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Reports: I'd like to request the addition of a "File Size" column, please. This would then allow sorting (to let me know which movies I need to watch so I can recover that space [emoji6] ). Thanks!

Hello All, I would like to request a weather plugin if possible, perhaps a seven day local weather outlook. Thank you, Ken

I’m sure we are not the only ones, but my wife and I have a hard time selecting a movie most times. We’ve got almost 1000. There should be a button that you can press and it will randomly select one of your “unwatched” movies or if all have been watched then any random movie. Maybe have the feature on each genre? That way if you know you want comedy, you can navigate to comedy and it’ll randomly select a comedy. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Hi, Just a thought, but when viewing active devices on the dashboard (The media is currently playing), if when you click on the thumbnail of the media if it could link over to the media detail screen, as its a quick way to get the details media. Unless something else is in the works...at the moment the mouse image changes to the hand with a finger, but clicking does nothing. Thanks.

Good Afternoon Gentlemen, Would it be possible to add an option that would allow the Date Added behavior for new content to be "Premiere or Air Date"? For years, I have used Android clients running Kodi to connect to the Emby Server. The Time Lord plugins run as a scheduled task every 15 minutes, somehow manipulating data that Kodi recognizes. When using Kodi, the Recently Added list always sorts/reflects content by its Premiere/Air Date rather than the File Creation Date or the Date Added. I have recently switched over to using the Native Emby Client Apps for LG & Samsung TV's. Great Work! It's beautiful & much simpler. That being said, I miss the part where recently added items reflect content by Premiere/Air Date. Does this option already exist & if not, would you consider adding it? Best- Darren

Similar to the Plex feature, emby should allow for quality to change throughout the stream depending on the at the moment up to date network capabilities

Not sure how this could be done, but would be helpful to announce certain things to your user base.

Hi! I suggest a Premium plugin/feature that would make Emby more powerful and not require expensive high end systems that are hard to scale, just to manage transcoding or syncing a few streams simultaneously, especially going down the 4K/HDR/x265 etc. paths... Most common use case would be if you run Emby server on a weak NAS that isn't powerful enough to transcode, maybe at all. This would definitively make Emby a more economical and feasible solution to many, being able to use already available hardware and not worry about getting a powerful enough server. So, lets make some use of that old laptop or desktop computer, that could be hiding anywhere in the house assuming a decent connection (i.e wired). Create a plugin for Embyserver. Why not call it "DisTrac" or similar? Create a standalone application/app, that basically just runs in the background, in the tray or as a service on another LAN connected PC. OR embed the functionality in to the Theater apps or as a plugin for them! Don't do any fancy splitting/joining, just hand out full jobs to each "node". In theory, it's plug and play with the defaults, get the server plug in, run Emby Theater or the app on a machine in the local network, and you now have more transcoding power, to be used for any client or sync job. Detailed suggested way for doing it The standalone app/or Theater will basically have no settings except for a prompt that asks for the Emby server name/IP (with Theater even simpler as the server is already known). It will be built with an identical ffmpeg setup as what comes with the Emby server, and once registered as a transcoding client with the server, it'll be configured by and execute the commands it receives. Maybe a local setting to choose hardware acceleration, but most settings from current Transcoding page, and any extra features from the plugin page. In theory maybe existing ways of streaming/sending files from the server can be used, and the transcoding client could actually have a reduced copy of the Emby server functionality for making the result available to the main server (both ends client and server but the Emby Server still overall boss) The plugin, once enabled (toggle on/off), will have a simple priority system where all clients are listed, including the server itself. Disconnected clients will be remembered, but removable so that it's easier to manage. It will always fall back to local processing if there is no external client available. Each client (and the server) will have to be assigned a relative "capacity" number for how many typical streams it can handle. Default is 2, and if all devices have this, they will share jobs equally. Emby server running on PC hardware will also default to 2, but if run on NAS or similar hardware, will default to 1. ​There should also be a "hard limit" toggle per device. Higher rated devices will be assigned jobs first, and when there are as many jobs going as there is total available "capacity", any new jobs will keep being handed out relative to the capacity numbers, i.e. 4 jobs for the devices rated 2, and 2 jobs for the devices rated 1. Devices with the "Hard Limit" parameter set, will not be assigned more jobs than the capacity parameter set for it. A sync/conversion job (not live transcoding) will run up to a set number of parallel tasks, but always limited by the total "capacity" number, regardless of hard limit set or not set. Use WOL, like already exists between Emby Apps and the server. A checkbox per device. Choice for how much "capacity" to keep available (0-x no. of unused) before sending the WOL-command to the next computer in line. Prevent sleep if transcoding. If Theatre App is closed, keep running ffmpeg part in the background/tray. In reality probably lots of hurdles . But I think this could be a real deal-winner if it was made possible.

I have seen this chapter.xml request more than once in the general discussion and would like to see if someone skilled can make this happen! some topics related to this: https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/47079-disregard-chapter-xml/ https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/35958-chapters-support-for-chapterxml-files/ https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/30968-auto-generated-chapters-at-end-of-the-video/ https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/34135-external-chapter-files/ https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/8681-chapters/?hl=chapters What is it? chapter.xml is a file stored in the video folder that provides direction on how emby divides, names and provides images for each chapter How does it look like? <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?> <chapters> <chapter mark="0:00:00" title="A first chapter" thumb="movie-chapter1.jpg"> <plot>Plot of first chapter</plot> </chapter> <chapter mark="0:011:13" title="The Second chapter" thumb="movie-chapter2.jpg"> <plot>Plot of second chapter</plot> </chapter> </chapters> thanks for flight for the code. Why is this important? 1) preserving the original file by not converting it to mkv for custom chapters 2) easy to edit (all you need is a text editor.. it is like the nfo file!) 3) currently the interval is set to 5 mins, what if your video is 25.5 mins? is it really worth it to have that last chapter 4) providing this feature will advance emby over other media servers 5) the feature does not sound to be too complicated to implement comparing it to whatever else emby has to offer. But I maybe bias.

Is it possible to move the subtitles above the emby UI when it is showing?

Hi, I am new to emby but I have a question / feature request. I have 2 emby server a) home nas company nas Is there a way of mapping the both together, so that I don't have to switch all time the server and that I have kind of a global search on both servers? Or how do you resolve this? Please tell me that this feature exists, and how to use thanks in advance

Can we get an option to hide the file path (Example: Path C:\MyMedia\Video.mp4) that is displayed to all users and allow it to only be shown to admin users?

I have a couple of profiles that I use currently: Mine (all content) and Kids (limited content. Here's how my structure is laid out: Movies Movie Name (Year) Movie Name (Year).mkv TV Shows Show Name (Year) Season X Episode Name S00E00.mkv I want my profile to be able to see all movie content and all show content. I want my Kids profile to be able to see only specific content that I approve of. For example, They would only be able to see content that has a specific tag on it. Right now this isn't possible, so I have to make new folders and add a new library for kids content for both movies and tv shows. This means that I am consuming duplicate storage space for those items. Is there a better way to do this? I know it's possible to limit what they can see by MPAA rating, but that's not dialed in enough for my needs. I also saw that there's a way to BLOCK things that have a specific tag, but I don't want to go in and tag everything every time I get new content, I just want to be able to tag something if I want to ALLOW it to be viewed by that profile. Thanks for any advice.

Since somewhere around July 4, it seems announcement notifications have gotten much more loquacious. Basically, descriptions for new items are suddenly part of new content added notifications when it used to be just the title. Full disclosure, I use the Spark plugin to announce new media via Discord. I believe this is part of Emby, but perhaps it's the plugin? Specifically, this feature request is to have more control over content going out in notifications. Variables should include content titles, poster images, and descriptions (with linked source).

I've been after this for a real long time & I no @@Luke has been working on it, but not heard anything for a while

BOM DIA! ACABEI DE ADQUIRIR A VERSÃO PAGA DO EMBY, MAS TENHO DIFICULDADES PARA LER AS LEGENDAS, POIS SÃO MUITO PEQUENAS E NA COR BRANCA. PRECISO DE ALGUMA FORMA COLOCAR NA COR AMARELA E AUMENTAR O TAMANHO COMO FAÇO ISSO? ESTOU UTILIZANDO ANDROID TV. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GOOD MORNING! I HAVE ACQUIREED TO PURCHASE THE EMBY PAYMENT VERSION, BUT I HAVE DIFFICULTIES TO READ THE LEGENDS, BECAUSE THEY ARE VERY SMALL AND IN WHITE COLOR. DO I NEED SOME WAY TO PLACE YELLOW COLOR AND INCREASE SIZE HOW DO I DO THAT? I AM USING ANDROID TV.

I have a suggestion for emby cloud that uses google drive and dropbox for tv shows and movies

Being a whole home media solution and myself having a home with kids i would like a easy and automated way to sort recordings for the kiddos into their own place. What i believe would be nice would be: Being able to set a recording for a user. That recording going to its own users folder. Example parents recordings would have their own location and library entry. So the library entry would be say "Parents recordings" and the location would be say"/media/emby/Parents Recordings/"

Hello, I'm not sure if this exists but I have merely overlooked it. If I have please point me in the right direction. My memory is shot but I am pretty sure I used a plugin for Emby that did this waaay back in the day. Firstly, I use Emby for WMC. I am wondering if a feature could be added / plugin created that would display your media in a style like the TV Guide, having multiple channels, and displaying media randomly for each channel. You could configure all of the channels by naming them what you want, and showing what media folders you wanted on each channel. The plugin would then create a random playlist for each channel. Ideally, it would only play items from the unplayed content, possibly make this an option. It would be great to sit down on a weekend and have Emby play random TV shows and movies for me, much like watching real TV (minus the garbage). My apologies if this has been requested before, and I simply didn't look hard enough. Cheers.

I am happy with the implementation of the remote connection options with emby with the exception of one thing.... If I give someone remote access, the user names/profile pictures are all showing up in plain sight when coming in on the wan unless I completely hide the user from login screen all the time. Showing user names on an internet connected web service is IMHO a serious security flaw since knowing a valid user name is more than half the battle with getting in to a server. I think that there would be 2 ways to help with this problem. First Choice, Most secure in my own opinion would be to change the login screen to hide all users if coming from remote connection. That way if I am on the LAN, I will be able to see the profiles that I have chosen to not be hidden and they are easy to get to from roku, android tv, etc.... But if I connect to the server from an IP Address not in my local subnets that I specified, I would be just presented the username/password screen and would have to enter them manually to proceed. Second Choice, On each user, when I click the "Allow Remote Connections" option, there would be a checkbox to "show user on remote login screens" . By default all users are hidden from remote login screens unless this checkmark is there for showing the user. I hope the way I am phrasing all of this makes sense. mntimmah

I have thousands of video's across a few directories. Trying to list and scroll through them is way too slow. They were originally named by another software product using the original program title followed by a short description. If I do a search for the program title Zune (as an example) and I have 110 programs that start with Zune, the search will only provide the 1st 30 results. I can search for a description, and it will find a specific episode fine, however in most cases I don't have the descriptions memorized and I prefer to just scroll through all 110 and then select the one I want to watch. Can the search results be expanded from 30 to a larger yield, like 100 without impacting scroll performance? If I move the 110 episodes to it's own folder, Emby manages all 110 episodes great, with fast scrolling, but that's labor intensive to have to move each program into it's own folder. Increasing the search results to a larger yield would be better, if that's possible. Thank you.

I'm pretty sure I posted about this in the past, but somehow it disappeared, unless I am crazy or Emby admins deleted it. I would like to hide library items I don't use often depending on the device, for example: I have an Android TV device I use mainly for video so I would like to hide the music library I have an Android phone I use mainly for listening to music so I would like to hide all the items except the music library. On my Windows 10 computer I would like to show all the library items. Plex already did this, but I'm not sure if they were planning this already or took into account a request I did about it... https://support.plex.tv/articles/customizing-the-apps/

Hello, Unfortunately, only versions of smaller Emby servers 3.1.4.11 scare with me. I have just installed version 3.4.1.15. Same result. Emby does not find anything Infos on her own, nor does Emby find anything Infos if I'm going to identify ... It does not matter what I put in there. Emby does not find anything. Downgrade to 3.4.1.11, everything is fine again. I do not want to complain. But does anyone have any idea what I can do? Because that's a bit strange ... in the 3.4.1.11 works and with 3.4.1.12-15 not ... Would be nice if someone could help. Everything runs under "OpenMediaVault 4.1.8.2-1 (Debian 9)" lg tom EDIT: Since please be patient with me. Unfortunately I do not speak English

Hi, It happened to me several times while creating a new library in emby server : if I click OK button (confirming creation of library) more then once there will be duplicate libraries created with exactly the same name with numbers 1,2,3... (depends how many times I clicked OK) at the end. I just delete the duplicates and there doesn't seem to be any further problems but it is a little bit confusing/annoying. (OK doesn't respond promptly when clicked the first time, that is why I was clicking it more than once)

It would be nice if we could get 2FA support using apps such as google authentication or Authy for users. It would be good to be able to enable it for all users OR a select few (ie admins) Thanks