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Using exactly what app and version?

My best guess is this: The other video may have had an embedded track marked "forced" which would have made it impossible for you to select another one.

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Hi. The IPTV plugin is really designed for single streams like cameras and such. If you are wanting to access a m3u channel list via Emby, just use regular Live TV. Live TV Setup

You can even test it by disabling the ability to transcode for a user and playing truehd on the apple tv, it will actually play better than if the server were to convert it since its handled by the apple tv itself. It also worth mentioning that the apple tv can also handle direct play PGS Subtitles but for some reason the Emby Server wants to transcode them server side unnecessarily. Ive just made separate user profiles for all my apple tvs and disabled all transcodinng/conversion permissions for the user and everything plays faster and looks better. When ever there is a transcode or conversion the Dolby Vision stream also has inaccurate colors. I think Emby on Apple TV will benefit greatly if these issues are addressed, from what I can tell it just seems that the Emby server doesn't know that the Apple TV is capable of handling TrueHD conversions and direct play PGS Subtitles on its own so it converts server side which causes the inaccurate colors of the Dolby Vision stream. Let me know if I need to explain further/better. Hopefully what I typed made sense. Thanks

Hi. Where is your server installed? Exactly what did you "buy with a friend"?

@Lukethank you for your help! I have a separate question about how I should categorize/separate some of my music. For example, have a lot of Christian and Christmas songs, but I don’t want them mixed into my main music. Should I create separate music libraries for them or is there a better way to accomplish this.

Gets better with every update. I have a new feature request, if I may. two actually. One, I'd like to be able to see what's in a specific library by clicking on it, and secondly, I'd like to be able to sort media in any view by various criteria, date, length, resolution, etc. I'm really impressed by the quality of your app. Great work!

The Apple TV can convert it to LPCM on its own (its essentially TrueHD but without the height channels since LPCM is also lossless). It doesn't need the server to convert it.

So transcoding with subtitles now works properly, even though there is a small delay before the video starts playing. Subtitle extraction is still broken for streaming devices like the Google TV and Roku, so I'll keep that disabled for now because there isn't a way to set it globally and asking some of my family to manually change those settings for their clients is a hard sell.

Ive mounted via NFS bc I heard its faster and more efficient than a SMB connection (NFS is also the same connection type I used for my linux server bc SMB gave me issues with emby). I also made a shortcut script (harder than you would think lol) that runs constantly and checks the connection to my NAS and remounts if connection is ever lost.

I am new to Emby and I can't find an answer to this question. I hope someone can clarify for me. In setting up the Emby server on my M4 Mac Mini, I followed the instructions given on the Emby site. As a part of setting up my Library folders, I created a folder defined as Mixed Media (per instructions) for recordings from my Emby DVR. What I am finding is that there are no recordings in that folder. However, all of the recordings are in the system created Live TV area. So I know the DVR is working, and I know how to access the recordings - I just use the Live TV access rather than the Library folder. But that brings up the question - is there any reason why I need that Library folder on Emby? I know I won't delete the media files, but I don't want to lose access to them via Live TV if that's the way I should go. I'd appreciate a little clarification. Thanks.

Emby Theater is obsolete since a long time have a look here:

I have all my media files on my Synology NAS, and the Emby server on my M4 Mac Mini. I mount the media file on my Mac Mini via SMB. Once the file is mounted (via File > Go to Server), the Mini connects with no problem.

Sorry, what is the new Emby player? Reading here suggests it is not Emby Theater, because that isn't new, it has been broken for people for years as it seems.

@brothomThanks for your response. I had my music library installed but no images and artwork were appearing. This is when I “assumed “ I needed the AudioDb API Key. What I later realized is that for some reason I didn’t have MusicBrainz plugin installed. Once I installed MusicBranz, it started populating. Second question, I have a lot of Christian and Christmas songs, but I don’t want them mixed into my main music. Should I create separate music libraries for them or is there a better way to accomplish this. Thank you for your help.

Is there anybody to check this out from Emby team? i mean to confirm or reject the issue at least? I can help with testing.

Hi Well the new Emby player for Linux should fix your issue no ? No need to use anymore the browser and you can setup in it with lot of details how you want audio to be played ! Vincèn

Sorry, the subject is deliberately chosen a bit polemic, but I am honestly confused what I am missing here. I assume almost everyone uses Emby mostly to watch movies or other high quality video and many people will have more than a stereo setup. But under Linux, neither Chrome not Firefox support DTS and the server transcodes to MP3 stereo. So how are you all using this? I see 3 possibilities: My Brave plays AAC just fine in 5.1. Can I get Emby to transcode to that instead of 2ch MP3? Kodi. Been there, done that. Works, but in principle, I am very happy with a web player and don't want a full screen mediacenter. Emby Theater, which apparently isn't broken only for me. (In my case on Ubuntu+deb, I loose all control once a playing video goes fullscreen) Is the situation under Linux really that dire, or am I missing something?

This one i can answer. it's because we haven't gotten the stable update yet @hjason7812. Once there's an update that ends in .0 will the bot for the truenas app that Stavros maintains push the update to us and hopefully we are back on stable then. I say hopefully because i don't know how smooth the upgrade from beta to stable will go

Trying to play with this but seem to be stuck at what is the appropriate URL: ://YOUR_EMBY_SERVER_URL/emby/Playlists I have my server on 192.168.0.2. I've tried variations of: http://192.168.0.2:8096/emby/Playlists http://192.168.0.2:8096/web/emby/Playlists http://192.168.0.2/emby/Playlists None are returning any values in the bash command. Sorry if this is an obvious solution I am missing.

Here you go. Above my head but seems to be a permission issue of some sort. Command line: /opt/emby-server/system/EmbyServer.dll -programdata /var/lib/emby -ffdetect /opt/emby-server/bin/ffdetect -ffmpeg /opt/emby-server/bin/ffmpeg -ffprobe /opt/emby-server/bin/ffprobe -restartexitcode 3 -updatepackage emby-server-deb_{version}_amd64.deb Operating system: Linux version 6.8.0-100-generic (buildd@lcy02-amd64-061) (x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc-13 (Ubuntu 13.3.0-6ubuntu2~24.04) 13.3.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Ubun OS/Process: x64/x64 Framework: .NET 8.0.22 Runtime: opt/emby-server/system/System.Private.CoreLib.dll Processor count: 8 Data path: /var/lib/emby Application path: /opt/emby-server/system System.UnauthorizedAccessException: System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path '/mnt/media_nas/emby/tv/News 8 Today at 6' is denied. ---> System.IO.IOException: Permission denied --- End of inner exception stack trace --- at Emby.Server.Implementations.IO.ManagedFileSystem.CreateDirectory(String path) at Emby.LiveTV.DirectRecorder.RecordUsingCopyTo(ILiveStream liveStream, Nullable`1 wallClockStartTime, String targetFile, Action onStarted, CancellationToken cancellationToken) at Emby.LiveTV.EmbyTV.RecordStream(TimerInfo timer, DateTimeOffset recordingEndDate, InternalActiveRecordingInfo activeRecordingInfo) Source: Emby.Server.Implementations TargetSite: Void CreateDirectory(System.String) InnerException: System.IO.IOException: Permission denied Source: TargetSite: 2026-02-24 11:58:57.468 Info MediaSourceManager: Live stream 66e3de44239124241e1900b31f586607 consumer count is now 0 2026-02-24 11:58:57.469 Info MediaSourceManager: Closing live stream 06044cf0e6f93cdae5f285c9ecfaaeb4_01413a525b3a9622ce6fdf19f7dde354_66e3de44239124241e1900b31f586607 2026-02-24 11:58:57.469 Info SharedHttpPipelineSource: Closing SharedHttpPipelineSource 2026-02-24 11:58:57.470 Info SharedHttpPipelineSource: SharedHttpPipelineSource is done streaming. 2026-02-24 11:58:57.470 Info SharedHttpPipelineSource: Deleting temp files /var/lib/emby/transcoding-temp/cd82be01c194421aba0986a3778ea41a/0000000.ts 2026-02-24 11:58:57.471 Info MediaSourceManager: Live stream 06044cf0e6f93cdae5f285c9ecfaaeb4_01413a525b3a9622ce6fdf19f7dde354_66e3de44239124241e1900b31f586607 closed successfully 2026-02-24 11:58:57.471 Info LiveTV: Retrying recording in 60 seconds. 2026-02-24 11:58:57.471 Info LiveTV: Creating recording timer for e1d673695705437ba97b6c9e95a41f27, News 8 Today at 6 - . Timer will fire in 0.99998876 minutes 2026-02-24 11:58:57.472 Info LiveTV: Triggering refresh on /mnt/media_nas/emby/tv/News 8 Today at 6/News 8 Today at 6 2026_02_24_11_00_00.ts 2026-02-24 11:58:57.473 Info LiveTV: Refreshing recording parent /mnt/media_nas/emby 2026-02-24 11:59:07.873 Info ActivityRepository: Opening sqlite connection to /var/lib/emby/data/activitylog.db. isReadOnly: True 2026-02-24 11:59:07.873 Info ActivityRepository: Opening sqlite connection to /var/lib/emby/data/activitylog.db. isReadOnly: True

This is the golden piece of information I didn't have. I wasn't aware of optional shared network folder. This step should be at least mentioned in the github wiki or the FAQ here. I'll try it later today after work and check if this works with native access.

@buhochileno Beta favours the brave!

Normally yes, but if Emby isn't able to read the contents due to encoding, that might cause issues.