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Introducing the new Live TV for Emby (and Emby Server Beta 3.0.5713)

Luke

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A new beta server is currently going out and now includes built-in Live TV support, improved performance, and many other enhancements.

 

Now Supporting your HD Homerun Tuner, No External Software Needed

 

As you know we really enjoy Live TV here at Emby, but with our support previously dependent on external software, we know that it hasn't always been easy to get up and running. Today, we're pleased to bring you built-in Live TV support that does not require any additional software. Let's go over how it works.

 

Note: The EmbyTV plugin is now obsolete and has been removed from our plugin listings. Users with EmbyTV installed should uninstall it and switch to the built-in version.

 

Automatic Discovery of your HD Homerun Tuner on Your Network

 

The startup wizard makes this very simple for you. In most cases, we'll be able to discover your tuner devices. If not, then you can easily enter the IP Address of the device.

 

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M3U playlists are also supported as a tuner source.

 

Easy Guide Data

 

Currently we have one source, and that is Schedules Direct, but we plan to add more sources for additional countries in the future. We'd also like to support Xml TV data. Setup is very easy. Just enter your info and you're good to go.

 

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Your DVR Has Never Been Easier, Never Looked Better

 

We think this screen speaks for itself. Rich metadata displays make it very easy to find something you'd like to watch, or record.

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Enjoy Live TV on Any Device

 

Whether it's Android for smart phones, tablets, Android TV, Amazon Fire TV, Windows Tablets, Windows Phone, Roku or a web browser, Emby has you covered. Stay tuned for iOS support as well as the new Emby Theater!

 

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Our complete list of apps is available at:

 

http://emby.media/download/

 

Automatic Tuner Pooling

 

If you have multiple tuner devices, great! Emby will automatically group them into one virtual channel grid, and will appropriately delegate streaming in order to prevent conflicts from multiple clients.

 

Supports HD Homerun Transcoding

 

If you have an HD Homerun that supports H264 transcoding, Emby will take advantage of it whenever possible in order to offload transcoding and preserve resources on your server machine.

 

Unrivaled Parental Controls

 

Would you like to limit the programs and channels your children can access? It's easy, and it's nearly automatic. When you set a max parental rating for your users, they will not even be able to see restricted programs in their TV Guide.

 

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To block entire channels, you can set your own parental ratings for certain channels, or you can use the block by tags feature.

 

To learn more about Emby parental controls, visit https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Wiki/wiki/Parental%20controls

 

Stay Informed with Suggestions

 

Whether you like movies, sports, or just want to find something for your kids, Emby can help you find what you're looking for:

 

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Seamless Integration with other Emby Features

 

This is the fun part you'll enjoy most. Other Emby features that are designed for your media library are also accessible from Live TV. Just to name a few:

 

Mobile Sync and Cloud Sync:

 

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Suggestions:

 

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Auto-Organize:

 

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User Data Cross-Over

 

Your likes and watch states are now transferable from Live TV movies to movies in your media library. We plan to soon bring the same features to TV series, allowing you to blend data from every possible source into one seamless experience. Only on Emby.

 

 

More Live TV to Come

 

We wanted to get a beta out to let you all start playing with it, but there are plenty of enhancements already in our minds, such as:

  • Manual conflict management (currently Emby will try to automatically resolve recording conflicts)
  • On the fly conversion of recordings into streaming-friendly formats
  • More in-video features to quickly change channels

New and Improved Search

 

Live TV and internet channel content are now searchable!

 

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Repeat Mode

 

Now you can toggle repeat mode using the now playing bar. It allows you to quickly change between Repeat None, Repeat All, and Repeat One. Not only is this supported by the local player, but also when remote controlling other players that have added support for it.

 

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Play a Slide Show while you listen

The next time you play a song, head over to the now playing screen. There's a new button that will allow you to launch a photo or movie backdrop slideshow that will play and transition between images while your media is playing in the background. It's a perfect time to put family photos up on the screen with your favorite songs playing in the background.

 

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Much Cleaner Detail Screens

 

We think you'll agree. Detail screens are easier to read and focus on the things you love most.

 

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Taglines are Back in Style

 

We really haven't used them in a while due to the number of metadata features we have. But they add a nice touch to your movie screens, we just felt we had to bring them back.

 

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New Voice Commands Added

 

You can now switch devices as well as toggle display mirroring. Just speak the following out loud:

  • Control [device name]
  • Enable/Disable/Toggle display mirror

Other Changes and Fixes

  • Fixed people getting lost when local metadata saving is not enabled
  • Sym links not working on certain Linux distros
  • Music artist screens now display similar Artists
  • Fix live tv stream closing on Roku
  • Fix Portugese with open subtitles
  • Dlna special views use series images for better episode identification
  • Fixed Chromecast Live TV playback
  • Movie ratings not respecting language settings
  • Single quotes in subtitle file names causing transcoding failures
  • Mobile sync for apps will now prevent duplicate synced items
  • Fixed roboto font url
  • Updated to ffmpeg 2.7

Existing Feature Changes

 

As we add new features, we constantly have to re-evaluate and look for ways to ensure the system continues to perform well and is easy to use. So to that end, here are a few changes that we've made:

  • Support for MB2-style shortcuts has been deprecated in order to improve performance. They are still supported for boxsets, but if you need them elsewhere you will have to set a hidden config setting, EnableWindowsShortcuts.

  • The internet channel content downloading feature has been moved to a plugin. All features are still available, it's just in a plugin now.

  • For fresh new installs of the server, there will only be one supported metadata saving format per content type. If you need xml saving it is being moved to a plugin. Please note - the feature remains in the core server code for existing server installations. That means your existing install won't be disrupted at all. But the next time you install from scratch, you'll need the plugin if you want the alternative formats. Also, this doesn't affect xml reading, as we want the core server to be able read as many formats as possible to make it easy for new users to get up and running.

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jhevener

Great work team!

 

Any plans to interface with Ceton tuners?

 

I'd be interested in that. I have Ceton ifiniTV 4 as well as HDHomeRun tuners.

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glogrono

You want to head over to the Live TV section in the server's web administration interface.

 

Hi Luke,

Even though my server is showing the latest version, it actually updated today to 3.0.5713.2, it still shows the old Live TV interface where you have to select a plugin

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z06gal

I installed this on my Windows computer and everything went great.  When I click on a channel and select tune to channel, I get a "Playback video failed - Video failed to load" message.  What now?

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Luke
Hi Luke,

Even though my server is showing the latest version, it actually updated today to 3.0.5713.2, it still shows the old Live TV interface where you have to select a plugin

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I would install the beta from the website on top of your current install just to make sure

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kim_lombard

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How do I enable subtitles (closed captions) in Live TV?  I can verify that my HDHOMERUN tuner translates them by viewing with VLC and enabling.

 

I "thought" that there was a option for this in Emby?  Did it get lost? 

 

Any help appreciated.

 

BTW - Thanks for this.  Brilliant!

 

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Luke

 

How do I enable subtitles (closed captions) in Live TV?  I can verify that my HDHOMERUN tuner translates them by views with VLC and enabling.

 

I "thought" that there was a option for this in Emby?  Did it get lost? 

 

Any help appreciated.

 

BTW - Thanks for this.  Brilliant!

 

HDHomeRun EXTEND
Model: HDTC-2US 

 

 

It did temporarily get lost but we will work on restoring it. Thanks.

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Bigjohns97

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I would also be interested in Ceton support, I am currently running the serverwmc plugin for live tv access.

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aerospyke

Hi all, i don't have any external TV tuners but rather two internal "local" PCIe TV tuner cards... Is this something that is/will be supported for live TV or am I still stuck?

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kim_lombard

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Hi all, i don't have any external TV tuners but rather two internal "local" PCIe TV tuner cards... Is this something that is/will be supported for live TV or am I still stuck?

 

One workaround is to use Emby for the guide and NextPVR for the tuner support.http://nextpvr.com.  Emby has a nextprv plug-in which you would setup to see your tuners.  I used this setup for sometime until the native HDHOMERUN support was just recently introduced.

 

If you install nextpvr it can scan for your tuners.  You should know pretty quickly if it works.  Hope this helps.  Oh, BTW, it's not obvious, but when NextPRV starts up, to configure you right click on the window and select "Settings".  It has Getting Started hints, just follow those.  Integrates with Emby, perfectly.  Guide updates from Schedules Direct (you need a subscription).  Live TV / Record / Playback all can be used from Emby.  Back end processing by nextpvr.

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TonkaTuff

I'm getting the "There was an error saving the TV provider" alert too.

Guess it's not compatible with my HDHR (HDH3-DT) yet.

Looking forward to trying it out if this gets fixed.
I'll have to stick with WMCServer for now.

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Karen

Looking over at schedulesdirect.org, it would appear that a "membership" (ie account) is $25/US per year. Does that mean we are expected to shell out that money simply to get TV listings for Emby? I hope not. Do I misunderstand?

 

Also, on their website they state "Schedules Direct has licensed listings data for the United States and Canada. This contains all the scheduling information about broadcast, cable and satellite stations available that Gracenote collects".  So does that mean those of us that are using OTA signals are out of luck?

 

My windows media center does all of this for free. Am I missing something?

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Luke

Looking over at schedulesdirect.org, it would appear that a "membership" (ie account) is $25/US per year. Does that mean we are expected to shell out that money simply to get TV listings for Emby? I hope not. Do I misunderstand?

 

Also, on their website they state "Schedules Direct has licensed listings data for the United States and Canada. This contains all the scheduling information about broadcast, cable and satellite stations available that Gracenote collects".  So does that mean those of us that are using OTA signals are out of luck?

 

My windows media center does all of this for free. Am I missing something?

 

No, you're not out of luck with OTA, it has listings for that. There are no free TV guide data sources available, that's just reality. You got it for free with windows media center because you had already paid Microsoft for Windows, possibly multiple times over the years for multiple versions of windows, and possibly for multiple computers in your household. So you did in fact pay for it one way or another.

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Karen

Nice to know that they have OTA listings - it wasn't clear from their website. But, I'm not willing to pay more money for something I've already paid for. I'd suggest a plug in to harvest TV listings from WMC when it's running on the same as the Emby server. If not, then I guess Emby Live TV won't have a TV listing in this house. If it doesn't function without a membership to a third party, I guess there wont be LiveTV here either. With respect, I dont think you can realistically expect people to continually shell out. This is indeed a dark day for Emby.

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Luke

Nice to know that they have OTA listings - it wasn't clear from their website. But, I'm not willing to pay more money for something I've already paid for. I'd suggest a plug in to harvest TV listings from WMC when it's running on the same as the Emby server. If not, then I guess Emby Live TV won't have a TV listing in this house. If it doesn't function without a membership to a third party, I guess there wont be LiveTV here either. With respect, I dont think you can realistically expect people to continually shell out. This is indeed a dark day for Emby.

 

You can accomplish that using the server wmc plugin. 

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Karen

You can accomplish that using the server wmc plugin. 

 

Hi Luke, sorry but I'm a bit confused now.  How does the Server WMC plugin relate to the new LiveTV being built into Emby?  I thought that moving forward the plan was to disable plugins for LiveTV? Thus removing the functionality of ServerWMC and thus the TV listing and streams. I'd appreciate if you could take a moment to explain :-)

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Luke

Hi Luke, sorry but I'm a bit confused now.  How does the Server WMC plugin relate to the new LiveTV being built into Emby?  I thought that moving forward the plan was to disable plugins for LiveTV? Thus removing the functionality of ServerWMC and thus the TV listing and streams. I'd appreciate if you could take a moment to explain :-)

 

We're not getting rid of the plugins. The plugins are still available for you to use if you wish. What we're trying to do with the built in live tv is take it a step further with very simple setup, and remove the to rely on external software such as server wmc or windows media center. You can choose whichever path you prefer. The built-in version will have the benefit of development and testing from the core Emby team, and you won't have setup anything else. Or, you can install one of the plugins and go that route.

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Karen

We're not getting rid of the plugins. The plugins are still available for you to use if you wish. What we're trying to do with the built in live tv is take it a step further with very simple setup, and remove the to rely on external software such as server wmc or windows media center. You can choose whichever path you prefer. The built-in version will have the benefit of development and testing from the core Emby team, and you won't have setup anything else. Or, you can install one of the plugins and go that route.

 

Thank you Luke. I appreciate your taking the time to explain that. I now understand more and it sounds like I can continue to use the LiveTV functionality. Smile!

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ktide1

This sounds awesome, but I need a little clarification.  I'm in the US, currently running WMC with the ServerWMC plugin for live TV on a Windows PC, HDHR Prime with a cablecard for tuners.  Just to make sure I'm clear, I have 2 questions:

 

1.  With this beta I should be able to ditch WMC and the ServerWMC plugin and still be able to view/record encrypted copy-once channels - yes or no?

2.  Does Emby Theater work with the new beta (incl. encrypted copy once channels), or would I need to use a web browser on a Windows machine?

 

Thanks for the excellent work!!!

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rtech73

I didn't see any followup to another poster's question about the HDHR3-US HDHomerun dual tuner box.   Should this work with this new service in Emby?     I don't really watch OTA enough to warrant a new tuner but if what I have won't work with this Live TV service, that might be worth it.   Just need to know if I should stop trying to make it work!   :-)

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jeflatt

I haven't gotten the Emby update yet. Is it going out little by little, or should I have gotten it already?

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jspenc3

I didn't see any followup to another poster's question about the HDHR3-US HDHomerun dual tuner box.   Should this work with this new service in Emby?     I don't really watch OTA enough to warrant a new tuner but if what I have won't work with this Live TV service, that might be worth it.   Just need to know if I should stop trying to make it work!   :-)

 

I'm in the same boat, do you have any guidance for us unlucky old-timers?

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Luke

I'm in the same boat, do you have any guidance for us unlucky old-timers?

 

You need an HDHR model that supports the DLNA features. That model isn't' one of them. But pretty much all of the new models have it.

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KarterJK

Wow wow wow, now I can upgrade to Windows 10... I was not happy with any other Live tv programs including, next pvr, kodi, and media portal.

 

thank you, I will test right away!!!!

I still wouldn't switch to Windows 10, even if 10 had Windows Media Center I wouldn't switch.  For me, I simply lose to many other things that previous builds had.  Plus, the app store is worse than ever.

 

10 is out, however Emby TV looks very promising.  I stopped using Emby, a while back (just to many things not quite right), perhaps I may give it another go.  Says, it has a better guide, that was one of my issues, I wanted a larger guide, that I didn't have select 1-50, or 1-100 etc.

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