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When playing a collection on Apple TV (not sure if this is the same on other clients) it would be awesome to resume playback of a collection where it left off, rather than having to either start at the beginning again, or manually open movies, which does not autoplay the next movie.

I have the offcial emby app on my Samsung TV, it was all working fine but now when I open the app and select a video I just get the loading circle spinning indefinitely. However if I open the same video on my Samsung S9 app or on my Xbox it plays fine. I logged out of the app on my TV and back in which didn't resolve the issue. I then tried uninstalling the emby app and reinstalling it on the TV but still no joy. Any ideas?

Hello all, So far I really love Emby. It has provided 95% of the solutions I need for multiple users in my home however, there is one really nagging issue that is kind of a deal breaker. I bought premium for one month to see if it's worth it and the only thing holding me back now from purchasing a lifetime membership is this one issue. No videos will resume playing if I leave that video's screen. It correctly marks where I left off and when I go to play it from where I left off it quickly loads to that marker and then the slider moves to the beginning of the file and pauses. If I hit play, it just does nothing. My only option is to go back to the show's page and hit play rather than resume and then manually go back to where I left off. This only seems to happen on my PC's (all running Arch, both Chrome and Firefox), it works fine on my Android devices. I would really appreciate any insight on how to fix this. Just let me know if you need any log files and I'll upload them.

I just recently set up an Emby server through FreeNAS. I was able to play movies and music (and see my artwork and tags on music) just fine, but I wasn't able to use the Android App due to an old version of Freenas. I just finished updating FreeNas, and after configuring a new emby server am not able to stream any movies or music VIA web browser. Friends accessing the server VIA domain name aren't able to either. When playing a song I get "No compatible streams are currently available. Please try again later or contact your system administrator for details." When trying to play a movie it will just sit with a spinning pinwheel for ages and never load. All media streams fine VIA the app, though. Here is the log section from my time of error attached. Thanks in advance for any responses. log.txt

I have a Nexus 9 32GB LTE (International Version [use it as wifi only though]). I like to use the tablet on road trips to watch my Emby content. I have the Emby app installed. Whenever trying to stream content on the Nexus 9, I regularly get a green and pink jumbled image or it is very choppy... like a low framerate and the video is way behind the audio. The only temporary solution I found for this is to force the quality to 720p -1mbps. Anything higher than that will cause it to be choppy or green... is anyone else having this issue that can recommend a solution? when setting the quality that low on a 9 inch screen it is definitely noticeable. Seems to be unique to Emby, Netflix and Plex work fine on any quality. Tethered internet bandwidth isnt an issue either, usually getting 10-50mbps

So for a little while I have been having issues playing movies, they will play for a few minutes then stop and the server will physically shutdown requiring a manual reboot. This does not seem to happen with tv shows but only movies. I also cannot get it to stop transcoding everything. I have a samsung smart tv 2014 running the emby app. I have also tried casting from an android phone and tablet to a chromecast or to the tv directly but all result in transcoding. I even tried using a ps4. I've attached the logs of the most recent incident but every movie I have tried to play recently does the same thing. ServerLog1.txt ServerLog2.txt TranscodingLog.txt

I bought the streaming option for my Emby app on the Fire TV Stick, but streaming doesn't work; no video is played. The server is accessed through a reverse proxy on a ssh tunnel forwarded remote emby and everything works fine using the web browser (either using the Silk browser on the fire tv or any other pc). I sent a log through the app at 13.46 CEST, local user is Riccardo. I am pasting the server log for that call, lots of errors there; full log is attached as well. I am using embty server 3.4.0 and latest app version. 2018-08-14 13:45:08.794 Info HttpServer: HTTP GET http://localhost:8096/favicon.ico. UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/68.0.3440.106 Safari/537.36 2018-08-14 13:45:08.798 Info HttpServer: HTTP Response 200 to 192.168.2.183, 127.0.0.1. Time: 3ms. http://localhost:8096/favicon.ico 2018-08-14 13:45:15.356 Info HttpServer: HTTP GET http://localhost:8096/emby/embywebsocket?deviceId=878450b053e24d0b. UserAgent: 2018-08-14 13:45:15.357 Error HttpServer: Could not find handler for /emby/embywebsocket 2018-08-14 13:45:15.359 Info HttpServer: HTTP Response 404 to 192.168.2.168, 127.0.0.1. Time: 3ms. http://localhost:8096/emby/embywebsocket?deviceId=878450b053e24d0b 2018-08-14 13:45:15.541 Info HttpServer: HTTP GET http://localhost:8096/emby/embywebsocket?deviceId=878450b053e24d0b. UserAgent: 2018-08-14 13:45:15.542 Error HttpServer: Could not find handler for /emby/embywebsocket 2018-08-14 13:45:15.547 Info HttpServer: HTTP Response 404 to 192.168.2.168, 127.0.0.1. Time: 2ms. http://localhost:8096/emby/embywebsocket?deviceId=878450b053e24d0b 2018-08-14 13:45:15.586 Info HttpServer: HTTP GET http://localhost:8096/emby/Users/1704b4c35b59459489bbc2b957a42519/Items?IsVirtualUnaired=false&Fields=MediaSources%2CMediaStreams%2CPath%2CChapters%2COverview%2CPrimaryImageAspectRatio&recursive=false&SortBy=SortName&IncludeItemTypes=Episode&MinIndexNumber=2&ParentId=927878faf8630c6bf668c9d6e56b0620&format=json. UserAgent: Dalvik/2.1.0 (Linux; U; Android 5.1.1; AFTT Build/LVY48F) 2018-08-14 13:45:15.627 Info HttpServer: HTTP Response 200 to 192.168.2.168, 127.0.0.1. Time: 42ms. http://localhost:8096/emby/Users/1704b4c35b59459489bbc2b957a42519/Items?IsVirtualUnaired=false&Fields=MediaSources%2CMediaStreams%2CPath%2CChapters%2COverview%2CPrimaryImageAspectRatio&recursive=false&SortBy=SortName&IncludeItemTypes=Episode&MinIndexNumber=2&ParentId=927878faf8630c6bf668c9d6e56b0620&format=json 2018-08-14 13:45:15.968 Info HttpServer: HTTP GET http://localhost:8096/emby/embywebsocket?deviceId=878450b053e24d0b. UserAgent: 2018-08-14 13:45:15.969 Error HttpServer: Could not find handler for /emby/embywebsocket 2018-08-14 13:45:15.970 Info HttpServer: HTTP Response 404 to 192.168.2.168, 127.0.0.1. Time: 2ms. http://localhost:8096/emby/embywebsocket?deviceId=878450b053e24d0b 2018-08-14 13:45:16.210 Info HttpServer: HTTP POST http://localhost:8096/emby/Items/208e061c6c8e71d00752566169be6567/PlaybackInfo?format=json. UserAgent: Dalvik/2.1.0 (Linux; U; Android 5.1.1; AFTT Build/LVY48F) 2018-08-14 13:45:16.232 Error HttpServer: Error processing request *** Error Report *** Version: 3.4.0.0 Command line: /opt/emby-server/system/EmbyServer.dll -programdata /var/lib/emby -ffmpeg /opt/emby-server/bin/ffmpeg -ffprobe /opt/emby-server/bin/ffprobe -restartexitcode 3 -updatepackage emby-server-deb_{version}_amd64.deb Operating system: Unix 4.4.0.122 64-Bit OS: True 64-Bit Process: True User Interactive: True Processor count: 4 Program data path: /var/lib/emby Application directory: /opt/emby-server/system System.ArgumentNullException: Value cannot be null. Parameter name: g at System.Guid..ctor(String g) at Emby.Server.Implementations.Library.UserManager.GetUserById(String id) at Emby.Server.MediaEncoding.Api.MediaInfoService.<GetPlaybackInfo>d__17.MoveNext() --- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown --- at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw() at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task) at Emby.Server.MediaEncoding.Api.MediaInfoService.<Post>d__19.MoveNext() --- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown --- at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw() at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task) at Emby.Server.Implementations.Services.ServiceExecGeneral.<GetTaskResult>d__3.MoveNext() --- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown --- at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw() at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task) at Emby.Server.Implementations.Services.ServiceHandler.<ProcessRequestAsync>d__13.MoveNext() --- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown --- at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw() at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task) at Emby.Server.Implementations.HttpServer.HttpListenerHost.<RequestHandler>d__70.MoveNext() System.ArgumentNullException at System.Guid..ctor(String g) at Emby.Server.Implementations.Library.UserManager.GetUserById(String id) at Emby.Server.MediaEncoding.Api.MediaInfoService.<GetPlaybackInfo>d__17.MoveNext() --- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown --- at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw() at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task) at Emby.Server.MediaEncoding.Api.MediaInfoService.<Post>d__19.MoveNext() --- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown --- at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw() at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task) at Emby.Server.Implementations.Services.ServiceExecGeneral.<GetTaskResult>d__3.MoveNext() --- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown --- at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw() at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task) at Emby.Server.Implementations.Services.ServiceHandler.<ProcessRequestAsync>d__13.MoveNext() --- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown --- at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw() at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task) at Emby.Server.Implementations.HttpServer.HttpListenerHost.<RequestHandler>d__70.MoveNext()

Hello, I have a problem with playing back my media on firefox. The playback starts fine and works for some time until it stops for a few seconds until it continues. This problem doesn't exist if I use chrome or force transcode on firefox. OS: Win 10 64bit Firefox Version 62.0.2 I hope you may be able to help me. log.txt

Hi All, New to Emby after switching from Plex and liking it so far. I am having an issue with playing live HD channels. When selected the player loads, I get the popup asking if there is an issue and this will repeat until it gives up. I can get the channel to play by switching to a lower quality and then switching back however. Setup: Fire TV (Pendant) connected to LAN with Ethernet adapter Emby App v1.6.15a Emby Server v3.5.2.0 Running on Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS HDHomeRun CONNECT Quatro 1250DF7C v20180817 Settings: Client playback set to auto. (Auto sets quality to 30 Mb/s) Direct TV checked. Steps: - Select HD channel (BBC One HD) - Spinning circle - Select lower quality (1 Mb/s) - Channel plays at low quality - Select original / higher quality (30 Mb/s) - Channel plays at this quality. Log sent by this Emby connect account on 03/09/2018 17:15 UTC+1 Is there anything I can do to have the channel play at the higher quality without going through these steps? Thanks ffmpeg log 2018-03-09 1715(2).txt ffmpeg log 2018-03-09 1715.txt ffmpeg log 2018-03-09 1714(2).txt ffmpeg log 2018-03-09 1714.txt Emby server log.txt

I have some problem with the playback of Multi-resolution movies. It seems Emby is not selecting the correct version. I thought Emby clients where capable to select the correct version? I have tested this with Emby Theater (Xbox One, Windows Store & Desktop) and the webapp. All of them are using the highest quality version instead of selecting the one with the correct resolution. On my Xbox One S this is a big problem because it selects the 4K version of a movie instead of the 1080P version. I don't have a 4K screen, so I get a green screen.

I have an XBox One and an XBox One X for playback (Windows 10 as the server) that have both started having the same problem within the past few weeks or so. Here's how we can reproduce the problem: Go to Television\Series\Choose a Series, Click "Shuffle". Playback then stops\freezes at the very end of the first episode usually right around when it says "Next Episode will start in 9 seconds" . It will sit there until someone backs out of the app or clicks "Start Now" . We have been using the shuffle for several years when it stopped working a few weeks ago . I think it is either due to an update or possibly something wrong with the algorithm used to determine how to shuffle because we use this feature so much. I couldn't figure out how to clear those counters without resetting all the metadata.

I am wondering if this will have any issues the audio in a theater surround system using kodi v18? It seems to be a little heavy on the audio on the right side or is it just me. These are the comparison of the two files (original vs converted) MediInfo entries, should I be concerned? ​​​​​​​ Full audio reports from mediainfo here: my newly converted hevc source: I am not sure if this is the correct place to post this, please feel free to move if needed. Thanks again for all, Ice

Hi, I just uploaded to my emby server some isos of my DVDs, they are identified in the gallery, but when i click on play, nothing shows up. I'm using the latest version of emby server with all the default emby plugins (so far...) on a synology NAS. Can anyone help Cheers

on win10 tablet, after 10 minutes of playing something, playback gets cut off and i found this in the event log The system is entering connected standby Reason: Idle Timeout. happens for both audio & video files seems that somehow the idle timer is not "informed" that there is something playing haven't used ET on the tablet for a couple of weeks, but i'm sure, the last time i did, this didn't take place

TV Model: LG 55UH850V Smart 3D 4k TV WebOS Version: 3.3.3-3704 (dreadlocks-dharug) Software Version: 05.30.10 Emby App Version: 1.06 Server Version: 3.3.1.0 Description of issue: During playback of content, the playback controls occasionally stop showing up when an arrow button is pressed and all control (pause, skip back or forward, Close Caption selection) of the content bar coming out of it completely, stops working. Only the show logo appears on screen when you attempt to get playback controls up. This seems to occur more often if I allow video to Continue on after an episode, but has also happened to me on the first item I play.

One of the remote users on my server has been reporting freezing and stuttering quite often despite waiting for the transcode to reach 100%. It has happen across several different movies. It will play fine for some time but after 10-30 minutes the movie will freeze and it will never stutter and freeze from that point on. The movie is always 100% transcoded before playback begins and both of our speeds are quite sufficient for streaming and we experience no problems on any other sites. Were mainly using the web interface and google chrome for the remote user to play movies but have tried using embycon for kodi and experienced the same problem but much worse (froze every 2 minutes). I've tried enabling and disabling hardware acceleration as well as limiting the bitrate. In the past we've had success using 1080p 5mbps and waiting 30-45 minutes before playback. Now with the same settings were experiencing way more problems. Not quite sure what more i can try.

Hi all im looking for some help. For a while now ive been unable to play new shows or movies but im able to play ones I have previously watch fine, which is very odd. Im able to play the other shows and movies fine over the network as normal. Thanks.

This is really strange and I have tried to research this within the community but did not find anything that related to this. I rebuilt my Emby server a month ago and use Emby Theatre or my Samsung SmartTV app to access the server. Before the rebuild, all playback computers or smart TVs were playing back all movies perfectly but after the rebuild, I am able to access movies and music folders and all my collections are working perfectly but when I try to play a DVD or BluRay, I am getting either an error message on the computer that states I need to acquire an external player OR on the SmartTV a spinning circle appears showing like a download and remains for a very long time until it fades away. I have not change the computers or SmartTV settings, so I am having a real issue figuring this out. I would appreciate any direction or suggestions,

Dear Community, I am running the Emby Server von my Synology NAS 1515+. So far I have been able to get everything running with the support of all the good threads inside this forum, e.g. remote access with my domain and SSH certificate. A big thank you for that. The only point I am struggling and have not found the route corse yet are the playback issues of micro stops and total freezes at home on my local network, from the NAS to my iPad or iPhone. I have done several tests with the same movie file: Download with the Synology App DS-file: no issues, CPU and RAM around idle, download speed ~12 MB/s, peak up to 18 MB/s direct stream with the Synology App DS-file: no issues, CPU and RAM around idle, direct stream with VLC player from the network (NAS): no issues, CPU and RAM around idle (the 2.4 MB/s download to the NAS is from another user) direct stream with Emby App and per browser: micro stops and complete freezes. Here are the log files from my last try. I don't really understand what is causing the longer and longer HTTP responses. Any help to point me in the right direction would be highly appreciated. Do let me know if I need to provide more information. Thanks in advance for your help! server.txt server-63661802131.txt

Since a couple of weeks I've noticed that Trakt doesn't sync any playback progress between my two devices anymore. It used to work perfectly and having changed nothing it suddenly stopped working. Which makes me think it's plug-in related. Could anyone test and verify this? I've tried everything (updating add-ons, updating Kodi, uninstalling/reinstalling Trakt plug-in, et cetera). I would love to get this to work again so any help would be greatly appreciated! (Edit: the progress does show up in the Emby app itself, it just doesn't seem to load on the devices, restarting the entire video every time instead of resuming).

Hi, A client, using the application for Xbox One, stated that they were able to browse the libraries of my emby server, however, while trying to reproduce, the message came that he should become a Premiere user to proceed. I am Emby's Premiere user and was certain that, being Premiere, it would be enough for the client, using any of the applications, would have access to the playback in my libraries. If not, I'd like to know what I can do so clients can have playback on my server. Thank you very much

Recently, I have been unable to play many of my video files (movies and TV shows). Once I press play on my Roku remote, it seems to get stuck on a blank screen with the name of the video and "Retrieving" showing, with the green progress bar 1/3 of the way through. I've attached my log file. I've searched and read through many trouble shooting techniques (including lowering the bitrate, deselecting hardware acceleration throttling, etc) but nothing seems to help. It is a wired system (not wireless). Any suggestions? Log.txt

Hi, I would like to propose a some new features, at least for the web interface. 1. Ability to setup the keyboard shortcuts. - not all can use the default shortcuts, there might be other system shortcuts that get in the way. - a method to setup your own could really make a great difference 2. Setup and define the local cache size [if there is any local cache for browser play] - it will incredible to be able to setup the local cache size for playback

I'm getting "Playback Error: No compatible streams are currently available. " when trying to view an old (20 years ago?) home movie. It was created by the app Nero. I am trying on the Chrome web browser. I've attached the relevant part of the log. Note the execution errors. This is from mediainfo on the file ... General Complete name : home-movies/1978-00-00 moe fred linda-singing.mpg Format : MPEG-PS File size : 494 MiB Duration : 29mn 30s Overall bit rate mode : Variable Overall bit rate : 2 340 Kbps Writing library : Created by Nero Video ID : 224 (0xE0) Format : MPEG Video Format version : Version 2 Format profile : Main@Main Format settings, BVOP : Yes Format settings, Matrix : Custom Format settings, GOP : Variable Duration : 29mn 30s Bit rate mode : Variable Bit rate : 2 069 Kbps Maximum bit rate : 4 142 Kbps Width : 720 pixels Height : 480 pixels Display aspect ratio : 4:3 Frame rate : 29.970 (30000/1001) fps Standard : NTSC Color space : YUV Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0 Bit depth : 8 bits Scan type : Progressive Scan order : Bottom Field First Compression mode : Lossy Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.200 Time code of first frame : 00:00:00:00 Time code source : Group of pictures header GOP, Open/Closed : Open GOP, Open/Closed of first frame : Closed Stream size : 437 MiB (88%) Writing library : Created by Nero Audio ID : 192 (0xC0) Format : MPEG Audio Format version : Version 1 Format profile : Layer 2 Duration : 29mn 30s Bit rate mode : Constant Bit rate : 224 Kbps Channel(s) : 2 channels Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz Compression mode : Lossy Delay relative to video : -34ms Stream size : 47.3 MiB (10%) log.txt

I would like to be able to play music tracks on schedule. Daily or week or month basis on specific time.