not at the filesystem level. Videos that have a few corrupted bytes in them, or are truncated for example.