One year ago, I sent Luke a PM asking him to look into a Media Browser add-on for Xbmc.
I really didn't know Luke at the time - otherwise I would have known that he would push me to do it myself. Luke is good at that!
At the time:
I didn't know Python
I didn't know anything about working with web APIs, XBMC API or MB3 API
I didn't know how to use GitHub
I made a little progress - got lists to display and files to play. I thought I was about done...
And then users and other d
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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 Browserserver. Just sign in with your credentials and nuVue does the rest.
Know when there is something new to watch without opening a client app
See what TV series and movies are currently in-progress
Perfect for cord-cutters who use automated downloads
Group notifications an
Hi All,
We are making progress towards a 0.8.0 release of XBMB3C.
Added a new developer - im85288 who has been helping a lot with skin intergration.
Check out our progress:
Did you hear of XBMB3C ?
It's a fantastic add-on for XBMC to connect to your Media Browser server and browse your libraries. That way you can take advantage of the great things XBMC has to offer like PVR-support, large amount of plugins and a large support of devices/platforms without giving up the fantastic features of Media Browser.
If you just install the XBMB3C add-on, you have to open up the add-on to browse your Media Browser libraries. Not that user friendly as you might want to just
Highlights:
New translations
DLNA Play To improvements
New DLNA Server
Enhanced DLNA profile editing
New server notification system
New transcoding audio boost setting
New collection grouping setting
Improved mobile layouts in the web client
Display mirroring added to the web client
Theme songs in the web client
New translations
Thanks to the community effort, Media Browser Server is now about 60% translated, and new languages have been added. We're still l
A new beta release has been pushed out. Your server will update sometime this week depending on your automatic update settings, and our update staggering. This release is mostly about metadata and bug-fixes. The highlights are:
Support for missing and unaired episodes
Support all Plex/Xbmc image file conventions
Support combining multiple backdrop sources
Support automatic updates from themoviedb.org
Numerous subtitle fixes
New sidebar indicators in editing area
Full changeli
3.0.5061.25570 has been released into the wild. This brings a number of enhancements:
Manual image downloads
Rate and review plugins in the catalog
Improve movie/series searches using non-standard naming
Ignore xbmc .actors folder
Resolve image downloading issues with previous release
Limit users ability to remote control other users
Manual Image Downloads
Rate and Review Plugins
Remote Control
This is a big one, and it's all about giving you finely grained control of what your server is doing. Let's get to the changes:
First, the warning:
This release will re-scan your library. Please be patient. Also review your user library sharing because you may need to reconfigure some of them.
Finely grained control over metadata settings. Choose where your metadata comes from, prioritize internet fetchers, and choose what formats your metadata gets saved to.
Local metadata is king.
We've got another great release for you. Here are the highlights:
DLNA Play To
Create collections using the web interface
Identification Feature added to editor
Redesigned video player in web client
Support Xbmc .disc media stubs
Reports
Copy-only option added to Auto-Organize
DLNA Play To
Thanks to help from @7Illusions Now we can detect devices on your network and offer the ability to remote control them. Try it! Please note this is a brand new feature and will ta
Highlights:
Updated web interface design
More metadata fine tuning
Out of the box studio & genre images
Updated Web Client & Dashboard Design
The web interface has embraced flat UI. Large rounded elements have been replaced in favor of a new smaller, sharper design.
New Mobile & Tablet Layouts
You'll find it much easier to navigate now.
Redesigned Search
The new slide out panel removes clutter from the header and is mobile & tablet frien
This is a very minor release with some enhancements required for the upcoming preview build of Media Browser Theater.
We now retrieve all Music Brainz Id's directly from Music Brainz. No other source is used for this information, (aside from saved xml). This should result in better matches.
Soundtracks can now be used as theme songs
Soundtracks can utilize theme videos from their linked movie, series or game
TV specials can now be displayed directly within seasons
Search now suppor
This is largely another infrastructure release. Here's the highlights:
Xbmc metadata support out of the box (plugin is now obsolete)
New video player layout in the web client
Improved seeking while transcoding for the web client & roku, coming soon to other apps
New mobile tap-hold menus
Improved log page
Subtitle download scheduled task
Latest item groupings
Season overview fetching from Tmdb
Episode image fetching from Tmdb
Chapter images now part of regular re
A new version of Emby for Roku has been rolling out this week and it provides some nice enhancements as well as minor bug fixes. The update should be coming to your Roku device soon!
New on-screen mini-guide
During live TV playback, you can now bring up a small version of the guide and move around and find other programs to watch easily. You can set programs to record or cancel them, or switch to a new channel. Pressing the "play" button on your remote will tune directly to the sele
Team,
Today, for the first time, we're simultaneously releasing new stable and beta releases. We're pleased to announce that we now have beta packages for several Linux distributions, which you can check out on our website:
https://emby.media/download/
3.0.5782.0 Stable
New Opus Audio Transcoding
In the web client, transcoded music now uses Opus in supported browsers. Opus is an open format and has superior quality to aac and mp3. Currently this is supported in Chrome, Opera
3.0.5821 Stable
This is predominantly a bug fix release.
New Features
* Added user channel setting to group all channels into a single internet Channels view * Support itunes episode file naming * Add off option to subtitles remote control menu * Use ac3 transcoding for MS Edge * Updated photo slideshow now has auto-advance functions and closes with the back button
Issues Resolved
* Fix web client image scaling * Restart recording timers on system wake * Fix pt-br with tvdb
3.0.5912 - Stable
This is a small follow-up to the previous release designed to address a few issues:
Fix safari loading issue
Fix alphabet picker not working on some screens in Emby web app
Fix trailers missing from some Emby apps
Support m2ts direct play with WDTV Live DLNA
Support music dynamic images
3.0.5927 - Beta
The beta has a number of new features that you can try out and help test:
New Features:
Dramatically improved transcoding for Microsoft Edge and Ope
Thanks to the help of fc7 we have new packages available for CentOS and Fedora.
Installation
http://emby.media/downloads/linux-server
Upgrade
If you're currently running the previous package and you'd like to upgrade, please see instructions here:
http://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/13398-fedoracentos-rpm/page-4&do=findComment&comment=236204
Available now on your 4th gen Apple TV device
Emby Remote Control
Now control your Apple TV app from other Emby mobile apps and the web interface. Mirror the display, send items for playback and control the playback experience all from your phone or web browser.
Improved Subtitle Support
Now control subtitles in most instances from within the normal player interface during playback (requires latest Emby Server).
Other Improvements and Fixes
The movie detai
The new ppa and repo are labelled as beta for now just because of there infancy. The major changes in the new ppa are as follows:
mono 4.0 is now distributed with our ppa
ImageMagick has openMP disabled
Maintainer Scripts were added in order to ensure the upgrade process of emby package.
On first install user is notified of information he should be aware of regarding permissions.
libwebp got updated to the latest version.
init.d script now starts mono with various switches and optio
A new update to the Android TV app is on its way to both the Google and Amazon stores and should hit a device near you soon.
Lots of things have been tidied up in this release including:
Enhanced SSL support
if you have a setup with a trusted certificate or you have enabled your self-signed one on your Andriod TV device, you should now be able to use these apps with your secured (https) servers including playback through the various players.
Video Playlists and a new Video Queue
Team,
Happy new year! If you're a coder who likes movies, tv, music and games, now is a better time than ever get involved and join the project. No matter your skill set, whether it's Java, C# or even Pascal, we can find a place for you. Here are some areas we're currently looking for help with, but if you have your own ideas we'd like to hear them.
Available Projects
Trakt
We are looking for a contributor to help bring new features to our Trakt plugin. Trakt has added new data to t
Movie Theme Songs
Downloads Theme Songs for Movies
Theme Songs for Movies
The Movie Theme Songs Plugin will download Movie Theme Songs where available to your local media library in the correct format and location required by the MediaBrowser 3 Server.
Once installed and the theme intro songs downloaded,they will be played whilst browsing your collections.
As Theme Songs are supported by the Media Browser server, any client/theme can make use of them if they choose to.
Cur
A new version of the Emby for Roku app has been released with a number of enhancements mostly around better playback and error recovery.
Included in this release is:
* Video Playback Correction Option * Select Video Quality During Playback * Repeat All in Video Player * Crew added to Detail Display * Genre Aspect Ratio fixed * Refresh Metadata From Detail Screen * Exit Menu Enhancements * Fix Collection Display * General Video Playback Improvements (more direct play) * Ensure Transcodes
Another update to our brand new Roku app is rolling out to the store right now. It features a cleaner look, improved playback, video playlist support and more!
New, Cleaner Tile Display
Wrap-around Scrolling for all Rows
You can now go left from the first item of all rows to quickly get to the end and, when at the end, the items will wrap back around to the front.
Easier Access to Other Library Views
Remote Messaging Support
Use the new server feat
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