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Now get two of the most popular server plug-ins free by becoming a Media Browser Supporter (Help/Donate from the server dashboard). CoverArt - Dress up your MB experience with a wide range of customizable cover treatments for your posters and image overlays for resolution, audio, subtitles and more. MB Intros - Create that true cinema experience with highly customizable intros before movie playback in both MBC and MBT. Add current trailers, trailers from your collection, audio/video intros, gag reels, trivia or whatever you wish all based on the metadata of the movie being played. If you've been on the fence about supporting the Media Browser core team, there's no better time to take the plunge!

How do you use the web client? If the answer is only on the desktop, you're missing out on the fun. Today I'm here to show you one of the areas where it truly shines the most, and that is on your smart phone and your tablet. Whether you're on Android, iOS, or Windows Phone you get a beautiful display to navigate through your media collection. It's fast, it's pretty, and it can't possibly be beat! So the next time you want to watch a movie, try it with the web client on one of your portable devices. We think you'll be surprised with the experience you have. But what else can you do with it? How about keep track of your latest and upcoming episodes. Or why not qeuue up a playlist for some music listening? And for what is always a crowd favorite, remote control of other Emby apps: A Beautiful Live TV Guide Even on a small screen, Emby's Live TV features are easy and fun. How often have you sat down on the couch to watch a movie, and realized something needed to be done with your media, and so you got up and ran to your server room to correct the problem? This is a situation we can all relate to. Stop doing that! With the web client you have full control of the server in the palm of your hand. So the next time you want to install a new channel, don't get up, do it from the sofa! The mobile and tablet layouts support every single feature you're accustomed to from the full desktop version. Nothing is left behind on the small screen. So enjoy these last few screens and remember, you can manage Emby from anywhere that you can access the internet. Tell us how you use it. We'd like to hear about it. Try the Hosted Web Client We now have a hosted version of the web client at: http://app.emby.media/ Simply use your Connect (forum) login, and then you can access any of your servers (owned or shared). Once you sign in, you'll see the very same web client you've come to know and love. Switching servers is easy: As you can see the layout is currently limited to one server at a time, but this is only the beginning. We know that many of you are clamoring for multi-server presentations, and we intend to deliver that in future releases. The hosted web client has one unique advantage over the local version. It features automatic network switching from LAN to WAN and vice versa, on the fly as needed. You might login initially within your home network, and then leave the house and transition to mobile. The app will handle it for you, all on the fly. The hosted web client is truly one url, any time, any location. Important Note: The hosted web client is served via static HTML and JavaScript. All communication occurs directly from your browser to your Emby Server, just like the regular web client. We do not have any external servers that send requests to your home server, and we do not collect any information about your media library.

I use it on my iPad all the time, The only thing it needs would be navigation buttons. When the website is send to the startscreen it just behaves like an app without the safari interface, so there are no navigation buttons.

A new server release is available which features significant improvements to our transcoder in terms of performance, reliability and features. Without much further ado, here are the highlights: Improved reliability and quality of video transcoding A new transcoding throttling feature which can dramatically reduce cpu usage in certain situations Improved support for Advanced SubStation Alpha and SRT subtitles Improved DLNA reliability Added DLNA special folders Added resume progress bars with DLNA images Support webp image output for faster browsing Support for additional photo metadata Support for album disc sub-folders Display mirror setting now remembered Added an option to save metadata and images as hidden files Added an option to control when chapter images are extracted New Transcoding Features Our transcoding has improved significantly. Not only is it faster and more reliable than ever, but it will also throttle itself when it gets far enough ahead of the player. Let's take a look at how that works. Simply start playing something and monitor the cpu usage from ffmpeg: As you can see it starts out pretty high, but depending on the content being played the transcoder may be able to move at a faster rate than you're actually watching. Let's monitor that from the server dashboard: As you can see the transcoder position (in red), is a few minutes ahead of your current position. Media Browser Server is able to identify this and throttle the transcoder in order to reduce cpu usage: The throttling is smart and will speed up and slow down as needed in order to maintain smooth playback. Now the reduced load on your server will allow more devices to stream simultaneously without putting too much pressure on your system. But these are not the only transcoding improvements. Our handling of SRT and Advanced SubStation Alpha subtitles has improved and is now more efficient and reliable than ever. Improved DLNA Support This release also brings a number of DLNA enhancements. For starters, device compatibility has increased significantly thanks to pull requests submitted by 7Illusions. In addition, we now display special folders throughout your library. Click into your TV, Movie, or Music sections and you'll see some nice categories like Resume, Next Up, Latest, Favorites, etc. In addition, you'll now see progress bars for titles that can be resumed, just like you're accustomed to with our other apps: WebP Image Output Support This is a technology feature for the developers. WebP is an open source image format designed by Google that achieves as much as a 34% reduction in file size from JPG/PNG at the same level of quality. This is going to allow faster browsing with apps that are capable of supporting them. Look for WebP support soon in the following apps: Web Client with Chrome and Chrome Android browsers All Android apps Chromecast New Photo Metadata Support With this release we are now capturing more robust photo metadata, with stats such as Aperture, Shutter Speed, Latitude, Longitude, and a long list of others. This is only the beginning of our photo revamp and you can expect robust filtering as well as slideshows and galleries in future updates. Album Disc Sub-Folder Support A long requested feature, we now support numbered disc sub-folders. Please see the music section of the knowledge base for details: http://mediabrowser.tv/community/index.php?/topic/674-media-files-folders-structure/?p=21480 Join the Media Browser Team As always, we're looking to grow the team with new developers, testers, designers, or any skill set you bring that you feel can help us. In particular we are looking for more Android and iOS developers to help bring us onto new devices and form factors that are rapidly becoming popular, such as living room set top boxes and wearables. Drop us a line!

Thx for that info. I move to have it moved up in priority.

The first one would require a second 'helper' service, because a service cannot just restart itself. I believe they said they'd look into it at some point, but it's very low priority at the moment.

The one (1) thing I really really really would like please with a cherry on top is the ability to restart MediaBrowser as a service from the web client. It is the only time I have to use something other than the dashboard. Closely related, having MediaBrowser not automatically start after an update if the "Run server at startup" checkbox is not checked ('cause I am using the service) would be an added bonus. Or how about just kicking off the service.

Been using it as my MBT remote for ages. Brilliant!

It has happened several times now where there is a release, then maybe a day later another release (bug fix, presumably), but the second release is "stealth". There is no documentation here about what the second release changed, even though it would be good to know what changed in the second release. It could easily be documented at the top of this page by adding a couple lines, listing the version of the second release, and a line item or two about what changed in the second release.