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Okay, the "Show fields". Thank you. We can look into adding it although that seems like kindof an odd thing to show for an end user... @speechles

The Shield is one of the most popular devices and I guarantee you people have it and don't know it is Android TV. We are just trying to make it easier for people to find the app for their device. In any case, you can see that the apps in the store on the Shield are: Emby for Android Emby for Android TV Those are the only two.

In a libraries there is a settings section where you can toggle attributes on or off.

Thanks. I was wrong. SubRip is the srt. So that's not it. Sorry. So, does transcoding gets triggered because either the connection speed or some test of the end user's ability to play back fails? Did an older version of Emby work and now a new version doesn't? Maybe get some quality test media with different resolutions and see which media works for direct play. That could help find what forces the transcoding and make it easier to fix.

Sorry but I can't agree with you on that. If someone pays $200+ for a box and doesn't know that it runs Android TV... Also, in that case, you had to do it to several TV box brands/models.

Setting? Setting for what? Exactly where are you having a problem?

si es un roku, , pero lo raro es que estaba funcionando bien , y cuando hablas del servidor se supone que este no actualiza solo?

We are just providing links by device since some users may not know a Shield is running Android TV. Those images are from Emby for Android TV.

Hi there, let's look at an example. Please attach the information requested in how to report a media playback issue. Thanks!

That looks like it is a Roku. What version of the server? Can you login with this same account with the web app?

That has nothing to do with any of this; the logs clearly indicate that there is a problem.

Hi Luke, Sorry was away for a few days and only back home now. Scanning all libraries updated nothing, the issue was persisting; So I reverted to a backup from before the issue. Everything seems to be ok now. But no Idea what the cause was.

Any update on this? A couple of short concurrent searches are enough to lock up the server entirely.

After updating to Apple TV's latest tvOS 26.4, I'm experiencing an issue where Chinese subtitles are displayed as boxes (□) in Emby. This problem did not occur in previous versions of tvOS and is specific to Emby on Apple TV. I'm connecting to Emby via Infuse, and Infuse also can't display Chinese subtitles.

Hi, I came accross this thread as part of a rabbithole Gemini stuffed me down when trying to use Offline Emby content with my Xreal Beam Pro and AR Glasses, so not even sure if this is possible, I've been at this a few days and late nights so all guidence welcome. Been an Emby Premiere Beta (Version 4.10.0.8 beta - currently) user for a few years and love the product, the only thing letting me down ATM is the support for the Xreal Beam Pro and AR Glasses which I use to watch offline content on my daily commute, because of the playback issues I mainly watch offline Prime and Netflix but would love to have access to my Emby content, that brings us to where I am currently. I can use an external player such as VLC (although Kodi is not presented as an option) with the Xreal Beam Pro but it doesn't record/feedback the watch content, Google Gemini suggested Emby For Kodi Next Gen (EFKNG ) could do this, but I've been struggling to get it working as expected, I'll try and list where I think I am, but after a few days and late nights at this, I've tried so many things my heads spinning. Installed Kodi 21.2 on Xreal Beam Pro (XBP) and Kodi Companion 2.2.1.0 on the server. Installed EFKNG 11.27.1 on XBP, configured and logged into Emby Server using my Emby Connect Credentials, then my local Emby Account - Get welcome to Emby popup with my user picture. No login event on Emby Server although some http 204 entries in the Emby log (I retried once using local Server IP and Login event displayed once but no Currently Playing or Watch status updated) Kodi accesses and plays the files from the shared Download folder on the XBP without issue and recognises the series/episodes(but again no Currently Playing activity or Watched progress updated on the Emby Server. Again, any help gratefully appreciated and if what I'm trying is not possible confirmation of same would prevent further nights of frustration

"Read the damn' manual" Um den Funktionsumfang und die Arbeitsweise von emby zu verstehen, ist ein gründliches Studium des Manuals vonnöten: https://emby.media/support/articles/Quick-Start.html Insofern wäre es für Neukunden extrem vorteilhaft, würden Einträge als "How to's" als Tooltipps (Links) in den eher nur groben Produktbeschreibungen verfügbar. Wie gesagt - ich habe mich auf meine EDV-Erfahrung verlassen und darf jetzt meine Sammlung komplett emby-gerecht überarbeiten

Hi, Great plugin, really useful. Would it be possible to add the following fields: TVDB ID Folder path contains (for example: C:\Movies\Kids\Dub) Country Thanks!

DVD and Bluray subs are called VobSub and PGS. As I recall, Subrip was originally named after an old program (called Subrip) which ripped text from VobSub (and subsequently other graphical formats) using OCR. The extension SRT is short for SubRip Text, I think. Paul

Same here, also on docker.

Hi there and thanks for any help in my search. I'm looking to expand the compute power in my setup. Currently I'm running an Synology DS720+ for file storage, backups etc. Lately that has evolved in also deploying some dockers: Immich, Joplin, Emby and the “arr - stack”. The DS720+ can handle that quite easily, except for transcoding more than 1 stream at the time. And that's where my search originates. I expect to deploy more services (like Headscale, Nginx, maybe Adguard) in the next year, yet I don't expect those to be very compute heavy. At the moment, the main reason to look for more compute power is to be able to transcode 3-5 streams simultaneously. I intend to keep my storage on my Synology, and I'm looking to have a separate homelab server for the mentioned services. Also, I intend to buy a solution for the next 3-4 years of use. I will run a Linux distro, maybe on proxmox. Looking at 2nd hand sales, I'm considering two options: SFF/ mini PC or a laptop with dedicated GPU These two are for sale right now in my area: - Beelink SEi13 Pro mini-pc Intel Core i9-13900HK (14 cores, 5,4 GHz), 32 GB LPDDR5, 1 TB NVMe SSD - Lenovo Legion 5 AMD Ryzen 7 5800H, NVIDIA RTX 3070 (8GB), 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD, 16” QHD+ (2560×1600) 165Hz screen The laptop has a screen and battery (so sort of a UPS) and the main reason to consider: dedicated GPU. The Beelink sips power and has 32GB ram already installed. I expect the Lenovo to initially cost about €50-100 more than the Beelink. Also, I expect to Beelink to have lower power cost of about €20/yr Is this overkill for 3-5 simultaneous transcodes? What would you do/recommend?

If this were to be implemented I would like an option to display the original release year instead of the year field. This would require Emby to display ORIGINALYEAR which MusicBrainz can already automatically supply to mp3tag and Picard. From what I understand this information is already stored in Emby but not displayed anywhere. https://emby.media/community/topic/94691-music-tag-original-release-date-tagorigyear-andor-tagoriginalyear/

Version 14.1.0 Notes: Please remember to leave an updated written review on the Play Store. Your feedback is essential for improving the app’s ranking and helping secure Symfonium’s future. Added: Added experimental support of Audiobookshelf as media provider. Added experimental support of mTLS auth to Subsonic, Emby, Jellyfin and Audiobookshelf providers (Android Keychain + import). Added support for animated images (Webp/GIF) in now playing and detail pages (With settings to control their usage or not). Added settings to control left and right block sizes in landscape expanded now playing. Added new renderer setting max bitrate override, to force a specific bitrate when casting to that device. Added new renderer setting Stop casting on stop, to stop casting when stopping playback or queue reach the end. Added new ARTIST/ALBUM parameters to the start media API commands to help distinguish duplicated name media. Added preview for the detail page headers settings. Added setting to control image margins in detail page headers. Added previous chapter and next chapter actions for now playing and compact player buttons. Added chapter custom string values including current chapter and all chapters duration template values for now playing and album page. Added audiobook resume rollback setting to rewind a little when resuming paused audiobooks. Added per-library media type selection to mark audiobook libraries and prepare future library-specific features. Added new additional info field to detailed page headers supporting custom strings. Added now playing custom text token support for current volume (volume.current). Added support for Plex loudness data to replay gain mode. (You still need to enable replay gain in the DSP). Added new “Add to permanent offline cache” track swipe action. Added Czech language support. Thanks to Ondra. Added support for Zstandard for server communication. Changed: PEQ apo profile import now properly import channel configuration. Media Queues now properly save the shuffled indices to allow to unshuffle after a queue restoration. Local device, cloud providers, SMB and WebDAV can now transcode in more cases when casting to UpnP or Chromecast devices. Migrated all FFmpeg code to a new custom FFmpeg 8.1 engine. Please report any issues with transcoding, format or waveform extraction, … Fixed: Fixed simultaneous download limit settings not working. Fix Plex to SONOS transcoding often switching to MP3 when unwanted. Fix possible playlist import issue at root of SMB shares. Fix possible casting issue with some characters in file names. Fix rating bar touch zone not precise enough. Fix tag extraction for some media format on some providers. Fix now playing ui and media session update when updating ratings from a queue loaded just before a server sync. Fix Open Subsonic feature checks not being retried after a reconnection. Fix missing library selection for automatic offline cache of Subsonic providers. Fix large MKA files tag extraction. Improved SMB scanning performance. Fix impossibility to import read only playlists on Subsonic. https://support.symfonium.app/t/version-14-1-0-released/13382

Starting yesterday, 3 of my users (2 on samsung, 1 on LG) started getting the Playback Errors. All 3 use my server daily, and never got these errors before. 2 of the users have confirmed their Roku TV's do not get the errors at the same time. I also do not get the errors on my Roku TV, my android app, nor the web app. The weird thing is, all content will throw this error for a while, sometimes for several hours, then start working again for them. Only to go back to throwing errors. I'm on Emby 4.9.3.0 and have been for some time. Nothing changed on my system. I restarted the Emby server and then rebooted my server itself. My Emby runs on Debian Bookworm. Emby logs show no errors, just that the stream starts, then shows the app (LG app for example) stops the playback at 0 seconds. I've attached my logs. References to LG or User Nicole are where I was personally seeing the errors. They are around and just after 00:00 in these logs. Just before the app quits, there are messages like this: 2026-04-11 00:01:58.794 Info MediaInfoService-0HNKNGPJTMGD0:0000000A: Bitrate exceeds DirectPlay limit: media bitrate: 5507519, max bitrate: 4000002 2026-04-11 00:01:58.794 Info MediaInfoService-0HNKNGPJTMGD0:0000000A: Bitrate exceeds DirectStream limit: media bitrate: 5507519, max bitrate: 4000002 Then followed by: 2026-04-11 00:01:59.897 Info SessionManager: Playback stopped reported by app Emby for LG 1.0.50 on LG Smart TV (32LK540BPUA) But like I said no errors. There are no ffmpeg logs at these times; it seems pretty obvious to me that the system wants to transcode as the bitrate is too high for direct play, but is failing to start the transcode so the stream is failing? That's my take from what I see. I do see correct transcoding going on for these same files on my android and Roku apps, accessing these exact same files just before or after they are failing on the LG app. My test were not at the exact same time (to exclude some weird type of contention), but I would switch back and forth between the LG, Android app, and Web app, and walk from the room the Roku TV was in, and the LG TV was in. Any ideas? I've got 2 unhappy users and one disgruntled GF I need to appease. embyserver (1).txt

How and where do I add it?