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For now you may want to disable hardware transcoding in server transcoding settings.

OK we'll have a new ffmpeg build on the server beta channel soon so it's possible that may help with this.

Hi, Luke, When you found a extra content for a serie with hundred of extra, can't easy find the correct number extra ID for emby match and put correct title. I show the dr Who issue, if found one of especials chapters, can't know how is the 0x??? number to take the correct position. Same with other series: In the case of *One Piece*, which has thousands of additional episodes, when I come across a movie segment included as an extra, I don't know the correct number (0x??). Is it possible to find this out without using the API? (I know that connecting to the API can reveal missing episodes, including that ID.)

Still don't know how to delete It should be possible to delete from here.....

Authenticated Users is not something you can change and you can’t exclude your Emby user from it. I mean you can remove it from the root of drives, but then you break things. Does everyone else not have that it then?

What happened to your movie? 14:39:17.623 ffmpeg version 5.1-emby_2023_06_25 Copyright (c) 2000-2022 the FFmpeg developers and softworkz for Emby LLC 14:39:17.623 built with gcc 10.3.0 (crosstool-NG 1.25.0) 14:39:17.623 Execution Date: 2026-09-25 14:39:17 Failed to create //.cache for shader cache (Read-only file system)---disabling. 14:39:17.635 /mnt/My Files/Movies/Movies/DO NOT ENTER (2026).mkv: No such file or directory 14:39:17.636 EXIT

Please keep us posted on how this goes. Thanks.,

Maybe it might be useful to somebody else if you don't have anything positive to write or are you just bored with life?

Nothing just said wrong username and password

The sites you metnioned pay licensing fees. Audio themes are content and require copyright policing, per track. Any music or performance might have playback limits or even be completely blocked and can not be offered. A company that violates this, does so at their own risk. Emby does not supply any content at all. That is up to the user. Any use, outside of personal playback, requires license payemts. Any company supplying any audio conent needs licensing and payments per item use. Your examples are paying for this and it might well be into 6 figures of dollars every year. It's wrong to assume that there are no restrictions and that everything is free. See: https://www.universalproductionmusic.com/en-us/news/how-to-use-music-in-videos-legally

@kbeck I'm with you 100% on this: Tags must never go away. Would be really great is Tags could be used in some kind of structure The Inability to rename a tag is a hardship Bulky Editor in the Dashboard. It's not the most user friendly I've been doing a lot of experimenting lately with Collections and Tags across different library types (because Collections are global) to get two-level nested Collections, in a different structure to main media libraries. E.g. put Primary images into a Photo type library and then add them to relevant media collections (any library type). Depending upon what you are trying to achieve, it potentially opens up a whole lot of interesting possibilites... Genres+Sub-Genres is one idea I haven't gotten to just yet. But plan to when I get time. This seems to be a reasonably popular request. Yeah, thanks for the Bulky Editor tip. I tried it a couple of times quite a while back, but could never seem to get it work for music. Thanks to @GrimReaper earlier this year, I now have a very nice utililty to use for music Album tagging with Emby Tags - but it wouldn't be any good for your Movies/TV etc. Maybe Emby will look at bulk-editing after home screen and smart playlists etc. is fully implemented???

Hi @gregsnell Even if I really agree with the first part of your sentence (separate Version and Edition), I don't agree at all for the second part (masking the Version to the EndUser). In my Llibrary I have several versions of the same movie. Let me explain, and consider the following versions (not editions, which can add items to selection) - the 1080p BluRay version with all languages and an average bitrate at around 50Mbps - the 1080p vp9 version with only French language (I'm French) at an average bitrate of 2Mbps - the 4k x265 Bluray version with several languages - the 1080p h264 version with only French at an average bitrate of 10Mbps If i play on my phone at home, which versioin will your option select ? IMHO, on my phone the 1080p vp9 at 2Mbps version is enough. On my TV which is 4k compatible, I'm pleased to play the 4k version On my home cinema (with a FireTV stick), the 1080p version is OK, but If I launch the BluRay version, playing is not correct even if tagged as supported. And when I'm outside home, I only (unless rare occasions) play the vp9 2Mbps version. No need to play the 1080p h264 version even if my connection supports it. To me, the best option is to create a priority index for the version you want to play tied to resolution/bitrate/codec with a weight to each version. By default the version offered is the version with the larger weight or the less weight, but, the final user must have the control on his choice. Here's an example of a movie with multiple versions and multiple editions. Why do I have such a number of versions ? the bitrate of the client connections, the fact I don't want my server to transcode, and the fact that I recode all my audio tracks to have an EBU-R, ut I want to keep the oroiginal tracks, the fact that the Emby web player does direct play only with the first audio track, the fact that since the "fusionned" version (android - FireTV) of Emby app the FireTV doesn't play anymore he-AAC5.1... an exemple of audio tracks used : My dream : In the admin interface, I can set a priority for each version depending if the client is inside or outside the LAN eg - inside the LAN the h264 could be the first choice - outside it could be the vp9 version But the client can choose to change this setting, unless the admin doesn't enforce this. it cloud be a tag in the naming convention such as [v=vp9 web] and for the edition it could be [ed=Director's Cut]. I agree the filenames could be very large such as : - the folder : "Seul sur Mars - (2015) - [tmdbid=286217]" - the file : "Seul sur Mars - (2015) - [tmdbid=286217] [ed=extended] [v=h264 30M].mkv Sorry for the novel !

Hi there, what exactly happens when you try? How to Report a Problem

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Hi, there’s no evidence it switched, in fact, we don’t even have a switching mechanism for audio like we do for video. However with this update I think we did stop direct playing opus due to all the problems reported with it. @SamES can confirm.

Just an update - backup emby server re-installed as new, reset all settings the same, no plugins, libraries being read now - likely tomorrow I can get the restore from prod happening for the users/watch states, I need to verify that process before I kill the prod system.

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After updating to Emby for LG 1.0.51, I started noticing that Opus audio files are always transcoded, even on a local connection, but the transcoding starts the stream offset about ~30s into each track. So far I have only observed this issue on Emby for LG 1.0.51, all other local clients are able to Direct Play. I'm aware that LG and Opus have inconsistent support across models. I cannot confirm if Emby for LG was able to Direct Play these Opus files prior to the app upgrade, but hopefully if it were I would have noticed issues with playback sooner. The LG TV is an OLED C4 on webOS24 (9.2.2-1806) I did not immediately see anything in the embyserver.txt log that might indicate an issue, but one of the tracks that had issue started at 2026-09-25 19:03:12.978 and I have attached that track's ffmpeg-transcode log as well. On the server side, I have observed this behavior first on 4.9.5.0, and it has continued after upgrade to 4.10.0.40 embyserver.txt ffmpeg-transcode-69497d66-a0cd-4731-9262-96366405f79b_1.txt

Hi Luke, Following up on theme song support for the Apple TV / tvOS app. On 6 Feb 2024 you said this was planned for an upcoming update. That was over two and a half years ago. In that time the App Store build has shipped 26 versions: 1major (2.0.0), 1 minor (1.9.0), and 24 patches. If “upcoming” meant anything under normal ALM practice, the next minor (1.9) or the next major (2.0) would have been the obvious slots. Both shipped. Theme songs did not. The rest of the ecosystem already has this. Theater, the web app, and Roku have had theme songs since around 2014(about twelve years). iOS and Android mobile have had them since at least 2017 (about nine years). Android TV and Fire TV got them in 1.6.00 in June 2018 (about eight years; the release notes literally say “Support theme songs while browsing”). Apple TV is still the odd one out: roughly eight years behind the other living-room apps, and about twelve behind everyone else, even though theme media is a documented server feature and there are paid Premiere plugins (TV / Movie Theme Songs) that exist specifically to fill those files. In fact, I just personally paid for that plugin today. Apple TV is the only Emby client I use, so I have no way to use what I just bought, and no idea when that changes. I’m seriously looking at asking for a refund, because I don’t feel the need to keep a plugin for a feature I have no idea when I’ll be able to use. That puts the plugin author in a bad spot for something that isn’t their fault. The failing here is Emby. What is actually happening with this feature on Apple TV, and when do you expect users to be able to turn it on? Thanks

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That makes sense. It's just the individual library view that I would like to have the ability to either display the entire file system, or just the items in the folder that is used to build the library.

Hi, I’ll be more helpful When I go to download something by just pressing “Download”, a blank screen pops up and nothing happens when I press the download button when I try to use “Download to” my iPhone, it says it’s downloading but nothing happens iOS 27.0 latest Emby app ScreenRecording_09-25-2026 21-21-32_1.mp4

@rob51I also run on windows server with a dedicated user for emby as a service and never had any major issues or security concerns. If you're that concerned with that user being part of the Authenticated Users group then I would just explicitly define read only or deny permissions for that user. It might get a bit tedious, but it's doable to lock down any unnecessary permissions for that user account (even on root drives). This should help you better understand how permissions are handled. Permission Precedence - NTFS.com

How's the best way to handle movies with multiple names? A lot of the Godzilla movies have the Original name and another name for the US release. Godzilla vs Monster Zero (1965) is also known as Invasion Of Astro-Monster. I've been using the Original Title field to add AKA and the extra title. It does show up in searches that way but you have to edit the Metadata to verify. The Primary view doesn't have the option to display the Original Name.

Tags must never go away. Really. I have 107,000 Tags and would have to go into therapy if they disappeared. Bulky Editor could stand some updates to be more user friendly. Would be really great is Tags could be used in some kind of structure. Like Comedy, with sub-Tags of Standup Comedy, Satire/Parody, Rom-Com........ The Inability to rename a tag is a hardship. I have a Clip App that I use to hold Tags so I don't have to worry about typing mistakes. @user24You can Bulk edit tags with Bulky Editor in the Dashboard. It's not the most user friendly but I've edited 4-5000 tags at a time with it.