Team,
Ever since the announcement of the Xbmc to Kodi rebranding, Media Browser communities, call centers and offices around the world have been inundated with phone calls and emails from millions of curious users, all wondering the same thing. Will Media Browser retain it's compatibility after the Kodi name change and Helix release? Today we are here to answer those questions with a resounding yes.
Kodi is a great front-end and we think Media Browser is the perfect companion. Our Kodi a
We're pleased to announce LDAP support for Emby Server, now supported by all Emby apps!
Installation
To setup LDAP, simply install the LDAP plugin from the Emby plugin catalog. This feature requires an active Emby Premiere subscription.
Then head over to your LDAP plugin configuration and setup the plugin to connect to your LDAP server:
Users are imported from LDAP as they sign into Emby. You can even set the default permissions for imported users:
Important: U
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 security release which all Emby Server users are recommended to update to. Here are the changes:
Fix 172.X addresses always being considered private
Don't allow local network addresses to be specified in x-forwarded-for and x-real-ip
Adjust web app html tags to avoid false detection from Chrome as impersonating the Emby domain
Emby for Amazon Alexa has been updated with the following improvements:
Improved audio playback including artwork, metadata and media playlist control
More voice training data added with better, more informative error responses
If not, why not? XBMB3C brings together the vast feature set of Xbmc with the power of Media Browser Server. It also has some beautiful skins and runs on just about any platform.
Here are some recent feature highlights:
New Gotham repo, supporting Gotham skins and features
Channel support
Let's take a look at some of the skins it has to offer.
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Any user of Neo, Pearl or Square should appreciate this one. It's minimalistic, easy to use, and keeps the focus on
A new release is rolling out and addresses a few issues. Here are the highlights:
Improve search performance
Add html audio/video autoplay support detection
Add Auto quality to video player OSD
Update xml tv show id's
Update m3u channel numbers
Improve video startup performance
Update ordering of search results
Assume season 1 for episodes in certain situations
Add ios safari fullscreen video button
Add realtime monitor error handling
A new release of Emby Server is currently rolling out. Here are the highlights.
New Features
Add additional dark theme option
Support delete permissions per library
Support play next
Support azw3 book extension
Support mpeg2 hardware video decoding with OMX
Add setting to disable theme videos in the web app
Bug Fixes
Fix next up queries within libraries
Resolve version flipping back and forth in now playing section
Fix new item notifications being sent to all users
R
As you all know from our previous announcement, we have some great things coming on Android:
http://mediabrowser.tv/community/index.php?/blog/1/entry-154-coming-soon-to-your-android-living-room/
Before the new version is rolled out, we thought about doing a sale, and then we thought why not go free for short while to help create excitement and bring more new people to Media Browser. It is free in both the Play Store and Amazon App Store:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=
This is a small release that brings a few important improvements. Here are the highlights.
Dramatically Reduced Transcoding CPU Usage
New "just in time" HLS transcoding will dramatically reduce cpu utilization after the initial client buffering period. You'll now be able to enjoy more simultaneous streams and have more peace of mind about your server's resource consumption. The apps that will benefit from this are the mobile web client, Android, Android TV, Fire TV, Chromecast, Windows 8
A major face-lift for the Roku app - bringing it more in line with the other apps - is on its way to your Roku device. 4.0 brings the familiar "tab" style interface to this app. Allowing you to easily move between views in a library and set your default landing page in each of them.
To set the default landing tab, simply enter a library and select the "cog" wheel at the top (or use the * button on your remote).
In addition to the new library interface, t
We're pleased to announce our Emby Theater app is now available in the Mac App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/emby/id992180193?ls=1&mt=8
The app works very well as a desktop app for your Mac as well as an HTPC connected to your TV. Enjoy these screens below and check it out in the app store !
A small update to the previous release has gone out, with several fixes and one notable new feature. Here are the highlights.
Encoding with Intel Quick Sync is Here!
There's a lot of great changes going on in our dev branch. Seriously, if you have a system to spare for testing, you should think about joining in on the fun. Quick Sync encoding has been sitting in dev for a while and we're excited to finally bring it to you. Please note - we're still considering this experimental and it is
The waiting is finally over, The moment "Soon" is now.
The Windows 8 client is now available for download.
Get it here:
http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/app/media-browser/ad55a2f0-9897-47bd-8944-bed3aefd5d06
The stable channel has been updated. Thanks to everyone who helped test the beta. Our cloud features are just beginning, so stay tuned for more!
Recap
A new version of Emby Server has been released with some exciting new additions. Before we go over them, if you missed our recent Emby announcement you can read all about that here:
http://mediabrowser....troducing-emby/
Introducing Cloud Sync & Folder Sync
We worked really hard on sync during this release cycle to bring yo
Team,
The latest server release features new and improved video streaming in the desktop editions of Google Chrome, Internet Explorer 11, and Opera. Thanks to our integration with Viblast Player, we now have the ability to utilize Emby Server's HLS and MPEG-DASH streaming, which up until now has been limited to the mobile browsers and standalone apps.
This a big win for us and it brings a number of new benefits. If you're a Google Chrome user, we're finally able to eliminate the Webm str
Emby for LG 1.0.35 has been released. We hope you enjoy the many new features of this build!
Visual Timeline Seeking including Thumbnail Graphics
Included in our new 1.0.35 release for LG is support for visual seeking. You can Rewind, Fast Forward or Jump to any position in the timeline
quickly and easily using our new seeking. Best of all, our new seeking combined with thumbnail graphics makes it easy to pin-point the scene you want to re-watch or queue up.
The above p
Today I'm pleased to announce that Media Browser for Roku is now available in the Roku store. The channel is available for all current models of the Roku devices.
https://owner.roku.com/add/mediabrowser
Features:
Browse your entire Media Browser collection
Stream movies, television and music
Emby Server 4.7.9 - Enhancements to Playlists, Webhooks & New Users...
This is the latest point release of Emby Server containing new features as well as fixes for identified issues.
New User Setup Features: Copy Policy and Configuration Data From Other Users:
Emby now includes the ability to copy policy and configuration settings from an existing user on the system during user creation.
You can pick a user to copy data from during creation of a new user, simplifying the job
Windows Universal support for Xbox One might not be here just yet, but that doesn't mean you can't enjoy Emby on your favorite game console while you wait.
Emby Premiere subscribers are invited to try Emby Theater for Xbox One. Just open the Microsoft Edge browser and launch tv.emby.media. You can even turn it into an app by adding it to your home screen!
Supports Xbox One Game Pad Input
Easily control the app thanks to native support for your Xbox One game pad. The D-Pad works just
We've been pretty busy over the past few weeks and have added quite a bit thanks to the help of some new contributors. Let's run through the highlights:
Beginning to localize Media Browser Server
DLNA Play To improvements
DLNA Profile editing
Multi-version movie grouping
Anime TV fixes
More efficient transcoding
The web client now has a 'selected player'
Live TV news - Next Pvr launching
Beginning to Localize
We are working hard to translate all of our apps into
Hi All,
We have reached a couple of new milestones with XBMB3C - release 0.9.0 AND a new skin repo!
But before going into the details, a few words...
We really would like to invite both MediaBrowser users who have previously tried XBMC and found the database capabilities lacking, and XBMC users who have tried or heard about MediaBrowser but found the hardware support lacking to give XBMB3C a shot!
What we are trying to do here is take the very powerful, VERY multi-platform XBMC p
This has been a longer than usual development cycle and as a result we've got some great things to introduce. Let's get right to the release highlights:
New Internet Channels Infrastructure
Improved DLNA Support
Improved Server Localization
Live TV H264 Optimizations
Subtitle downloading via OpenSubtitles.org
Newly designed web client home page
Design and customize your web client
Expanded user audio/subtitle language preferences
Improved remote control in the web clien
A small update has gone out. Here are the highlights:
Reduce device discovery traffic
Update WDTV dlna profile
Update live tv channel mapping
Add additional schedules direct error handling
Update xmltv parsing
Attach user agent to omdb requests
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