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Currently it will step up quality if the conditions improve for a sustained amount of time (currently 120s). Since Emby serves single-rendition URLs the only way to switch quality mid stream is to release the player and request the new MaxStreamingBitrate. This results in a momentary stop in playback (1-3 seconds) which is tolerable when going from playback that is buffering and unplayable to something that is playable. Having a stop in playback to increase the quality might not be as tolerable to users. I have limited testing against very unreliable connections but they goal would be to only release the player and re-request if absolutely necessary. If the step up can not be reliably implemented without causing decision loops I may end up removing it.

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At 02:59:58, Emby starts the plugin task Refresh Recently Aired Episodes. Its EpMetaRefresh plugin then performs a broad metadata refresh because IncludeNoPrem is enabled. Between 03:00 and 03:02 alone, Emby generated: 644 metadata refreshes 642 ffprobe executions 3,063 subtitle-provider errors That is about 5.3 new ffprobe processes per second. The old 03:02 restart task then terminated Emby during the storm. It did not cause the storm, but it prevented proper completion and cleanup. Additional problems: EpMetaRefresh is an old version 1.0.0 from 2023. Its saved configuration says a two-day lookback, but the running task reported five days, suggesting it is not applying its settings reliably. The task is allowed to run for four hours. The plugin refresh also triggers large numbers of subtitle searches and errors.

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Isnt this fixed? Still same problem in 2026!!!

yep, CreateTitleFingerprint is the audio fingerprinting intro detection uses, so that's your 2 minutes. my guess on the manual vs automatic difference is that the manual run just had nothing new to fingerprint, since the scan only does that work for new or changed episodes. if you'd rather keep scans quick, check your TV library settings for the intro detection option and see if you can have it skip the library scan and just let the scheduled task handle it overnight instead. @marriedman on windows, powershell does the same thing as tail: Get-Content "C:\path\to\embyserver.txt" -Wait -Tail 50. swap in wherever your emby logs folder is and it'll stream new lines as they're written

embyserver.txt I snipped one of the errors, but here is the whole log

yeah working great here thannk you!

well done!! I love it

I have mine set to everything under Scheduled Tasks is off it still loads meta after each movie gets added but it don't wake you up from hard drives grinding at 4am scanning for subtitles. I have hard drives in the room behind the tv screwed to a sheet of plywood with a fan running can't see anything but the 100inch monitor / tv screen hanging on the wall and with settings off you can't hear nothing either. It use to scan for subtitles like crazy before shutting it all off.

How about the opposite?

Is the update coming for a stable release for the .0 designation so that it can be pulled by TrueNAS catalog? I thought this was agreed upon awhile ago in a another thread when it was discussed that a stable release would be numbered this way... Would very much like to update again.

Hi. This is a feature that exists across most of our apps. If it is not possible in the Apple TV app that is an app-specific issue so better tracked here. Thanks.

When I go back to theandroid app next and manage to generate the error I'll upload the logs. However as the issue only occurs when I use the android app and never happens when I use the Android TV app I understandably don't use it. When I last did use it and the above pictures were taken the logs showed the episode being played without transcoding, nothing more. When I swapped to the Android TV app and generated the second picture the logs showed exactly the same output, just that the app was a different one.

Does Windows have a comparable command to the Linux utility tail ? Someone on here told me about that and I use it ALL the time! Very informative.

Rather than using the Media3PlayerController.AnalyticsListener onBandwidthEstimate before playback, I included a background bandwidth probe that works like this: When the user has the app open but not is playing an item, it downloads a probe file from the Embrr-Helper plugin (GET Embrr/Clients/BandwidthProbe) every 60s. The dummy file size is configurable but by default it is representative of 3s of 1080p playback. I found this to be more reliable than using a server image Computes bits/sec, keeps a 3-sample sliding window, averages it into estimatedBitratebps. It runs immediately on app start and resume from background. It is paused during playback (so probe traffic doesn't compete with the stream); resumed on release. Reported to the server via a heartbeat (every 60s) as estimatedBitratebps in POST Embrr/Clients/Report. Sever admin's have the ability to view the client connection quality from the plugin dashboard. Ability to allow the server admin to manually set or override the client settings are planned. Surfaced in Settings as "Connection Quality: X Mbps". Is used to negotiate the quality setting before playback when Auto is selected. During playback the buffer headroom is monitored and if buffering events occur, the quality will step down to the next lowest level.

I just caught another automated one kicking off, and this one went way longer than my manual one. Not crazy long, but 3 minutes and 20 seconds compared to my manual run which took seconds. It sat on 53% for about two minutes alone. In the log at the moment was: fmpegManager: ProcessRun 'CreateTitleFingerprint' Process exited with code 0 It looks like in general it is going through the audio fingerprinting process, which is intro detection I believe? bkettering mentioned this could be the cause, but I did not think that was running since it is its own section in scheduled tasks (below), but it seems like the automated library scan includes this, and perhaps my manual one does not? That would explain the longer automated library scans if so.

Who are you paying? You only have the app? Emby is not a streaming service. Emby does not provide any content. You must create your own Emby server. Populate it with content. If another person created the server and you paid for access to it and now that is not working this is beyond our realm of being able to help. That person was breaking the Emby terms and conditions and illegally offering pirated material for you to stream for their financial benefit. Then eventually they cut you off. This is unfortunate but not something we condone. If instead you created your own Emby server with your own equipment and somehow all that content vanished we would help you because this would be something under your control where we can walk you through it. Please let us know if you own your server or the server belongs to someone else. Thanks.

Thanks, @ebrthis would make it a lot easier for my mum to use! ...and thanks for deleting my other (redundant) comment above.

Hello. Why was this moved out of "Feature Requests" forum? I already have a thread here on this topic, I want to ask it as a feature request.

Good to know, thanks. I did get comskip working with Unmanic and the data file Emby reads is created. I know this because when I have the show countdown/timer option selected I see that, but I can't actually skip the commercials automatically or manually. Any ideas? Thanks.

Hi. The logs have lots of information for us. Without that information, we have no idea what is happening.

Hi. There is currently no option for this but I'm surprised you think it is "blindingly bright". Does the normal OSD appear that way for you too?

I often find that auto skip intro cuts off parts of my shows. That's why I don't enable the automatic function. It would be great if users could tweak the timing of the skip function, similar to time offset for subtitles. If I have to watch an extra 2 second of intro music to not cut off 2 seconds of a show, I'd prefer that

Just FYI the Android TV app does this exact same process just before playback (if in Auto). It does not currently do it during playback at any sort of interval.