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Is this the beta for server or the Windows App? I can't figure out how to get the beta for the Windows App. None of the beta links to the Window store work. And I can't find the 'beta portal' to join.

The Roku will start blinking the white status light when it has no internet. At that same time any app launched that has any internet functionality (such as trailers, and some plugins on Emby) then it will also trigger a warning that the app might require internet. You can choose "launch anyways" and it will launch Emby anyways without internet. Then once you start to play an item the Roku will send video start/stop beacons over the internet indicating how long it takes the app to start playback and the URL playback is coming from. Without internet these beacons being sent may cause slight delays before playback begins. The URL they see from your Emby server is an internal URL with an ID playing stream.mkv or similar. They do not see the filenames, paths, mounts, anything else. The reason Roku does these beacons is to BAN any apps playing from blacklisted URL's. It isn't meant for Emby servers. It is meant to stop someone creating an app that steals content from a CDN. They would know you are. They would BAN that app and block that app from being installed on any Roku. Remove the app from any Roku that previously installed it. Any user having that app installed would have developer mode removed from their Roku to prevent them from being the one that made the app from doing it again with that Roku device. It blocks your entire developer account and all your Rokus serial numbers attached to it. They would have to create a new account and buy new Rokus to ever develop on Roku again. So at the start of any playback Roku is sending these beacons. They also send them whenever media stops playing. To keep metrics for how long each streaming app keeps their users inside the video player. Roku keeps track of total streaming hours for each app. Then you can see how popular everything is based on that metric. That is how their store works. So everything they are doing is to protect their store. I assume the same happens with Amazon. The Amazon fire sends beacons to track playback/URLs to ban infringing apps. You must send these beacons or they will BAN your app. This is completely normal since they own the store they make the rules. Since everything on Emby originates from your Emby server and nothing is played directly from online URLs this both protects you and Emby from infringing store policies.

Still not fixed, it’s been almost 6 months since this was broken…

I think we paying customers need to have a serious word with the Emby devs about progress

Has it really been six years?

I would love this

Should bring this back. Ironically its removal has rendered the setting as “bloat” now since it basically does nothing (certainly doesn’t do what you would expect, based on the option’s description!).

Ok, thanks for the info! Shutdown it is!

Hi from Berlin friends! Does sombody know how can i limit the People/Credits Genaeral for all Media, Maximum 15 oder 20? Thank you for helping!

Yes that's correct. Although it can be used offline, its not 100% functional due to on demand fetchers and other components that need the internet. Still can play media though. In my situation last Xmas Emby wasn't really usable due to IPTV and patchy internet freezing background tasks and bogging just browsing media. Once I removed IPTV everything worked fine...until I tried to view bio's of course. Unfortunately we live in a world where you are never truly offline anymore so you cant blame Emby. Even premiere authentication requires routine internet access, so its not technically usable offline on a permanent basis.

I have that issue on both stable and also on beta (2.319.0) I have to close it and reopen it for it to work.

The last two updates don´t seem to be very popular. It would be nice to have some feedback so I know what is good and what isn't. If there is no interest in the app, that's fine, really, but I'll have to consider to not share more updates, so please let me know, alright?

Hi, I was so surprised to hear this! Thank you so much!

hi, you can import vod content using the webstreams plugin.

Here is everything from the moment I hit "play" through the failure on an attempt a few minutes ago. Let me know if you need more. For this attempt, I actually changed the home streaming quality setting in the app from "Auto" to "4K-200mpbs" (i.e. way higher than the bitrate of the file or the default Emby seems to think this device can handle) It still errored out with the same "no compatible steams" box with no transcode effort, but this time in the log there's no complaint about the bitrate. I see it going from trying to direct play, to trying to trying to direct stream, to trying to remux, to failing completely. No server side errors; it just never requests a transcode like I would think it should. I could buy that maybe this gen of iPad can't play a Dolby Vision/HDR file (audio is just regular AC3), but in any event it should be trying to transcode, right? ipad playback error 2.txt

My root partition where emby-server was installed grew to the point where I must relocate some apps. With rsync I have migrated /var/lib/emby to another disk and created a link to the new folder at /var/lib/emby but the server still fails to start with an 'out of space' message: command: systemctl status emby-server result: ● emby-server.service - Emby Server is a personal media server with apps on just about every device Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/emby-server.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: failed (Result: core-dump) since Fri 2026-07-31 17:33:43 EDT; 5s ago Process: 833452 ExecStart=/opt/emby-server/bin/emby-server (code=dumped, signal=ABRT) Main PID: 833452 (code=dumped, signal=ABRT) Jul 31 17:33:40 webserver emby-server[833452]: Unhandled exception. System.IO.IOException: No space left on device : '/var/lib/emby/logs/embyserver.t> Jul 31 17:33:40 webserver emby-server[833452]: at System.IO.RandomAccess.WriteAtOffset(SafeFileHandle handle, ReadOnlySpan`1 buffer, Int64 fileOff> Jul 31 17:33:40 webserver emby-server[833452]: at System.IO.Strategies.OSFileStreamStrategy.Write(ReadOnlySpan`1 buffer) Jul 31 17:33:40 webserver emby-server[833452]: at System.IO.Strategies.BufferedFileStreamStrategy.FlushWrite() Jul 31 17:33:40 webserver emby-server[833452]: at System.IO.FileStream.Flush(Boolean flushToDisk) Jul 31 17:33:40 webserver emby-server[833452]: at Emby.Server.Implementations.Logging.FileLogger.Dispose() Jul 31 17:33:40 webserver emby-server[833452]: at Emby.Server.Implementations.Logging.SimpleLogManager.Dispose() Jul 31 17:33:40 webserver emby-server[833452]: at EmbyServer.Program.Main(String[] args) Jul 31 17:33:43 webserver systemd[1]: emby-server.service: Main process exited, code=dumped, status=6/ABRT Jul 31 17:33:43 webserver systemd[1]: emby-server.service: Failed with result 'core-dump'. I have kept the original installation. Should I remove it? Shouldn't I be able to start the server at the new location given it has plenty of disk space available?

No, the suggestions are not new. They just were a plain text list before.

Please attach the complete emby server log. Thanks.

Do you by chance have stereo upmix, or dolby audio processing turned on in the Android settings? Mine aren't set.

Yes.

Ok, but will it continue to do automatic and scheduled operations, like if it's monitoring the folders for changes, will it pick those up, or does everything go manual? So as long as I don't tell it to start a scan, it shouldn't detect changes? Thanks!

It's a 9th gen iPad running iOS 26.6 (which I believe is the latest). Also I just tried playing this as the user in question on an iDevice that can direct play it (a newer iPad) -- it direct played fine but also transcoded fine when I changed the quality setting. So I am assuming this is an issue with the iOS app on the other device not properly calling for a transcode when it thinks it can't direct play? All devices in question are running version 2.2.55 of the app.

Hi, yes you'll still be able to do admin functions. You just won't be able to browse the library.

But lets not lose sight of the issue here. No internet should not make Emby slow or unusable.

Okay, if I nest the video folder in a title folder in the title folder then everything is shown. Mystery solved.