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I am a complete newbie at this so I would very much appreciate some guidance. I have an interest in recording IPTV, specifically their VOD channels. My reasoning behind this is that I live in South Africa and my international internet connection speed is limited during peak viewing times, hence the desire to record during the off-peak period so I can watch in the evenings. I have installed the Emby server and client and have a suitable M3U file list and have configured LiveTV. The problem I am having is how do I record as I don’t have any EPG. Are I correct in assuming that I must have an EPG to record? If so, is it sensible to take the M3U file list and create an artificial XMLTV file and effectively fake an EPG? I am not averse to writing some code to parse the M3U. Just trying to understand what is the best approach, and whether there are any 3rd party tools to assist. Guidance would be very much appreciated. Thanks.
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Hello, I have been using Emby for several years and absolutely love the platform. One thing that I believe would be a nice feature would be to allow users to record to different library's. Thanks for your attention, John
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I use a Nvidia Shield TV and I am considering a move from Plex and wondered if someone could answer a few questions regarding DVR and Live TV: Can the Emby app on the Shield TV display DVB and Teletext subtitles for Live TV, and can they be toggled on and off? DVR related, does Emby capture DVB and Teletext subtitles in a recorded stream? I ask because plex (PMS 1.8 does not). For both Live TV and recorded TV, will files Direct Play with DVB and Teletext subtitles selected or will the Emby server have to transcode? I hope I do not cause to much bother; I'm considering a move to Emby, so I may pop up on this forum with other questions. Please do forgive me if the answers are obvious. I do search the forum for answers prior to posting.
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I'm not sure if there's a solution to this that doesn't involve extensive manual editing of XML files to keep channel/guide info current, but just in case there is an easier workaround, I wanted to post what I've been experiencing when trying to use the DVR. It's not the behavior I notice every time, but recording shows with the DVR works so infrequently that I rarely try. This is the most common result, where only a few minutes of a show will be recorded (attached screenshot of 'info' screen). I included the log file, though it does seem to have a TON of extra info, much of it pertaining to some other errors with the TuneIn plugin & retrieving audio content, but all I'm worried about here is what happened on 2/18 around 5PM when I requested this particular recording. I've replaced my local path/username/public URL with dummy data. Even if the guide is goofed up and it's taping the wrong show...is there any other reason why it'd crap out after recording just a few minutes? Thanks. embyserver-63717667196.txt
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Now that windows 7 is no longer supported I am attempting to move away from wmc and use Emby exclusively for my DVR. One main feature I am really going to miss is fast forward 1 with pitch correct audio. This is wonderful for getting through sports and the like quickly. Windows media center and TiVo have this feature. Is this something that can be done in Emby?
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Hi If i set up two tuners, can i disable one form recording and just use it for live tv while allowing the other tuner to record?
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Hello I couldn't find anything about this and wanted to ask. Is there a way to designation tuners to do specific things, for example: HDHomerun extend to just do recordings HDHomerun Duo to just tune liveTV This is my dream...i already have an amplified antenna and amplified splitter installed (thanks dish). Thank you
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Hi I'm new to emby. My main emby client is a nvidia shield. On the Shield, I can start watching an ongoing recording and skip through commercials perfectly. But that doesn't seem the case with emby theater on Windows. I can start watching an ongoing recording, but the player has a lot of difficulties tracking time. It's really difficult to skip through commercials. i tried the webapp player with the same results. On the android app (not tv), the player shows a length of 0 min and It's not possible to skip through commercials at all. Is it the expected behavior? Or there is something that I'm missing? Thank you
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DVR, check if movie already in library before recording
reneboulard posted a topic in Feature Requests
I would like to have the ability to check if a movie is already in my library before scheduling a recording in the DVR. The only way to do it now is to make a search. This mean going from on screen to another. It is already possible to not record an episode of a serie that already exist in the library. A similar option should be available for movie, One suggestion is to have a seach display on screen when scheduling the recording of a movie, in order to inform if the movie is already in the library or not. Hope this help! -
Hi, So I have a question about the Emby Live TV and DVR with HD Homerun Prime and cable card using Spectrum. I had PLEX and it would not play/record most of the Spectrum Cable Channels as they were DRM protected, they were fine on the HDHomerun Prime but not on the PLeX server. So I checked and everyone kept saying Emby but after spending an hour reading threads here I am still unsure if Emby Premiere will play or record DRM channels. I am not talking about encrypted channels like HBO, I know the difference. Can someone just answer the basic question. With my current setup will Emby Premiere allow me to view/record these DRM channels from Spectrum via my HDHomerun Prime? Thanks, Randy
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Clicking on Recording in progress from the guide does not start from beginning
jfgilliam posted a topic in Live TV
I have a series recording scheduled. When clicking on the show from the guide while it is currently recording, does not play the recording. It goes straight to live. Once there, you cannot even scrub back to the beginning. It doesn't show up under "Recordings" or "Schedule". Am I doing something wrong? How do I watch a series while it is recording?- 9 replies
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I just installed Emby yesterday after having stability issues with Plex liveTV. Setup is with a Hauppauge dual channel USB tuner connected to a Microsoft Surface. Everything was working great with liveTV so setup the DVR to record some shows. At 8pm both Chicago Med and Survivor started recording. When I checked the status of the recordings around 10:20pm I found that Chicago Med was only a partial recording of a minute 47 seconds. I looked at the log file and didn't see any errors, just that the recording stopped. Not sure what other logs to look at. From the server log the recording was started with the correct length, set it to record 1 minute additional after show end: 2019-11-20 20:00:07.507 Info LiveTV: Will record to E:\Emby\Chicago Med (2015)\Season 5\Chicago Med S05E09 I Can't Imagine the Future.ts for 60.874883375 minutes. Here is where is stops, but no errors that I can see. 2019-11-20 20:01:56.690 Info LiveTV: Recording completed to file E:\Emby\Chicago Med (2015)\Season 5\Chicago Med S05E09 I Can't Imagine the Future.ts 2019-11-20 20:01:56.690 Info LiveTV: Recording completed: E:\Emby\Chicago Med (2015)\Season 5\Chicago Med S05E09 I Can't Imagine the Future.ts 2019-11-20 20:01:56.690 Info MediaSourceManager: Live stream native_d8f0e8fc2bd98bf03584443fee3c1cc0_0f257e7cb95191e9932ee3294d0bfcdf consumer count is now 0 2019-11-20 20:01:56.690 Info MediaSourceManager: Closing live stream I checked the transcode file, attached, and didn't see any errors there either. Any help/guidance on what additional log files to look at?
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Trying to get Emby set up to work as cable provider replacement. The issue I am having is that I have a HDHR Quattro and an IPTV (M3U) source. Works extremely well; however, the behavior when tuners are in use has been frustrating me. At a minimum, I would like to limit the number of tuners that can be used for recording vs. live streaming. Alternatively, if attempting to tune when all tuners are is use, I could be given the choice to interrupt. Presently, I have 5 streams available from M3U and 4 tuners, so if there are items in a series, the server can theoretically record 9 programs and not let me tune another and the error is vague. As an example of previous experience, giving the user the option to cancel a recording would be nice.
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I'm still struggling to get the DVR to work reliably. The recordings are either of the wrong show, or the playback skips around and even seems to switch channels at times. While all of these recordings were all set up on channels/programs that appeared correctly in the guide at the time, there are quite a number of missing spots in my EPG, and I've tried Emby, Schedules Direct, and XMLTV.. from what I've read in some of these threads, mapping all of the channels through some other 3rd party service sounds like a ton of work & a production-ready integrated Emby live TV/DVR solution with IPTV support is still a ways off. Is there a thread or site where I might find known issues that might cause this type of behavior upon playback? When I playback a recording & run into this, is there any information recorded in the server log that might be useful to the Emby support staff? I also have a ton of empty channels in the EPG that say "No Programming Info", but there doesn't seem to be a way to filter them out, so I'm stuck endlessly scrolling through hundreds of these...short of pointing to a local file for my giude that I edit to remove these empty channels, is there any way to set up the guide so that it excludes these channels that are unavailable? Thanks.
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Feature Request: Better seeking in in-progress recordings on Roku
ProperlyFormattedDataFile posted a topic in Roku
Currently when I'm playing back a live recording on the Roku, I seem to only be able to seek as far as Emby has transcoded in the background. This can be frustrating if I want to seek through the first half-hour or hour of a recording. Would it be possible to change the way Emby handles seeking in ongoing recordings such that it's possible to seek to the middle of the recording and then begin transcoding from there? Thanks! -
I am STRICTLY interested in LiveTV/DVR feature/functionality so all my comments/questions are restricted to that context. I'm ready to test EMBY with the intent to migrate from PLEX. I understand I need a Premiere membership for this feature. Is there a FREE trial pass????? If not and I purchase a monthly and decide to move forward purchasing an EMBY Lifetime, does the monthly cost at all get prorated in the Lifetime cost? Can I set up EMBY on the same server as my current PLEX setup? I currently have 2 Hauppauge Quad PCI cards on an i7-4770 with 8Gb memory and plenty of disk space. Is 8Gb memory sufficient for EMBY LiveTV/DVR? Can I share the tuners between EMBY and PLEX or do I need to allocate them independently? I presume I can't share the tuners so .... In PLEX the tuners show up as 4 two tuner devices (just like device manager, duh, see attached) and that's how they get assigned in the PLEX LiveTV/DVR setup. Can I allocate only 2 tuners to EMBY or must I allocate an entire 4 tuner card? I currently use ROKU devices (Ultras, Stick_, Stick - all most current) and an ATV4K (also most current) for clients. Does EMBY support native MPEG2 on the above listed clients (i.e. No transcoding required for LiveTV) Any thing else I should consider???? Thank you very much in advance.
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I'm not sure when this started as most of the shows I record only started coming back for first-runs in the past week or so, but I am getting the following errors in Scheduled Tasks for recording shows by schedule: Task Scheduler failed to start "\Emby Recording Family Guy Sun, 06 Oct 2019 21 29 00 GMT" task for user "DomainName\ServerName$". Additional Data: Error Value: 2147943645. Task Category: Task Start Failed Last Run Result: "The operation being requested was not performed because the user has not logged on to the network. The specified service does not exist. (0x800704DD)" I am recording with an HD Homerun using OTA Digital antenna. The server is 2012R2 with Emby set to run as a service. It looks like Emby is building the scheduled tasks with "Run only when user is logged on" instead of what should be "Run whether user is logged on or not" in the task settings. It has to have been an update sometime since March-ish of this year as that is the last time I know that I had shows scheduled to record.
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Hi, I have an issue with recording OTA television where the DVR selects the SD channel rather than the HD channel This is happening with the Rugby World Cup currently on in Japan. It is shown here in the UK on ITV Channel (SD) and also the HD version of that Channel ITVHD, although some of the other content and lesser games are also on the sister ITV4 channel. If I trigger the series recording for all games then I either get a choice of the current channel I am scheduling on, or all channels. If I go with the current channel ITVHD then it misses out the content on ITV4 and if I go all channels, it picks everything up, but it records the SD channel in preference to the HD channel - I have to manually select the HD channel for every recording, which is tedious. I am on the laest stable versions of Emby Server and Emby Theatre, using the Emby Guide Data with my Hauppauge dual tuner. Thanks
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Hi, When setting up the DVR, there are x2 optional recording paths, one for TV and one for Movies.. When im on my Live TV, and select something to record.. How can i specify if its a movie or a TV show? I cant see anything to select when i click record. Thanks Shenn
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Continue Watching from DVR Starting From Beginning While Recording
darjonase posted a topic in Live TV
Steps to repeat the issue: 1. Start recording a show (I was recording an NFL game that lasts quite a while) 2. Start watching the show while the recording is still in progress 3. Close the browser while watching the show with the recording still in progress 4. Go back into Embry and you should now see the show in Continue Watching under the Live TV Section This shows where you left off as a green status bar, indicating that you are not at the beginning of the recording5. Click on Continue Watching and you will be sent back to the beginning of the recording 6. Closing the stream and going back to the TV menu will no longer show the Continue Watching option The Continue Watching process appears to be working correctly once the recording is completed, it only appears to be an issue while the recording is in process Expected Results If the recording knows the timestamp that I stopped the video, it should start back up at that timestamp not back at the beginning of the recording -
LiveTV, Guide works, Recording silently fails (fritzbox 6490 dvr)
SchnohneX posted a topic in Live TV
Good morning everybody, I have a very odd problem with my Emby installation. LiveTV works, DVR does not, Yes, I DO have Lifetime Premiere membership! Setup: AVM Fritzbox 6490 from Vodafone Germany with DVB-C officially enabled. Emby is running as an application (not service) in an account with admin rights on a Windows 10 (November 2017 Version) Pro machine. M3U Playlists created and verified - work perfect with VLC. I have all the channels in the guide. I have subscribed to guide data. Live TV works as it should. (Playback in Emby is sometimes pixelated as if sometimes dropouts happen, but that is secondary right now.) Scheduling (!) recordings also works well. But Emby never records anything. Looking into the gigantic log files it seems to be something regarding a Windows system (!) message that only http or https connections would be allowed. No files for the recordings seem to get opened or written, the directory stays empty. I tried different directories and directory formats. I tried directories in and outside of libraries. I searched the forums for the exact error message but got no hits. I read ALL messages that refer to the Fritzbox (not many) and got no clue. I saw some remarks regarding FFMPEG builds that do not support protocols and checked - no I am only running the build installed by the Emby installer itself. I checked rights, the user space Emby runs in does have read/write access to the location I want to store DVR files into. I don't get it. This either is something really obvious or really obscure. Emby does not post any error messages at all. It simply does not record anything and, as mentioned, I get only weird errors in the log. Everything else works fine. Any ideas for troubleshooting? Thanks and Grüße aus Deutschland, Boris -
Hey, I'm trying to load my M3U & EPG in Emby Premiere. When I go to Live TV, I can't see anything. W/EPG, the loading display never completes. The playlist works in VLC/Kodi.embyserver.txt
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I just set up a new Nvidia Shield TV and installed Emby Server 4.0.2.0 last night. I paid for and enabled Emby Premiere. I have an HD Homerun Quatro tuner, and I set the DVR to record a show to test it out. When playing it back on the Shield through the Emby app, it looks and sounds great, but will only play for a few minutes and then abruptly takes me back to the previous screen, like I had pressed Stop. If I resume playing, I can get another minute or two further into the program and then I get kicked back to the previous screen again. When trying to watch it back from a web browser on my Windows 10 laptop, it will play for maybe 10 seconds or so and then completely freeze. I have not installed/setup Kodi, Plex or any other media management servers/apps on this Shield yet.
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Hey, I'm trying to convert to Emby Live TV (away from my rip off cable provider) but I'm having an issue with recording. When I record a program and come back hours later to watch it, sometimes it has only recorded 2,3,10,15, etc, minutes of the show. I have made sure to try it without recording or watching anything else as I think my IPTV provider only supplies one connection. Also, sometimes I am watching a channel and Emby randomly drops out and returns back to the TV guide. I don't know if this is an error on the provider's end, a bug with the app on my Android TV, or a transcoding/server error. Any help is appreciated, thanks!
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In Emby I have multiple local users set up. I've already set up tv and movie libraries per user. I came over from Plex and like that Emby allows each user the ability to record. However I am not seeing any options for choosing the recording folder for each user. How can I do this? My server is on Windows 10 Pro but the clients in use are Rokus, Fire TV, iOS and android mobile devices.
