Perhaps this is a known issue?

My setup is:

 - Emby beta 4.9.1.3 on Synology NAS DSM 7.2.2-72806 Update 3
  - All VirtualTV channels are Playlist (Live) and using rules
 - Emby for Samsung 2.1.2
 - Samsung QLED's (QE55Q9FNA & UE50DU8000KXXU)

Thank you

embyserver.txt

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Changes

2.5.0

• Core UI update only

• Updates for converting settings tabs to menus in TV display mode
• Replace item type indicators in folder view with runtime indicators
• Update spacing of photos in Photos tab
• Various spotlight bug fixes and improvements
• Various spotlight bug fixes and improvements
• Various spotlight bug fixes and improvements
• Dock subtitle appearance dialog to the side to better allow subtitles to be seen while changing settings
• Convert settings tabs to menus in TV display mode
• Various spotlight fixes for older devices
• General slideshow fixes
• Support mousewheel for horizontal sections in TV display mode
• Improve spotlight design
• Fix text not visible in screensavers
• Fix slideshow not advancing

I have created some additional sections on my Emby Home Screen which work and display within a web browser and on my Android app, but these additional sections do not display on the Emby app on my Samsung TV, using the same user profile?

Is this by design? Or am I missing something?

I'm running server Version 4.10.0.40

TV is running Emby for Samsung 2.2.8

Expected: that the current progress line be curved on the ends

Server: 4.11.0.5 beta

App 2.50

TV: 2018 Q8FN

Picture below is of the Android app because it was hard to see in my phone pic of the TV app.  Pic shows a curved white line on the left of the progress bar (circled) showing the current progress with a grayish background.  It's that white line which is square on the left at 0% on the Samsung app and not curved like it is below in the Android app.  The gray oval in the back however is curved on both ends

However, if when a movie without a backdrop is shown you scroll all the way down to the bottom of the home screen and then back up, then the backdrop for the current item is somehow refreshed and displays.  But you have to do this for every movie in the spotlight.  So every time a new movie comes up in the spotlight you then have to scroll all the way down to the bottom and back up for the backdrop of that movie to display.

Server 4.11.05 beta

App 2.50

TV is a 2018 Q8FN

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Due to recent events, i decided to cut internet access for my TV (disabled WAN-Access on the router for the MAC of the Samsung-TV).

The TV doesn't load any ads anymore, streaming from the emby-server works. So everything is looking good.

Except: The Emby-App crashes every few minutes. It doesn't matter  which content i play, it freezes for a while, then crashes, then i can start emby-app again and it works, until it freezes again a few minutes later.

I tried to allow internet access and it worked again without issues. However, i'd like to keep my tv blocked. Can something be done about it?

Thank you

Emby-Server: Version 4.10.0.40
TV-Model: GQ65QN93
TV-Firmware: T-NKM2DEUC-2301.1
Emby-Client: Emby for Samsung 2.2.8 - reported as the newest available version
License: Lifetime emby premiere

This is not a showstopper by any means but the Background Image (or Theme Video) displayed for the selected object on both the Home and Detail screens is VERY faint, to the point that for darker images, they are almost invisible on the default Dark theme.

I have two Samsung TV's and both of them exhibit the same issue;
UE75TU7020KXXU - Software v. T-KTSU2DEUC-2743.0
UE65RU7100KXXU - Software v.T-MSLDEUC-1500.9

Both are running the native Tizen Emby app version 2.3.6 (I think this is the latest available in the UK store).

This is not blocking anything, it's just a quality of life thing. I only noticed as I am trialing a move away from Firestick (with Amazon's play to lockdown the device). I gave the native app a spin as almost everything else I need is available through the TV OS. Overall I'm fairly happy with how the app performs (it's not the same speed as an Android client but it's pretty good for a TV OS). This is the only thing I have found thus far that is bugging me. I only noticed as I still have one device on Firestick and moving between the two it's blatantly obvious.

This may be fixed in a later app version (I don't want go to down the Beta route for what is basically a cosmetic change) in which case I will hold fire until a new version is released. If someone could send a later build to Samsung for updating in the store that would be great though

I have attached images of both the Home and Detail pages on Tizen and Fire OS for comparison. Sorry for the cameo and crappy quality of some, the screens are just a bit too reflective in daylight

Fire OS - Detail Page

Fire OS Home

Tizen Detail Page

Tizen Home

with some mkv files I see a strange behavior when watching mkv videos on my Samsung TV from 2025 (S95F I think). No matter what language is selected during playback the audio track remains a certain one. Sometimes it is the last (e.g. commented audio track) sometimes the first (then most of the times english).

I copied the discs to my NAS using makemkv always copying the whole movie with all subtitles and audio tracks.

I also tried changing the default track using MKVToolNix. 

User preferences are set to german and even ignore the default track. Both settings changed seperately with no effect.

Server version is 4.9.5.0 (most recent stable)
TV App version: 2.3.6 (most recent store version in  germany)
 

Is that a known issue? I could not find anything in the forum but maybe I used the wrong search terms.
Could that be solved with the most up to date TV App version (2.4.8.)?

Thanks in advance!

Michael

Shouldn't that be enforced in that case?
BR

ffmpeg-directstream.txt

embyserver.txt

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Changes

2.4.9

• Core UI update only

Core UI Changes from 26.0.12 to 26.0.22

• Fixes for horizontal home screen
• Improve swiping through photo slideshow
• Fix loss of scroll position after deleting items on mobile chrome
• Support new folder view style in list view
• Add clear recently searched button (requires Emby Server 4.10.0.31+)
• Various right to left layout Fixes
• Fix live tv setup screen showing blank on first run
• Fix black screen for av1 in firefox
• Fix overview not being focusable
• Improve TV music play queue
• Fix add to collection option missing for artists and albums
• Fix focus regressions with view transitions
• Improve loading dialog
• Improve loading dialog
• Improve detail screen transitions
• Add context menu button for collections to view missing items (requires Emby Server 4.10.0.24+)
• Improve loading dialog
• Improve detail screen transitions

Environment:

• Emby Server: 4.9.5
• Emby for Samsung: 2.2.8
• TV: Samsung QE65QN85CATXXH, Tizen 9.0
• Server: Docker container (emby/embyserver) on Debian LXC (Proxmox), VAAPI hardware transcoding

Summary:

An external .srt subtitle file extracted from an MKV source and tagged as Greek causes the Emby for Samsung app to hang indefinitely (infinite loading spinner) shortly after playback starts, while the exact same byte-for-byte file content works perfectly when simply renamed with a different language suffix.

Steps to reproduce:

• Extract a Greek subtitle track directly from an MKV file (tested with both ffmpeg -map and mkvextract — same result with either tool) and save it as an external sidecar moviename.ell.srt (or .el.srt) next to the video.
• Play the item on Emby for Samsung, with the Greek subtitle track selected (or even just present in the folder — same behavior).
• Playback starts, video plays for a few seconds (first 1-2 HLS segments load fine), then hangs on an infinite spinner. No further segment requests are made by the client. After ~12-13 seconds the client itself sends a Stopped event with Position: 0.

Workaround found:

Renaming the identical extracted file (byte-for-byte, confirmed via diff) from .ell.srt to .gre.srt makes it play perfectly.

Notably, this is not a general issue with extracted subtitles, nor with Greek subtitles as a whole:

• A Greek subtitle machine-translated via the OpenSubtitles website (translated from a French subtitle, not extracted from the source MKV) works fine regardless of whether it's named .ell.srt or .gre.srt.
• An external French subtitle extracted from the same MKV file, using the same extraction tools, works fine regardless of naming.

So the bug appears specific to the combination of: (a) subtitle track originating from MKV extraction, and (b) Greek language, and (c) the el/ell language tag specifically. I was unable to find any structural difference between the extracted and non-extracted Greek files that would explain this (checked: BOM, line endings, Unicode normalization NFC/NFD, trailing newline, encoding validity via iconv — all identical/clean in both cases).

Server-side log evidence (embyserver.txt):

The SRT→WebVTT conversion succeeds and is delivered correctly to the client both times this was tested:

Info SubtitleService: GET .../Subtitles/2/Stream.vtt?AddVttTimeMap=true...
Info SubtitleService: Response 200 to host1. ... Content-Length=38131

Video HLS segments also download successfully:

GET .../hls1/main/0.ts → 200 OK
GET .../hls1/main/1.ts → 200 OK

Then — nothing. No further segment requests. ~12s later:

Info SessionManager: Playback stopped reported by app Emby for Samsung 2.2.8 ... Position: 0 ms.

This indicates the server-side pipeline (SRT extraction, VTT conversion, HTTP delivery) is functioning correctly in all cases. The hang occurs strictly client-side, after the Tizen app has already received a valid VTT subtitle stream — and appears tied specifically to how the el-tagged track from an MKV-extracted source is handled internally by the app. My best guess is something related to font loading / text shaping triggered differently depending on subtitle origin, but I don't have visibility into the client code to confirm.

Question: Is this a known issue? Has anything changed in beta builds of Emby for Samsung regarding Greek subtitle handling? Happy to provide the full embyserver.txt log or the exact test .srt file if useful for reproduction.

embyserver.txt

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Changes

2.4.8

• Core UI update only

Core UI Changes from 26.0.4 to 26.0.12

• Improve loading dialog
• Move user icon to top left in tv display mode
• Fix positioning of video OSD brightness slider
• Show live tv guide filters in tv display mode
• Fix alignment of live tv guide time indicator
• Support swipe left and right gestures on now playing bar to advance tracks
• Fixes related to position of center play/pause buttons in mobile layouts
• Fix display of recording start time when pre-padding is applied
• Fix missing episodes dialog filters not working
• Fix tv season screen not showing episode overviews
• Update bottom tab and now playing bar design
• Improve spotlight display

I am wondering why Emby thinks to touch / transmux this video, what exactly is happening here? I set an automatic remote streaming quality for that user.

Does this mean that the user changed the value from automatic to something else?

BR

ffmpeg-directstream-7ebb51af-b871-47ad-934b-1b88c7999e02_1.txt

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Changes

2.4.7

• Core UI update only

Core UI Changes from 26.0.1 to 26.0.4

• Various bug fixes for youtube player
• Add cancellation support to directory picker
• Fix multi-select episodes not showing delete option on some screens
• Fix on now video tab not loading
• Update header style during video playback

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Changes

2.4.6

• Core UI update only

Core UI Changes from 26.0.0 to 26.1.0

• Improve new folder view style
• Update header style during video playback

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Changes

2.4.5

• SSA/ASS subtitle rendering improvements
• Fix new folder view style on apple devices