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I will always install native packages, no conversions or container like Snap, Docker, Flatpak ...

There's not a lot a CDN will do for you with Emby except to cache your images. CloudFlare does NOT do this by default unless you create a rule to do this. Depending on the area you're users are logging in from a CDN can work against you and you could be far better off running your own reverse proxy for caching but it depends. As an example as I was on Verizon with Fiber and had hundreds of mb of upload bandwidth so I ran my own reverse proxy for caching images. That took the burden off Emby to deliver the graphics and made things SNAP. Anyone on Verizon in my family never actually hit the internet when accessing my server as it was all handled by Verizon backbone. Now I'm on Xfinity/Comcast (car took down a pole and Verizon would not re-run fiber as I was the last house on the line) with a crummy 18 mb upload bandwidth so anything I do to not serve graphics from my server is good. I now use CloudFlare as a CDN and turned on image caching so when Emby apps or web browser view my library all the graphics are served by CF making it appear fast. With transcoding or direct play I can still serve up a couple of remote sessions but browsing is FAST. So it DEPENDS and no right answer. But if your family/friends are getting to your server using the same provider you use then they aren't actually touching the "internet" and are on the ISP backbone so a reverse proxy is likely best assuming you have good upload bandwidth. With that said, for commercial apps I've developed in the past including a few big systems I typically use https://www.akamai.com/ It's not really appropriate for an Emby system but more for a Netflix or Amazon Prime. You will pay out the wallet big time for it as well. CloudFlare should do what you need for Emby or consider nginx for self hosting.

It's actually the best solution possible as no transcoding is needed and you get perfect playback by using media designed especially for the resolution and bitrate. Don't know how much you know about adaptive streaming done by all the major websites but there is a different file for every possible resolution and bitrate. It's not uncommon for each movie or TV Episode on their sites to have been master 12 different ways and that was with 1080 media. When you get into 4K you're adding additional version of the same media. You don't think Amazon and Netflix have one version of the media and convert on the fly do you? No way, they pre-convert the different versions, store them all so no real-time transcoding takes place. When you convert in real-time you ARE loosing quality compared to a proper conversion that takes how ever long is needed which could easily be 4X to 5X run time length. You can only do so much trying to process video quicker than it's consumed and that's just with one stream. What if you have 3 or 4 transcodes going? HW/GPU helps on the speed front but still is no where near as good as CPU based conversions. BTW, it's the same way with YouTube videos as well. There are multiple versions of each file so any client can "direct play" a single version. Emby does a fantastic job with 1080 and lower resolution files on most average hardware and even does 4K SDR conversions quite well given a decent CPU/GPU but when you get into having to change every pixel color along with everything else you need to do to transcode in REAL-TIME it's near impossible on average consumer hardware for a Server. The display/client side is a different story as it only need contend with one stream. It's one thing to do tone mapping or similar type thing on a PC or device like a shield TV with dedicated hardware and quite another on a server sending streams to rokus, cell phones, web browser, dlna, TVs, etc and that's just the "pure video" conversion. Now imagine having to factor in subtitle burn in on top of this, converting to h.265 or h.264 depending on client. It's a massive amount of processing. So while many are spoiled with Emby's ability to transcode on the fly for 1080p and lower SDR content, 4K HDR is another ball game you've stepped into and takes proper admin planning for these files and how they will get used. For most people a Bluray rip of 4K HDR material is usable only on LAN and not remotely (most not all). You could certainly also master a much lower bitrate version such as 8 to 10 mbps 4K HDR to have much better luck streaming remotely (like what Netflix and Amazon Prime due). But as stated previously you want the 4K version to be the 2nd version added to the system with a 1080 version being the primary so it's the main file used or transcoded from vs the 4K HDR version which for now should never be transcoded. Will this change in the future? Sure, with newer approaches, newer algorithms, newer GPUs that can do this in HW but Emby can't snap it's fingers and make this work across the board for every Emby Server, as it's just not possible at present. If you think of transcoding as a crutch to having proper versions like Netflix and others have it helps with understanding what can and can't be done with transcoding. Transcoding can convert certain video codecs in real-time, it can convert basically any audio format to another and can convert most subtitle formats to other formats to make them compatible with the client. It can even repackage this into a different streaming container. But even before getting into 4K media transcoding has issues with certain codecs that many machines can't handle like VC-1. Even when it can do this transcoding it's not optimal for all clients. For example if you have only 6 mb bandwidth to the client and the device/client can use h.265 that would be the optimal target for conversion of video as quality is better than h.264 for the same bitrate but that's far more CPU intensive and not all GPUs can convert to h.265 while most can decode it. That plays into 4K as well as one of the popular video codecs is 10 bit H.265. So real time transcoding of 4K 10 bit H.265 mostly likely has to downgrade resolution to 1080 or lower, has to massively reduce the bitrate used while also using a less efficient codec like h.264 while changing the 10 bit to 8 bit and that's even before having to tone map color changes, burn in subtitles or touch/modify audio. The moral of the story is that if you want 4K media in Emby and want things to work smoothly you add a 1080p version first to your standard movie library, then add the 4K media to it's own 4K library where only people with the ability to play it back direct can access it. None of this is meant to be an excuse, but just the reality of where we are industry wide of what can/can't be done and how other system handle things. In today's streaming setups you sacrifice storage which is cheap compared to CPU to accomplish different streaming resolutions.

I don't think it's so much about the info on the pages but subtle things like not aligning if you put a grid over it like with the red borders which show how some things are too far right or things that should be flush left or flush right aren't. Think "snap to grid". That and if you saved the position of things on one page in movies but then went to TV Shows it's different yet, then music is yet again different. It's not consistent in position when it can be for different parts of the clients. Obviously different parts of the system have different needs but some things should be the same but aren't. That's my interpretation of what was said.

Both are still maintained. We've never been listed in flathub or snap's store yet but we're working towards that. For now you'd need to install the downloadable packages.

not sure I understand. The path in the snap above. That is the LAN IP of my MacPro with 4 internal drives that have media in various folders.

That's great! Especially that Ubuntu now ships with Snap.

Hi, yes we're looking into a snap package.

Yes thanks - this has helped. I will automate regular snap shots of the Library.db file only as the entire programdata folder is much too large to do this and keep a few copies. I assume to "restore" all I would have to do is rename the existing file to .old or similar, copy in the backup file and restart the server?

remove the auto box set plugin? - as it sounds like thats whats making the changes [edit] - snap

Hey all, I was wondering if anyone could help with adding a button to the login screen I've managed to create a button and name it but i cant get it to open the link. I've enclosed a snap shot of the button.

Hello everyone, I've just found out an article that talks about Snapcraft : http://lifehacker.com/linux-app-distribution-gets-a-little-easier-with-snap-1782168270 This is an amazing tool for Linux distribution and I would like to know if this is possible to implement emby, many apps are already in store like Transmission,OwnCloud,upnp-server : https://uappexplorer.com/apps?type=snappy&sort=relevance There are some explanations here : http://snapcraft.io/create/ Thanks in advance emby community.

Hello all, I've seen multiple processes for Emby Server in the past. Usually this seemed to happen when I would quit/restart the app. This would not actually quit the previous process but would instead start up a new one. Today I updated to 4.3.1 and now when I launch the app I get two processes right away. 'Emby Server' and 'EmbyServer'. Here is a snap of what it looks like in Activity Monitor: Wondering if anyone else has run into this? I am more than happy to provide server logs if anyone (@luke) wants to see them. Just don't want to post them here for no reason ;-) Thanks! N

Hi, I just noticed that on my phone (Android 8) the mobile friendly page crashes/hangs when opening a picture library. I'm using the latest mobile versions of Chrome and Firefox. With Chrome you can see the first picture load and then the page crashes and shows an "oww snap, something went wrong" message. On Firefox the page simply hangs and you can't scroll down. Requesting the desktop site works well on both browsers. Another thing I noticed that when viewing pictures through a browser (both a phone and pc), CPU usage on the server will spike to 100% until the webpage is done loading a thumb for every picture. Using the Android app this doesn't happen, CPU usage spikes to 30% for a bit and then goes back to normal. I did clear the application cache to make sure the thumbs had to be downloaded again. Is Emby generating thumbs on the fly? And if so, is there anyway to generate them before hand? On the Android app CPU usage does spike to 100% on the server when opening a picture. I'll check with an iPhone later tonight (browser only). The folders I'm viewing have 1000~2000 pictures each. 1) Mobile friendly page hangs/crashes on Android Chrome and Firefox 2) Opening picture full size doesn't work on Android Chrome and Firefox when requesting desktop site 3) 100% CPU on server until all thumbs have loaded on ANY browser, Android and PC. Android app doesn't do this edit: Request desktop site on Android Chrome can still make the page crash. Firefox appears to be OK. edit2: For what its worth, I tested outside my home network. Emby is behind a proxy. Though Everything else is working fine so I don't expect this to be the problem.

thank you for the list. I'm not sure why emby returns these mounts for linux in the IFileSystem interface GetDrives function, but none the less I have added the following code to 'filter-out' some of these directories. if (dir.Name.Split('\\').Length > 2) continue; //Windows - too many subfolders to be what we are looking for if (dir.Name.Split('/').Length > 2) continue; //Linux - too many subfolders to be what we are looking for switch (dir.Name.Split('/')[1]) //Linux - if these sneak past our filter ignore them { case "etc": case "dev": case "run": case "snap": case "sys": continue; } DOWNLOAD: DiskSpace.zip

It looks like snap mode is not available to uwp apps yet: https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsapps/en-US/e5abcbdc-3c1f-4a9b-928d-41d8583c9445/xbox-and-snap-mode?forum=wpdevelop

Snap or flatpak sounds like a good plan.

I purchased Emmy premier today and installed the server and WMC plugin and a few other plugins to two computers today. On my Win 7 workstation, there were several times the left side of the server dashboard (where the control menus are) was all misaligned, top to bottom. On the workstation, selecting one of the dashboard menu items would snap all into place or exiting the dashboard and calling it up again fixed it however On my windows 7 machine attached to an AVR connected via hdmi to a flatscreen tv, the same left section of the Emmy server dashboard is all misaligned with some items aligned left, middle and so far right they don’t show. This computer displays everything else in any application normally, no different than any computer monitor. While the misalignment did not persist on the workstation computer, the fact that it occurred on two different computers indicates a problem. The problem persists on the media room computer mentioned above Thank you in advance for the help Warren

Bumping this to get some attention. As stated in the other thread. I use my phone as well to go to the dashboard. But these are two different usages. If your on a phone then your on a phone. My request is simple. A recording icon like Windows Media center had in the system tray. A quick glance tells you; don't reboot, don't restart Emby, don't sync snap raid, etc.

Attached ... (and device manager snap). This quad card is detected and used by WMC, NextPVR and Hauppauge WinTV. logs.zip

Sorry to resurrect this but I am still having issues with this. I don't see the gear icon you are talking about. I used to be able to right click the emby server icon in the tray and click on "configure" to access the dashboard. Now when I do that it takes me to the home screen as shown in the attached screen snap. I have also tried replacing "home" with "dashboard" in the URL, but it just takes me back to "home" again.

Bad news, nothing to address wifi issues in the next hotfix (Second Hotfix): Quick update. Hoping to share the second HotFIx image tomorrow with these issues addressed: - Multiple Streaming apps failing to play for small number of users, netflix errors 116/115. - The match content color space displaying incorrect format. - Can't set the default launcher. - VC1 playback not working. - Volume UI with android P too bright, takes too long to disappear. - Some controllers joysticks snap back to the center at the end of joystick travel. (Was in First HotFIx image) - IR volume control not working when anything is turned on in accessibility - When using Adoped storage, sdcard/InternalStorage not accessible. - SHIELD Remote App connection issues & d-pad not working - SHIELD Controller 2017 fails OTA with "accessory disconnected" error. If you are interested in this hotfix: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdPDe7maEmGtmIfpC4sXQtzOCocC-3HRrB5gr2jr481qdATbg/viewform

I'm simply pointing out that your attacking attitude towards others will prevent people from wanting to help you. And knowing that you'd probably snap back at me, I tried to help you anyways. If you look at my post, I told you the proper way to "downgrade" to a previous beta is to roll back your jail to the latest snapshot of the version you're looking to downgrade to. Instead of saying thank you, you say my input was not helpful and I'm as bad as you. All you did there was prove my point.

Since Casablanca no longer had the genres I moved to another one in the Classics B&W category: Goodbye Mr. Chips. Screen snap before the refresh: Screen snap after the refresh: Log after refresh with debug on.txt

It was on my dashboard of Emby, 4.0.3. I'll look at trying to flush things out. Here is a snap after I restarted my Emby server. Where does Emby get the url for the icon? From the plugin, or is it part of the Emby code itself?