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The world has changed over the past 1- 1.5 years. 2 FA is now required in Emby, and I'd like them to use the authenticator apps such as Microsoft Authenticator rather than SMS. Also, the option to disable the remote login page (web) BUT keep the ability to configure the URL and credentials when in an Emby application and using HTTPS. This stops casual web browsing to a domain and see the emby login web page and then setup a challenge for a script kiddie.

You've grown up with watching live tv but on television only runs garbage? You have a big library but don't know what to watch next? Then this for you: "VirtualTV" - my new live tv plugin that allows you to create custom channels based on conditions of your Emby library content. What's missing: Maybe codec conditions Known problems: Needs Emby Premier to work (Playback) Emby's live tv and playback api is very limited, so i've had to make some detours to get things working. The plugin has two general playback modes: "continous" and "playlist" playback. With "continous" mode you can also choose between "live", which bahaves like real live tv or "archive", which plays the videos from the start. In "Continuous" mode multiple videos are queued and concatenated to one big file with the help of ffmpeg. To make this happen every video in the queue has to have some common features (video and audio codec). That's why it often happens that the video also has to be transcoded by ffmpeg. For transcoding the plugin relies on Emby's internal transcoding engine. If there's a problem, not uncommon with hardware acceleration enabled, the plugin also has a problem. Nothing i can do about it. The availability of subtitle tracks is mostly dependant of the Emby user playback settings. In continous playback mode only one (the default) subtitle track can be used and this one has to be burnded into the video (transcoding takes place). In "Playlist" playback mode the videos are pushed as a playlist to the Emby clients. It's like you would play your videos directly from your libraries. This way you get all the features you are used to. Audio and subtitle selection, pause, skipping around and similar things. "Native" playback method was created by the Emby Devs. Similar to Playlist playback it will play the real library videos, but with the big difference that playback is purely initiated by the client app, without any remote command execution. This is why it also works for Roku devices on a WAN network. And although the real videos are played, the whole thing is treated like live TV. This means that channel zapping is possible and no dialogs for playing the next episode are displayed. Unfortunately, the new playback method does not yet support all features. As the name "Archive" suggests, it will currently always start all videos from the beginning. In addition, only very few Emby apps automatically advance to the next video. If you want it to be improved even further, each of you should raise your voice in this thread. To get things started install the plugin via Emby's plugin catalog and restart Emby. Setup your channels with a name and number and choose your playback mode. In the channel conditions you'll have to select an Emby account. This account is used to get library access, respect parental rating, reading watched states and selecting the stream language. At least one textual input field of the conditions has to be filled to get some program data. Fields with an asterisk are either evaluated with an "AND" or "OR" condition among each other. Finally, if you've chosen "Continous Playback" for one of you channels, take a look at the transcoding settings. Save your channel line up and manually trigger a "Guide Refresh". Now have fun! Version History: After a plugin update, always clear your browser cache. If your settings still don't load in the config screen, you have to move the "VirtualTV.xml" out of ...\plugins\configurations and restart Emby. Start from scratch. 2.0.0.0 Unlimited number of channels; New playback method "Native (Archive)"; New security concept for the Export API 2.0.2.0 Performance improvements to Guide Refresh; Preview for Add/Edit Channels; Option to disable Program indicators 2.0.3.0 Fixed missing Playlist sort order for some Content Types; Added support for Seasons with Content Source Collections 2.1.0.0 Selectively enable channels for specific users; Create copies of existing channels; Ordered unwatched episode playback 2.1.5.0 Added option to (auto)enable channels on a specific date range; Bug fixing

I'd really like to have 2 Factor Authentication added to the login screen. It's just this (optional) extra layer of security to help secure the server (which, especially if people use camera uploads) contains pretty private data. There are for every type of programming language quite a few libraries available, so implementation on a server shouldn't be too hard to realise

I'd like to see a feature where on a piece of content there was a button to report a playback error or such. I have a lot of content that I haven't watched that friends have requested - if there was a simple button they could click that pings me a message letting me know there's an issue with the file that'd be great.

a user should also be able to set the start and end time of a recording. example: if the first hour of a movie is missed and a re-airing is scheduled, a user can set emby to only record the first hour. disk space will not be wasted, no wasted drive activity,etc.

A couple of my channels are often missing guide data, also live sporting events have channels that are added to the lineup without any guide data. I think it would be useful to select a channel name, and schedule a block of time for it to record. That way, even channels with missing or no guide data can be recorded when the user knows the content is there.

Can you please attach the log files? Thanks.

Thanks Luke, but that's the same thing you said back on April 2 when I complained for the 1st time.

Yes I would shut down first.

Agree, get fed up with people wanting it look like a computer application rather than for a 10 foot interface on a TV or simple for mobile app. For example "Folders" that was introduced as a top menu item when its a view type sub-menu option or a default setting view or the silly bottom menu bar on iOS that has Movies but no TV link and duplicated home links. Those who want VLC use it, those who want plex interface, use Plex.

I think this filter would make sense, yes.

Frankly, I don't get what some people are claiming to the UI. Especially the EBMYs UI is good and a lot better then e.g. Plex. My 2 ct.

@Deathsquirrel I disagree. Most companies share what they've got planned. They don't share their entire roadmap, but they do share a portion of their roadmap. One obvious example is Sony and Microsoft sharing details of the Xbox Series X and PS5. Many other companies do the same. You can't seriously tell me that you don't share your planned features with your users. I've worked in this industry 25 years too, and everywhere I've been we try to share as much as we can with our users. In fact. We get them deeply involved in DECIDING what comes next.

Hopefully it's the Live TV improvements that have been mentioned for what seem like forever: Channel Editing Native Tuner Support

I agree with unisoft. The favorite button alone to me works. Unless you have 100s of people using it.

Just renewed my sub with 3 concurrent streams for £130. It’s outstanding in terms of reliability

Yea it could be possible for the future.

> I think there is not a manual recording function Is this true? I can't think of any function more basic that a DVR should have. If so I'll post a feature request.