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A simple audio conversion on your server shouldn't cause a freeze so we need to investigate why that was happening. Were you also showing subtitles of any kind?

Hi. Very nice but if you plan to provide this to the community, you need to put our logo back to how it was or replace it entirely. Thanks.

Hi. We don't have definitive plans for this at this time. We will monitor this request for support. Thanks.

Ok first there is now 2 Emby app on play store… I have the same problem on the old one. I think you are using the same, try the new

In the past 2 weeks I noticed that every episode of a series that I was watching freezed at about 90% and I had to exit and restart to go on, sometimes from the beginning. According to claude code, it's because eac3 codec support has been removed. My Tv has Android 7, so the other android app that is now advertised in the home is not viable for me as it crashes as soon as I launch it (has already been like this for at least one or two years). The only thing I could to was to revert to tv.emby.embyatv v2.1.48g. Claude code made a custom APK that won't be updated any further with Playstore auto-update, but I would obviously prefer to update. This is what Claude Code had to say about it: REGRESSION IN EMBY FOR ANDROID TV 2.1.51G: E-AC3 (DOLBY DIGITAL PLUS) NO LONGER DIRECT STREAMS, FORCES AUDIO TRANSCODE + PLAYBACK STALLS NEAR ~90% Summary After the Android TV app auto-updated to 2.1.51g (versionCode 215100), media with E-AC3 (eac3) audio tracks stopped Direct Streaming and started forcing a server-side audio transcode to AAC. On top of that, the resulting remux/transcode playback stalls once near ~90% of the file and has to be exited and restarted to finish. Rolling the app back to 2.1.48g (versionCode 214800) restores the previous behavior (Direct Stream, no transcode, no stall). Environment Client: Emby for Android TV — regressed on 2.1.51g (215100), works on 2.1.48g (214800) Device: Philips 32PFS6402/12, Android TV 7.1.2, armeabi-v7a, ExoPlayer 2.18.7 (as reported in the ffmpeg session User-Agent) Server: Emby Server 4.9.5.0 (unchanged since 2026-05-18 — not the cause) Media: MKV, Video h264 1080p, Audio eac3 5.1 (e.g. WEB-DL episodes) What happens on 2.1.51g Playback request from the app contains: ...&AudioCodec=aac,pcm_s16le,aac,mp3&... &TranscodeReasons=AudioCodecNotSupported So the app no longer advertises E-AC3 support. The server keeps the video as -c:v copy but re-encodes the audio eac3 -> aac (a “remux” transcode). During this remux, playback consistently stalls near ~90% of the file: Example (55:55 file): playback froze around PlaybackPosition 00:48:53 while segments were already produced further ahead (TranscodingPosition 00:50:28, throttle=off, speed=1.04x). The server was not starved of data — the client (ExoPlayer) stops advancing. Exiting and re-entering lets it finish. This reproduces on multiple different files (all eac3), so it is systematic, not a corrupt file. What happens on 2.1.48g (previous version) Same server, same files, only the app downgraded. The non-DirectPlay reason changes from AudioCodecNotSupported to a non-required channel condition: Profile: VideoAudioCodecProfile, DirectPlay=false. Reason=Android-Exo.AudioChannels Condition: LessThanEqual. ConditionValue: 2. IsRequired: False. i.e. E-AC3 is accepted again. The server session reports: PlayMethod = DirectStream with no ffmpeg transcode process and no segments in transcoding-temp. No stall. Reproduction On Android TV app 2.1.51g, play a file whose audio is E-AC3 5.1. Observe the server spawns an ffmpeg-remux-* session (audio eac3 -> aac) with TranscodeReasons=AudioCodecNotSupported. Let it play toward the end — playback stalls once around 90%. Downgrade the app to 2.1.48g and repeat: PlayMethod becomes DirectStream, no transcode, no stall. Notes / questions The official Android TV supported-codec list mentions ac3 (Dolby Digital) but not eac3 (Dolby Digital Plus); yet 2.1.48g and earlier did offer eac3 (hardware-decoded by the TV) and it worked for years. Was dropping eac3 from the reported capabilities in 2.1.51g intentional? If so, please make it a device/app option, because on hardware that decodes E-AC3 fine it turns a Direct Stream into a transcode. Separately, the ~90% remux stall itself looks like a client-side HLS/ExoPlayer issue worth investigating, since it makes the fallback transcode path unusable to the end of the file. There is no in-app setting to re-enable E-AC3 (Playback settings expose no audio-codec option). The standard “Emby for Android” app (com.mb.android 3.5.36) is not a workaround on this TV: it crashes on launch with IllegalArgumentException: Invalid column internal_provider_id on Android 7.1.2.

I would like the option to hide empty folders too, in this case for a family photo library in folder view. I've tried placing .embyignore files in the empty folders and it does nothing.

I’ve switched to Emby fully now and loving how fast it is! One thing I miss from my old client is allowing text subtitles to move into the black bar below the video (when video aspect ratio forces black bars above & below). By default, exoplayer’s SubtitleView restricts text over the video frame only! Many video players override this to allow fully customisable subtitles position on the entire screen instead of just the video! There’s already a request to implement this upstream in exoplayer: https://github.com/androidx/media/issues/2977 There are also links to how it was implemented in other clients. Thanks for reading! Looking forward to this.

So hopefully we can get this basic feature by 2030? lol

Its a QNAP, running Docker, yes First nvidia-smi screenshot is from SSH on QNAP second one from ssh on emby container himself

You can now ignore this, as its all of a sudden just started working after hours of trying to figure out what happened. I am not able to answer what caused the issue unfortunately but greatful its working again

I seem to be having an issue with the Emby app for Android TV. As of last night, everything was working fine but today it cant connect at all. Nothing has changed in my router/network settings, nor on my computer that runs the emby server. I can access my emby server via browser on other devices, I can also access emby on my phones android app, but I can no longer access it via the andorid TV app anymore as it says it cannot find it. Things I have done/checked: Server IP - no change Server port - no change Firewall rules are present and correct in antivirus/windows I've cleard the Android TV app data and cache, no difference Checked port forwarding rules on router - present and correct My server IP is still static and the same IP it was Restarted router, android tv box and server pc multiple times - no change Checked my windows network profile, its set to private and sharing etc is enabled (as per your connection help docs) I'm at a loss as to whats going on. I cannot figure out why its just suddenly stopped working on this one device. Andorid TV app info: Version 3.5.36, com.mb.android

Errr, so I found this thread after I had already set up the container. But I had customised it and I straight up deleted all 3 keys. Emby is working fine for me without any of these variables. So....yea lol.

Ignore that, it was just the plugin had updated more than I had rebooted!

After I installed the iso mouse plugin, the media info was displayed when playing iso for the first time using the Windows client, and I could use pgssub subtitles. This feature is great and I really like and need it. However, bdmv still cannot display media info and playback. I tried to remove the Bluray Folder Support plugin version 1.0.5.0 and reinstall version 1.0.2.0, which is the version I am currently using normally. Maybe due to compatibility issues, the installation may still display version 1.0.5.0 after completion. At the same time, it is still unable to recognize bdmv media info and playback.In addition I also tried removing the indentification and refreshing the metadata or indentify, but nothing changed.

still hasn't updated. not sure what's wrong with this or how to fix. just forced a manual rescan of folder and it added them. so just leaved my to believe even though rtm is saying its scanning folder it really doesnt.

just adding new movies and tv shows library, it's a new emby setup. after it's done i try to refresh metadata on tv shows library and the crew tmdb id still not there.

Yes it's running, like I said I can still access it directly via MyCloud and through Plex. I don't use a dynamic IP on the server. It's only Emby that says it's unable to connect.

Are you sure the server is running? Does your server machine ip address change regularly?

It seems to be working a lot more consistent now but maybe 1 of 15 times it will just go silent after you ask it to play the next song, and the only way to get it to play again is changing it to Amazon music and then switching back. Also, is there a way it can let you know if it reached the end of the playlist when you ask it to play next song? It was something Plex plugin had that was pretty nice. As alway appreciate your hard work hatharry!

Forgive my ignorance but, how do I do that when I can't connect to the server?

as of now its been almost an hour sense log said it was being refreshed but they are still not updated / available to watch.

to have the new episode shown in emby so i can watch it.

what update were you expecting?

the fact that it never updates the shows in library. i run plex and emby. plex will show new shows added in about 1-3 minutes if not instant. emby is always hours. dont think its ever updated the show in under 4-5 hours. 2026-08-06 05:19:32.624 Info LibraryMonitor: Season 5 (/data/media/anime/Battle Through The Heavens (2017) [tvdb-337284]/Season 05) will be refreshed. i did see this that it said its refreshing but never updates.