As many of you know we are working hard to localize Media Browser so that it can be displayed in your native language.
Many have volunteered to help translate and we thank you for that. If you'd like to see Media Browser in your language, please drop us a line and we'll set you up to help translate.
Emby Server 4.2.1 is currently rolling out to address a few small issues with our 4.2 release. Here are the highlights:
Fix guide tab button colors on light themes
Fix refresh progress display of individual libraries
Fix collections not getting an image when locked
Fix sync using path substitution when it should not be
Fix crashes on Linux due to network event binding
Fix more button on live tv setup page
Fix erroneous constraint on sync table for new installations
Fix ffprobe cr
A new release of Emby for LG is currently rolling out. Here are the highlights:
New Detail Screen Button Design
A new and improved detail screen design matches our layout in other Emby apps and makes the most important features easier to find.
Other Highlights
Improved subtitle playback
Improve sorting and filtering to match capabilities of other Emby apps
Improve navigation performance
Tags now displayed on detail screens
Emby for Android 3.0.73 is rolling out and contains a number of important fixes and improvements. Here are the highlights:
Fixed downloading to external SD cards
Improved download reliability
Improved reliability of camera upload feature
Fixed audio/video sync for certain videos
A new update for our Apple TV app has just been released which makes the app compatible with both tvOS 12.4 and 13. As a bonus, you also get all of the following : Brand New Home Screen
We've entirely re-written home screen. This gives you top level access to your Favorites, and an improved search.
In addition this new home screen includes the following improvements:
High quality images on Apple TV 4K
Better refreshing when content changes
Faster loading compared to the old s
An update for Samsung Tizen devices has been released. Here are the highlights:
Improve app performance
Expanded sorting and filtering options
Improved subtitle support
Support multi-version movies with version selection prior to playback
Improved uniform design with other Emby apps
Install from USB Now Available
Please see our community for details: https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/74969-samsung-tizen-install-from-usb/
If the app is not in the app store i
A new version of our Roku app has been rolling out and, in addition to several other quality, consistency and performance improvements, the app now supports a full array of language translations - even more than the Roku devices themselves do!
The default setting will follow your Roku device setting but, if you'd like a different language that the Roku itself doesn't support, you can select it in the options. Our translations are an ongoing community project. If you'd like to help, just
We're currently rolling out a few TVOS 12.3 fixes to our Apple TV app. Here are the highlights:
Resolve home screen refreshing content every 15 seconds
Resolve random stutters and skips during video playback
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
A new version of our Fire TV and Android TV app will be rolling out soon and it now allows you to take advantage of the new thumbnail generation available in Emby Server 4.1+. If you enable this new feature in the server, you will then be able to visually seek your content with thumbnails in the Android/Fire TV app.
Note: This feature requires that the new server thumbnail generation feature be enabled at an interval less than just chapter points and that it has completed successfully
If your library contains folder format media - this is only old disc style VIDEO_TS and BDMV folders - then be on the lookout for this new release and update as soon as possible.
If your library does not contain that kind of media or you do not allow delete privileges for your Emby users then none of this applies to you and you can continue on your way...
The issue
With only these old-style disc rip formats it is possible that using the Emby UI to delete one of them could potential
A new release of Emby for LG is currently rolling out. Here are the highlights:
Improved direct play of 4K, HDR and HEVC media
Resolves issue of audio track switching causing unneeded transcoding
Update filters and sorting options on all list screens
Improve Live TV recording layouts
Improve navigation performance
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.
Emby Server 4.0.2 is currently rolling out to address a few issues we've uncovered with the new 4.0 release. Here are the highlights:
Resolve slow scans for movie libraries
Various fixes for mixed content detection
Fix multi-version movie support for mixed content libraries
Fix season shuffle
Fix hevc main 10 stream copying not happening
Fix continue watching not respecting sub-folder access
Fix shared user data for duplicated movies
Improve image language prioritization
Fix li
New Look
Our Android TV and Fire TV apps have a new release rolling out over the next few days that will give you a nice new, much cleaner look to the overall interface.
We think this new look makes the app more modern and easier on the eyes - allowing you to take in the information better. And the new detail layout really allows your background artwork to shine.
Pre-playback Media Selection
This release implements optional fields to allow you to select the version
We're pleased to announce Emby Server is now available for NVIDIA Shield.
Please see the Emby website to learn how to download and install Emby Server onto your Shield:
https://emby.media/server-android.html
Once installed, the on-screen interface will direct you to the Emby web app to run the server startup wizard.
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
4.0.1 has gone out to address a few issues we've uncovered with the new 4.0 release. Here are the highlights:
Fix movie matching regression of failing to determine movie year from file name
Fix sporadic video crashes on Apple TV
Improve external subtitles with HLS
Various fixes for .ignore files
Fix movie sub-folder detection with mixed content libraries
Add EMC seasons workaround
Fix editing of user preference access option
Fix A-Z picker on folders tabs
Add music videos to se
Hi Team,
As many of you know, we are currently working hard on getting Emby Server 3.6 released. We would like to take this opportunity to give you some advance information on some of the changes that are coming.
New Levels of Performance Emby Server, as well as all Emby apps will perform faster than ever. The server can now easily scale to massive libraries, and the faster speed and reduced loading times will probably be the first thing you'll notice after upgrading to 3.6.
Live TV
We're pleased to announce availability of Emby Server for QNAP Arm64 (aarch64) models. This includes the new TS-x28A series !
This package is currently in beta testing. Installation instructions can be found on the Emby website:
https://emby.media/download
Happy holidays !
Emby for iOS 1.7 is currently rolling out. Here are the highlights:
Gapless audio playback, perfect for your Pink Floyd albums !
Improve orientation restoration after video playback
Improved support for DVB subtitles
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
Emby Server 3.5.3 has been released to address two small issues. Here are the highlights.
Resolve Chrome 69+ scroll problems
Resolve repeat install prompts for Visual Studio C++ libraries.
A new update to the Android TV app will be released soon with a new fresh look and "smooth scrolling" capability in the live TV guide as well as new vertically scrolling grid views.
A Fresh, Smooth Guide
The live TV guide has received a make-over and now has smooth scrolling through both channels and time instead of the old "paging" implementation.
Going Vertical
You spoke and we listened. The grid views in the app now default to a vertically scrolling presentation
Version 1.6.6 is currently rolling out to address a few issues. Here are the highlights:
Resolve blue flashes when playing HEVC videos
Resolve mpeg video sync problems
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