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A specific track, no, but you can temporarily restrict user transcoding permissions to see what happens when it is forced to direct play. Just make sure to remember to undo it afterwards.

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

This is now being published to the emby plugin catalog. You can find the 'official' release there, without any of the beta timers. TBH this is my first emby plugin, and I am not entirely sure how long it will take to actually show up once I have published it. But it is on the way. I would recommend uninstalling the beta version from this thread before installing the published version.

If you decide to use 3rd party plugins you can accomplish using Home Screen Companion. After configuring the smart playlist you can create a dynamic media home section that uses the tag.

HI, I think @quickmicwill probably need kodi log files in order to debug this. Thanks.

HI, yes it is.

I do have most of these enables on my big library, so I think this does add up.

HI, currently you can't. We would have to add that feature.

I don't know about the next beta but it's on our list for review. Thanks.

I toyed around with the idea of pre-fetching the new url and using swapMediaItem() to reuse the same player instead of release() + createPlayer() but it opens up a whole can of worms with format/codec mismatches, especially when going from direct play to transcoding. I might see if I can get it working reliably for bitrate changes when transcoding is already occurring. Again not sure if the gains are worth the effort, like you said home connections are generally pretty stable.

In a TV environment, this will be much less of a problem than mobile. Home networks tend to be pretty stable in their bandwidth.

What settings do you have set on your libraries? Specifically what is set for the following options: "After the initial import, automatically refresh metadata from the internet" "Automatically refresh metadata for episodes with placeholder titles such as TBA" "Generate video preview thumbnails" "Generate intro video markets"

I've been noticing the same errors the last few days as well. Not sure if they've change something about their API, or if it was just getting different results because of my local MB mirror so I didn't get around to reporting it.

It's used for conversions/download jobs. You can change the path under Downloads -> Settings. Downloads is within the Devices section of the side bar (Devices, Downloads, Camera Upload).

I'm trying to create a Dynamic Media Home Section and filter it by parental rating. For example: - Shows - Genre: Comedy - Playstate: Unplayed - Parental Rating: TV-PG and TV-14 Parental Rating is available as a sort option, but not as a filter. Is there a native way to accomplish this without a third-party plugin? If not, why wasn't Parental Rating included as a basic Dynamic Media filter when the new Home Sections system was added?

Currently it will step up quality if the conditions improve for a sustained amount of time (currently 120s). Since Emby serves single-rendition URLs the only way to switch quality mid stream is to release the player and request the new MaxStreamingBitrate. This results in a momentary stop in playback (1-3 seconds) which is tolerable when going from playback that is buffering and unplayable to something that is playable. Having a stop in playback to increase the quality might not be as tolerable to users. I have limited testing against very unreliable connections but they goal would be to only release the player and re-request if absolutely necessary. If the step up can not be reliably implemented without causing decision loops I may end up removing it.

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At 02:59:58, Emby starts the plugin task Refresh Recently Aired Episodes. Its EpMetaRefresh plugin then performs a broad metadata refresh because IncludeNoPrem is enabled. Between 03:00 and 03:02 alone, Emby generated: 644 metadata refreshes 642 ffprobe executions 3,063 subtitle-provider errors That is about 5.3 new ffprobe processes per second. The old 03:02 restart task then terminated Emby during the storm. It did not cause the storm, but it prevented proper completion and cleanup. Additional problems: EpMetaRefresh is an old version 1.0.0 from 2023. Its saved configuration says a two-day lookback, but the running task reported five days, suggesting it is not applying its settings reliably. The task is allowed to run for four hours. The plugin refresh also triggers large numbers of subtitle searches and errors.

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Isnt this fixed? Still same problem in 2026!!!

yep, CreateTitleFingerprint is the audio fingerprinting intro detection uses, so that's your 2 minutes. my guess on the manual vs automatic difference is that the manual run just had nothing new to fingerprint, since the scan only does that work for new or changed episodes. if you'd rather keep scans quick, check your TV library settings for the intro detection option and see if you can have it skip the library scan and just let the scheduled task handle it overnight instead. @marriedman on windows, powershell does the same thing as tail: Get-Content "C:\path\to\embyserver.txt" -Wait -Tail 50. swap in wherever your emby logs folder is and it'll stream new lines as they're written

embyserver.txt I snipped one of the errors, but here is the whole log

yeah working great here thannk you!

well done!! I love it

I have mine set to everything under Scheduled Tasks is off it still loads meta after each movie gets added but it don't wake you up from hard drives grinding at 4am scanning for subtitles. I have hard drives in the room behind the tv screwed to a sheet of plywood with a fan running can't see anything but the 100inch monitor / tv screen hanging on the wall and with settings off you can't hear nothing either. It use to scan for subtitles like crazy before shutting it all off.