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I wouldn't say fast. I'll time it later today for you.

Enjoy dinner. Two answers waiting for you. The 15: neither of your guesses, and I had to go and count. That library has 45 series and 903 episodes in it, so it isn't a toy server, and there's no window of my own in there — I ask for the newest N and take what comes back. Grouped, it hands me 15 series. Ungrouped, asking for 128 hands me 128 episodes belonging to six series, 75 of them one sitcom. That's the whole of it: the row shows series, and a big batch of one show collapses into a single card. So yours filling up means you've genuinely added things across more than 128 different series. Mine hasn't. Sorting: two options, same as before — I changed what one of them asks for, not how many there are. But your question caught something better than that. The first pill was labelled "Number" whenever your channels had numbers, and that label was honest right up until I changed the sort: back then I asked for nothing, what came back was number order, and calling it anything else would have hidden the one thing you recognise. Now that I actually ask for the list order, "Number" was describing something the app no longer does — in two places, including the line above the list. Both say list order now. Nobody inside the code noticed that; you did, from the outside, without having seen any of it. A third option is a fair thought. The pill is a two-value switch by design, so a third one means a picker, and I'd rather know first whether anyone actually wants number order — you clearly don't. If someone does, say so here and it stops being a guess.

I guess with my 128, it just shows the latest 128 items added. There doesn't seem to be a time limit. 128 can go back pretty far. Am just wondering if your 15 is what you consider to be, or have set as somehow, new stuff, or whether you've got a test server going with 15 series in total in that test server....if it really matters. The channel order thing you fixed, just wondering, did you replace the existing way or add a new way i.e. are there still two sorting options or now 3 (extra might be useful for others...). Anyway, dinner...

Is this implemented in 4.10.0.30? Just to be sure to test the right thins

You're not the one being slow here — I gave you a number without saying what it was a number of. Yes: a new episode shows up as its series, one card per series, not one per episode. What I should have said is that the 15 was my library, not a limit. I have 15 series with anything new in them, so mine stops at 15 whatever I ask for; you have more than 128, so yours fills up. Nothing to fix, and sorry for the confusion. Back landing: that's much more useful than what I had. The grid does put you back on the poster you left from, so the library is doing its job — it's the home screen that isn't, on the way back to it. That's a far smaller thing to go looking for than what I was imagining, so thank you. Channel order: you found the thing I hadn't, and it turns out I'd told you something worse than wrong — I'd told you something that sounded right. I said I don't ask for any sort, so you get that endpoint's default. True. What I never checked is what that default is, and it's channel number. So "not asking" was never neutral: it was asking for precisely the order you don't want, which is your 1,2,3,3,4,4 with both tuners numbering from 1. It's fixed. I now ask for the tuner's own list order — the one your dashboard shows and the one the other app calls default channel order. Written and tested against both servers; no date from me. And one thing worth passing on, since you went and looked it up for me: the value that sounds like the right one to send is called "Default", and on Emby it answers 500 and takes the whole channel list down with it. Two others do the same. I only know because I tried all thirty instead of picking the one that read best, which I had very nearly done. And the numbers column: your "a lot more numberless iptv than numbered dvb-s" confirms it. The column hides itself when most of the list has no number, so you were left sorted by something you couldn't see. Two things to fix there, then, and they're the same trip. The two highlights: those steps are enough to chase it. That one only shows itself on a TV, so it goes on the list I keep for when I'm in front of one.

I'm not, as you might have noticed, too bright. so I'm still not getting the TV Series thing. Are you saying when something is added under Lastest TV Series, its actually adding its included episodes as well, so it adds up to a lot of items ? Otherwise, I'll just say I have 128 for TV Series as well as movies (and documentaries) and it works just fine. Back landing - go to Movies (or...). Pick a Movie, go to details, press back, its back to the right poster, click back again, its back to top left highlight Play button. Looking in the Emby Apple TV app, it says channel sorting is by default channel order, not channel number, and it shows dvb-s ch no's 1,2,3,4,5 not 1,2,3,3,4,4 as Atrium does (I only have channels 1 and 2 in dvb-s). I do have a lot more numberless iptv channels than numbered dvb-s ones, hence... Haven't quite got the two thumbs being highlighted yet, but its something to do with - be on Movies (say), go down to first recently added to Movies item, back up again, down and across to a different one, go up, it briefly highlights/goes to the one above, say TV Series them back to highlight just Movies again.

Correction to what I told you, and the sooner the better: I sent you to check the wrong setting, and it can't have been that. The button is behind the same autoplay switch the card is, so with autoplay off you wouldn't have seen a button at all. You saw one — so that wasn't it, and sorry for the detour. What it actually was is in your own description: "after a few seconds". The button used to give up 30 seconds before the end of the episode, because that's where tvOS's own card is meant to come in. When the credits mark lands only a little before that — which is common, plenty of shows have short credits — you get a button that appears and then leaves while you're reaching for it. Nothing you did brought it back because by then it no longer existed. It now stays until the episode ends. In those last 30 seconds you may see both it and the system's card; they do the same thing, and I'd rather offer it twice than take it away mid-reach. It's written and tested — no date from me. One thing I'd still like to know, if you remember: when the button went, did the system's own next-episode card turn up in its place, or was there nothing at all? That one's a different problem and I'd rather know than assume.

Hi, on windows I would suggest grabbing the portable download from our website. this will bypass the installer altogether: https://emby.media/windows-server.html I would not try Docker on windows because we have not tested that at all.

Legend!

That isn't meant to happen, and I think I know why. The button lives between the credits mark and the last 30 seconds of the episode. It stops there deliberately: that's where tvOS's own next-episode card is supposed to take over, and having both at once would be offering you the same thing twice. But the card only appears if autoplay next episode is switched on — and the button doesn't know that. So with autoplay off, the button goes away and nothing replaces it, which is exactly what you're describing. Could you check that setting for me? If it's off, that's the bug, and the fix is the obvious one: when there's going to be no card, there's no reason to stop the button early. If it's on, then your episode's credits mark just lands a few seconds before the handover, and my question becomes whether the card turned up at all. Skip intro works from a different mark, with an end to its window, so it shouldn't behave this way — but if you ever see it vanish the same way, that's worth knowing.

@arrbee99 Morning there, evening here — and you've answered both of my questions, so this one is mostly answers back. Latest rows: you were right, and it's going up. I measured each library first — a movie library gave 16 cards when I asked for 16, and 128 when I asked for 128, in 0.08 seconds. So there was never a ceiling I was working around: just a number I picked when I built the screen and never checked against a real library. You're the second person to report that same number, which is usually the point at which it stops being a coincidence. One row won't change, and I'd rather say so than have you wonder: a TV library groups new episodes under their series, so what you get is one card per series with something new, however high the limit goes. Here that was 15 either way. Movies and music are the ones that grow. Back landing: that pins it. The screen's own default focus is Continue Watching, so if that were winning you'd land there instead — landing on the billboard's play button means the focus is being dropped on the way back and the remote picks the top-left thing it can find. One thing I still need, because it's a different fix either way: from a library, does back put you in the grid but on the wrong item, or does it take you out to the home screen entirely? Tags: this is the useful one. The app never asks the server for tags at all — I request the programme description and nothing else, so those dvb-s tags never reach me. That's a one-line change at my end, and it's presumably the same route the app you're comparing against is taking. My own tuner is an M3U list with nothing tagged on it, so yours are the only tagged channels I have any way to test against. Channel order: no, it isn't the dashboard order, and it never has been. I don't ask for any sort, so what you get is that endpoint's own default — and two channel 3s next to each other says that default is by number, with both tuners mixed together. As for the number not being shown: the column only appears when most of the list has one. Your dvb-s channels have numbers and your iptv ones don't, so if the iptv side is the bigger half, the column hides itself and you're left sorted by something invisible. Roughly how many of each do you have? Genres and actor bios: nothing to do with the shape of your images. The app doesn't ask for genre images at all, and doesn't show a biography on a person's page — neither is built yet. Worth saying plainly so you don't go re-cropping anything. The alphabet strip I'll have to judge on the TV rather than from here, so it goes on that list. And if two thumbnails light up together again, tell me what you were pressing.

Hi, can you give it another try?

You can do episode level extras by naming them in a similar fashion to extras for movies.

Hi, have you tried with the latest update to the Emby Android app? What version number are you on now?

OK i mean yes we can adjust, but have you tried asking them why they don't use icon like everyone else?

Like this I'll have to check. Originally we were limited as to how many buttons we can fit on this row, but I think I've changed things since then so it might fit now.

@Sean429 I had similar experience with the Google 4K Streamer but with 4K Dolby Vision mkv files. I could only reproduce the issue on the Google Device

10 clicks and if i have just watched something so am on the video screen, still 14. Can you add a delete button to the menu perhaps between Favourite and More.

Have you tried a long press directly on a movie from the library?

This is an external EPG provider, I do not have control on the XML

@vdatanet So tonight I noticed a new thing with the App. When the end credits started and the next episode button popped up, I didn't get a chance to select it right away and it went away after a few seconds. When I hit the up button on my remote to bring back the timeline the button was still gone and I couldn't get it to come back. Is there a way to make it persistent? I am not sure if the skip intro button is doing the same thing because the show I was watching doesn't have an intro.

Try adding type=poster to the image node

Your post makes me want to look for an android tv os with latest version of android and install on a mini pc, something without an android emulator. Even half tempted to play around with this https://plasma-bigscreen.org/ just to see how close to an android tv os I can get it to look.

Here’s an example of an XML that contains only the <image> element, but the image is not displayed as either the poster or the backdrop. <programme start="20260903000000 +0000" stop="20260903013500 +0000" channel="OSNMoviesPremiere.ae@SD"><title lang="en">Black Bag</title><desc lang="en">When intelligence agent Kathryn Woodhouse is suspected of betraying the nation, her husband, also a legendary agent, faces the ultimate test of whether to be loyal to his marriage, or his country.</desc><date>20250101</date><category lang="en">Drama</category><category lang="en">Thriller</category><image>https://osn-artwork.anghcdn.co/program_landscape_tt_LIN-PR692804/2b4354db49a0a911bb32a48b12b88b5c.jpg</image></programme>

I was puzzled by this thread but now my Android devices finally updated to 3.5.55, and this new notification "connecting to server" is confusing and unneeded. @Luke could you lengthen the time before it pops up, for those of us who don't have big delays reaching our server?