Jump to content

Emby Blog

A group blog by Developers in General

  • entries
    540
  • comments
    4762
  • views
    3353416

Contributors to this blog

  • Luke 341
  • ebr 68
  • Carlo 31
  • 7illusions 15
  • ScottIsAFool 12
  • Abobader 11
  • radeon 8
  • xnappo 8
  • darwindeeds 7
  • Redshirt 6
  • Cheesegeezer 5
  • Aphid 3
  • techywarrior 3
  • bigjohn 3
  • snazy2000 3
  • sross44 3
  • leedavies 3
  • softworkz 2
  • Soultaker 2
  • chef 2
  • gcw07 2
  • marcelveldt 1
  • hurricanehrndz 1

Exciting Additions Coming Soon in Emby Server 3.6

Luke

Entry posted by Luke

30503 views

 Share

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 Guide Data Now Included with Premiere
Emby will be gradually switching from Schedules Direct to Gracenote for Live TV guide data. What does this mean? This means if you're in the USA, Canada or UK, you'll no longer need to setup an account with another website nor pay someone else for this data. You'll simply enter your zip code into Emby, select your channel lineup, and we'll handle retrieving your guide data.

 

We believe this will provide a better experience for Emby users with fewer setup steps. The data from Gracenote is also quite a bit richer, and we will be looking at how we can take advantage of that to bring new Live TV features to Emby. Going forward, Live TV will require Emby Premiere in the web app, where previously this was not the case.

 


How to Migrate From Schedules Direct

If you are setting up the server fresh, then you should use our new Emby guide provider, which will be the default. If you are already using Schedules Direct, then you can continue to use it through the remainder of your Schedules Direct subscription. Schedules Direct has pledged to continue to honor your subscriptions, and we thank them for that.

 


New and Improved Hardware Acceleration
We have revamped hardware acceleration on all supported platforms for Emby Server. This includes Windows, Linux, Android, NAS devices, and MacOS. We've added some sophisticated hardware detection that allows us to know exactly what your hardware supports, and with this information we can fine tune the transcoding processes to get the most out of your hardware.

 

This has truly been a massive effort and will continue to be a massive effort going forward into the future. For this reason, hardware acceleration will now require Emby Premiere on most platforms. On some platforms such as Nvidia Shield and certain NAS devices, it will be included freely out of the box.

 

A Long List of Improvements and Bug Fixes
Stay tuned for the announcement of Emby Server 3.6. It is packed with new features, bug fixes, improvements to existing features, and more.

  • Like 35
 Share

81 Comments

Recommended Comments



Bill Mini

Is there an update to the Mac beta released on Dec 15th?

And how do I get access to the updates?

Link to comment
Luke

Is there an update to the Mac beta released on Dec 15th?

And how do I get access to the updates?

 

If you're running beta builds then please make sure to follow the Testing Area at the bottom of the Emby Community. Thanks.

Link to comment
greasy

Will the new release allow us to automatically save to MP4 or MKV again with reduced file size?  I've been using MCEbuddy again since the last major release took that away.  The current setup was trying to re-encode my entire library, and wasn't deleting the original files. 

Link to comment
chudak

@Luke

 

I wonder if uploads from iPhone will be a part of "A Long List of Improvements" ?

Link to comment
csadoian

@luke

 

Regarding the change to including Gracenotes for Premier subscribers, my Schedules direct subscription expires on January 11 2019.  I am using 3.5.3.0.  Are my only options (1) Renew with Schedules Direct for another year or (2) Install the beta (I'm assuming the beta gives you the Gracenotes guide)?

 

The last time I installed a beta over my production setup it completely screwed up my installation and I had to start from scratch, so I really don't want to upgrade until 3.6 is officially released.

 

Oh, wait I just noticed Schedules Direct has a 2 month subscription available for $6.  Maybe I should do that one to buy me some time until 3.6 is released and you have Gracenotes available.

 

 

Thanks.

Link to comment
henryawagner

henryawagner 1

Posted

Looking forward to the new release.

Will the implementation of Gracenote allow us to combine multiple schedules such as OTA with HD Homerun Premium?

  • Like 1
Link to comment
BuddahKat

BuddahKat 17

Posted

Any update on when we might expect this release? Like others my Schedule Direct membership is expiring and I'd prefer not to pay for it again if the Emby release is imminent. Please advise if possible. Thanks!

Link to comment
Luke

Looking forward to the new release.

Will the implementation of Gracenote allow us to combine multiple schedules such as OTA with HD Homerun Premium?

 

Yes !

Link to comment
Luke

Any update on when we might expect this release? Like others my Schedule Direct membership is expiring and I'd prefer not to pay for it again if the Emby release is imminent. Please advise if possible. Thanks!

 

Very soon. We're going as fast we can. Thanks !

Link to comment
Luke

@luke

 

Regarding the change to including Gracenotes for Premier subscribers, my Schedules direct subscription expires on January 11 2019.  I am using 3.5.3.0.  Are my only options (1) Renew with Schedules Direct for another year or (2) Install the beta (I'm assuming the beta gives you the Gracenotes guide)?

 

The last time I installed a beta over my production setup it completely screwed up my installation and I had to start from scratch, so I really don't want to upgrade until 3.6 is officially released.

 

Oh, wait I just noticed Schedules Direct has a 2 month subscription available for $6.  Maybe I should do that one to buy me some time until 3.6 is released and you have Gracenotes available.

 

 

Thanks.

 

We're going as fast as we can, but yes, you'll still be able to use SD for a little while if you prefer. Thanks.

Link to comment
maxro

Really looking forward to the performance improvements!  Eager to get it the update available for synology NAS.   

Since there is database restructuring, are you envisioning a conversion process for migrating data from 3.5 or is the plan to have users rebuild the database from scratch?

Link to comment
Luke

4.0 Stable has been released today!

 

It's still a beta, hopefully the last one before stable.

  • Like 2
Link to comment
StLDreiling

StLDreiling 16

Posted

It's still a beta, hopefully the last one before stable.

 

Wow! Emby's been at 3.x forever! You'd been prepping a 3.6 release. What feature/fix pushed you guys over the top?

Link to comment
jhschulz

If the next version will be 4.0 instead of 3.6, does that mean all existing lifetime premiere subscriptions will be useless with this version?

Link to comment
troyhough

If the next version will be 4.0 instead of 3.6, does that mean all existing lifetime premiere subscriptions will be useless with this version?

Lifetime means lifetime to me. Does it mean something different to you?

Link to comment
jhschulz

Lifetime means lifetime to me. Does it mean something different to you?

 

In the past, the terms and conditions for the "lifetime" subscription said that it's only valid for the lifetime of the software (version 3). But it looks like that has been changed.

Link to comment
troyhough

In the past, the terms and conditions for the "lifetime" subscription said that it's only valid for the lifetime of the software (version 3). But it looks like that has been changed.

 

Hope not, just purchased a lifetime in November. Although, I would be ok with something like "a minimum of 2 or 3 years", etc if the product continued to improve...

Link to comment
Bill Mini

I am confused. Working on a Mac, I currently am running 3.68 server, is there a 4.0 version for Mac--where?

thanks

Link to comment

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
×
×
  • Create New...