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Are you able to play from continue watching, or pressing play on the series?

sorry, I forgot to mention, I can only install the app from USB, can't download from the app store

Both apps will happily coexist on the same device, both are available as a download from the Store (search for just "Emb" for Universal Android app). As said, no need to sideload, but in case you do need it:

Hi everyone, I have an older Sony Android TV / Google TV. The TV app I’m currently using is an older version, but it still works fine on this device. I would like to try installing a newer version of the same app. However, I’m worried that if I update the existing app and the new version does not work properly on my older Sony TV, I may not be able to reinstall or roll back to the old working version. So my question is: Is there any way to install the new APK without overwriting the existing old version, so that both the old version and the new version can remain installed on the TV at the same time? Alternatively, is there a way to download or back up the specific older version of the APK, so that I can reinstall it later if the new version does not work? Any advice or best practices would be appreciated. Thanks.

Is there a way to get the images of actors as a gallery and not have them all on 1 line. You used to have that many years ago. See image attached as to what I mean

Atm. you can just use what ever you prefer, the developers have said that later on the Emby for Android TV will be phased out for Emby Android instead.

+1 for me. It works great on my test of jellyfin with a 265k

In this case ATV = Android TV

I was looking for some relevant threads to mention this in, is there a way, or could it be a future implementation somehow to make Emby's randomness more random? The way I use it now is "Alexa, tell M.B. Home to play some music" and it will shuffle the songs in my library, just not as random as I'd like it.

I have bunch of web movies that I have created a list who is them each of them seperately with another a program (MetaX) and when I add these to Emby they get cut up. Example Tony (1), Tony (2). They land up be listed as: Tony Job: actor Role : 1 Tony Job: actor Role: 2 How do I name the actors in order for their name to stay as Tony (1), Tony (2) Thanks

@speechles thanks for the follow up and any video that has the plain vanilla DTS 5.1 the Roku passes it on and the AVR displays DTS 5.1. I have one video with a TrueHD 7.1 audio track and it gets transcoded.to DD. Still don't get it why the DTS-HD MA 5.1 gets flaged for transcoding and the DTS-HD MA 7.1 does not. I am looking at a very positive side without this incident I never gad a reason to buy an Nvidea Shield. Plus with the shitification of both the Google and Roku home screens the 2019 Shield has an option to get rid of it.

I dont own apple devices any more

I would be interested. Personally what I miss is "Random Album Radio" which I would use with Plex. Also, not sure if this is the right place to mention it, but I wish Emby's shuffle was more random. Right now the way I play music is "tell M.B. Home to play some music" and it shuffles the songs in my library. but just not random enough to my liking.

Just an added Note: Why not stick with what works? And test the new stuff? Note: EBR still seems to take pride in making the ATV app Great Some day the other version will be better, but after many years it’s still not!

Then switch back to ATV!

There is a DTS "core" that should be discoverable inside the DTS-HD MA stream. That "core" stream within the DTS-HD MA is what the Roku should be passing through. You should not have to add both DTS-HD MA 7.1 and DTS 5.1 streams. Both streams contain the same "core" that Roku should be able to direct play. Having just DTS-HD MA 7.1 should passthrough as DTS 5.1 with direct play. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DTS-HD_Master_Audio Now the fact you say, that you are doing this and still getting silence means either: 1) Your equipment cannot decode the core DTS stream. Which you said another DTS in 5.1 passed through just fine. So this cannot be the reason if that is true. 2) The Roku has a firmware bug where the DTS-HD MA stream is no longer being passed-through. Which is odd because the Roku reports 8 channel support for DTS. This is why above @ebrhas asked for you to send logs from that Roku device. Server logs will not show what is happening with Direct Play. We would need to see how the Roku decided to play this back and that is only discoverable within the logs the Roku app will keep when you turn on debug mode. Now that you've provided app logs we will find out... I can only suspect that Roku has a firmware bug. Seeing your logs would confirm it. Then we can add a setting or something to work-around that firmware bug if that is what this is. Thanks.

The standard Android app is vastly superior to the Android for TV app. Your stuttering problem is, most probably, not really related to the app but rather to something in your setup, There are plople here who can really help with that but they need much much more info like details of your setup and which devices are being used and which devices are connected wirelessly or wired and logs. If you report that and include examples then there is at least a good chance that your problem can be diagnosed.

I have noticed since switching to the android version, i am getting a large amount of stuttering when playing content. I have a Google TV 4k box.

I would change the last sentence to; I think new season Premieres should be called out in a separate OPTIONAL line. I do NOT want new shows to have any special features in my setup.

I do not see any advantage to that. However I, most probably, do not use Emby like others. I have no objection to allowing Emby to use that kind of sorting as long as I can use the current method as it is best for me. I still have concerns about options making things too complex but I think this might be simple enough and non-intrusive enough to make it worthwhile. Emby PLEASE do not remove the current method as it is almost perfect for my use case.

No I didn't rip these myself. A Roku can't pass through DTS-HD MA. With the 7.1 movie it pretended to play direct but no audio input was displayed at the AVR. with the 5.1 Emby realized it needed transcoding. This is clearly a problem with the Roku why would DTS-HD MA 5.1 be transcoded but DTS-HD MA 7.1 is a direct play. Makes no sense. The DTS core is not a separate audio track. It is natively embedded directly inside the DTS-HD Master Audio. So Roku is not extracting this one. What is your software version of the Roku Ultra? 1. Played the movie Zootopia 2 which had a DTS-HD MA 7.1 audio track and no sound could be heard. 2. I repeated the test at 7:40pm EST and sent the log. 3. Local user Hans I am so done with the Roku and there is not a single feature, program or event which the Shield doesn't have or is not superior to.

@PasitheaPerhaps support for GraphQL to allow for bulk mutations and queries might lighten the load?

As far as I know since TheIntroDB sets the sort of media segments I'm reporting on, yes it only works from a reporting standpoint. I'm watching development of it, and if I can ever add some value to it I'll consider enhancing this.

@One2Go- If you ripped these yourself, did you remove the DTS core when doing the rip? MakeMKV for example will allow you to strip the DTS core and get only the DTS-MA track. I made this error with a few early rips. That may explain the silence + lack of any errors. Check the info on one of these files, it should show a second DTS 5.1 audio track along with the DTS-MA. I just tested with my rip of Edge of Tomorrow and it properly passed the DTS core - Roku Ultra to a Denon AVR-1910 with a 5.1 setup. Roku preferred streaming format is Auto and Digital output format is Passthrough.

@johyphenelThis should fix it. Again sorry you became the target of my rant, it was absolutely not meant for you but just as a general explanation. WatchingEye.dll