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Its been remarked on by a number of people that the development of core server features has been slower than desirable this year. I don't remember anything coming to the server or apps that have enhanced things from my end user perspective. Contrasting this to the development at Jellyfin, the product that broke away from Emby in 2018. The FREE product Jellyfin which is dependent on a community of volunteers. Their most recent blog https://jellyfin.org/posts/jellyfin-10-6-0/ , not only announced a number of features that have been asked for and are outstanding at Emby for over 5 years now (Multi-cast support first requested 1 February 2015), is also quite illuminating on some of the technological choices made by Emby. Its worth taking a read and keeping an eye on for the future

It should be a bit embarrassing that jellyfin has overtaken emby in terms of features.

I am switching over from a Win7 box running MBC to Chromecast dongles. With the Win7 box I had a HDMI to Cat6 setup that allowed me to stream to up to 4 displays/TVs simultaneously. It was great while it lasted, but involved stapling cables to the ceiling to run it from room to room - plus it has borked Can there be an option to multi-cast to several receivers at once? i.e. simultaneously play to Chromecast dongles in my office and living room and kitchen simultaneously so i can walk from room to room without stopping and restarting the movie or show all the time? I realize that bandwidth could POTENTIALLY be an issue, but i have a fill gigabit network and a multi-port NAS so that really is the least of my worries... Thank you!

I use 2 plugins for this. the first is playback reporting, which has a lot of cool info on what your users are playing, breakdown of playing times, etc. (there is a lot more than that). The other plugin I use is the statistics plugin, which allows me to see the watch progress for my users for TV shows. It doesn't show watch process for Movies, which I wish it had, but that's ok.

Have a look at the "Playback reporting" plugin once loaded will give you what you need its not retrospective

This feature request is twice as old as the whole jellyfin project

+1 for synced playback This feature is now available in Jellyfin too called SyncPlay. Seems this is becoming a built in feature of most competing home streaming platforms. The technology must have come a long way since 2015 https://jellyfin.org/posts/jellyfin-10-6-0/

Feature Request. A present I have several user accounts setup for family members. When we sit down together to watch a movie we currently log into one account (Mostly mine), so obviously only this account gets the watched status. What happens then is everyone uses my account because there's isn't up-to date and it's "just easier". This results in my account telling me I've watched something when I haven't... I would like the ability to log into my account and select/deselect which other users are present so that when a movie/TV episode is watched together, their watched statuses are updated accordingly? The next time you log in again all other users would have been deselected. It could be implemented so each user account can do this, or only select user accounts can. Even a special "Family" user account, or multiple viewers button as long as everyone's watched status is correct. Even just ticking the users present on the login screen before login into an account.

Hello, Since the Android TV app is undergoing it's OSD unification, I wanted to throw a request for the UI to be adapted to 4K screens. I know that Android TV has a limitation on the UI for 1080p, but I tried Kodi recently as well as Plex (as well as other Android TV apps such as Molotov) and they have a way to adopt and not have the blurry UI on 4K screens. I really like the Emby app, the simplicity and the speed over Kodi are great, but looking at posters and text it's blurry and regretful to look at on a 4K screen. Here is a topic illustrating the problem, I could provide further pics from both Kodi and Plex for comparison. Thanks for taking the time, I really hope there is a way to make the Android app even better

This is what I do! ^^^^ I use FX but I believe any of the file explorers for Android would work in a setup like this. My system is made easier because I have an Emby server on my Shield and I had to setup file sharing from the network to the Shield for the server to work correctly. I do not really use my file explorer anywhere else simply because I do not need to but I could if I wanted to. FX seems pretty forgiving about the hardware it is running on. The server on the Shield is not my primary server but it could be if I wanted it to be. Mainly I just use it for experimenting and testing.

Sorry for the late reply, I am fairly new to emby . I hope i am attaching the correct one. embyserver-63730713600.txt @Luke Did i attach the correct log?

I used to run both Plex and Emby (well before name change) and have since 2012ish time frame. I know both systems very well (Plex up to about a year ago when I removed it). Both platforms use Guide Data from the same company so I'm more than familar with it. I've been using this data in Emby before it was official. If you have a problem with Emby Guide Data why don't you ask for help? If there is a problem with the guide data in your area, we can report it and get it fixed.

I installed the new (?) JellyFin server earlier and although it's OK, it's not Emby, plus the Android TV app is like a millions years old I think I'd prefer to use Plex over JellyFin.

There are many more "engaged and active users" on these forums than normally found. How many unique impressions are there in the last 15 minutes? The fact people participate in the OSD button thread means users are willing to participate in change and debate it. That is a good thing. Right now that is the "trending conversation" and that changes all the time. The fact it has/had that much participation is due to @ebr being an awesome and willing to compromise developer and chat partner. He will actually listen to your counter arguments, constructive debate with you, then change his attitude... possibly. It is hard to push a 10 ton stone up hill by yourself but together we can build a pyramid.

They better produce a new function TBQH. They better find what Emby isn't doing and exploit that fact. Good to hear they are being predictable. To be marginally successful they need to fill the niches where Emby isn't ready to go there yet. This is natural. That is why I say they better be doing out of the ordinary/niche things or quite frankly they will not survive. It is this vacuum they can provide air to breathe. The fact their implementations of everything leaves much to be desired and they shall always be known as "those guys" who promote that "FREE" aspect of their culture meaning they shall always be getting the bottom of the barrel in users. They will have to self promote those donation links frequently until they start to jam those inside the apps. They are almost at that point to start nagging users. Aint that the kettle calling the pot black? It is funny how evolution starts free and goes to asking for donations then onto... you know where it goes. It becomes a business model if you do things right.

The server only matters if the clients are at least decent but, on the Roku at least, the client is at best childish and at worst written by people with no idea of exactly how to write client software. The client is what the user actually sees and what I saw was primitive and badly conceived software.

Well the server can't be all bad since it basically started as Emby 3.

I ve a lot strm files

Yes I agree. I would just see an option to proceed to fetch playback information

A little bit of planning could go a long way. I believe this forum is using a COTS platform right? Discord maybe? I understand configuration still takes dev time, but it would probably be worth it in the time saved manually curating the feature requests, and providing more accurate data on what features users are most interested in.

Exactly what it is labelled to do: save metadata for your items in an NFO file. The issue here is that the DVR is a separate system depositing not only the content but also the NFO into the library you pointed it to - so it "bypasses" that option. Yes, but only when they are saved. It isn't going to take off and create those just by turning on the option.

That was a hope and it did not come to fruition. Unfortunately, the forum still doesn't do a good job of this.

They don't have any additional plugins written, other than the basic 4 pre-installed.

Agreed, but alternatively if you look at how far jellyfin have come in the last 18 months and the engaged community of volunteers that they have working in the project can you be confident that your statements will stand? It definitely feels that since emby went closed source there has been a significant slowdown in development and everything is now about brand promotion/ creation rather than delivering new functions to us as end users. Yes everything works but the excitement to receiving a new beta and seeing something useful to me has long passed

Wow, yea, I looked at the first post...2015! Overall though, Emby trounces jellyfin when it comes to features. It all comes down to priority no matter who is developing the system though. Wish we had a real voting system so we could at least see what us users are clamoring for. This, "like the first post" to vote method stinks!

I haven't installed Jellyfin, but based on their demo and client list they have about 25% of what Emby has. Other than this watch together feature, Jellyfin's feature set is seriously lacking. It would be nice to get the watch together feature on Emby, but not worth losing 100 other features to get it.

Treasonous!

It's not my HDMI cable because is renewed them for premium 8k versions. I have it with all media i play with emby. its difficult to get a example because it's so random, the moment i hear it and skip back to record it, it plays normal.

It will be adding new filters to the current set.

Ok we'll take a look at it. Thanks for reporting.

We'll take a look at it. Thanks for reporting.

As the topic says this is my current configuration roku -> laptop's hotspot wifi since windows 10 is automatically applying ip address, how do i find the "ip address" of the laptop which im using as a hotspot (roku doesn't connect to house wifi because its too far) i already tried the laptop's ip address 192.168.0.7 and the other address that appears on a vEthernet switch under ipconfig 192.168.169.49 still doesn't find the server edit: nevermind, it appeared magically under select server .... i think it was a matter of time

BTW, this is also a great way to take a stick or small device with you when trailing to hotels and still be able to watch some of your stuff while traveling. I used to do this a couple days every week.

@horstepipe - likely just talking to myself here, but I did add Sonarr based automation to my setup. Chron job run at 6am plus this Python script. Top bit of script needs to be modified for your needs, I will update this post if I find any bugs. [EDIT: code obsolete, see https://github.com/xnappo/VirtualEpisodes ]

I use eMatic Jetstream 4K. So far no issues but again, I don't use them as much as the Emby app in my Samsung TV so I probably miss a lot of the problems folks here talk about with Android TV boxes. I don't use them to watch live tv extensively for long periods. I have HDHomeRun and have both Emby and Live Channels set up to watch and record live tv (also through Channels DVR). Any time that I've used them, they work but again, I haven't use them extensively. So maybe if I watched live tv for a longer period on the devices they might exhibit the problems that folks here are seeing on the MiBox. The reason I went with Jetstream was because of wired network connection hardware built in. MiBox is primarily wifi and you have to have an add-on adapter for wired network. Was a no-go for me. So far, I'm happy with my Jetstreams.

We'll add audio and subtitle language filters for the next release. Thanks.

In the code you can see vlc with problems, normally that means that you need that third party multimedia repos activated. I had to do something similar for one program to run in a Debian 10 server this weekend, had to use that multimedia repos. Debian is very closed to include third party repos that's why debian based systems are rock solid, but can be tight and need more research. Ubuntu is more easy, but Ubuntu is the devil

Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but is it possible to get an option of moving the subtitle position as it's outside the visible area for us that use a 2.35:1 screen? It's the same if it's srt or the original subtitles ripped from the Blu-ray. Using the latest Android TV client on Nvidia Shield TV.

Yup. sub.domain.com vs domain.com/sub So guess that's where guidance on the Page Rules should call out, else someone might be butting their heads Thanks again chief, your posts not only in this thread, but others shed a lot of light on CF and it's feature set to allow (secure) enablement of emby!

Not position at this point, but we have many other nice subtitles settings for you to enjoy.