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@Happy2PlayThank you for replying as well. Could you please clarify more about media? How do I start watching movies and shows etc. I'm confused on how to use this and I've tried searching on youtube videos and other steps and still couldn't figure out.

Those paths should be to where you have your media.

No, it's USD -Dark

@pwhodgesHello, thank you for replying. Sorry this is my first time ever using Emby so I'm a bit confused about it. Here is my library and I'm not sure if I need to add movies in the library and if I do I'm not sure how to. [Edit] - The files have nothing inside them they're just files I'm not sure if i did something wrong.

Well, what movies and shows are in the directories you have provided for those libraries? For a start, show us the folder structure and some file names, and maybe we can find something wrong. Paul

But Extras have more options now depending on your structure but are all Season 0 unless placed within season or next to episode. https://emby.media/support/articles/TV-Naming.html#tv-extras

Well that is a change in 4.9 beta server. But overall Emby stopped getting positioning data from TVDB unless it is Critical to Story "yes" (Not all specials show this data on TVDB per website, but believe it is in the api data). So you have to manually apply Positioning data for most specials now. Example from an old special Emby did years ago. For your comment on Absolute numbering that is an issue as Provider does not provide Specials in that number scheme. Your example Violet Evergarden Absolute still does not relist/reorder existing 13 episodes. But DVD order does but that comes back to how your media is organized/named to properly use that order as Emby does not magically move/rename your content. Overall Specials can require some manual work depending on the presentation you want and how your media is actually organized/named.

Specials are treated internally as season 0. But you could specify in each of their metadata that they should go before episode 999 of the last season - that would push them to the end. I agree that more options to control the display more finely would be good. I guess the devs try to balance the extra complication against the confusion it might cause to some... Paul

Thanks Friends, Neminem, got it— I figured there had to be a display setting somewhere, but I somehow missed the “Display” setting (looked at the library and media settings but not that). That said, I suppose I’m a bit disheartened that it’s not on the show level. While putting it on the display level makes sense on paper, enough exceptions and weirdness with media and tvdb occur that it’s more complicated that way imo, and it seems impossible to actually get what I want. Option 2 would be best, if it did what I expected it to, but it does not sadly. In essence I like “If it’s one season, no season display. But, it if it has specials, display seasons.” That is also assuming the absolute order has a version with specials not as specials like Violet Evergarden where the special is instead made episode 5 and the other episodes numbers are changed. Likewise, I can’t even recreate Happy2Play’s option 2 post. Little Witch stays as it is in my original post with the specials in front and not in their own section. Guess maybe that is food for thought for the devs, but for now I guess I need to do a bit more experimenting, but it’s likely I will be lazy and just use option 3, despite its silliness in a lot of cases. Regardless, thank you all for your assistance. And if you have any additional thoughts, please let me know.

I downloaded the Emby server, and the app and I also paid for a month for Emby Premiere and the code worked. The only problem is that I can't view any shows or movies. I only see the library files i created and nothing else. I can't see any movies or shows of any kind please someone help me fix asap.

Darkel, Have a close look at the files that don't work. You can run them through a file check. Full ffmpeg install, mp4box or MKVtools, I think even VLC can troubleshoot, but their interface is often too layered. Maybe some of the problem files have excessive subtitles in graphic form, timeline issues, sometimes even where the timeline data appears. It should be always near the top of the file, but sometimes it is at the end.

Hi, while reorganizing my Movie library, i wondered why Thumbnail generation takes much longer then before on some movies. If i place a movie with a "- 3d.mvc.*" suffix inside the folder, the image extraction process uses: /bin/ffmpeg -f matroska -threads 1 -i file:/path/to/movie - 3d.mvc.mkv -an -sn -threads 0 -vf fps=fps=1/10,scale=min(iw\,320):trunc(ow/dar/2)*2 -f image2 /cache/path/img_%05d.jpg But for the same procedure, on a movie file NOT recognizable as 3D, the process is much faster and uses /bin/ffmpeg -f matroska -threads 1 -skip_interval 10 -copyts -i file:"/path/to/my/movie - 1080p.mkv" -an -sn -vf "scale=w=320:h=180" -vsync cfr -r 0.1 -f image2 "/cache/path/img_%05d.jpg" The later one is about 30x quicker, and produces the same result. As 3D MVC movies are composed of a Regular stream + a sub stream for the other eye, ffmpeg does not care about the substream and will happly extract good looking thumbnails without this heavy conversion. EDIT: I just have seen, that the HSBS and more 3D-Movies have thumbnails containing also the whole screen. So, there should be no reason at all to use the first variant every. I assumed until now, that the thumbnails are "repaired", so take only one half of the image, and stretch it.

Commerical online streaming sites approach is to make their library media match specific codecs that work on all platforms. Video h.264 .mp4 and audio AAC with HE-AAC instead of LC which maxes out support at around 128 kbps, separate subtitle tracks and limited or no multiple audio, no high end HD or + encoded audio, no HDR, for example. When you use other video or audio codecs, not supported by all platforms, then fixing these to play everywhere requires extra software, plugins or sometimes even hardware updates for each individual user. Sometimes, Apple and some TV's support other codecs. Some user's systems can handle higher audio compression and HD type playback. Emby helps this issue by checking the end user's playback hardware / software and switches, automatically to transcode, when necessary. Sometimes, there are network speed issues, firewalls, router setup, WiFi, network bottlenecks, incompatiable switches that don't match the minimum speeds, Internet traffic, VPN's, hardware combinations, or excessively large media extremely high bitrates and 30 graphic subtitles and 4 different audio tracks to cause no audio, stuttering video or crashing in playback. Online streaming platforms don't even bother to fix this for excessive media types. They just archive their content in codecs and bitrates that work for everyone. My experience with several outside companies, unrelated to Emby, that serve social media with millions of video streams, if a request to cover unusual and high end codec quality types, the product manager just responds with "We do not support that media for streaming." Any such media is automatically converted and stored to codecs that work for everyone. Emby goes a step further and offers live transcoding to make this work for many more combinations. I just wanted to point out that online streaming platforms reencode first and then offer a stream from the new media version. Maybe everyone already is aware of this, but I think some of users asking to fix issues, perhaps miss how these media streaming solutions are different. It worked in another platform / software, so it should work here, is not always a valid statement. Online sites can give you insight on what can work without transcoding. https://cconcolato.github.io/media-mime-support/ Each TV, add-on box are also different.

No, not atm. at least. I guess with the new background option i can put it back to how it was originally. I cut the outline by half the in this one. EmbyIcons.dll

If the recorded media is a single file, rather than a series of files, then editor can easily edit out any unwanted start and end times. Since you are dealing with compressed media, you won't be able to edit on an exact frame. Removing start and end sections for a 2 hour media can be handled in about 2 minute load into the editor, a minute to pick the edit spots and 2 minutes to make a new media file on even a slow computer or notebook. Since you have to choose the editing points, there is really no automated way to do it. That's about 12 to 20, 2 hour media files done in an hour. Plus the initial 1/2 hour to get familar enough with the editor. I use AVIdemux. The problem in making this available inside Emby is that this functionality requires adding either some editing or tagging each file with a start and end timing which adds one or two columns to the dbase and sacrifices server speed and adds size and complexity to the dbase that will create slower response times and probably bugs that need continous support. Adding such functions to Emby might be used by some fraction of the users. Another issue is that each platform would need different code to support this start 2 minutes into the film function. All plateforms and TV media players handle this differently, so this one feature would require, perhaps 20 sets of code development. I would guess, maybe 1 in 5000 Emby users would ever use it. Finally, if this feature does become available to Emby and users can't remember how to access it to adjust or they accidentally adjust it for media, can't find a way to turn it off because it would an extra setting. Such users could decide that Emby is too complex and leave and never return. These are, I think, reasonable considerations and in my opinion, if you want media to start and end where you prefer, then redit the video yourself. Emby should not be doing this.

As I said: Annoying like the bug. (just posting more spam related to stuff to reach a new level )

51 posts to reach "Regular" Member group - editing possible for 3 hrs upon posting.

That will come when you've posted a bit more (I don't recall the amount). Paul

Moinsen, mal eine FRage, gibte s eine Möglichkeit bei Android Car,a uch die Videos abzuspielen.. ? Momentan kann er nur Musik / Hörspiele.. Nur als vergleich, das sowas möglich ist, bei Plex war es damals möglich auch Videos / Movies abszuspielen.... Oder ist dieses feature gänzlich seitens Emby gesperrt ? beste grüss

Right after some digging I found a post here That fixed it on the Android devices. If I use the website through a browser it works fine. But the Windows App is where the problem is. So maybe you can forward it to your engineers.

Yes, you are right! It grows! It's so super annoying (it's also annoying that I can't edit my own posts in this board ). I hope they fix it ASAP. Plex never had such problems. Or VLC and so on... haven't seen such a thing in my life before.

There are multiple topics on using nginx, Caddy and IIS as reverse proxies (not Apache, for some reason). But a certain amount of internet and network knowledge is required for any such setup, and from my experience this can't be guaranteed. Paul

Working well so far! Is there any setting for disabling the black outline?

For me Maquia is identified with the date 2018; Redline is identified with the date 2009 (though it then shows 2010); Patema is identified without any date. But then all my folders and naming follows Emby's preferred convention. I am using TMDB for these movies, as I've found no benefit in using any of the specific anime metadata providers. Paul

For me it's that the window gets 1 pixel wider (on the right) each time it's opened. When I reported this I was given a reason why it is done deliberately, but I'm sure there will be a way around it. Paul