A new version of Emby Server is available and brings some important bug fixes along with valuable new features. Here are the highlights:
Remember Me
The Emby Web app now has a "Remember Me" option on the login screen.
Most of the time you'll want to leave this checked, but in certain situations you may prefer to always have your users login.
Emby Theater and Emby for Android also have this feature, and it is coming soon to Emby for iOS. New VAAPI Transcoding
Thanks to the help of the Emby community, we now have support for expiremental VA API transcoding. It's easily enabled in the Emby Server web interface.
Please note: You will need to ensure your ffmpeg build supports VA API.
This now brings the available hardware encoding choices to:
Intel Quick Sync QSV
OpenMAX OMX
Nvidia NVENC
Video Acceleration API (VA API)
New Per-Library Settings
Now you can configure certain settings on a per-library basis.
The list of available options are:
Realtime monitor
Display of photos in home video libraries
Detecting archives
Look for more settings to become configurable per-library in future Emby Server releases.
Bug Fixes
Resolve episode list performance issue
Fix dynamic images for OSX
Fix Folders view
Fix yesterday labels
Update nfo saving to only save displayseason & displayepisode for specials
Fix parental rating inheritance
Fix repeated guide refreshes with certain tv tuner hardware
Fix played filter for series
Restore copy/paste support throughout Emby web app
Resolve early video termination in android tv app
Fix custom dlna profiles not being utilized
Fix dvd & bluray folder rips refreshing on every scan
Fix filtering artists by genre
Other Improvements
Improve theme song playback Improve presentation of auto-organize dialog
Improve presentation of series recording management
Ensure date is in recording file name when episode number is not available
Improve subtitle styles in Chrome
Numerous DLNA improvements with Sony Blu ray players 2013-2016
Added Dlna subtitle improvements for most devices
Limit series pooling to same library
Add artists to genre screen
Add user permission for video container swapping
Improve tab loading performance throughout Emby web app
Reduce Dlna device chatter
Update windows to target 4.6.2
Improve loading performance of live tv guide
Ignore DTD errors with user-supplied xml tv files
Improve image extraction performance
Add support for downloading people metadata on demand when viewing actor bio's