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I mentioned it in another thread, but thought I'd put it here since this looks like a new section--just for posterity. Would like to have a bulk meta data editor function. For example, if I have 750 videos whose producing studio is the same, I want to select those videos and apply the name of the studio to those videos. Similarly, if there is a custom tag I want to apply to a subset of those movies, I want to be able to select them in bulk and apply the tag to those videos (instead of selecting them one by one).

SO this is something I really miss from Kodi. In kodi, it's possible to go into a tv show, and select "All seasons" all the way at the beginning of the season listings. This would then bring up a playlist comprised of every episode in every season in order. What I would then use this for, is to "sort by IMDB rating" or "sort by TheTVDB rating" and then scroll through the highest rated episodes of the entire series. A super super useful feature that I used every day. And one I miss dearly in Emby. Of course I could just use Kodi and do DLNA from Emby, but it's just not as aesthetically pleasing or as stable. I much prefer Emby for every single thing EXCEPT this. Is this possible in the Emby metadata framework? Is there an option to do this somewhere already that I just can't find?? Would anyone else use this? Is it just me? Bueler?

Hello, I would like to suggest the reintegration of the automatic OSD display when starting videos. Since its demise, I find that the interface has lost a lot of its appeal. I know this has been removed as a result of user requests, so I suggest this be a selectable option in the "playback" settings of the user profiles or somewhere else as needed. The OSD being already developed and showed automatically in the past, which I am sure was appreciated by others, I sincerely hope to revisit this possibility in a optional way. It can be turned off by default if that's what you think is best, as long as an option is available. Thank you for considering my request and for the work you do!

Hi, I haven't found such an option in the admin settings, but would it be possible to set an individual log path? Currently, all logs are stored at /var/lib/emby/logs/ and if I want to share the logs, I need to copy them manually from this path to a share where I can access them from another computer. I would like to save the logs somwhere else - e.g. I have a share for my media /volumex/media/audio /volumex/media/video where emby is accessing the media - files. Now, I would like to save the logs in /volumex/media/emby-logs I could then share the logs with less effort - is it possible to configure this somewhere?

I guess we can never do it right: For many years, the extraction process took a long time under high CPU load: => Users complained about long library scans and the CPU load (one of the reasons to introduce throttling) Since two years, we have the new lightweight extraction which is 5 to 30 times faster without much CPU load => Now, users are concerned that the extraction process does not use all CPU processing resources...

Sorry, no it just isn't that simple. If Amazon doesn't move this week, I'll take an alternate path.

The Mult-Select in the Server web app is super-useful (I'm so grateful to those that introduced me to it!). But given that the Server web app has some excellent filtering functions (eg, in my case I make use of filtering by Tags) it would be very handy to have a "Select All" functionality, so that I can filter down to the results I'm looking for and then easily add them to a Collection (or, when eventually we have Bulk Editing abilities, open a Bulk Edit view on all the Selected items). Thanks! PS - If this is something you might like to see implemented, be sure to "Like" this top/first post (as well as any subsequent posts in this thread that highlight particular aspects of what you are interested in) -- "Liking" the top/first post helps the Devs to know how much interest there is in a given Feature Request.

I recently switched back from Addon-mode playback to Direct Path playback for various reasons and ran into a bug. For the last couple of days every night at midnight my entire library got removed from Kodi. I discovered that a plugin was triggering a library cleanup every night cleaning up my entire library. 2020-11-02 00:00:43.663 T:2330243296 DEBUG: CUtil::GetMatchingSource: no matching source found for [nfs://x.x.x.x/mnt/Shows/XXXX.YYYY/Season.01/XXXX.S01E01.YYYY.mkv] This was strange as the path is correct, the file is accessible when I kernel-mount the share and it plays back OK: 2020-11-04 22:35:46.549 T:4071886864 NOTICE: VideoPlayer::OpenFile: nfs://x.x.x.x/mnt/Shows/XXXX.YYYY/Season.01/XXXX.S01E01.YYYY.mkv After various attempts I finally found the issue; the addon adds 2 entries to the sources.xml file, one for smb:// and one for http://. I'm using NFS and there's no entry for that. I added it and forced a clean with texturecache.py vclean and the library was not emptied. Waited until the next day to see if the nightly cleanup emptied it but I was happy to see this morning the library was still intact. I removed the nfs-entry from sources.xml and ran texturecache.py vclean again and as expected the library was emptied again. I know 5.x is in the works but could you please fix this in 4.x (and 5.x). <source> <name>Emby</name> <path pathversion="1">nfs://</path> <allowsharing>true</allowsharing> </source> Thanks in advance, Nick

never be able to use inotify, I use MEDIAMON for years, it works with my old DS412+ and my 916+, I automatised the install that I forget that I have it https://github.com/carljm/synology-mediamon THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW : you may have to change the path to the MEDIAMON.PY file in the S99MEDIAMON.SH file, edit S99MEDIAMON.SH file and next to #start the monitoring daemon, change the path to you MEDIAMON.PY file, to me it's : python3 /volume1/Docker/mediamon.py paths are in the MEDIAMON.PY file watched_paths = ["/volume1/music", "/volume1/photo", "/volume1/video"] followed by "allowed exts", if you want mediamon to scan specific extension you have to add it here here are my notes : ## MEDIAMONITOR python3 -m ensurepip python3 -m pip install pyinotify # test python3 -m pyinotify -v /tmp # copy S99mediamon.sh to /usr/local/etc/rc.d avec 0755 sur le fichier cp /volume1/Docker/S99mediamon.sh /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ && chmod 755 /usr/local/etc/rc.d/S99mediamon.sh /usr/local/etc/rc.d/S99mediamon.sh start # log @ /var/log/mediamon.log copy MEDIAMON.PY and S99MEDIAMON.SH somewhere on your synology (to me /volume1/Docker) edit those files to change your paths install python3 from package manager install pip and pyinotify you can do a test copy le script to /usr/local/etc/rc.d start it (you do not have to reboot) you can show logs on /var/log/mediamon.log be carefull, the script will be erased if your syno is updated, so I add a scheduled task at syno's starting that do all the tasks, I created a script MediaMon.sh #!/bin/sh export LANG=fr_FR.utf8 python3 -m ensurepip python3 -m pip install pyinotify cp /volume1/Docker/S99mediamon.sh /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ && chmod 755 /usr/local/etc/rc.d/S99mediamon.sh && /usr/local/etc/rc.d/S99mediamon.sh start the schedule is : name : MediaMon user : root event : start script : bash /volume1/Docker/Scripts/MediaMon.sh you can do a tail -f /var/log/mediamon.log while you had / remove files

Can you please run that task manually and, after it finishes, post the server log? Thanks.

My Roku upgraded to 9.4.0 (Roku firmware) and it reset several of the sound settings. I had everything set to use "stereo" only and after the upgrade several of the settings reverted to the factory settings. Also I use "Volume leveling" at all times and after the upgrade it was reset to "off" and I had to press star "*" while a video was playing and turn it back on. That is the only way I could find to get that choice back. In this case Roku's update reset some of the audio choices. It was not a truly transparent upgrade like most of the earlier updates have been.

Exoplayer_Chapters_Support_03_08_2020_no_debug.7z Try this, works for me in ATV as an external player

Thanks again that worked like a charm. Had to remove Hill House and Bly Manor from the episode titles, but that's just fine by me. Looks good.

Yeah, that should work. Do tell the result. Cheers

Nope, Season 1 and Season 2 as subfolders should work as well, just ditch that "of Hill House" and "of Bly Manor" in episode names, i.e. The Haunting S01Exx. Cheers

That depends on your folder structure. If you have a single Show folder (The Haunting) and both of them nested as separate seasons (with proper naming), it should have been done automatically already, and if not, Identify should correct that. Edit: DO Rename your Bly Manor episode files as S02Exx or whatever naming convention you use.

i have a new Dovi enabled tv (Sony A85) arriving Monday so would like to test Dovi as soon as possible obviously

Use Identify on your Series level with TVDB Id (345246) and it should populate it according your preference. Cheers

Yes of course. Rename some library in Emby. You must add it manually or else it gets lost, does not update the node, or the old name in the list. You have to do it again. It also happens with some new content, the update of new content, sometimes you have to open and close Kodi several times to start the task. or add it manually

Can you add the DV version of Exoplayer that @Luke has developed to the ATV app for Google based devices in the meantime please? Or is that not possible yet? Thanks.

Hi. Yes. We are currently waiting on Amazon to catch up to Google.

Your best option is to play the Dolby 5.1 track, I don't think you will get better than that without spending money. You can't really transcode to ATMOS, you need a device that can play it natively, such as the Shield. Other devices will convert the ATMOS audio to AC3 5.1, but if you already have a track in 5.1, it will be best to use it. Refer to this article for some more information Why does the Emby App for my LG TV not play the Dolby Atmos TrueHD Audio without Transcoding? : Emby

Hi everybody. I have started the translation of Emby. I have quite a bit of experience translating add-ons for Kodi. I want to apologize to all the translators who have contributed previously but I am modifying quite a few lines. I think Emby's linguistic improvement and understanding will be appreciable. I translated the 99% of tinyMediaManager app to spanish. There are some specific lines from a user named @basura whose contributions seem blocked or something similar, I cannot modify them.

Just wanted to mention that I cloned my single drive over to an SSD and most of the "problems" have been resolved. Seeking still takes a few seconds if you jump far ahead in a recording that is in progress for Live TV, but it's tolerable. It no longer freezes for all eternity if you try to seek forward 20+ minutes. My setup is certainly not optimal, there is no dedicated transcoding drive, just everything on the one OS drive, but the SSD definitely makes a huge difference to tame IO operations.

Yes. Happy2Play already answered this. It's because of historical reasons. A backup always overwrites existing data, but it won't delete existing data if the new backup has less people than the older existing backup.

People there who use it always complain about that. Sometimes, a bad manip skip 30s forward or showing the chapters, so people prefer to not touch the remote when the playback is lunched and finally, never seen the OSD. Some people doesn’t know that it’s exist before I show it and they say “Wow!”. And honestly, I know that OSD exist, but it’s a little bit irritating to click each time or when the episode change automatically so I finish to not manually show it. If it’s was optional option, I will let it always on. Thank @Luke for taking time to ask it. I hope that I had explained it correctly, English is not my first language...

Years ago I used to work for Comcast and going to service calls that had bad signal could be bad splitters, bad run to the tap, hell, even bad wall plates. But one thing you always want to make sure is nothing is touching the center copper wire. Me personally, if you have access to the outside tap and run a cable from there to the prime box (might have to throw in a splitter to knock down the signal, might be too strong), sorry if this has been tried. But could help decide the problem. I highly doubt it's a cable in the walls, but splitters and/or wall plates go bad all the time. Hopefully there's no old satellite splitters on the line as those seem to fail all the time by me. Again, apologies if all of this has already been tried and looked at, just thinking out loud.

At the same time just because a set library path is not available at a specific time should not purge all of the said data for that media (offline mode). It should only be purged if the path is removed from library management.

nevermind. found the setting.

To gauge interest... What if you had the ability to "Forget" a series for the purposes of Next Up display. That is, it would no longer show in Next Up - unless you watched another episode. Sometimes you maybe watch a series for a while and, even though there is more of it or more is made later, maybe it isn't as good as the earlier seasons or maybe you just don't have time for it anymore. So you'd like it to quit showing up in your Next Up list so it is less cluttered and you can focus on the series you are actually watching now. If you start watching it again, the "forget" would be forgotten and it would start to show up in Next Up again.

I've been asked to better explain why we cannot use multiple threads for thumbnail extraction. In addition to what I had written above, let me put it this way: there's nothing much to accelerate, because in most cases, extraction is limited by IO rather than CPU processing. Unlike we did in earlier times, when we did a full decoding of the video to get the images, we are now doing a keyframe based extraction. Keyframes are very easy to decode and we need to decode only those where we want to create a thumbnail image. We need to seek through the whole video file for this, that means the whole file needs to be transferred over the network (unless it's stored locally) while the keyframe-decoding doesn't take much CPU. Also, that seeking needs to happen sequentially, so there isn't much that could be parallelized anyway.

Hmm. Well as a workaround, if you already have the filenames as you want, you can use the "Convert" menu in MP3Tag to batch copy the filenames to the title tags. Or any number of other automated options (title = album + track #, or title = "Part" + track #, etc.)

Hi, yea i guess you can debate this one either way. We should probably not apply this to live tv though.

I have not had this happen recently but when it did I would be kicked out to the Roku home screen. I do not exactly know what caused the problem but I reencoded the file(s) that were causing the problem and the problem went away. I had intended a full report but my health was giving problems at the time and the reencode fixed the problem and I forgot to retain any of the original files. Sorry about that. I can report the the original files were avi and therefore they were transcoding. I doubt that any of my remaining files will reproduce the problem because shortly after I got back to decent health I completely went through my library and got everything in a form that direct plays. I have not seen a crash on any playback since I reencoded all the problem files. It was somehow related to glitches in the playback but I can no longer reproduce the problem. BTW: The files that were crashing on my Roku played OK on my Fire 4K stick and on my Shield TV. While they did play OK there wee obvious glitches where that picture became blocky or even blacked out. Since I no longer have the problem I cannot help further but I thought an additional report might lend credence to the report by @sdasmith.

For those with the DTS problem, the best solution is to simply add a non DTS track to the original media. That way, the issues goes away and you now have a file that can be played by any system - you can opt to play the DTS Audio if you can - this script does not replace it. Go to your emby server system directory and find ffmpeg Then at a command window use the following to ADD an AC3 track and make it the default track :- ffmpeg.exe -i input.mkv -map 0:v -map 0:a:0 -map 0:a -map 0:s? -c:v copy -c:s copy -c:a copy -c:a:0 ac3 -disposition:a:0 default -disposition:a:1 0 output.mkv It copies all the existing tracks (original quality) and just adds an AC3 track, derived from the 1st Audio track. This will work on any mkv file incl 4K - it will not touch the original 'input.mkv' file.

Nah you never do that

Chromium Edge Dev. Updates every week with decent additional functionality. Plus it syncs with Edge on my mobile. Seems less of a memory than Chrome and is plenty fast.

This afternoon I was watching a movie when the movie frozen, then Roku rebooted. When it came back to life the Emby Roku app had updated. I picked up where it left off and played the rest of the movie perfectly. The problem is the display of movies in a collection. Since the update now displays the movies horizontally with only 3 movies on showing without scrolling. The box surrounding the movie poster is laid out is landscape with the poster a portrait inside. What a waste of space. Can't this layout issue be fixed

I too was surprised by the update... my collections used to be a nice, navigable grid, and are now a single horizontal line showing three items at once. This is virtually unusable! My collections are all of the same type of media, and I desperately want my grid view back. We always open a collection (for example, current TV shows), and browse the grid to see what we want to watch next. This was a beautiful, intuitive, and functional interface that has now become unusable. One more thing that changed for the worse (dropped back, actually): the number of episodes shown on the folder in the collection view used to diminish by one each time you watched an episode. Now you need to exit the collection and re-enter to update this number (this is how it used to be a long time ago – we've regressed!). Please fix these issues! Thank you.

I use collections as my watchlist. You can create a collection and name it in such a way that it appears at the beginning of all collections. I originally had just one huge collection for everything I wanted to watch but it made Emby slow to a crawl and almost unusable. So be careful of a super huge collection with several hundred movies to watch (but maybe it's okay and I just had some unique issue). Anyways, I ended up breaking my watchlist into different basic genres and I use that. I agree though that a watchlist feature would be great. Edit: I just realized the background color on those posters is off. It's supposed to match the top bar. That's going to annoy me to death unless I fix it. Ughhh.

Interesting how people think differently. I would have never conceived of PIP being a deal breaker requirement.