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Hi Emby team/community. So my setup is a seagate 4T hard drive connected to an ASUS AX86U router and enable smb file sharing, having Emby read the media there. I’ve managed to get a few movies on the hard drive to test it out. But Emby plays incredibly slow on both my tv and my Mac, and I couldn’t figure out why. I then thought maybe it’s not Emby’s issue but that a router smb server just could not handle it? So I tested this by connecting to the smb server directly through my laptop and pc, and playing the movie there; it worked perfectly and was super fast. Any idea what might I be doing wrong with setting up Emby? (My Emby server is set up on my MacBook, server log attached) Thanks. embyserver.txt

Hi, after moving my Emby Server from Synology Diskstation to Raspberry Pi with DietPI, the real time monitor on my mounted network shares does not work. On Synology I had no problems, but with the mounted shares on my Raspberry I did not get it to work. I tried to mount my Synology drive with SMB and NFS, but no success. I searched for a solution mainly in this forum, but no luck. So I found another solution/workaround for this problem: a script running on my Synology NAS, which triggers a library refresh task, if a file has created, changed or removed in my media folder: 1. install inotify_tools Install from synocommunity: https://synocommunity.com/#easy-install https://synocommunity.com/packages 2. Create script Create script such like this: #!/bin/bash # check for mkv and ts files which have at least a character or a bracket # NOTE: the PATTERN does not work in --include param (don´t know why...) set -e -u trap ctrl_c INT function ctrl_c() { echo [$(date)] Monitoring media files canceled >> $LOGFILE exit } WAIT_SEC=60 # add additional file extension here and to --include pattern! PATTERN="[a-zA-Z\(\) ].*\.(mkv|ts)$" # adjust the IP and the api-key to your settings! COMMAND="curl --data '' http://192.168.xxx.xxx:8096/Emby/Library/Refresh?api_key=<api-key>" LOGFILE="/volume1/media/notify.log" echo [$(date)] Start monitoring media files >> $LOGFILE while true do while read directory action file; do echo "[$(date)] The file '$file' appeared in directory '$directory' via '$action'" >> $LOGFILE if [[ "$file" =~ $PATTERN ]]; then # wait for other changes for not re-trigger during the sleep time echo [$(date)] Trigger scan in $WAIT_SEC seconds >> $LOGFILE sleep $WAIT_SEC echo [$(date -Is)] Trigger library refresh >> $LOGFILE $COMMAND &>> $LOGFILE break fi done < <(inotifywait -q -m --include "\.(mkv|ts)$" -r -e create -e moved_to -e delete /volume1/media/) echo [$(date)] trigger done, wait for the next change >> $LOGFILE done echo [$(date)] Stop monitoring media files >> $LOGFILE The script can be easier, because I wanted to exclude files, which only have numbers. So if you don´t need it, you can remove the part with the PATTERN or change the regex (I´m not a regex expert, but it works like expected...). The wait time is also optional or can be de-/increased... 3. Create Task to run script on startup Create triggered task for startup in Synology which is calling this script. I would suggest to test it before... ;-)

My Emby Server setup: ESXi 5.5 : Xeon E3 1240V2 - Guest VM : Debian 7 server (command-line) - 4 cores 12GB RAM. I’m an Emby newbie so after testing the latest version (Version 3.0.5621.4) it seems that Emby can’t play MKV video material on a web browser (Safari, Firefox, Chrome) and on a Panasonic Viera TV. So my question is : is there a way to send "smb/cifs network video file path" to VLC when i click « Play with an external player » in Emby web page because it’s, for me, the only way to have a full HD video quality. I’m not sure that a web browser will ever do the job. It would combine great interface/presentation/pictures in Emby and full quality of direct video file playback. At least a way to create a custom metadata field "direct file path" for copy/paste it on VLC or Mplayer X ? I love Emby web portal interface and features for Photo/Music playback but not for HD movies. Others Media center suffers from the same problem. I hoppe I've missed something ... Best for your support

My Emby Server setup: Debian 7 (command-line) on ESXi 5.5 : Xeon E3 1240V2 - Guest VM : 4 cores 12GB RAM. I’m an Emby newbie so after testing the latest version it seems that Emby can’t play MKV video material on a web browser and on a Panasonic Viera TV. So my question is : is there a way to send "smb/cifs network video file path" to VLC when i click « Play with an external player » because it’s, for me, the only way to have a full HD video quality. I’m not sure that web browser will ever do the job. It'll combine great presentation/infos/pictures in Emby and full quality of direct video file playback. Best for your support