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What's your favorite Emby Premiere feature?


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My normal flow is Windows 10 server -> Roku TV app.

 

Curious what was the "killer feature" that tipped your decision to get Emby Premiere.

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WilhelmStroker

Sync, dvr and emby theater but I mainly got premiere to support the devs, as the level of interaction and support is brilliant.

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arche

User Control was always my tipping point. But this was in the Mediabrowser days, alot more has been added since then and I treat Plex like a bat sh*t crazy ex who never got anything right...

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arche

What do you do with user control?

 

Sorry, I mean when adding users, I can add them locally and not have them register with Emby first like Plex does. More control over the users options in the admin panel.

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lklein

OTA TV with guide and DVR.

 

Just wish there was a channel up/down and a last channel button/key.  

Maybe a one click play option in the guide as well.

 

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I tried Emby Theater out of curiosity in Win10.
It gave me some security/permissions.

I googled and it seems I have to edit some registry keys first.

 

I done my share of reg-editing in the past but why is the installer requiring regedit?

This will scare ppl away.

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I tried Emby Theater out of curiosity in Win10.

It gave me some security/permissions.

I googled and it seems I have to edit some registry keys first.

 

I done my share of reg-editing in the past but why is the installer requiring regedit?

This will scare ppl away.

 

Why do you feel the installer requires regedit? What problem did you run into?

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mrfragger

My favorite feature is 0% transcoding. I couldn’t figure out how to disable that on Plex so I went with Emby. I never want to transcode nor will I ever. Every video is either mp4 or mkv (preferably). Client is Nvidia Shield TV. I don’t want the server to have to do anything except serve the streaming files.

 

That’s not saying I have to do a ton of video conversions to x265 though from avi files or some bloated x264 video though. Pretty much non stop encoding for the past 6 months. Almost done though.

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Happy2Play

Um, did not you need regedit?

I see this issue has been posted multiple times, here is 1 example:

https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/59005-security-options-do-not-allow-me-to-install-server/

 

OT:  Emby does not set this key, Microsoft does.  I know I did not have this issue on my Windows OS, so there are other factors at play with this setting. 

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Either way, an installer should not be eventful. (I see people respond quickly in the forums so that's a plus, JMHO on the installer).

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My favorite feature is 0% transcoding. I couldn’t figure out how to disable that on Plex so I went with Emby. I never want to transcode nor will I ever. Every video is either mp4 or mkv (preferably). Client is Nvidia Shield TV. I don’t want the server to have to do anything except serve the streaming files.

 

That’s not saying I have to do a ton of video conversions to x265 though from avi files or some bloated x264 video though. Pretty much non stop encoding for the past 6 months. Almost done though.

How do you disable transcoding?

Sometimes I still get caught with a PGS sub that I didn't know was PGS.

But yea proper transmission was what brought me over from Plex.  Playing with profile files is not worth the $4 I would've saved over Vudu.

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mrfragger

How do you disable transcoding?

Sometimes I still get caught with a PGS sub that I didn't know was PGS.

But yea proper transmission was what brought me over from Plex. Playing with profile files is not worth the $4 I would've saved over Vudu.

How do you disable transcoding?

Sometimes I still get caught with a PGS sub that I didn't know was PGS.

But yea proper transmission was what brought me over from Plex. Playing with profile files is not worth the $4 I would've saved over Vudu.

Under each user I uncheck any transcoding

Only Allow media playback is checked.

Unchecked are:

Allow video that requires transcoding

Allow audio that requires transcoding

Allow video playback that requires conversion without re-encoding.

 

Any containers avi or m4v or any codecs like MPEG4 or SPV6Fget re-encoded to x265 hevc. Especially re-encode h264 content that is like 2 to 3 times larger than needs to be. Retain same quality but encode to h265 FAST RF 22 and Opus 96kpbs. For subtitles I have open subtitles download nightly SRT subs. It’s was frustrating at first. Also I gave up trying to use Chrome and only use it for music mp3s. So just watch on iPads, iPhones and nvidia shield TVs.

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