Add Videos from the Web to your Media Browser Server!
The latest update to Media Browser Chrome Companion includes the ability to add your favorite web videos to Media Browser. This new functionality requires that you have the Video Bookmarks plugin installed on your Media Browser server.
Navigate to the video source page (on Youtube, Vimeo, etc.). Click on the Chrome Companion plugin
Click the Find Videos tab (video icon on the bottom right).
Click the plus symbol.
Put in
A small maintenance release has gone out with a few bug fixes. Here are the highlights:
Don't use library monitor for internal server folders
Update music dlna views
Add additional error handling to internet metadata providers
Update subtitle downloader
Remove audio channel count from transcoding conditions in the web app
Fix saving person place of birth in metadata editor
Resolve playback failure in Chrome after pausing for several minutes
Add fixes for dvb format subtitles
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Emby for iOS 1.7 is currently rolling out. Here are the highlights:
Gapless audio playback, perfect for your Pink Floyd albums !
Improve orientation restoration after video playback
Improved support for DVB subtitles
Hi All,
We are making progress towards a 0.8.0 release of XBMB3C.
Added a new developer - im85288 who has been helping a lot with skin intergration.
Check out our progress:
A small maintenance update was pushed to resolve a few issues with the previous release:
Resolve IPv6 issue on BSD systems
Resolve holiday theme disrupting video playback
Resolve duplicate latest Live TV recordings section
To learn more about the previous release, we encourage you to read Emby Server 3.1: Faster and Lighter Than Ever Before.
Emby for iOS 1.9.9 has been released. Here are the highlights.
New Apple CarPlay Support
This is a treat for our Emby Premiere users. Now you can take advantage of Apple CarPlay while you're on the road.
Other Improvements
Improved HDR playback
Support in-app AV1 decoding
Added camera upload photo folder selection
Support playback speed and subtitle offset selection
Media Info display is now TV mode friendly
Brighter detail screen bac
When it comes to managing and streaming your personal media collection, Emby stands out as a favorite among home media enthusiasts. Whether you're a cord-cutter, a collector, or just someone who wants full control over your content, Emby delivers. But don’t just take our word for it — recently we took a look around the Emby Community Forums, Reddit, and other media server discussions to find out what users love most.
Here are the features Emby users say they can’t live without:
🧑💻 1.
Emby for iOS 2.0.3 has been released. Here are the highlights:
Improved CarPlay browsing
Fix duplicate devices displayed in Emby Server activity
Various subtitle fixes
Add support for multi-select filtering
Fix genre screen occasionally being empty depending on where you came from
Restore death date on person detail screen
Improve dynamic data refreshing on detail screen
Add home videos landing screen option
A new update to the Android TV app is on its way to both the Google and Amazon stores and should hit a device near you soon.
Lots of things have been tidied up in this release including:
Enhanced SSL support
if you have a setup with a trusted certificate or you have enabled your self-signed one on your Andriod TV device, you should now be able to use these apps with your secured (https) servers including playback through the various players.
Video Playlists and a new Video Queue
Version 1.5.1 is currently rolling out. Here are the highlights:
New Video Player
The app can now direct play quite a few formats thanks to the new video player. This results in less transcoding on your Emby Server and a better playback experience.
Wake On Lan
The app can now send wake on lan signals to your Emby Server. To send a wake on lan signal, select the "Wake Server" option on the app's server connection screen.
Other Improvements
Add photo albums to search results
A small update to the previous release has gone out. The following issues are resolved:
Explicitly define SchedulesDirect request dates
Reduce CPU utilization by reducing frequency of image encoding
Adjust subtitle positions in web client when OSD is showing (supported in Chrome only)
Remove yellow backgrounds from login screens in Chrome
Improve upgrade process from older server versions
Enjoy
Emby for Amazon Alexa has been updated with the following improvements:
Improved audio playback including artwork, metadata and media playlist control
More voice training data added with better, more informative error responses
As many of you know we are working hard to localize Media Browser so that it can be displayed in your native language.
Many have volunteered to help translate and we thank you for that. If you'd like to see Media Browser in your language, please drop us a line and we'll set you up to help translate.
We announced a while back that Emby for WMC would not continue to be supported beyond server version 4.6. With the release of 4.7 getting closer, we just wanted to issue a gentle reminder.
A new version of Emby Server is now rolling out and includes a number of new features, performance improvements and bug fixes. Here's what's new.
New Xml TV Support !
We now have an additional option for guide data, XmlTV! Setting it up is easy, just add an xml tv guide data source:
Then all you have to do is enter a file path or URL to your XmlTV data, and you're done!
Important: This feature is free to all users to import 24 hours of data at a time. Unlimited data req
The Infrastructure Release
That's probably the best way to describe this as it brings a lot of improvements to existing features. Let's jump right into the highlights:
New text subtitle delivery system
New metadata refresh options
DLNA Improvements
New Channels
New Channel Improvements
Unified web interface
New Text Subtitle Delivery System
The server now has the ability to deliver text subtitles directly to the client, thereby eliminating the need to "burn them in
nuVue is pleased to announce support for Media Browser
https://play.google....ignstudio.nuvue
nuVue is a companion app for Media Browser users that displays rich notifications when new items are added. There is nothing additional to install on your Media Browser server. Just sign in with your credentials and nuVue does the rest.
Know when there is something new to watch without opening a client app
Perfect for cord-cutters who use automated downloads
Group notifications and listi
Emby Server 4.7.5 - Point Release: Round 4 Fixes
This is the latest point release of Emby Server containing fixes for identified issues.
Fix a/v sync regressions with live tv and recordings
Fix web app subtitle sizes being too small
Various fixes with new table view feature
In Depth Coverage of new Table View Feature
Original Blog posts for the 4.7 release:
Emby Server 4.7 Release: Many New Features, Improvements and Fixes
Emby Server 4.7.1 - Poi
The long-anticipated arrival of music support in the Fire TV/Android TV apps is here!
Coming very soon to your Fire and Android TV devices - full support of music functionality with a fast, intuitive and beautiful interface to all your Emby audio.
Features include:
Smart-screen interface with latest albums, last played, favorites, playlists etc.
Two grid-views - browse albums or album artists
Full audio queuing capabilities from within all asp
Installation
Users in the USA or UK with a Samsung Smart TV can install now from the Samsung App Store.
A Modern App for Modern Times
The interface for this app has been built with HTML, but this is nothing like the web apps you're accustomed to. This has been built purely with modern features that bring a level of performance that wasn't even possible a year ago at this time. For the nerds out there, that means WebAnimations, WebComponents, Service Workers, Polymer, and on and on.
The beta version of Emby for Android TV has been updated with a plethora of new Live TV and video playback features. This is still a beta and is not yet production quality, but if you'd like try out the new features and help us refine them, then read on below.
Highlights
Seek Live TV
Start recording during Live TV playback
Switch quality on the fly
Switch frame rates on the fly
Zoom (only with internal player) - this just moves this option from its own icon to this menu
Audio Del
While we wait for our new public channel to be approved, the private beta channel has been updated.
https://owner.roku.c...ediaBrowserBeta
It updates the application to the server's new security standards and adds a new setting to hide the clock from the home screen.
Instructions for Now TV users can be found here:
http://mediabrowser....wser-on-now-tv/
Remember this is the only Roku Channel that officially represents the Media Browser project.
1.0.25 is now available in the Samsung App Store and includes the following updates:
Improve automatic bitrate detection within local networks
Improve navigation performance
Installation
Users in the USA with a 2015-2016 Samsung Smart TV can install now from the Samsung App Store. If you're outside the USA, stay tuned for further announcements, and see here for a temporary workaround:
https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/45404-how-to-install-the-official-emby
Emby Server and Emby Theater Now Available as Snap Packages
We are proud to announce that Emby Server as well as our Premiere client Emby Theater, are now available as Snap Packages for Linux distributions. This makes installing Emby a snap.
What are Snaps?
Snaps are a type of secure containerized applications that work on any Linux distribution using systemd.
Snaps are multi-platform, dependency-free applications that are easy to install. One of the biggest advantages of snap
We're back with a small follow-up to our previous release in which we introduced Media Browser Connect. For those who have not seen that yet, you can catch up here:
http://mediabrowser.tv/community/index.php?/blog/1/entry-130-media-browser-server-305416-beta-released/
New Server Releases
As many of you know, we've worked hard to get the server released onto new platforms. Over the past two weeks we've had several releases, with more soon to follow.
ArchLinux: http://mediabrows
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