A small update to the previous release has gone out. The following issues are resolved:
Firefox live tv playback
Interlaced video detection
Transcoding of *.ass subtitles
Recordings not saving with unique name
Enjoy
This beta is mainly targeted towards Windows users.
Emby Server is now able to run as a 64-bit process on Windows.
Important Note
After updating you will see an admin prompt to install the Microsoft Visual C++ 2013 runtime, if you do not already have it installed.
Version 1.05 is in process of publishing to the app store.
This version includes a fix for Live TV playback getting stuck on the first frame and then not recovering. Big thanks to everyone in the beta group who helped tested this issue.
We've updated our Chromecast app with a major overhaul. Here's what's new:
All New Video Transcoding The receiver now enjoys the same transcoding used by the Chrome browser. Not only will you see faster video start times, but also faster seeking, and reduced cpu utilization on your server. In many cases now we'll just stream copy the original video while only transcodng the audio.
While we could go on and on about the benefits, we think the words of a fellow community member sum it up be
The stable release channel has been updated to 3.0.5785. The following are the changes:
Add support for internet metadata for daily episodes
Fix script error on HDHomerun and NFO config pages
Make Emby server handle internet outages more gracefully
Expand supported subtitle formats in WDTV Live DLNA profile
Add automatic bitrate option for Chromecast
Improve h264 support detection in Firefox for Linux
Add semi-colon as artist separator
Add Indonesian as selectable language
Updat
This is a small update with the following changes:
Add semi-colon as artist separator
Add automatic bitrate setting for Chromecast
Improve detection of h264 support in Firefox for Linux
Add Indonesian as selectable language
Update Tmdb throttling
Add robots.txt file to web interface
Going forward, the automatic updates will be downloading from Github Releases:
https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Emby/releases
Not only can you browse the releases on Github, but now we'll
In light of the recent outages we've had, this beta is designed to be more resilient to loss of connectivity. so please help test this. Also please continue to test IPV6 support here on the beta branch.
Other Changes
Resolve checkboxes unavailable on HDHomerun configuration page
Resolve video transcoding error affecting Live TV with Firefox
Team,
Today are hosting provider experienced major downtime for a period of at least 12 hours. This caused the Emby website, community, and Emby Connect to be completely unavailable. We apologize for any inconvenience this has caused. We are looking into ways to keep this from happening in the future.
To stay notified of any issues in the future, please follow us on Twitter or Facebook.
This is a maintenance release designed to address a few issues. Here is the change log:
Playback improvements (hevc fixes amongst others)
Custom libraries can now be selected from the main menu
Support for https
Disable WakeOnLan for background tasks
Sync fixes
Get it now on the Microsoft Store:
http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/media-browser/ad55a2f0-9897-47bd-8944-bed3aefd5d06
Happy new year from the Emby team
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
cmcg has been working extremely hard on this and we're pleased to announce version 1.0 of Emby for Samsung Smart TV's. It’s been a great effort by the community to bring this popular Emby client up to a major milestone. Supported models are TVs, Blu-ray Disk Players and Home Theatre Systems from the D, E, F and H Series running the SmartHub OS. Sadly, Samsung have already moved on to Tizen OS and closed the doors of their app store to new SmartHub applications unless we first submit a Tizen bas
The stable version of the previous beta has been released! Get it now in time for the holidays. The main highlights of this release are:
Improved Chrome transcoding
Faster web client performance
To learn more, check out the original beta announcement here:
http://emby.media/community/index.php?/blog/1/entry-265-emby-server-beta-3057816-released/
Happy Holidays from the Emby Team
The long-anticipated arrival of music support in the Fire TV/Android TV apps is here!
Coming very soon to your Fire and Android TV devices - full support of music functionality with a fast, intuitive and beautiful interface to all your Emby audio.
Features include:
Smart-screen interface with latest albums, last played, favorites, playlists etc.
Two grid-views - browse albums or album artists
Full audio queuing capabilities from within all asp
New beta packages are available on our Open Build Service page:
https://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home%3Aemby&package=emby-server-beta
Important: This is a beta package and should be used for testing only. Once this goes stable we'll have separate stable packages.
Other Linux Package Improvements
We'll have a separate post about this, but our linux packages are seeing a lot of improvements as well. Notably:
Added support for openSUSE Tumbleweed and Leap
A small update to the previous release has gone out. This one will start as a beta and hopefully move along to stable by the end of the week. There is one important fix and a few new improvements.
Fixed: Roku crash when playing content with a runtime longer than 2 hours
Thanks to the community members who helped track this one down. You can read more about this issue here:
http://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/27511-roku-reboots-when-starting-playback/
Improved Chrome Tran
Team,
As many of you know, we participate in beta programs in most of the major app stores, and for our downloadable apps we even have our own programs. Joining our beta programs will give you a look at what's coming, and allow you to have an even greater voice by leaving feedback earlier in the development cycle.
Important: As with any pre-release software, you may experience decreased stability, degraded performance, or other various issues. Please participate if you'd like to help tes
A small update to the previous release has gone out. The following issues are resolved:
Fix #1216 - Scraper (thetvdb) searches in wrong language
Fix #1245 - Unable to find [REC] unless brackets are removed
Fix #1248 - Browsing to /web/ causes error
Stop playback when ending Chromecast session from web client
Added cache file deletion error handling
Added error handling when parsing media bitrates
Updated dvd vob list parsing
Fix interval scheduled task triggers firing re
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
1.03 has been released to the app store. We told you to expect regular updates
There are a few new features, but the main focus of this release is the unlock workflow, and alleviating some issues such as repeated password prompts that a few of you have reported.
To learn more about Emby for iPhone and iPad, check out the original announcement:
http://emby.media/community/index.php?/blog/1/entry-254-introducing-emby-for-iphone-and-ipad
We've also started a new wiki for the app, s
A small update to the previous release has gone out. The following issues are resolved:
Fix marking series played marks future episodes as played
Update on-demand image downloading for live tv items & channel items
Fix null reference error with schedules direct
Improved stability of in-browser HLS streaming
Enjoy
The following issues have been resolved:
Detail screen images sometimes appearing incorrectly
Device language being detected incorrectly
To learn more about Emby for iPhone and iPad, check out the original announcement:
http://emby.media/community/index.php?/blog/1/entry-254-introducing-emby-for-iphone-and-ipad/
We've also started a new wiki for the app, so be sure to check that out:
https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Wiki/wiki/iOS
