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As always this is dependant on the copyright laws in your own country but generally scraping private information, copyrighted material, or bypassing security walls is illegal. What is considered copyrighted material can be subjective but the safest and most conservative rule is that if the data owner does not provide a public API to access the data it should be considered private or subject to copyright. Using this information for personal use tends to be a grey area. You copying and pasting a movie rating or synopsis from IMDB into your Emby isn't going to result in a copyright lawsuit. The main reason being that you are still manually visiting the page, viewing advertisements, and providing them will all your data and metrics to harvest. You get the information you want, the service gets your information, and the transaction is a wash. When things start to get less grey is when you automate this process using Python or some other web-crawling mechanism. Now you are receiving the information without physically viewing the ads or providing meaningful usage behavior in return. If you make this scrapping available to others, say through an app or plugin, you are now facilitating the bypassing of the data owners value to make the information available on a much larger scale. There is now a target on you or your app which could mean having your app pulled from app stores or possibly litigation. My understanding is that these providers do not offer a public API but do offer a paid API. In this case it is not grey at all. Free to view and free to use are not the same.

hello, i use the 4.9.5.0 version.

@Luke - what do you put in here please Luke, there is no mention of this in the guide?

It can be used to stream raw video streams, so you have to have urls for that. It's not going to extract videos from web pages.

Hi, you don't have what exactly?

Ok but...what does that have to do with waiting 6 years for this to be added?

I agree with everything you say here. Even so this is a good opportunity to say to everyone - BACKUP YOUR LIBRARY - from hard won experience. -HS

See attached. ffmpeg-remux-13cae961-dbcf-4e2b-9466-86625b7b3bb5_1.txt embyserver.txt

Well here it is 2026 and we still don't have this I mean I don't know what logic it is to if you delete the tuner and all of the weeks for the guide data it is so hard to have a script remove that directory because obviously it's not needed or not correct anymore otherwise I figured out myself but it would break on the next update

Hi Luke, thank you for the information. I will follow the guide and report back.

Direct play works with MP4 — that's not the issue. The native Apple player will happily take an MP4 with HEVC Main 10 + AC-3 straight off the server. What it won't do is keep the buffer fed. Measured on an Apple TV 4K, same box, same LAN, same files, with an on-screen buffer readout: 67 Mbps remux, direct: buffer starts around 10 s, drains to 1–2 s, never recovers — stalls for good. 15 Mbps file, direct: 5 s after a minute, 1 s after two, but it claws its way back. Either of them over HLS: 50–60 s of buffer, steady for the whole film. The bleed is proportional, not a threshold: ~92% of what playback consumes, so ~5 s of buffer lost per minute played. The bitrate only decides how long you've got before you hit zero — no safe "max direct play bitrate", just a slower death. Not decoding, not the network (a Mac direct-plays the same files over the same LAN with 32–52 s and no stalls). Specific to AVFoundation's progressive path on tvOS. So, you've put a lot of work into choosing the best player, but without support for HLS with fMP4 this work is not enough.

Please let us know which steps succeed and which ones do not, and then we'll take it from there. Thanks.

Respectfully, since 2.0.7 the Auto setting appears to have failed me regularly, and frequently. The very same file that I played under 2.0.6 without any Audio sync/loss issues, has repeatedly and randomly lost audio playback while continuing to keep video and subtitles in sync. It's not any one movie but happened across most of my library. Only on the Apple TV Client. The very same movies play back flawlessly in Plex, Infuse, and off the Emby Web Client, Mac Client, and Android Clients. When I did my stress test a little while ago (Player set to MVP), not a single client showed the audio loss. I have even played these files back through iTunes sharing without issue. I am happy to help and provide any details info I can. I already submitted logs in the Apple TV 2.0.7 thread, but haven't heard anything back.

Hi, yes the user tdriver at one point wrote a guide:

I would leave it on auto. We've put a lot of work into choosing the best player depending on the situation.

It's delayed by 600ms. So one second after that means it took 1.6 seconds to connect. That is long enough that if you don't put up some kind of feedback it will have users mashing and clicking things a second time.

folder sync to the rescue.

THANK YOU!!!! I'll set to MPV, unless I find something (Either DB Vision or HDR) that annoys me to the point I change it for that session! One of the best explanations and responses I've seen in a while. KUDOs! I have no MKV, I make it a habit to re-encode any MKV to a lower resolution H.265 (HEVC). I keep my server and content optimized for remote playback. I've found video upscaling on modern hardware devices more than makes up for it. I have a Laser 4K Projector that plays 720P beautifully, and I've never heard a complaint on resolution or color. I did a stress test after your response on a bunch of 4K content to 5 AppleTVs (simultaneously ) with the player set to MPV, all showed direct play on the Dashboard. No issues.... Happy!

There should be an ffmpeg log that goes with that playback. Can you provide that? Don't know why you aren't hearing audio. Its being converted to DD+ which your system reports support for and I see no errors.

@LukeOk thanks, I will keep that in mind

Any progress on this one?

Mine neither, which is why I think it shouldn't even pop up for several seconds after which it determines the connection is slow. Even a 5 second delay would mean I would never see it.

Im hoping for Smart playlists that are live lists (live updating)

Emby for Android TV Version: 2.1.55g registered User 'TestAdmin' 'Dark Matter' S2E13 is the first icon in 'Continue Watching' Get MediaInfo report on file: Dark Matter - S01E13 - Episode Thirteen.mkv Matroska: 4.05 GiB, 43 min 6 s Title: Dark Matter S01E13 Episode Thirteen 1080p Blu-ray 10Bit TrueHD5.1 HEVC-d3g 1 video stream: HEVC Encoded date: 2022-11-09 09:36:45 UTC 1 audio stream: MLP FBA Writing application: DVDFab 12.0.9.1 1 text stream: PGS Writing library: libebml v1.4.2 + libmatroska v1.6.3 First video stream 11.4 Mb/s, 1920*1080 (16:9), at 23.976 (24000/1001_FPS, HEVC (Main 10@L4@High) First audio stream English, 1 969 kb/s, 48.0 kHz, 6 channels, MLP FBA (Dolby TrueHD) Select episode Hit 'Play' Episode begins, video is perfect, no audio Hit Pause Select disc Down, note 'CC (off)' and 'Direct' are showing Back out of episode twice Logs sent 8:43AM Pacific time 8/19/26