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Are they multi video versions? I made some changes to prioritize 4k when videos have multiple streams.

Hello, I have Emby Server on a QNAP NAS, and I have a questions about how it works, is it a bug, or is it a matter of some setting that I overlooked, or is it supposed to work somehow now? It's this: I have Czech language set for metadata, the library is of type Movies, and I use Folders as the view (at the very top it's the last option, the first is Movies). The first problem is that the folders no longer have an image, previously a collage of the movies in the given folder was created. The second problem is that the movies in the folder are displayed in the original movie name, I know if the movie is Spanish, the name is in Spanish, not in Czech as I have selected in the settings. What's interesting is that the Serials library type doesn't do this. When I look at the difference between Movies and Series, in Movies there is "Folder scanning mode", what is the difference between Default and Legacy? Can the described action do this? I have Default set. Has anyone encountered something like this? EmbyServer is the latest version, QNAP updated to the latest version. Sorry for the English, I used google translate Thanks for your help

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Hey @bingbong69_, really enjoy the app. Its honestly the only app that makes me consider not using the official Emby App all together. I only have a few minor issues with it. I'm using a Apple TV 4k 3rd Gen 128gb I use the Virtual TV plugin(Allows you to create custom channel) with Emby, when I use Moonfin the Virtual TV channels play great. The issue I face are with the UI. Options to skip forward/back, next episode/previous, etc are not there. These are the only UI elements I get when watching a Virtual TV Channel (I'm assuming this is the case because it thinks its a "Live" channel) I thought it may not be possible with Moonfin but when I pressed the Play/Pause button on the remote (Has to be the button on the remote, cant just press the UI element) it shows more UI options Here are the additional options that show after pressing Play/Pause button. And they are usable, I'm able to do everything I would be able to do with the Emby App. The solution I can think of is maybe have a option to turn on these elements for "Live TV" channels, or maybe if there is a way to detect that its a Virtual TV channel and have them pop up. Also the guide button doesn't seem to work when watching the Virtual TV channels. I know this is a pretty niche issue but its so close to being perfect I had to reach out. Thanks

Hi, Could you please recommend a suitable place/source where I could download the missing images that I could use as icons? For example flags etc. Thank you.

@yocker Latest version 5.57.0.1 is buggy. Movies that are not 4K show 4k images assigned on every movie when u get to details.....

As far as manually sorting, yes. I looked but didn't see it. The problem with pulling any kind of chronological order is on some there no 2 that agree on what that order is. Combine this that that thread or lock it if you want.

hello there, i'd like to reference one movie in another, e.g. old and new version. How can i do that? I dont want to create a collection for that. If there is no way right now, i'd like to see a "see also" area in the movie view like "More Like This". kind regards

So I have the following settings enabled in my emby server in my libraries: Metadata readers enabled (nfo), metadata downloaders enabled (themoviedb and thetvdb). With that, my clients were able to get the metadata they required. Note that none of this added any files to my media library folders. Emby just stored it in its appdata folder internally. However, recently I enabled the metadata download settings in radarr and sonarr and suddenly all my library folders have been flooded with additional metadata files. Does anyone know if these files are helpful to emby in any way? The only things I've actually noticed is that soon after enabling this setting in sonarr/radarr, emby unilaterally decidded to create a collections library (which I actually like). I therefore assume emby was provided more metadata information by sonarr/radarr that allowed for the creation of this collections library? Is that what happened? Is there any duplication here? Should I stop the metadata downloads coming from sonarr/radarr? Or should I stop emby's own metadata download and let it rely soley on the metadata provided from sonarr/radarr? Sorry for all the questions. Just trying to figure all this out. Thanks!

I have tried to download sporadically for years when going away and then I realised I shouldn't bother - it has never worked properly. Can't see what is queued in the app on android (can see ready to transfer on server) A lot of items just get stuck (I always do original format, so there is nothing to transcode) Just tried again and wish I hadn't bothered.

Please add syncing of viewing progress for the external Vimu player, as it's often necessary to play videos through it because it can bypass some hardware limitations of projector/TV/TVbox decoders and has more sophisticated sound and subtitle settings (this is especially relevant for localized content). Player api https://vimu.tv/player-api/

Necroing this request as I'd like to see this too. I use my Emby server for networking and I have so many users now, I can't remember who these people are, where they work at, or how I met them. Having the internal notes field for each user would solve this for me. Thank you!

Thanks — glad it's landing well. On the MKV point, though: they do play. What the app doesn't do is *direct* play the MKV container, because the native player can't open it — so the server repackages it into a stream the player can take. That's a remux rather than a re-encode: the video is copied through, not compressed again, so it's a lot cheaper on the server than a full transcode and the picture is untouched. My own library is about 96% MKV and all of it plays this way, so if you've got a specific file that won't start, that's not the design and I'd like to hear about it — tell me the codecs and I'll dig in. Staying on the native player is a deliberate trade. It's where the system track picker, the chapter menu and the rest come from, and having the server do the container work is a cheap price for it.

only thing is your app dont play .mkv files due to using native player and most rips are in mkv container good job on the app keeep up the good work

Well I installed CDisplayEX, Challenger Viewer, ComicScreen but it did not work when I try to open from emby. I tested adroid.intent.action.VIEW with a local file over adb and I could open the file but in emby I could not. I used this instruction adb shell am start -W ^ -a android.intent.action.VIEW ^ -t application/x-cbr ^ -d "file:///storage/emulated/0/Documents/file_1.cbr"

A correction to my own post, and it goes in Emby's favour, so I'd rather put it up than leave it standing. I wrote that Emby was sending real HDR and simply not describing it in the manifest, and that the transcode came out 8-bit with visible banding. Both of those are wrong. I re-ran the same measurement today against the same Emby version, and what arrives is a proper tone-map to Rec. 709 — on the HDR10 title and on the Dolby Vision one alike. The manifest carries no HDR label because there is no HDR to label. That is Emby doing the correct thing. What I had actually caught was a fault on my own server: tone-mapping was failing there in a way that left the HDR tags attached to a picture that was no longer HDR, and I read the tags rather than the picture. The same Emby build handles it correctly now, so that was my machine and not the server. What doesn't change is the limitation I posted about. With Emby, Atrium still shows SDR, for the same reason as before: the manifest doesn't describe the dynamic range, so tvOS never switches the TV into HDR mode, and asking for HDR anyway would only mean HDR content on a display that stays in SDR. Asking for SDR is the honest option, and it's what the app does. For anyone who wants the actual measurements, that side of it belongs in the developer section — I'm posting the details in topic 149003.

I guess i have the same issue. The first screenshot with the "Black Samson" album creates a new "Wu-Tang" artist in emby. Musicbrainz correctly links "Wu-Tang" to "Wu-Tang Clan". The tagging in MusicBrainz seems correct to me at a first glance. Is this something emby can please fix? I have only noticed this issue with emby.

You were right about the route, and I checked rather than take it on trust — Moonfin direct plays these files and the device does the remux, exactly as you described. The approach works. It isn't the one I want for this app, though, and that's a goal of mine rather than a verdict on the engine. What I'm building leans deliberately on two things: the native tvOS player, and the server's own stream. No bundled engine, no external dependencies. That's a line I've drawn for myself, and it's why the app behaves the way it does — the system track picker, the system chapter menu, all of it comes free as long as I stay on the platform player. That combination already gives me real HDR wherever the manifest describes the stream. Here it doesn't yet, and that's the whole of the gap: VIDEO-RANGE and CODECS on #EXT-X-STREAM-INF, and the player handles the rest by itself. On the Dolby Vision point — playing the media playlist directly is the one thing I can't do, because the master is where the display switch comes from. Skip it and the TV never leaves SDR, whatever the segments contain. Still curious which HLS problems you ran into, if you get a moment.

Here some log files. embyserver.txt embyserver-63923173689.txt embyserver-63923212800.txt hardware_detection-63923173758.txt

Hi, when i use emby for playback it overheats my phone , when enable play with external player (vlc player) it doesnt overheat. Android verion 15 Emby 3.5.36 and 3.5.45 is anyone having this issue? Cheers

And what firmware version do you have now on the G5?

Meanwhile, I can confirm that it works on my 425. Just tried with a movie which is h265 to transcode it to 720p 4Mbit. Without Transcode for x25 installed.: 8-9 fps. After installation: >100 fps.

Why would you point it at Emby’s manifest though? The engine will ingest media files directly (mkv, avi, ts etc) so as far as the server is concerned, you’ll be direct playing via http. The engine will do what the server does (mkv to fMP4 + HLS to AVPlayer) directly on device and where not possible due to an older or unsupported codec, it will use ffmpeg software decode. Also, AVPlayer does DV to HDR to SDR tone mapping natively during playback. You don’t need to transcode to play DV on an SDR monitor (just need to skip the master playlist and play the media playlist directly instead). Lots of apps already use AetherEngine like Moonfin, Plezy, Silo, Sodalite… etc. I use Moonfin for Emby and Sodalite for Jellyfin. I do hope the web client gets better with HLS though as I prefer it to third party apps. It’s more power efficient on mobile.

Thanks, but doesn't seem to work for AppleTV

Is this comming to fairphone 5 android 15 ? i am still on v3.5.36 and there arent any updates available on the app store.