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Please see attached logs. In this case I played a movie for about a minute before stopping playback. I did this to try and capture logs for reporting here. Earlier in the evening I was watching something else and the Emby Dashboard Activity reported a start / stop of playback immediately even though I watched the entire episode (~54 minutes). As shown in the Emby Server logs Emby sees playback progress reporting stop nearly immediately: 2026-08-21 00:46:47.256 Info SessionManager: Playback start reported by app Emby for Kodi Next Gen 11.1.27 on CoreELEC Living Room playing Spider-Man: Far From Home. Position: 3646972 ms. PlaySessionId: 4eae90f67af340c6a28928c39583008c. IsPaused: False 2026-08-21 00:46:47.259 Info PlaystateService-0HNNRKFM96BMS:00000006: http/1.1 Response 204 to host2. Time: 5ms. POST http://host3:8096/Sessions/Playing. 2026-08-21 00:46:47.265 Info PlaystateService-0HNNRKFM96BMS:00000007: http/1.1 POST http://host3:8096/Sessions/Playing/Stopped. Source Ip: host2, UserAgent: Emby for Kodi Next Gen/11.1.27 2026-08-21 00:46:47.265 Info VideoService-0HNNRKFM96BN0:00000001: http/1.1 GET http://host3:8096//emby/videos/893207/stream?static=true&MediaSourceId=mediasource_893207&PlaySessionId=156f0acd1d034b9dac088e413a0f055a&DeviceId=d63eb230-9e99-46e8-9e2b-7295a6be2daf&api_key=x_secret6_x. Source Ip: host2, Accept=*/*, Host=host3:8096, User-Agent=Kodi/21.3-p3i (X11; Linux aarch64) CoreELEC/21.3 App_Bitness/32 Version/21.3-p3i-(21.3.0)-Git:aml-4.9-21.3, Accept-Charset=UTF-8,*;q=0.8, Accept-Encoding=deflate, gzip, Range=bytes=0- 2026-08-21 00:46:47.266 Info SessionManager: Playback stopped reported by app Emby for Kodi Next Gen 11.1.27 on CoreELEC Living Room playing Spider-Man: Far From Home. Position: 3646972 ms. PlaySessionId: 4eae90f67af340c6a28928c39583008c. IsPaused: False 2026-08-21 00:46:47.267 Info SessionManager: Removed playSession 4eae90f67af340c6a28928c39583008c from session e9eda925c5d54626f7338ba3faec2337 2026-08-21 00:46:47.268 Info PlaystateService-0HNNRKFM96BMS:00000007: http/1.1 Response 204 to host2. Time: 3ms. POST http://host3:8096/Sessions/Playing/Stopped. The Kodi logs show the item playing for more than a minute. 2026-08-20 20:46:45.562 T:3957 info <general>: EMBY.hooks.player: [ onPlay ] 2026-08-20 20:46:45.652 T:4062 info <general>: EMBY.helper.playerops: [ SetSubtitle ] True 2026-08-20 20:46:45.702 T:3957 info <general>: EMBY.hooks.player: [ onPlay ] 2026-08-20 20:46:46.203 T:3957 info <general>: EMBY.hooks.player: [ onAVChange ] 2026-08-20 20:46:46.512 T:3957 info <general>: EMBY.hooks.player: [ onAVChange ] 2026-08-20 20:46:47.219 T:3957 info <general>: EMBY.hooks.player: [ onAVChange ] 2026-08-20 20:46:47.219 T:3957 info <general>: EMBY.hooks.player: --> [ onAVStarted ] 2026-08-20 20:46:47.228 T:3957 info <general>: EMBY.helper.playerops: [ GetPlayerInfo ] 2026-08-20 20:46:47.228 T:3957 info <general>: EMBY.hooks.player: [ Queue playing item ] 2026-08-20 20:46:47.250 T:3957 info <general>: EMBY.hooks.player: --< [ onAVStarted ] 2026-08-20 20:46:47.250 T:3957 info <general>: EMBY.hooks.player: [ onPlay ] 2026-08-20 20:46:47.251 T:3957 info <general>: EMBY.hooks.player: [ Playback was not stopped ] 2026-08-20 20:46:47.311 T:4091 info <general>: EMBY.helper.playerops: [ SetSubtitle ] True 2026-08-20 20:46:47.770 T:4015 info <general>: EMBY.hooks.websocket: [ UserDataChanged ] [{'PlayedPercentage': 46.974270859563624, 'PlaybackPositionTicks': 36469720000, 'PlayCount': 11, 'IsFavorite': False, 'LastPlayedDate': '2026-08-21T00:46:47.0000000Z', 'Played': True, 'ItemId': '893207'}] 2026-08-20 20:46:47.773 T:4015 info <general>: EMBY.hooks.websocket: UserDataChanged skip by ItemSkipUpdate / Id: 893207 / ItemSkipUpdate: ['893207', 'KODI893207', '893207'] 2026-08-20 20:46:49.305 T:3957 info <general>: EMBY.hooks.player: [ onAVChange ] 2026-08-20 20:47:26.958 T:4108 info <general>: EMBY.hooks.monitor: VideoLibrary_OnUpdate process item: {"item":{"id":187,"type":"movie"}} 2026-08-20 20:47:26.968 T:4108 info <general>: EMBY.hooks.monitor: VideoLibrary_OnUpdate process item: {"id":187,"type":"movie"} 2026-08-20 20:47:26.968 T:4108 info <general>: EMBY.hooks.monitor: VideoLibrary_OnUpdate skip reset progress (ItemSkipUpdate) 893207 2026-08-20 20:47:26.969 T:4108 info <general>: EMBY.hooks.monitor: VideoLibrary_OnUpdate ItemSkipUpdate: ['893207'] 2026-08-20 20:47:27.251 T:3957 info <general>: EMBY.hooks.player: [ onPlayBackStopped ] kodi.log embyserver.txt

I had to recreate some of the playlist and now it stops the playlist whenever I ask it next song. I noticed that in the "\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\programdata\data\userplaylists" that some of the playlist had "Party [playlist] - 1" in the folder names with the original not with the " - 1" in the folder name where the playlist was pointing to the m3u file. I was able to get it working again by disabling and reenabling the Alexa Emby skill. Hopefully this helps someone with the same issue.

@LukeIs there a reason as to why Emby currently doesn't support this?

Will there be the ability to control favorites as above? What’s the timeline?

Why are you attempting to install Emby Server on a phone. It is not designed to run from a phone..

You're paying for a private, PIRATE server that is against the TOS for Emby. No one will help you.

uh what? You aren't being silly and thinking of running an Emby server off your phone, are you? You've given the community basically nothing to work with as your space and ram mean nothing if the processor in your device is a potato.

26.0.12 is the final call. New user functional change is complete.

It is amazing that the other software can do adaptive streaming. It is pretty new but still. At least we have adaptive streaming somewhere. Testing it now.

Yea that’s essentially the charge user function now

As more features have been added i have had to change the arguments sent to FFmpeg and the fix could get lost with that. It should be fixed now and works in my testing as it was just reverting/copying from the old version. It will be added in the catalog as beta version 2.7.0.8 in a minute. Please report back if it fixed the problem.

Yes, I just noticed that. I also noticed when highlighting my username, which shows (Change User), and selecting it brings up the original pulldown menu. Is this the new intended menu design? Select User Icon (upper left corner) Select Username (when highlighted shows Change User) Drop down menu (slides in from left side) App Settings Manage Emby Server Change Server Change User Sign Out Exit Sleep Shutdown Select Server name (when highlighted shows Change Server) Goto Select Server screen Select Settings (when highlighted shows Emby Theater <version>) Goto Settings screen ...

Very insightful

You can change server by clicking on your server name.

Read the link Luke posted... Try a download then post your server log here so that the devs can try to see what's gone wrong. Paul

I see update 26.0.12 which now brings up this menu when the "User" icon is selected, just like the left arrow menu. It still lacks all the options the previous drop menu provided, like "Change Server". To Change Server I have to go to the exit menu. And yes, this is Emby Theater 3.0.20/21 the legacy version.

2.4.8 Core UI update only Core UI Changes from 26.0.4 to 26.0.12 Improve loading dialog Move user icon to top left in tv display mode Fix positioning of video OSD brightness slider Show live tv guide filters in tv display mode Fix alignment of live tv guide time indicator Support swipe left and right gestures on now playing bar to advance tracks Fixes related to position of center play/pause buttons in mobile layouts Fix display of recording start time when pre-padding is applied Fix missing episodes dialog filters not working Fix tv season screen not showing episode overviews Update bottom tab and now playing bar design Improve spotlight display

Emby for Samsung TV 2.4.8 Released Download Emby for Samsung TV Changes 2.4.8 Core UI update only Core UI Changes from 26.0.4 to 26.0.12 Improve loading dialog Move user icon to top left in tv display mode Fix positioning of video OSD brightness slider Show live tv guide filters in tv display mode Fix alignment of live tv guide time indicator Support swipe left and right gestures on now playing bar to advance tracks Fixes related to position of center play/pause buttons in mobile layouts Fix display of recording start time when pre-padding is applied Fix missing episodes dialog filters not working Fix tv season screen not showing episode overviews Update bottom tab and now playing bar design Improve spotlight display

SMB problems occured in the first version then has been fixed, and is no longer working after 2.4.7. So, one days it worked Thanks for your investigation.

Looking in the logs, it might be because you are using SMB shares for your videos. Will look into it right away.

Same result with Hardware detection disabled. 2026-08-20 23:41:16.204] [DEBUG] [DetectionCoordinator] Running OCR Detection... [2026-08-20 23:41:16.236] [DEBUG] [OCR Detection] FFmpeg disk pipeline stderr: ffmpeg version 5.1-emby_2023_06_25_p6 Copyright (c) 2000-2022 the FFmpeg developers and softworkz for Emby LLC built with gcc 13.4.0 (crosstool-NG 1.28.0) Execution Date: 2026-08-20 23:41:16 smb://192.168.1.11/NAS001_6/Séries/Loki/Loki - 01x01 - FHD.mkv: Protocol not found Did you mean file:smb://192.168.1.11/NAS001_6/Séries/Loki/Loki - 01x01 - FHD.mkv? EXIT [2026-08-20 23:41:16.252] [ERROR] [OCR Detection] FFmpeg frame extraction failed with exit code 1 [2026-08-20 23:41:16.252] [ERROR] [OCR Detection] FFmpeg error output: ffmpeg version 5.1-emby_2023_06_25_p6 Copyright (c) 2000-2022 the FFmpeg developers and softworkz for Emby LLC built with gcc 13.4.0 (crosstool-NG 1.28.0) Execution Date: 2026-08-20 23:41:16 smb://192.168.1.11/NAS001_6/Séries/Loki/Loki - 01x01 - FHD.mkv: Protocol not found Did you mean file:smb://192.168.1.11/NAS001_6/Séries/Loki/Loki - 01x01 - FHD.mkv? EXIT [2026-08-20 23:41:16.252] [DEBUG] [DetectionCoordinator] OCR Detection failed: FFmpeg frame credits-detection-debug-2026-08-20T21-41-20.log

Hi, right we don't know these for collections given that you can add just about anything to one. that makes it a little harder to figure out what the runtime would actually be.

Try turning off hardware acceleration in the settings.

3.5.46 Core UI Update Only Core UI Changes from 26.0.10 to 26.0.12 Improve loading dialog Move user icon to top left in tv display mode

Emby for Android 3.5.46 Released Changes 3.5.46 Core UI Update Only Core UI Changes from 26.0.10 to 26.0.12 Improve loading dialog Move user icon to top left in tv display mode