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Hi there I'm currently in the process of moving away from Plex to Emby, I've my reasons but please don't forget about this below, I don't want to hurt any sensibility. So I recently noticed on a movie that I had huge artefacts/jumps when looking a film on my Chromecast. Some informations about my setup: Hardware is a Minisforum MS-01 Core i9-13900H, 96GB RAM and 2 TB disk OS is Almalinux 9 server I run Emby & Plex instances on Docker on this computer, GPU is "passthroughed" (with: - /dev/dri/renderD128:/dev/dri/renderD128) Emby version is 4.8.8.0 I didn't install any extra drivers Test protocol: The hardware is the same, so are Docker passthrough settings for Emby & Plex Movie is always the same, so the sequence (in my case, it's Hunger Games last episode, when Katniss is going alone to Panem in the plane, hiding behind a crate (sequence @ 29:00) Movie file is in 4K HDR 10 HEVC I started to look a little bit deeper because I suspect transcoding quality issues and this is what I found so far: Emby in Quicksync transcoding : very bad quality, the worst probably, a lot of artifacts (forced by deselecting VAAPI from advanced settings) Emby in VAAPI transcoding - VAAPI HW tone mapping : really dark, almost impossible to see artifacts, so I'll will not retain this Emby in VAAPI transcoding - Extra-T OpenCL tone mapping with Hable algorithm: quite a lot of artifacts, flat spots in dark areas, jumps Emby in VAAPI transcoding - Extra-T OpenCL tone mapping with Reinhard algorithm: seems better than Hable, but not really good Now : Plex : Auto quality with slow transcoding preset : no issue My Emby test instance : VM with Nvidia GPU passthroughed from ESX host to VM to Docker instance, NVDEC & Hable : no issue either I've to precise that I could always watch my movie, there is no play issue, only quality but I'd like to sort that out. It is also hard to describe it, you really have to see it. So, where do we start?

Emby says direct play (no transcode) but the Beam sees it as PCM 2.0. The sound quality on Plex for this type of audio codec is obvious much better as it send it through correctly. Note this is on the same Apple TV box... it must be the Emby app as Plex app on same hardware has no problems at all sending it through as Dolby Digital Plus to Sonos Beam Gen 2. Log of Emby attached hardware_detection-63845479349.txt ffmpeg-remux-3c7af22f-2d83-470c-b0eb-52348f196f28_1.txt embyserver.txt

Hey folks, new guy here. I’ve found myself tired of Plex and their growing issues and happened to stumble upon Emby and I’ve really enjoyed what I’ve seen so far. I’ve done quite a bit of research on some of the differences and what not but I’d love to hear some tips and tricks, and your overall experience with the differences especially if you’re a previous Plex user. Thanks for any help you may send my way! *Please feel free to close this topic if this isn’t allowed or if I’ve posted this in the incorrect area.*

I can't understand what's going on anymore. Video MediaInfo: Tablet: Teclast M40 (Android 10), Unisoc T618 Processor Mali-G52 3EE GPU (Also MP2/3EE) Supported HW Codecs theoretically (VIDEO): Supported HW Codecs for real, by MXPlayer (VIDEO): What happens: On Plex, MX Player and other video players, it starts in SW and therefore not in Full DirectPlay (Plex do transcode ). On Emby they all go directplay () and those who can keep up with it do quite well (But I don't understand if I'm in HW or SW, it doesn't tell you). Some get buggy and I have to force the aspect ratio to anything that IS NOT "Auto" or I get the frozen frame (it's also difficult because you have to pull up the navbar software and then press on the settings for AR, as long as the navbar software stays up, the video returns to work, if you don't change AR it freezes again on the last frame before the navbar disappeared). But let's get back to the main course. From what I understand after 1 year of use, Plex and MX Player are the best to understand what is 100% supported or not (like it's an on-off switch, if you don't have 100% but 99%, they go into transcode/SW ). Also plex tells me it is using ExoPlayer. I remembered that on Emby, a few months ago, the app told you which player it used on android (on the Nintendo Switch with Android 8, the emby app told me it used MPV, I'm sure). Leaving aside the player, it would be useful to have a feature that tells you which codecs in HW the app is able to use as MX Player and if directplay is in HW or SW as MX Player. MX Player Status: Summing up: Emby goes to directplay but doesn't give me any information (HW / SW / etc.). and the menu for nerds tells me nothing about playback info except "direct play" which answers itself. Nerdmenu: In order to understand each other, Plex says AC3 is not supported. If I force plex to play a file with AC3, the audio is mute. If I start AC3 on Emby, it can be heard ... But in the playback info I only have "directplay". But I know that Emby uses native codecs (which according to Plex I do not have for AC3) and therefore I am no longer understanding if it is Plex that limits itself to not doing SW regardless while emby goes to SW even for unsupported codecs or emby it goes to HW and then uses custom codecs.

Hi Folks, My first post, so be gentle :-) So, after 5 years of using Plex and being a pretty busy Plex Pass member, I am uninstalling Plex for good. I just want to watch my stuff, that's all. The latest update is very broken and after hours of wasted time, I am done with it. I am hoping that Emby can stand up to the challenge... just give me my stuff at home, even when the internet is down. That's all. Here we go... "The king is dead. Long live the king."

Would it be possible to group movies in a UNIQUE, having a different file name, and being in a different route if they identify the same? since PLEX does it, in case of doing this function it does not last in buying the emby version of subscription. but the fact that the same movie appears several times makes it difficult for me to use and good emby experience. Thanks!