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Hello, the spouse has had no luck with the app on her iPad, even after getting a new one earlier this week. The MKV files are transcoded and stream just fine (i.e., the playback is not choppy, even at 20 MB/sec), but then the stream randomly stops. I reduced the transcode rate from "automatic" to 4 MP/sec and it worked for two episodes of her (current) favourite show, but then hasn't worked since. Shows can stop streaming after 4 minutes or as long as 40, but she is unable to get through longer episodes without stopping (the little busy indicator comes on). Trying to resume results in nothing happening, and starting from scratch sometimes works and sometimes starts two streams playing simultaneously (for audio, the screen remains blank), one at the stopping point, and one from the beginning. The server doing the transcoding is under light load and has the power to handle conversion in realtime, as far as I know. I see the transcoding bar below the playback bar as always running about 5-10% ahead, so that doesn't seem to be an issue. Anyone else experiencing this? Thanks.

In my initial tests, I set up emby on android, connecting to a ubuntu server. I had it connected via wifi, and tested playback with movies/tv, and even live tv. All worked flawlessly. Then I tested playback over 4G. I was amazed that it worked, especially because I didn't use emby connect and I don't think I ever specified my public ip to the app. But there I was streaming live tv and movies while sitting in the mall waiting on my wife. I was very impressed. Now, after dertermining that emby would suit my needs and testing emby for kodi locally on a spare Rpi, I am ready to transition over. But all of a sudden playback on my phone doesn't work. I haven't changed anything that I know of. It doesn't matter if it is locally over wifi connected directly to the emby port, or externally over 4G going through my reverse proxy. Streaming and transcoding work fine in chrome from an external location going through the reverse proxy. On my phone I get: Playback error: There was an error processing the request. Please try again later. I know it attempting to transcode: my transcode log: http://pastebin.com/2jFK5E8a I don't know much about dlna profiles yet, thinking that since I am using the android and kodi plugins, and the web interface, I wouldn't be using dlna. Are these profiles used for the app connection as well? Maybe it is a profile issue.

Hi guys... I was wondering if there's any plans to make users on a server have the ability to set per library permissions. For example on my Music folder I might want some users to be able to stream/listen to the library, but not be able to download them. Others I might want the other way around. But at the same time. I may want them to not be able to encode/stream video to their devices but instead download the full file and play it locally. (Guests for example who are not in my network.) Where as another user I might prefer that they have the ability to stream or download video but have no download access to a single library. Basically I would like to see/have per library permissions for each user if possible. (Maybe adding group permissions might make more sense if you have to go down this road?) Hope that makes sense? If it needs further clarification or a flow chart or something let me know. Thanks! -Phantom

I'm having trouble playing live TV on any of the apps. I don't have a problem with movie which are MKV containers, but only 480p. I'm using a HDHR tuner attached to a Gigabit network and I've tried both the Emby Server for windows and the freenas plugin just to see if that had an effect. Using the Emby app for window 10 I get this video failed to play most of the time (I tried two different windows 10 PCs). Using Microsoft Edge and Firefox also do not let me watch live TV. If I look on the server, it has a few FFmpeg proccess hanging out even after the video failed to play. Any ideas on how to troubleshoot this would be appreciated. Logs are attached. ServerLogs.zip

Hi Can you please add more bitrate options for 1080p ( i ned 1mb option to that) the main reson is because it's a lott of phones i tested on cant handel more then 1 mb. and the second reson it if the movies are in h265 and only 480p or smaller then the app caches because its always pick 4mb instead of 1mb when i have the option sett to 1080p in the settings. and this will happen on all android units (h265) tring to play 4mb/s if the movie only is 480p Im guessing it hafts to do withe bitrate, that the movies dont have that hi bitrate when thy are in h265 /Regards

I recently upgraded my "server" and since the new Emby install I have not been able to stream most of my movies locally or remotely with the android app or web UI. Prior to the upgrade everything worked perfectly. I believe everything is shard appropriately. What is interesting is that there are a handful of movies that will play in the same Movies folder created with in days of each other. The only similarity I can see is that movies that will play show the detailed media info while the ones that do not play only show the path. I am not able to find any other common denominator as to why one will play over the other. I am able to play all movies through WMC Emby on of my pc's. I installed the Emby server on 2 other computers and added a few test movies and I also was not able to stream. Any insight would be appreciated. Thank you server log.txt transcode log.txt

Hi All, I am really hoping that somebody can help me out. I have a VPS set up and tbh the spec is pretty low so i wanted to upload my media to my VPS and then sync to google drive. Once synced to google drive, 'The Plan' was to get emby to only allow playback of google drive links. I have managed to get everything set up and whilst at work today i was testing everything from the office and everything was working perfectly. For those that dont know how i achieved this i done the following: 1. synced all my media to google drive with the following criteria. a. Set profile to baseline b. quality to custom c. MBps set to 30mbps 2. I then set the playback setting under User Settings > Playback to 30MBps 3. I set the maximum bitrate Dashboard > Playback > Streaming to 100MBps 4. Disabled playback of media that requires transcoding in the user account settings. (I think that was everything) Now with this setup i managed to play back the media in a Google chrome browser and every time it played perfectly from Google Drive. I came home two hours later and now it wont play from Google Drive :/ I am also using the Kodi Addon (Wrong place to mention it i know) and that wint play a stream full stop. I know plenty of people have mentioned streaming from google and stuff like that but i am really keen to get this to work, there doesn't seem to be a lot of talk about it and if anyone can help me i would greatly appreciate it. Starting to feel like i am going around in circles. Any help. from anyone would be a lifeline. Thanks Mike

Hi guys, Tonight while playing a TV show using Emby addon, with direct streaming over HTTPS from Emby server, the playback stopped several times and went back to the episode selection. This happened to me at least 4-5 times in a 1hr episode. Waiting a few seconds and pressing <enter> on the episode, will resume playback most of the times but sometimes it will just restart playback from the beggining and I had to FF to the point when playback stopped. Emby server version: 3.0.5713.2 (latest beta) Emby Kodi addon version: 1.0.35 In the Kodi log I keep getting: ERROR: /storage/.kodi/addons/script.module.requests/lib/requests/packages/urllib3/util/ssl_.py:90: InsecurePlatformWarning: A true SSLContext object is not available. This prevents urllib3 from configuring SSL appropriately and may cause certain SSL connections to fail. For more information, see https://urllib3.readthedocs.org/en/latest/security.html#insecureplatformwarning And everytime that playback stops: ERROR: CCurlFile::FillBuffer - Failed: Timeout was reached(28) NOTICE: CCurlFile::FillBuffer - Reconnect, (re)try 1 ERROR: CCurlFile::FillBuffer - Failed: Timeout was reached(28) NOTICE: CCurlFile::FillBuffer - Reconnect, (re)try 2 ERROR: CCurlFile::FillBuffer - Failed: Timeout was reached(28) ERROR: CCurlFile::FillBuffer - Reconnect failed! I already checked on the server and transcoding is not in use at all but some errors are logged every time I start playback again. 2015-08-25 23:54:08.5992 Error - HttpServer: Error in ProcessAccept *** Error Report *** Version: 3.0.5713.2 Command line: /usr/lib/emby-server/bin/MediaBrowser.Server.Mono.exe -programdata /var/lib/emby-server -restartpath /usr/lib/emby-server/restart.sh Operating system: Unix 3.10.0.229 Processor count: 4 64-Bit OS: True 64-Bit Process: True Program data path: /var/lib/emby-server Mono: 4.0.1 (tarball Thu Jun 25 23:12:03 UTC 2015) Application Path: /usr/lib/emby-server/bin/MediaBrowser.Server.Mono.exe The authentication or decryption has failed. System.IO.IOException at Mono.Security.Protocol.Tls.SslStreamBase.AsyncHandshakeCallback (IAsyncResult asyncResult) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 InnerException: System.IO.IOException Error while sending TLS Alert (Fatal:InternalError): System.IO.IOException: EndWrite failure ---> System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: The socket has been shut down at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.EndSend (IAsyncResult result) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at System.Net.Sockets.NetworkStream.EndWrite (IAsyncResult ar) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 --- End of inner exception stack trace --- at System.Net.Sockets.NetworkStream.EndWrite (IAsyncResult ar) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at Mono.Security.Protocol.Tls.RecordProtocol.EndSendRecord (IAsyncResult asyncResult) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at Mono.Security.Protocol.Tls.RecordProtocol.InternalSendRecordCallback (IAsyncResult ar) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 InnerException: System.IO.IOException EndWrite failure at System.Net.Sockets.NetworkStream.EndWrite (IAsyncResult ar) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at Mono.Security.Protocol.Tls.RecordProtocol.EndSendRecord (IAsyncResult asyncResult) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at Mono.Security.Protocol.Tls.RecordProtocol.InternalSendRecordCallback (IAsyncResult ar) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 InnerException: System.Net.Sockets.SocketException The socket has been shut down at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.EndSend (IAsyncResult result) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at System.Net.Sockets.NetworkStream.EndWrite (IAsyncResult ar) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 2015-08-25 23:54:08.6162 Error - HttpServer: Error in ProcessAccept *** Error Report *** Version: 3.0.5713.2 Command line: /usr/lib/emby-server/bin/MediaBrowser.Server.Mono.exe -programdata /var/lib/emby-server -restartpath /usr/lib/emby-server/restart.sh Operating system: Unix 3.10.0.229 Processor count: 4 64-Bit OS: True 64-Bit Process: True Program data path: /var/lib/emby-server Mono: 4.0.1 (tarball Thu Jun 25 23:12:03 UTC 2015) Application Path: /usr/lib/emby-server/bin/MediaBrowser.Server.Mono.exe The authentication or decryption has failed. System.IO.IOException at Mono.Security.Protocol.Tls.SslStreamBase.AsyncHandshakeCallback (IAsyncResult asyncResult) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 InnerException: System.IO.IOException Error while sending TLS Alert (Fatal:HandshakeFailiure): Mono.Security.Protocol.Tls.TlsException: The client stopped the handshake. at Mono.Security.Protocol.Tls.SslServerStream.EndNegotiateHandshake (IAsyncResult asyncResult) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at Mono.Security.Protocol.Tls.SslStreamBase.AsyncHandshakeCallback (IAsyncResult asyncResult) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 InnerException: Mono.Security.Protocol.Tls.TlsException The client stopped the handshake. at Mono.Security.Protocol.Tls.SslServerStream.EndNegotiateHandshake (IAsyncResult asyncResult) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at Mono.Security.Protocol.Tls.SslStreamBase.AsyncHandshakeCallback (IAsyncResult asyncResult) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 2015-08-25 23:54:18.8848 Error - NotFoundHttpHandler: 192.168.7.31:8920 Request not found: /Videos/405d54115b8702070151cc5aba2093a5/405d54115b8702070151cc5aba2093a5/Subtitles/2/Stream.srt 2015-08-25 23:57:02.4431 Error - HttpServer: Error in ProcessAccept *** Error Report *** Version: 3.0.5713.2 Command line: /usr/lib/emby-server/bin/MediaBrowser.Server.Mono.exe -programdata /var/lib/emby-server -restartpath /usr/lib/emby-server/restart.sh Operating system: Unix 3.10.0.229 Processor count: 4 64-Bit OS: True 64-Bit Process: True Program data path: /var/lib/emby-server Mono: 4.0.1 (tarball Thu Jun 25 23:12:03 UTC 2015) Application Path: /usr/lib/emby-server/bin/MediaBrowser.Server.Mono.exe The authentication or decryption has failed. System.IO.IOException at Mono.Security.Protocol.Tls.SslStreamBase.AsyncHandshakeCallback (IAsyncResult asyncResult) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 InnerException: System.IO.IOException Error while sending TLS Alert (Fatal:InternalError): System.IO.IOException: EndWrite failure ---> System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: The socket has been shut down at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.EndSend (IAsyncResult result) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at System.Net.Sockets.NetworkStream.EndWrite (IAsyncResult ar) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 --- End of inner exception stack trace --- at System.Net.Sockets.NetworkStream.EndWrite (IAsyncResult ar) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at Mono.Security.Protocol.Tls.RecordProtocol.EndSendRecord (IAsyncResult asyncResult) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at Mono.Security.Protocol.Tls.RecordProtocol.InternalSendRecordCallback (IAsyncResult ar) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 InnerException: System.IO.IOException EndWrite failure at System.Net.Sockets.NetworkStream.EndWrite (IAsyncResult ar) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at Mono.Security.Protocol.Tls.RecordProtocol.EndSendRecord (IAsyncResult asyncResult) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at Mono.Security.Protocol.Tls.RecordProtocol.InternalSendRecordCallback (IAsyncResult ar) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 InnerException: System.Net.Sockets.SocketException The socket has been shut down at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.EndSend (IAsyncResult result) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at System.Net.Sockets.NetworkStream.EndWrite (IAsyncResult ar) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 2015-08-25 23:57:02.4630 Error - HttpServer: Error in ProcessAccept *** Error Report *** Version: 3.0.5713.2 Command line: /usr/lib/emby-server/bin/MediaBrowser.Server.Mono.exe -programdata /var/lib/emby-server -restartpath /usr/lib/emby-server/restart.sh Operating system: Unix 3.10.0.229 Processor count: 4 64-Bit OS: True 64-Bit Process: True Program data path: /var/lib/emby-server Mono: 4.0.1 (tarball Thu Jun 25 23:12:03 UTC 2015) Application Path: /usr/lib/emby-server/bin/MediaBrowser.Server.Mono.exe The authentication or decryption has failed. System.IO.IOException at Mono.Security.Protocol.Tls.SslStreamBase.AsyncHandshakeCallback (IAsyncResult asyncResult) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 InnerException: System.IO.IOException Error while sending TLS Alert (Fatal:HandshakeFailiure): Mono.Security.Protocol.Tls.TlsException: The client stopped the handshake. at Mono.Security.Protocol.Tls.SslServerStream.EndNegotiateHandshake (IAsyncResult asyncResult) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at Mono.Security.Protocol.Tls.SslStreamBase.AsyncHandshakeCallback (IAsyncResult asyncResult) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 InnerException: Mono.Security.Protocol.Tls.TlsException The client stopped the handshake. at Mono.Security.Protocol.Tls.SslServerStream.EndNegotiateHandshake (IAsyncResult asyncResult) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at Mono.Security.Protocol.Tls.SslStreamBase.AsyncHandshakeCallback (IAsyncResult asyncResult) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 2015-08-25 23:57:16.8627 Error - NotFoundHttpHandler: 192.168.7.31:8920 Request not found: /Videos/405d54115b8702070151cc5aba2093a5/405d54115b8702070151cc5aba2093a5/Subtitles/2/Stream.srt Please note the subtitle stream error, but subs are working just fine. The network is solid too, I'm using a wired connection. Plus I never have this kinds of problem before without using the Emby addon (direct NFS play), or using it with Emby addon direct play/local paths (using NFS too). I don't have time to check direct stream over HTTP tonight but I will do it tomorrow to verify if the problem is in any way related to the protocol in use. One last note: in the addon setting I had defined the IP address of the server to connect to, not the name, but the server certificate CN value holds the server fqdn instead. Maybe the HTTPS warning in Kodi logs but also on server logs is related to that? Thanks in advance for your help. kodi.log.gz

OK, I'm ready to buy my box. What I want to do is watch Emby/ Kodi on my TV as simple as possiable. I do have a Roku but seems like I would get more channels from an Android box. Any Suggestions? I'm ready to buy the Android box. My only problem is which component to buy? Fire Stick? Android Box? Android TV Nano?

I've been experiencing streaming issues in the last couple of weeks. It used to stream fast and smooth and now even when i turn the quality down to the point where it's almost unwatchable (144p), it still pauses/buffers. I'm running a AMD A8 quad-core 3.0GHz cpu w/ 16GB of ram and when I monitor the system, ffmpe.exe is maxing out all 4 cores. Did something change in the transcoding configuration because I've been using MB/Emby for years and never had an issue before. In fact, I used to run it on a slower system (3-cores, lower cpu speed and half the ram) about a year ago and it still ran flawlessly. Here are my logs: Server log: http://paste2.org/sYwc2ZM5 Transcoding log: http://paste2.org/jJ3kb31n Any help is greatly appreciated!

Hi, I have LG TV LB700 with fully working dlna and streaming. Sometimes some files are streamed and some transcoded. I know why are they transcoded, because TV does not support that codec, but on this examples is codec same, and some files are streamed and some transcoded. this example is from TV Show Cosmos. Episode 101 is streamed with preferred language CZE (which is ok) Episode 102 is streamed with language ENG even if CZE audio track is default and forced Episode 103 is streamed with language ENG even if CZE audio track is default and forced Episode 104 is transcoded with language CZE even if codec is same as in previous episodes. can someone explain me what is wrong, and how to force CZE language to stream/transocode ? Attaching mkvinfo and nfo files in zip archive. straming-transcoding.zip Thank You

Hi. I'm a self-confessed noob here. I did a search for my problem in the forums, but couldn't find anything, so I apologise in advance if I overlooked something. My issue is this: I have Emby for Kodi on both my win 8.1 laptop (which is where my emby server is), and my amazon fire stick. they work great. however, i like to add all movies and shows in the genesis add-on to my library, which puts them into the same folder together on the homescreen. it's just easier for navigating and makes more sense to me. this creates no problem on my laptop. local content and streaming content play just fine side-by-side together. however, my fire stick immediately throws all its toys out the pram. after adding my genesis content to my library, anything that i'm streaming to the fire stick from the emby server on my laptop refuses to play. Anything, that is, except for my music, which still plays just fine, (which makes a weird kind of sense as genesis doesn't touch my music). sometimes when trying to play movies or music, i will get an error message along the lines of, "playback failed." sometimes it's like it thinks it's playing, only it isn't. streaming from genesis still works okay. to play movies and tv from emby on my fire stick again, i have to reset its database. i am sure that there is some kind of logical explanation for this, but for the life of me, i cannot figure it out. is there some reason why this is happening? obviously the apps are fighting each other somehow, but why does it only affects my fire stick, and not the laptop? is there something i can do to make it all work? (if there are some logs that should be added to get some help, please let me know which ones and how to get at them. i have no clue.) thanks in advance.

So I have never used a program like this before but basically I just want to be able to stream my tv shows and movies from my desktop in the basment to my laptop upstairs. I have the server on my desktop and Emby theater on my laptop. The server says it's running and when I try to select the server on my laptop I get "There was an error processing the request". Any suggestions?

Hi All, I am very new to the Emby scene and was hoping sombody could give me a little help. i have set up a VPS with Emby and so far i am very very impressed. i have a few questions regarding syncing. 1. Can you specify that Emby only ever streams from your google drive and not stream the local file? 2. is there a way to free up space once it has been synced and delete the local file? My VPS is only 50GB and i want to use Emby to manage my library but 50gb VPS doesn't store a lot. my media collection is about 950GB i was thinking that if i upload it to the vps bit by bit could i sync it to google drive and then delete the content from my VPS? and advice would be greatly appreciated Sutherland

I just upgraded my Nexus 7 to 4.4.3 last night and it seemed to introduce a problem with video streaming. After approximately 15 minutes of playing SD video, the video stream begins to stutter while the audio continues to play just fine. I also use Plex on my Android (mostly for the sync feature, a must-have for me as my upload speed is awful) and I noticed that it has a similar issue where it will stutter after about 8 minutes of playback. I can provide logs if you think you will need them. PS How is the player rewrite going? I am wondering when the next update will be.

Interesting solution for OTA users. http://lifehacker.com/the-mohu-channels-is-a-streaming-box-that-works-seamles-1704059874 As a long time and happy user of WMC, I still feel the need to find some backup / alternative solution to WMC and the inevitable end. Would be so nice to find an all-in-one reasonably priced solution that supports OTA Antenna, Guide Support, Streaming (Netflix, Hulu, etc.), DVR, Chromecast and Emby!! It is not all in this box, but one can hope. :-) It is an Android device with access to Google Play Store. Would the developers of Emby have an interest in running on this type of solution? Would be interested in others opinions on this type of solution.

Hi All @ Emby, Was wondering if somebody could help. I have got my Emby instance up and running and so far everything is working great (Brilliant work BTW) I set up three user accounts and they were working fine. I had set two of the accounts so that playback was allowed but i did not allow playback that requires transcoding. This was working great and every time either two of the users played media from my library it streamed from the cloud. I suppose its worth mentioning that all my content is synced to the cloud with profile Baseline - Low Quality. and all content was playing fine. Everything has been playing fine but some time over the last few Emby updates it has stopped working. :? now whenever either user logs in and selects an item to play it comes up with a message 'No compatible streams are currently available. Please try again later or contact your system administrator for details.' Any idea why i am now having this error? FYI Sync and convert seem to still be working fine.

Please post a tutorial or link for setting up the android app to stream outside your local network. The app asks for the dhcp address of 192.xxx.x.xxx and I assume port forwarding on a home router for forward on that internal ip / port number or is it external ip / port number. -Looking to stream over cell network to android phone but not sure the port forwarding and ip settings for the app and home router port forwarding basically. Any assistance is much appreciated.

Most of my family members find the name channels confusing especially with live tv as an option. Really think they should be renamed streaming channels. Regardless here is the bug and how to reproduce. Goto web client, you only need 1 channel installed to reproduce such as trailers, enter user preferences. Under display the following channels directly in my views, turn on trailers and save. Open Roku client the channels line is gone and trailers doesn't show either. The only way to expose certain channels in views via the web client and keep the channels line showing in the Roku client is by always leaving one item from channels out of a direct view. For example turn on two channels such as trailers and playon as direct views, but leave tunein out. The Roku client will show the channels row.

i want to to stream music from a website is there a plugin to do so the file format is in .M3u & .pls formats i could do the program laucher but the requires me diggging out the keyboard and i much prefer usign my remore control to control my media experience i the Theature

I have started to play around with the live TV element of MB using NextPVR as the back-end (I don't have Windows Media Centre so I understand this means I can't use ServerWMC?). Everything seems to work reasonably well, however I noticed that when using the MB Theatre application (streaming rate set as 15mbps) the content is always transcoded (both SD MPEG2 and HD h264) - Since we are streaming to a pretty powerful machine with all LAV filters installed, why do we have to transcode the file first? M

Hi, I'm finding it takes an awfully long time to start streaming wtv files from a windows 7 64 bit computer to a now tv box is there a known delay in streaming as it goes at an absolute crawl but using next pvr works faster and as such do people prefer using next pvr when trying to stream over the network or not?

Hi dev team, Is it possible to copy media to my iPad/iPhone via MB Mobile and watch while not connected to my network where the media server is running?

Hi folks, My trusty 2009 Belkin N+ gigabit router is still working, but I've noticed a distressing increase in tendency for it to lose pairing with the cable modem in the last month or so. It might be completely on the side of the cable company / cable modem (which also provides voip telephony), but I'm considering pre-emptively replacing the router. So, based on the typical "Media Browser Consumer tech profile" what would be a good replacement? Obviously needs gigabit hardwired ports plus whatever the latest wireless standard is, but I'm interested to hear practical use case feature/benefit discussion. I'd also like to be able to easily stream my collection out to the internet so I can play media from wherever I might be... ease of configuration for this is a plus. One note about a deficiency in my current router: In years past I've sometimes had folks hack my wifi system (which has always used WPA2 encryption), or at least try to do so persistently enough that the router's built in security started flashing LEDs at me warning of security breach attempts. These aren't Iranian hackers or anything, but suburban teens with too much time on their hands. After this, I enabled wifi MAC address filtering which promptly resolved the matter. All was well. Until my son started having friends over, that come with their tablets, asking for the wifi code. I can set up a guest wifi access spot on my current router, but IT SHARES THE MAC ADDRESS SCREENING TABLE. So, to get a guest device working, even on the guest SSID, I have to enter their mac address into the router. I need to get away from that... it's a PITA. Ideally, I'd like to be able to configure MAC filtering separately for guest access versus the main network. It's also important that the guest wifi not have access to any other computers on my main network. Probably all this stuff is standard now, but I figured I'd run it by you all. I could also I suppose use the old router as a bridge / access point of sorts, plugged into my new router, so it would set up a completely separate wifi network, without much security other than WPA code, and be turned on (plugged in) only when guests are about the house... that would work, wouldn't it? Or would the "double router" be a problem? Thanks in advance for your insights. Marc

Well, With the holiday season here there are deals everywhere. I am running a media "server" that has MB3 installed. It also has Windows 8.1 with media center so I have MB classic installed as well. This empowers me to connect to my Xbox 360 an extender. I have 2 servers setup and 3 Xbox' as well. My question today is should I plan to move away form Windows media center and use MB only that streams to a box located at my TV? Kids have Ipad mini's and we are streaming to them with no issue, thank you for the app. So with all the boxing day specials what is the best box to use for streams, I assume an android based box. Server is too far away to run an long HDMI cable. Thanks in advance. m