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Hi Guys, Emby Server: Windows Laptop Emby Client: Android Mobile TV: Chromecast Ultra Connection: Wired & Wireless - I'm not even going to pretend to know the network setup. It's not mine and it's beyond my understanding. The server laptop is hardwired to a router. I connect via the mobile client through WiFi and cast to a Chromecast device on TV. It has been working perfectly since I moved in here, 6 ish months. Last night the hardwired laptop started having connectivity issues. Mobile device could not access server, found laptop had no connectivity. This has been resolved. As of now I can connect to the server and access my library on my mobile device. I can playback on my mobile device, as well as the local machine. However casting from the mobile device to TV shows the Emby splash screen on the TV, and thats it. No media backdrops display upon selecting a movie. And attempting to play a movie while casting is unsuccessful. TV screen just shows a spinning circle. And no media controls appear on the mobile device. Thanks in advance for your assistance. Logs attached. embyserver.txt embyserver-63872899890.txt hardware_detection-63872899904.txt

I have subtitles turned on for different shows I watch if necessary. An example is 3 Body Problem has a lot of subtitles in it. At least in the episodes I've watched. When I play it on my phone I can see them fine and switch to other subtitle options all showing as expected. If I cast to my Chromecast no subtitles appear on screen for any title that I happen to be watching. I turned on logs but not sure if it needs more time to populated because nothing is there including the folder within android that the website recommends checking. Happy to provide screenshots of necessary but at this point in time I can only show screenshots of proofs that they show on my phone and a picture of my TV to show they aren't there but I assumed that wasn't great for narrowing down the issue.

Hi everyone We are looking at getting a dedicated audio playing app for Emby up for closed testing on PlayStore shortly, and was wondering if people might be interested it trying it out and providing feedback? Features: Android Auto support Chromecast support Download media onto device via WiFi/Mobile for complete offline support - can search, mix and play content without access to your server Filter content, such as genres, artist albums, album artists by years and genre Playlists - create playlists, automatically download new content added - in the case of offline playlists. Resume playback of last positions in playing queues, audiobooks and albums, etc. Open to any suggestion for other features.... Please note: This will not be a free app - it will be a full featured trial, which upon expiry will require a once off purchase At this stage the app will be Android only, no iOS just yet unfortunately Alpha version will be available shortly, pending interest in testing and feedback.

Hi there, not sure where this fits best and maybe those are all known limitations but I'm experiencing 2 annoying issues while chromecasting from e.g. my phone to Google Nest Hubs. 1) You can't control anything on the Nest display, no media controls are shown if you toch the screen, you can't even pause it on the Nest Hub. That's completely different to all other (streaming) services I use. 2) Even worse: The Hub "screensaver" kicks in, in my case after 10mins the photo slideshow starts on the devuce and the video runs somewhere in the background, you can still listen to the audio but no way to bring it back to front w/o disconnecting. Any solutions to those topics? Or plans to improve the behaviour? I think it's not an uncommon use case to stream something to a device, e.g. in the kitchen while preapring a meal. Thanks!

Some videos will not cast to Chromecast but will play on Emby app for iOS and on Emby on Windows PC/server. The particular videos are ones I have edited via CyberLink PowerDirector in which I only cut out 1 section within middle of the video then put the 2 remaining clips together before rendering. File format is .mp4. Nothing else was changed other than cutting out a portion within middle of video. The thumbnail, title and progress bar appear on Chromecast but video/audio will not play. I have tried various ways repeating the process to no avail. I even tried downloading the video from Emby app to my iPhone 13. Any ideas will be very much appreciated.

Hey guys, This has happened a few times. Streaming to TV via Android app to Chromecast. Windows PC. I hit play, it loads the artwork, progress bar comes up. Then it fails to play and returns to splash screen. Next attempt I actually get the no valid streams error. File plays perfectly in vlc and media player on the computer. Logs attached. Thanks in advance. embyserver.txt ffmpeg-transcode-014ac1d7-0a7c-4c9d-bd6a-3abcf6d92615_1.txt ffmpeg-remux-fc3dabd5-5a4f-423c-bec5-fbb1281ef482_1.txt hardware_detection-63812178566.txt

Chromecast is now almost unusable with Emby since the last server and Android app updates. I carefully tested every variable to help debug. For the developers: - Logs attached - Same problems with trying to cast different video files - Same problems when Chromecasting from both Pixel 5 phone and Samsung Tab A tablet - Server version 4.7.8.0 on Windows 10 machine - Android app version 3.2.77 running on both devices - I rebooted every device and program in the chain multiple times: router (TP-Link), Emby server, Emby android apps, Chromecast device. I had nothing else running on any device in the chain from Emby to router to either Android device to Chromecast. - None of these problems occur when using Chromecast with Vimeo, YouTube, or Kanopy apps running on both the same Android devices. - None of these problems occur when viewing a video directly on either Android device (i.e. not Chromecasting). In summary, Emby isn't working well with Chromecast. The problems: 1. Horribly stuttering playback of video when Chromecasting, with long pauses before stream resumes, which happens when casting from either device but does NOT occur when viewing video directly on the device. 2. Playback timeline updates choppily: 7:06, long pause, 7:11, long pause, 7:35, etc. 3. Emby app's connection to Chromecast completely disappears, intermittently and unpredictably. Sometimes when just turning the Android screen off and then back on a minute later, other times after clicking to a prior screen (Series homepage, Emby Home, or elsewhere) and then back to the episode playback control page. Clicking once again on the square Chromecast icon in the top corner sometimes reconnects but often does not, even after multiple attempts. 4. Weirdly, sometimes when there is no apparent Emby-Chromecast connection (even after multiple attempts), adjusting the volume in the Emby app on the Android device is then reflected on the TV through the Chromecast device. 5. Again, none of these problems occur when casting from YouTube, Vimeo or Kanopy, identical problems occur when attempting to cast from two different Android devices, and none occur when viewing directly on either device. Please see top of this post for info on all other comparisons and debugging attempts. What is broken, and how can this be fixed, since Chromecasting is the only way many of us view video using Emby? embyserver_20221003.txt embyserver_20221003_ffmpeg-remux-49925f54-76c7-47b6-9086-9da2b2bfef65_1.txt

Hi, with the latest version of the Android app (3.2.73) all episodes are added to the current (play|watch)list. Therefore one episode is played after another. I disabled the setting to play the next episode. The player should stop after one single episode. Is there a setting I missed?

Hi, I seem to have the same issue now. Everything was working fine until few days back and now the same loading screen indefinitely spinning and eventually after several minutes (only in some videos) there is an short play of video but then paused indefinitely. I tried to enable hardware acceleration from my server PC (TS140, 12GB, with NVIDIA GT720) to view in Sony Android TV. I am also an Emby Premiere user. I will appreciate if you could share the resolution with me so I can also try. Thanks in advance.

When I cast from my iOS device, media controls used to appear on my Lock Screen, and the volume buttons would control the Chromecast volume. I recently got a response to a review I left in the App Store mentioning this issue, and was told that this feature wasn’t intentionally removed. Since this issue first appeared (within the last year?), I’ve reinstalled Emby server as well as the apps on my devices, but I was still unable to get back this functionality. I also noticed around the time this started that I would also need to constantly reconnect the Emby app to my Chromecast, as it no longer stays connected when the app is not in the foreground. It seems like the app used to play a silent video of some kind, which enables the iOS media controls to show up in control center and the Lock Screen. My guess is that this also kept the app alive in the background, and so the Chromecast connection would persist even when leaving the app for long periods of time. I really miss this functionality, and actually noticed I hardly use my Chromecast now in favor of using another device with a dedicated remote. Hoping to get some clarity on this issue!

I've had this same issue for over a year now across two different devices and Android 11 and 12. It's not always the same devices showing twice. Could I get advise on how to troubleshoot this?

I receive constant freezing when streaming IPTV to a chromecast with Google TV, I want it to hardware encode but it seems to always stutter consistently. I already downmix the audio to stereo after seeing another article. Can you please assist?

Spaceing missing when viewing episode details on my TV via chromecast. See attached image. Star rating, date added, duration, ends at.

Hi, when I cast something from Android smartphone and have my Chromecast in Google Home App I cannot see what is playing, cannot stop or pause when I turn off smartphone screen. It's look like Emby start from fresh but Chromecast keep playing movie. I must delete device from Google Home and I have ability to do something with movie. App ver. 3.2.19 Smartphone - One Plus 9Pro Android 11 Regards.

Hello, For a while now whenever I go to watch something through emby after about 20-25 minutes the session either crashes or is forcefully closed somehow and I am not seeing the reasoning in the logs. I attached a log file to show the behavior I am seeing. Essentially no matter what file I am watching (in this case a TV episode) it will crash or close out after that rough time period. Once I re-open the video or movie and start playback again I won't have any issues at all with the movie or tv show, no matter how long I watch after. I am not sure if this is a plug in issue, but I have removed a ton of plugins to see if that was the cause but so far the issue still persists. I usually am casting through my android phone through the app (Pixel 4A with Android 12 Beta). I have emby running in a docker container (5:20.10.8~3-0~debian-buster) on OpenMediaVault (5.6.14-1) (Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-0.bpo.8-amd64). I have not been able to pinpoint exactly what causes the issue to re-occur as sometimes its overnight, sometimes its a week later. I attached the log from emby, but cannot find any log that might be stored on my phone as well to upload that. Also, I should mention that I saw others having bitrate issues and that was the root cause. I am not 100% sure how to do this in the android emby app, but I have gigabit wired ethernet running to both the chromecast as well as the server running emby, so while it may still be an issue of speed, I would highly doubt that. Log line issue occurred on: [2021-09-06 16:17:26.698 Info SessionManager: Playback stopped reported by app Emby for Chromecast 2.1.0 playing Forgetting Sarick Mortshall. Stopped at 1336684 ms] I know there are some errors in there for the coverart plugin but I know those are centered around HVEC codec and is a known issue that hasn't affected anyones playback that I can find. I also have lifetime emby premier but am seeing a warning in regards to a license, not sure what that's about either. 2021-09-06 15:52:27.982 Error Server: Access token is invalid or expired. Thank you for your time and any help you might have for me! embyserver.txt

At home, I have 2 PCs with latest Chrome browser, one Chromebook, two Android phones and two Chromecasts, all connected to the same WiFi network. My Emby server runs at my_domain.cz public address and is accessible to all my home devices. When I use the Emby Android app, everything works great. I can cast my content to Chromecasts or play it on the phones. However, when I log into my_domain.cz:8096 web interface (from PC Chrome browser or from Chromebook), I am unable to cast to my Chromecasts because they are not found. Whenever I click the large Emby "Play on another device" button, my Chromecasts are not displayed. However, my Android phones / browser instances are displayed and I can cast to them without problem. I can also use the Chrome native menu ("three dots / Cast...") to cast to my Chromecasts but this is not optimal (it just mirrors what's played in the browser). Although my setup allows me to watch Emby movies from anywhere in the world, the situation described above happens at my home, while all devices (except the Emby server) are connected to the same home network. Both my PCs run Xubuntu Linux.

Like the title says, videos load fine on my android phone. But when casted it plays for 1-2 seconds, then the screen freezes but audio continues to play. Even fast forwarding the same issue arises. Is there any solution to this?

If while casting a playlist from my phone's emby app to my chromecast device, I mistakenly close and restart the emby app, it no longer remembers that it was casting even though songs continue to play on the chromecast. The phone casting icon incorrectly shows that the phone isn't casting. After touching the casting icon I am presented with my casting devices. Touching the chromecast device anew brings up the current song being played, however the playlist is now empty.

Hi Emby, As of late, I've noticed the Android app failing to connect with a Chromecast on a regular basis. If I go into the Google Home app and mirror my screen, then disconnect that session, and restart Emby Android it then connects just fine. This scenario is consistent, by the way. I'm running Emby Server Windows 4.5.4.0 and Emby Android 3.1.73. Thanks in advance, Bill

Hello, since a few days (maybe a week) I haven't been able to play many of my videos on my Chromecast. I don't have problems sending to Chromecast videos encoded, for instance, in H264 from my Android mobile Emby app. The problem happens with - at least - videos encoded in SD-MPEG4, like the one shown in the attached image. The behaviour, in this case, is that the TV seems to start playing it, but Emby on the TV then plays only the audio, and not the video, and displays the Emby logo while doing so. Another strange behaviour I have noticed with almost the same timeframe as the problem above is that when choosing the device to cast to, I am prompted with a triple-selection for other Android Emby clients, when before I had saw one (correctly) - see picture 2. As you can see, for each Android device in my network two entries are the same, and the third one has %20 instead of the spaces. Can you please help? I am using the latest 3.1.61, but also with 3.1.60 the same problem was present; however I have casted these videos before, without issues. Thank you, Marco

Hello everyone I just migrated my Emby server to some new hardware (on the 02.10.2020) and the new installation seems to have an issue with the Chromecast, as I can connect to it but once I hit play it just stands there loading and nothing happens. I've tested everything I could think of.. local and remote Chromecast, different versions of Chromecast, different types of media, I even moved my Emby server between different OS's (tried Windows Server 2016, 2019 and Ubuntu) and it never works. Everything else is working correctly. The server does not have a custom certificate installed and is pretty much default. Anyone else experiencing the same issue? I saw a recent topic for the exact same issue but it went the certificate route. (which does not apply to me). Any help would be highly appreciated! Thanks!

Hi, everything was working fine but a week ago emby web (localhost) chromecast streaming stopped working. I get the Emby logo on TV, when I press play I see a circle going around indefinitely. I can't think of anything I did last week that could have caused this. I run EmbyServer on a dual boot MacBookPro, with a separate EmbyServer installation running under Catalina (with which I have no problem streaming to Chromecast), and one under Big Sur beta 7 (with which I have this problem - but it did work until last week). Since this problem appeared I have updated to the latest version of Emby which made no difference. My Chromecast works fine with other apps. Network setup is as simple as could be. I see two error reports in the logs. One is "PortMapper: Error creating port map" (the router indicates that the ports are open and enabled). Second error in logs is "Failed to start UDP Server". See logs for more details. MacBookPro - macos 11.0 Beta Chrome Version 85.0.4183.121 (Official Build) (64-bit) Emby 4.5.1.0 I'm not very technically proficient. Would very much appreciate any help. embyserver.txt

Hi. I was running Raspbian on my pi and everything was fine but I changed to diet pi and I seem to be missing something. Setup: Ras pi 4 running DietPi v6.32.2, everything is updated. Emby 4.5.0.50. Issue: media can direct play on phone and pc. The server connects to the chrome cast, metadata casts, but as soon as I try to play something nothing happens (on either my first or second gen). I suspected that I was missing ffmpeg to allow Emby to convert the files to supported type for chrome cast but after installing from DietPi the config nothing changed. Proceeded to uninstall and reinstall Emby and still no change. any help would be appreciated. Thanks. embyserver.txt hardware_detection-63736897696.txt embyserver-63736897683.txt

I have Emby setup on a Windows server 2016 box, emby was version 4.4 something but it recently updated to 4.5, both are showing the same issue. Recently videos have been playing with very low volume. On my TV I'm having to add 50 or more 'points' to the volume to get the same level of audio. On my phone the 'google home' app and emby app both report max volume. I'm seeing this with several different videos. I haven't found one that doesn't do it (checked 5 different). Unfortunately I don't play video in a browser enough to tell if browser playback is affected. I will say that chrome browser play back on my laptop with max volume in the player and in the OS is just ok. It doesn't seem loud, just comfortable listening level.

Hello, I have been having an issue with subtitles for certain films when streaming to an older Chromecast and am having a hard time pinning down the cause of this, so was wondering if anybody else is having this issue. While I have found various posts about this issue in the recent past, I have not found anything to explain and/or resolve the issue. Details: This occurs while streaming from Windows or Linux machine, so I do not think it is a problem that is related to the install or the OS. The subtitles do show when playing through a browser, on an Android phone, or streaming to a Roku streaming stick, so it seems to be a "Chromecast-only" issue. When streaming to the Chromecast, the subtitles will momentarily appear when the video is started, but disappear after about 0.5 seconds. This problem "seems" independent of file type/format (although I doubt this is the case). I am currently running Emby Server 4.4.3.0 (Win10/Linux Mint 19.3). I think have tried almost every combination of configuration adjustments over the past two weeks in order to resolve this, but so far have had no success. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Cheers Update 1 (21.09.2020): I installed Jellyfin last night and it has no issues showing subtitles when streaming to the Chromecast, so this seems to be an Emby issue.