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I am stuck here and can't find the information. I have my Emba server on a synology NAS and it's working fine. No I want to stream video to my Samsung TV. This was fine for some videos, but for those with DTS audio it did not work. So I figured out, how to create a custom profile and make emby to use it with my TV. Now I can play als videos with DTS audio, when I use my TV interface to start the video. (So I can go in the TV menu to dlna, choose the Emby server, and then the video.) So step 1 is done. But what I really want is, to start the playback with the emby app on my android mobile. But this doesn't work for DTS. So: playing directly with the TV, DTS ist transcoded. Playing from the Emby app to my TV seems not to trancode. My understanding was: no matter who starts the playback, emby sees the DLNA target, and uses the profile is the target is recognized. Is this wrong? Does emby see only ma android device, when streaming with it to my TV? How can I make Emby to transcode in this case?? Thank you in advance, Pete

I'll see what I can do. Thanks

Screenshots are always helpful in these cases, as a picture is worth a thousand words and it typically helps avoiding misunderstandings, as it often happens that what one says is not what another hears. So if you could post a screenshot of your TV show root folder would be awesome. In certain scenarios, number-titled shows can confuse parser, hence the baseline/initial condition needs to be established and correct filefolder structure/naming to be clear to offer some insight/troubleshoot, else its all guesswork only.

I have them under the tv shows option. The shows are located on a portable hard drive. The shows are located in individual folders with the season number then episode number then name of show in each individual folder. Example: folder for show 1883. Then in that folder will be S01E01 then name of the episode following

Mmm, this still didn't seem too happy. I have now changed permission so these toplevel folders to allow emby to read, but their contents are set to still not be readable by emby. I have for good measure put a .embyignore with "*" in them to each of these top levels. As I said would be interested to see what emby have to say about this, certainly a change of behaviour and you'd think a bug as the whole library shouldn't break with with a top level directory that has perms that aren't readable by embyserver.

How are your files named and organized?

I'm using Emby for some transcoded streaming. Client is a FireTV Stick. I configured 3MBps max bitrate which seems activating the transcoding but it seems not happening in reality. I can check "nvidia-smi", which does not show any ongoing process. Also in my router I can clearly see there is much more bandwidth (~10MBps) used than I requested. Stats for nerds also confirms this (direct play), emby server admin also shows direct play. But transcoding log doesnt really show any errors at least I couldn't find any on my phone. Can you please take a look at it? ffmpeg-transcode-6a8c6abe-3545-4b24-9dcd-f6bcbbb98a7d_1.txt

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Hello, I'm new to Emby, and I really like it. I am having a a bit of a problem with TV shows function. I have 52 individual series with multiple episodes in each folder. When I open a particular series to start watching, all 52 series one episode one are displayed in the drop down box. Then I have to scroll down the list until I find the episode I want to watch. Is there a way to get around this and just show the episodes that pertain to the particular show I want to watch. Thank you

Bonjour la communauté, J'ai comme un bug sur les images de la librairie. Voici par exemple les images que j'ai pour un film : Je fais alors "Actualiser les métadonnées" et "Remplacer les images existantes" L'actualisation se passe bien mais aucune nouvelle image : et pourtant le film est bien identifié Maintenant si je fais "Identifier" A ce moment là, j'ai toutes les images Avez-vous le même problème ?

Thank you for the offer but what i want is just the info of what songs have been used in a movie shown along side the actors as so on. Just a little extra info about the movie.

I like adding theme songs to media so you get music when the media page opens. It's a lot of work to find something good. I also use youtube and search for "Media title" (year) music soundtrack. Oddly, Youtube has a lot of counterfit entries, showing songs of other artists, nothing to do with the film or TV show. Someone is grabbing views for profit. This happens all the time with new shows. You can tell by seeing the same unrelated artists and the owner is some fake name. Ha! Also check ou: https://what-song.com/ I could make a alphabetic media list of music I use. I think a rule for the forum, would be to NOT post actual mp3 files. That would be inappropriate and cause problems. Would anyone be interested in this?

TheAudioDB is a free community API that i think supplies the info. I believe IMDb supplies the data if you can get access to the API. I think it's free for individual users so maybe an option for users to enter their own API key? Havn't checked but TMDB might also provide some info.

Did you try a factory reset?

Someone might ask where would you find this information? This website appears to allow commercial use for free. Has an asterisk after free which means there are strings attached. There might be some kind of shared agreement whether it is financial or advertising related. https://www.tunefind.com/api

We need to know what happened, right now we are all guessing! We need more info about your setup and how you have configured Emby. There are so many ways this can happen and so many option admin can forget or not know about what it does, that can lead to this.

Have you ever posted "Emby server logs" on this forum and those disclosed your private API key? If they happen across your API key in any of those server logs those could be used to allow unscrupulus people to try to gain access to your server and start messing with things.. Always make sure to submit logs that you download through the server admin interface so they will get information removed, such as API keys, IP addresses, etc.. I am suspect you may have needed help very early on and some a$$hole found your logs with the api key in it and decided he wanted to be a d!ck. Apologies. You need to read the post that I have linked above. It will explain how this happens and how to prevent it.

Are you and your users using Emby connect? Did you disable remote access to you admin account? Do you show users on login screen? Does any of this look similar to your case?

Hi Folks! I have started a download in FireTV Stick. It seemed to finish. But then it starts over. I believe this is because of how this platform handles background operations. Once emby goes to sleep it stops the download. Then it is not continuing but restarting the download which means it is not that user-friendly unfortunately. I have to sit down and keep pushing the remote to keep the emby awake in order to properly download some content. Is there any known way to overcome on this limitation?

One other little tid-bit. I remember from a previous thread that you had me enable the "Force transcoding" on MPEGTS for this client so that I could start watching an in-progress recording and have FF / REW functional. The FFMPEG log got me thinking, and so I toggled that option OFF and the CC started working. So I can either have CC or I can watch in-progress recordings, but not both. Frustratingly, in the old Android TV app, they both work at the same time. Not sure what code update would be needed for the supported app to work as well as the depricated app, but I'd love to see that happen!

When I turn on CC with the embedded "Default EIA_608" during playback, nothing happens. If I up-arrow during playback and turn off / on CC, no words still. Emby for Android 3.5.28 = no CC, and unfortunately, this is my main watching device (Onn 4k streamer) For fun, I tried two other options this morning. All using the same show; - Emby Android TV 2.1.23g = CC (interestingly, this is on the same Onn 4k streamer - I haven't deleted it yet even though I understand this is depricated and the Emby for Android 3.5.28 is the current supported client). - And for kicks, on my laptop using Windows Emby Theater 3.0.20 = CC Same user on all devices, and as far as I can tell, I have the same options set for each client; Preferred language = English Mode = Default Remember Selections is checked Is this just a client issue with the one client then? Or is there a setting somewhere in that client that I'm just not seeing? Here's a log file and FFMPEG log. I played the same program on; Windows; ended at 9:04 am, CC worked Emby Android TV 2.1.23g; during the 9:06 minute, CC worked Emby for Android 2.5.28; during the 9:09 minute, CC did not work ffmpeg-directstream-bd722f3b-d6f7-4265-b1ba-b1b9ba98f9e1_1.txt embyserver-63908817009.txt

Okay, after some poking around. It looks like the issue is that Emby at some point in the last few releases now gets upset if any of the top level folders are not readable by Emby. Subfolders (folders inside top level folders) seem fine (or any further down the tree). Not sure if this was intended, this used to work. My workaround is having an .embyignore in the top level folder with the names of the emby unreadable directories. This seems to be working. e.g. HeldBack/* Pictures Raw Scans/*

Please add a feature that shows the song used in a movie, Could maybe be shown below the actors.

Can't you just set it to not auto skip and then press the skip button on the shows that you want to skip? Not that much work to press a button.

I know this has been brought up many times but the last forum I see on it is from 2024, so 2 years ago. But the Apple TV 4K app for Emby is still missing the A-Z quick scroll option on the side. It's been said its being worked but we've had an app release in December of 2025 and its still missing. How close are we to getting this? It would be extremely helpful because I have thousands of movies to scroll through. I only use Apple TV in my house and really don't want to switch just for this feature.