Issues - Emby on XBOX One

[cybe 1]

There are some Issues when using the XBOX One Version of emby. When will the emby XBOX One app get some love? ;-)

 

Issues i found so far:

 

- Live TV and Recordings needs endless time to load before i can watch them within emby on XBOX One as compared to Kodi and any other app i am using on other devices to play LiveTV or recordings over my LAN (The same with all emby apps i tried on other devices, android tv and amazon for example). For a very long time only the spinning wheel on the screen is visible before the requested LiveTV channel or recorded video file begins to play. it takes up to or over 30 seconds (my wife loves to wait such a long time when changing a TV channel or watching a LiveTV recorded video file she sheduled for later viewing). What i want to say is streaming TS video files is a pain and takes realy long compared to h264 video files. Every h264 .mp4 files start playing fast. I use DVBLink TV Server with the emby plugin and i'm trying to setup everything for direct streaming instead of transcoding.

 

- It would be nice and helpfull, to be able to switch TV channels while watching a channel (open a channellist for selecting another channel), with no need to stop watching the active channel and having to go back to the EPG or Channellist first.

 

- There is no implementation for scheduled recordings, visible or available in the LiveTV section (Main Menu) of the emby XBOX One app as compared to the android app or the emby web app.

 

- Browsing Picture folders from my library works fine. But there is no option to start a Diashow (the "play" button on my XBOX media Remote is usesell within Picture folders.) The Diashow is started when selecting one Image to display in fullscreen. No options for the display time of a picture, before going to the next.

 

Within a running Diashow, started by selecting one image within a folder, there is no option or possibility to stop the diashow and getting back (by simply pressing stop, back, or "B" button on the media remote). The only working solution for me is going to the XBOX Dashboard and closing the emby app just to restart the app to get back and be able to use it. I found no button that works as expected to stop a diashow and getting beack. My picture library is setup as mixed folders with many pictures and some video files.

 

- Within the emby app on the XBOX One i can not stream any .m4a music files from my music library. Only mp3 files work fine. The app starts playing the selected m4a music files but there is no sound output when playing .m4a files.

 

- When browsing my homevideo library within emby@xbox one the text under the preview pictures and a piece of the pictures itself is missing in the last row @ the bottom of the screen. Within the emby app on my amazon devices there are only two rows displayed instead of three like on xbox i think.

 

- I found the setting for defining the timeframe (i think it was @ 15sec with the default setting) to jump forward or back when pressing the forward or back buttons while playing a video file. In Kodi or other Apps (netflix,...) it feels better to get forward or back in videos.

 

- It would be nice to be able to decide how Media is displayed on the screen while browsing the libraries. For example how many rows or how big the covers and fonts are for example.

 

Correct me please, when anything of the above is my fault and could be done (better) by myself.

Edited December 17, 2016 by cybe

[Luke 37049]

Thanks for the feedback !

[rharlicker 0]

I would also like to see integration with the built in oneguide, other apps such as YouTube, Amazon prime streaming, etc integrate so it seems to be available for non Microsoft applications.

 

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