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Work has been progressing furiously to provide a living room client to Android users. We're aiming for a January release of an update to the current client that will be geared towards 10' use. I'd originally hoped it would be under peoples trees for Christmas.
The players
The whole UI has been built with the intent to make physical remote navigation much easier. The new player UI has full support for playlist navigation, chapter/audio/subtitle selection.
Here's a teaser!
http://y
Finally!! I'm very pleased to announce that the Android MediaBrowser client now supports Chromecast. Everyone who has a device running Google Play Services 4.2 should see it in the coming days.
Chromecast will behave like it does in most other clients. Select a route using the route selector and then the play actions will play on the selected Chromecast device.
HAPPY CASTING!
In the near future I'll be merging the Remote play and CC functionality so that it's the same inter
Version 3.0.96.0 of MBC brings chapter viewing and direct playback to themes that are modified to support it.
Currently default, Chocolate and Subdued support chapters with more themes coming. Legacy themes may never support this functionality so this may be a good time to investigate a new theme.
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Breeze is a breath of fresh air and is the fastest theme available today and is in the MB Store right now.
Beautiful glass panels and silky-smooth animation make Breeze a delight to use.
For more details check out http://mediabrowser.tv/community/index.php?/topic/2721-breeze-theme-for-mbc/
We've updated our Chromecast app with new features. Now, anytime you play an individual episode, the following episodes in the series will be automatically queued for easy continuous play. This makes Emby for Chromecast the perfect choice for binge watching your favorite series. How to Get The Update To receive the update, simply power cycle your Chromecast device and restart the casting app.
Check out our Chromecast Wiki Learn more about the app on our wiki at: https://github.com/M...wiki/
MediaBrowser 3 has a new theme launching very soon – Aztec. But this is no ordinary theme.
For the first time ever, you don’t just see the front covers of all the movies on your HTPC – you see the back covers too, beautifully animated. All the detail about every movie, just like you see on a DVD or Blu Ray case.
The folks at FanArt.tv may soon be adding full cover scans – front, back and spine – to the already extensive selection of images and artwork. Do you want to see back cov
Buckle up... Aztec is here - a new experience for MediaBrowser Classic that will spin your world back to front...
For the first time ever, you don’t just see the front cover of all your movies – you see the back cover too.
Aztec is the first and only theme to show you front AND BACK COVER IMAGES
Coverflow isn’t a flat row of covers – THEY CURVE AROUND YOU
Poster wall is big and all about the covers
Aztec is fast. Very fast.
A traditional-style EHS lets you quickl
Automatic Refresh Rate Switching
The Android TV app now (as of version 1.2.11g) supports automatic refresh rate switching on supported devices. This requires Android 6.0+ and a display that supports the target refresh rate. The app will now automatically adjust your panel's refresh rate to a frequency that better matches the video being played if possible. This requires no special setup but can be disabled with an option in the settings page if desired.
Other Improvements
In addit
Version 1.0.4.0 brings Audio Nomalisation to its users.
Simply download and install the latest version and configure your preferred volume from the plugins configuration pages.
Note: in order for the normalisation to be performed, the themes need to be downloaded again.
Also in 1.0.4.0
Users will also notice a significant increase in speed when downloading the them theme videos.
A lot of time has been put into server side optimisations to ensure the plugins can perform as fast as
Continuing the enhancement and evolution of our Android TV and Fire TV apps - both get some fantastic new interface enhancements.
Live TV Guide
Here is what you can do with it:
You can navigate around through the graphical representation of all your channels' program content 50 channels at a time (unless filtered - see below)
You can bring up program detail information on any individual program
You can schedule individual or series recordings via any individual program
You c
Another update to our Apple TV app is rolling out and should be on a device near you soon. New Features / Improvements The Favorites and Trailers tabs are now available in the Movies library:
The Genres tab in the Movie library has been reworked to allow you to more easily navigate between genres with the Siri remote.
The All, Trailers and Collections tabs have brand new sorting and filtering options.
You can now shuffle a movie collection and it has been updated to pr
A major update to the Emby app for Apple TV is rolling out now. Simply re-start the app to get the update or, if you haven't tried it yet, install it from the app store on your 4th or 5th gen Apple TV now!
Live TV
The biggest new feature of the app is the implementation of Live TV (Emby Premiere subscription required). Now you can access programs, channels, recordings and recording schedules from the Apple TV just like you can with the other Emby apps. Full recording management is also a
Emby for Apple TV 1.7.3 - Multi-Color Logos, Sorting Playlists and Collections
Emby for Apple TV 1.7.3 adds many new features that improve the user experience in powerful to subtle ways.
Support Multi-Color Logos based on Theme in Use
Emby for Apple TV now supports both light and dark sets of logos. The app will automatically choose which logos to use based on the theme in use.
Here are a couple screen shots, showing this:
Dark Theme Guide with Light Logo
Light Them
A major update to the Apple TV app that includes a new custom player that can direct play more content is rolling out now.
You should get much more direct playback support as we are no longer completely dependent on the Apple player capabilities. We hope to continue to improve format support in the future as well.
Also in this release:
* Fixed an issue where searching was not working on server versions 4 and above * Fixed an issue where you could not view latest photos from the
We're looking to expand our open source repertoire by growing our team and building new apps for new platforms. This includes any platform that we're not currently on, as well as new kinds of apps for existing platforms.
We're constantly adding new contributors for smaller projects, but now we're looking for developers willing to take on major projects such as these. Among our app goals are:
More smart tv apps
Apps for wearables
Companion apps (apps that are not full fledged but do s
Version 1.2.09 of the Apple TV app is rolling out now with some more fixes and enhancements: Bug fixes:
Fixed remote play/pause
Fixed resuming a movie
Fixed delete button not working on detail views
Fixed collection view with items other than movies showing an error
Fixed item unwatched counts not displaying with some server platforms (an empty green circle was shown)
Removed budget from sorting in the movie library as it's no longer supported
New Features / Updates:
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We are very excited to announce our brand new, fully searchable and organized, Knowledge Base! It is available now at https://support.emby.media
Just start typing what you are looking for in the search box and related articles will be suggested immediately. Or just navigate the sections to find what you are looking for.
We really think this will be a major improvement to helping you find answers to your questions and issues. If you find problems, incorrect information or any o
Voice Control for Emby with your supported Amazon Echo device
Intelligent Voice Control for Emby
The Emby Alexa Skill enables Emby Premiere members to get information about and control playback of their media on any Emby compatible device. Once you have successfully linked your Emby account to Alexa, you can start playing your favorite movies, TV shows and songs on your devices with your voice. Learn all about how to get the skill and set it up on our wiki.
The s
As you all know by now we at Media Browser love it when new people step up and use our API to do new things. That's why we're pleased to announce public availability of our developer libraries so that anyone can build apps using the same tools as our core apps.
The project can be found here:
https://github.com/M....ApiClient.Java
It is built with popular libraries such as Volley and OkHttp. It will soon be available on Maven. Now anyone can build apps for Android using the same libra
nuVue is pleased to announce support for Media Browser
https://play.google....ignstudio.nuvue
nuVue is a companion app for Media Browser users that displays rich notifications when new items are added. There is nothing additional to install on your Media Browser server. Just sign in with your credentials and nuVue does the rest.
Know when there is something new to watch without opening a client app
Perfect for cord-cutters who use automated downloads
Group notifications and listi
At long last we're pleased to announce Emby Server 4.0. This new release will begin rolling out over the next 24 hours, so please be patient. This has been our longest release period ever, and going forward we intend to get back to a more frequent release schedule. This release is packed with improved performance, updates to existing features, as well as several brand new features.
Important Upgrade Information After installing the update, the server will begin a database upgrade operation.
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