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I'm running Emby 4.7.9.0 under docker and I'm trying to use .strm files to link films from my movie library to my holiday library with little to no success. I keep my holiday movies in their own Emby library that I enable during Christmas time and disable after the holiday season. There are a handful of movies in the main movie library that I would also like to appear in the holiday library (Die Hard, Edward Scissorhands, Trading Places), but I don't want to keep duplicate copies of each video, so I was hoping to find a way to link between libraries. It appears Emby doesn't support symlinks, but it does support strm files which I need some assistance to get working correctly. My video libraries are mounted to the /media folder in the docker container and added to Emby as /media/movies, /media/holiday, /media/tvshows, etc. Based on the Emby strm file documentation, I created a new folder under the holiday library Edward Scissorhands (1990) and in that folder a file labeled Edward Scissorhands.strm with the path to the video within the movie library: /media/movies/'Edward Scissorhands (1990)'/'Edward Scissorhands.mkv' I can verify this path is accurate by executing the ls command below in the Emby docker container which returns the path of the movie docker exec emby ls /media/movies/'Edward Scissorhands (1990)'/'Edward Scissorhands.mkv' Emby recognizes the .strm file and I see Edward Scissorhands appear in the holiday library, but when I attempt to play the video from Emby I'm getting errors indicating there are missing parameters from the stream file with "streams and format are both null", or Emby can't find the path to the video in the movie library with "No such file or directory", even though I can confirm the path in the .strm file is accurrate 2022-11-23 13:27:05.420 Info Server: http/1.1 POST http://host1/emby/Items/1467758/PlaybackInfo?UserId=7bb0d7c9ddef488db62fa2027535b8dc&StartTimeTicks=0&IsPlayback=true&AutoOpenLiveStream=true&MediaSourceId=5fc97dc1faf049fb4b91f0433638a696&MaxStreamingBitrate=140000000&X-Emby-Client=Emby Web&X-Emby-Device-Name=Microsoft Edge Windows&X-Emby-Device-Id=4983c8d7-3ee9-4179-8dd8-5606bba583dd&X-Emby-Client-Version=4.7.9.0&reqformat=json. UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/107.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/107.0.1418.56 2022-11-23 13:27:05.428 Info MediaProbeManager: ProcessRun 'ffprobe' Execute: /app/emby/ffprobe -i file:"/media/movies/'Edward Scissorhands (1990)'/'Edward Scissorhands.mkv'" -threads 0 -v info -print_format json -show_streams -show_chapters -show_format -show_data 2022-11-23 13:27:05.439 Info MediaProbeManager: ProcessRun 'ffprobe' Process exited with code 1 - Failed 2022-11-23 13:27:05.440 Error App: Error in ffprobe *** Error Report *** Version: 4.7.9.0 Command line: /app/emby/EmbyServer.dll -programdata /config -ffdetect /app/emby/ffdetect -ffmpeg /app/emby/ffmpeg -ffprobe /app/emby/ffprobe -restartexitcode 3 Operating system: Linux version 5.10.142+truenas (root@tnsbuilds01.tn.ixsystems.net) (gcc (Debian 10.2.1-6) 10.2.1 20210110, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.35.2) #1 Framework: .NET 6.0.8 OS/Process: x64/x64 Runtime: app/emby/System.Private.CoreLib.dll Processor count: 8 Data path: /config Application path: /app/emby System.Exception: System.Exception: ffprobe failed for file:"/media/movies/'Edward Scissorhands (1990)'/'Edward Scissorhands.mkv'" - streams and format are both null: { } ffprobe version 5.0.0-emby_2022_05_27-u1 Copyright (c) 2007-2022 the FFmpeg developers and softworkz for Emby LLC built with gcc 8.3.0 (crosstool-NG 1.24.0) file:/media/movies/'Edward Scissorhands (1990)'/'Edward Scissorhands.mkv': No such file or directory at Emby.Server.MediaEncoding.Probing.MediaProbeManager.GetMediaInfoInternal(String inputPath, String primaryPath, MediaProtocol protocol, String userAgent, Boolean extractChapters, String probeSizeArgument, Boolean isAudio, Boolean forceEnableLogging, CancellationToken cancellationToken) at Emby.Providers.MediaInfo.FFProbeVideoInfo.ProbeVideo[T](MetadataResult`1 metadataResult, MetadataRefreshOptions options, LibraryOptions libraryOptions, CancellationToken cancellationToken) at Emby.Providers.Manager.MetadataService`2.RunCustomProvider(ICustomMetadataProvider`1 provider, MetadataResult`1 itemResult, String logName, MetadataRefreshOptions options, LibraryOptions libraryOptions, RefreshResult refreshResult, CancellationToken cancellationToken) Source: Emby.Server.MediaEncoding TargetSite: Void MoveNext() 2022-11-23 13:27:05.511 Info App: User policy for Chris. EnablePlaybackRemuxing: True EnableVideoPlaybackTranscoding: True EnableAudioPlaybackTranscoding: True 2022-11-23 13:27:05.511 Info Server: http/1.1 Response 200 to host2. Time: 91ms. http://host1/emby/Items/1467758/PlaybackInfo?UserId=7bb0d7c9ddef488db62fa2027535b8dc&StartTimeTicks=0&IsPlayback=true&AutoOpenLiveStream=true&MediaSourceId=5fc97dc1faf049fb4b91f0433638a696&MaxStreamingBitrate=140000000&X-Emby-Client=Emby Web&X-Emby-Device-Name=Microsoft Edge Windows&X-Emby-Device-Id=4983c8d7-3ee9-4179-8dd8-5606bba583dd&X-Emby-Client-Version=4.7.9.0&reqformat=json Will Emby strm files work for my use case of linking videos between libraries? If so, what corrections do I need to make to get this working correctly?

I'm still on server v4.7.5.0 with NFO metadata plugin 1.0.69.0 I'm having difficulty getting images for my music library to download to the media folders. Previously all images were saving to a common folder EmbyMetadata\metadata. I have removed this from the server config but it made no difference. My Video library works just great downloading images to the media folder and as far as I can see the music library is configured the same. I have tried many different ways to get this to work but all fail. Images etc are downloading so not a problem there Any suggestions what I can try? TYIA

hola buenas mi pregunta es si se puede tranferir toda la metadata de emby a otra maquina para no tener que escanear todo de nuevo,si se puede como se haria el proceso o que carpetas hay que reemplazar? gracias Enviado desde mi CLT-L29 mediante Tapatalk

Hi there I am a complete newbie to emby and these networking things. But I was wondering is it possible to add drives which i can only access through http to emby. For example: I have this folder "http://103.106.238.74/Data4/tvseries/". I was wondering if I could add this as a library. TIA

Hello guys! I installed emby service at Windows10 ltsc. I hardly ever shut down this system, because this system must be available when i need it. So there is a problem that emby service will be closed automatically with no reason. And i can confirm that my memory capacity is enough. Is there anyone can find the solution for this problem？ Thanks！

Cannot log in over cell phone link, local WiFi works. A remote non admin user has worked ok. Can reset All of EMBY connect and start over? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk @@cayars

Hola, me gustaría saber si es posible adelantar para que salga antes para saltar al siguiente capitulo en la reproducción, antes me salía cuando iban a empezar los créditos del capítulo, pero ahora sale ya al final del todo Enviado desde mi HMA-L29 mediante Tapatalk @@cayars

My Emby Server has been shakey lately and just the other day the Boot SSD Failed on me. Wont even show up in an external hot swap USB drive enclosure. I am looking to build a new machine. Budget is $500 to $600 and I don't need a GPU as I have a new GTX 1060 6Gb right now so it is MoBo CPU and RAM plus SSD which will be OS only so doesn't need to be high capacity. TIA. Sent from my SM-G960U1 using Tapatalk

Hiho, Ich möchte gerne doch mein Server das transcodieren überlassen. Vorher haben das die Clients selber übernommen. Meine Frage ist jetzt welche Hardware dafür empfohlen wird. Bisher habe ich ein Intel G5400 und nutze die APU. Reicht es jetzt eine kleine GPU zu holen oder was meint ihr?

How can i get VirtualFolders filtered by a user. I need only the folders that the user has access permissions.

@@Luke when creating a request with /videos/{id}/stream?Static=true&StartTimeTicks={xxxxx} the playback always starts at the beginning of the stream. Shouldn't Emby make a streamreader byte seek here before sending it through the Http Server?

I'm using the built in Emby guide and noticing it's taking over 30 minutes to update. I do have 3 HD primes connected and just added a 4th, where I set the channel settings to be the same on each. When I added the 4th, it started the guide update and it taking even longer then that. Can someone clarify how the guide update procedure works?

@@Luke i think that's some kind of a bug: If i use something like http://127.0.0.1:8096/emby/Videos/212327/stream.ts?videocodec=copy&audiocodec=copy&api_key=123456789in VLC and Emby's ffmpeg job has finished before the VLC connection is closed, then the transcoding file doesn't get deleted after playback in VLC has stoped.

@@Luke what's the simpliest and fastest way to get all actors, not directors or writers for one movie that i have as a BaseItem in a NetCore plugin?

Before I clean this up I thought I'd share. Sent from my SM-G960U1 using Tapatalk

I have some grouped movies (HD and UHD versions) like this one: Since the movies are grouped, shouldn't only one version be shown in the "Continue Watching" row?

Hola, Tengo una duda respecto a los metadatos, porque no me aparecen los artistas en todas las películas o series que tengo, nose si estará mal configurado algo o nose. Saludos y gracias de antemano. Enviado desde mi Redmi Note 4 mediante Tapatalk

Spectrum just tossed me a deal that is extremely attractive. I had Internet Ultra for $92 a month but now was able to add SelectTV with CableCARD for $112 with a 24 month price guarantee. This is less than the old PremiumTV from SiliconDust and very close to nefarious services. Since we don't watch much CableTV stuff live it works out great and my Prime is back in service again. Anyhow, that brings me to the question at hand. Which guide to use? There's several listed for Spectrum in my ZIP Code. The screen grab below isn't even all of them. TIA Sent from my SM-G960U1 using Tapatalk

windows 10 exploree folder name was initially The Five then changed to The Five (2016 UK) in Explorer then changed to The Fave (2016 UK) was surprised why emby wasnt noticing the change. turns out 'underneath' command line continues to see folder as The Five since when has windows behaved like this? (note there is no desktop.ini present). when i renamed at the command line emby noticed but didnt affect explorer. wierd right? Sent from my SM-G955F using Tapatalk

Hi @@Luke will you publish the source code for the other metadata providers (tmdb, tvdb, omdb) like you did with the fanart.tv plugin? I really like to get my hands on these and make them more customizable.

Hey Guys, Its been about 3 or 4 months since I enquired about Android TV Source, and it's disappeared again? Please advise.