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Based on the originator post likes and number of posts in this thread in total, i'd say that "it didn't get much traction" would be quite an understatement.

I just watch to chime in and say, I agree with that. If I have to skip the intro once or twice it’s not a huge deal, but if I’m binge watching a show or it’s something that I watch very frequently, then that’s when I would like to be able to skip the intros.

New version 0.9.1 in the starting post: Export API: Fixed a rare exception that can occur with the m3u playlist export function Channels: Fixed again some of the sort options in conjunction with tv shows Make amount of guide data dependent of the DVR option "Number of days of guide data to download". @pmac Auto is the previous behaviour, otherwise the guide data building is repeated until the specified number of days is filled with program items Playback: Fixed playback progress for playlist mode with "Set items watched at playback stop after percent" set to zero

Maintenance Window: 11pm Eastern Time on Nov 16 - 2am Eastern Time on Nov 17 It is time for another back-end system upgrade to keep up with software that we use. All Emby back end systems may be unavailable during the window above. We hope for the actual downtime to be less than one hour but want to provide warning for a larger time frame just in case. This may affect Emby Connect and initial Premiere validations. Most operations will be unaffected. Thanks. View the full article

My request is to be able to chose to add items to the home screen. Specifically in my case, I am thinking of playlists and collections. Here's some reasons I'd like to see this: The home screen is the first piece of the user interface a person will see when they pull up Emby. I often places movies in bulk into my media library. This sometimes means people never see the new movie I've made available. Happens a lot, actually. While all movies are searchable or can be found by sorting, I believe the interface would benefit from having the customization option. I have created a "Justin Recommends" collection and would LOVE to be able to put that on the home screen. By keeping this optional, no one is forced to use it. If you don't have a use-case, then it's just a feature. If you look at things like Netflix, many movies and shows get "featured" and by doing that, a lot of people end up watching that wouldn't otherwise (imagine if The Tiger King was just another buried documentary you had to hunt for, no one would have heard of it). I appreciate your time. If you've considered this before and decided against for reasons other than difficulty implementing the feature, I'd ask you to reconsider. I believe that being able to customize our servers helps us personalize and tailor them to our audience and our needs, and that helps promote a feeling of ownership. I also truly believe that this small change could lead to some powerful results. In my case, I know that it would be of huge benefit to accomplishing what I would like to do with my Emby server. Thank you.

Request No. 1: Implement Metascore rating for movies, from Metacritic.com, in Emby. OMDb api provides this information. Request No. 2: Also, fix an option in settings to enable or disable a ratings source according to the user's choice.

I have chapter-split all of my audiobooks, but there is no album or folder-level Play/Resume button, meaning I have to select one chapter at a time to listen to my audiobooks in Emby, or else manually add each chapter to a playlist or some such. Please add playback controls for the album/folder instead of just each individual file in the Book content type.

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.

This is not an exhaustive list, and more would be welcome, but this info is currently spread over multiple threads, and well, consolidation is good. The buttons that are obvious and which work as labeled will not be covered, unless a secret tweak is discovered that makes them more usable. If anyone has useful command sequences, please add them. Features that make sense to have a dedicated button Previous Channel is available as F3 in the Harmony app Guide is mapped to Menu, but requires changing the Shield settings for Menu to pass to app Some ATV devices have a guide button, which should also launch the guide Long pressing OK while streaming brings up stats 4 nerds and turns it off. There does not appear to be a way to program a Harmony button to send a long press. You can program a sequence- (pre 1.8.17) down-1s pause-down-right-right-right-right-right-right-right-select-down-down-down-down-down-down-down-select (1.8.17+) down-1s pause-right-right-right-right-right-right-select-down-down-down-down-down-down-down-select Then map to Info (recommend Harmony long mapping) !!Warning about mapping menu steps to sequences!! It is possible that sequence might be valid in another part of emby with very different results. A sequence meant to tune a favorite channel MIGHT use the same steps that would delete a series when in the DVR library. Since menu steps might change if the menus are restructured and the results could be bad, using menu-based sequences should be considered a last resort. (1.8.17+) Media Synopsis uses the shortcut/sequence down-down (recommend Harmony info short mapping) Harmony buttons with no shortcut or mapping found but would be nice- Record - Mapped to Record for ATV devices with a 'Record' button on their remote DVR - Go to Recordings library Features not obvious Up on the Jog wheel brings up 'Also On Now' Long press Exit goes to the main menu, except while watching a LiveTV channel (appears to do nothing) Long pressing OK while browsing media brings up a context menu, same as Menu button Down-Down brings up playing media Synopsis

I have a plugin and I set some defaults in the CTOR. This works fine, plugin page loads them and its wonderful, the issue seems to be on next reboot the values get duplicated? How do I prevent that from happening? On 2nd reboot I see in the plugin UI my values from first save, and then the defaults again. public class PluginConfig : BasePluginConfiguration { public Guid Guid = new Guid("BC6A2309-39AB-4696-ADE1-48BEADA23CFA"); // Also Needs Set In HTML File public PluginConfig() { TraktUser = new TraktUser(); CustomTraktChannels = new List<TraktChannel>(); PreConfiguredTraktChannels = new List<TraktChannel>(); PreConfiguredTraktChannels = new List<TraktChannel> { new TraktChannel { Uri = "https://trakt.tv/users/mmounirou/lists/imdb-top-250-movies?sort=rank,asc", Enabled = true, ChannelName = "IMDB Top 250 Movies", Id = 1 }, new TraktChannel { Uri = "https://trakt.tv/users/justin/lists/imdb-top-rated-movies?sort=rank,asc", Enabled = true, ChannelName = "IMDB Top Rated Movies", Id = 2 } }; var blankCustoms = new List<TraktChannel>(); for (var i = 0; i < 10; i++) { var number = i + 1; blankCustoms.Add(new TraktChannel { Uri = string.Empty, Enabled = false, ChannelName = "Channel " + number, Id = number }); } CustomTraktChannels = blankCustoms; } public string PluginName => "TraktLists"; public string PluginDesc => "Generate Channels from TraktLists"; public string Pin { get; set; } public List<TraktChannel> CustomTraktChannels { get; set; } public List<TraktChannel> PreConfiguredTraktChannels { get; set; } public TraktUser TraktUser { get; set; } } public class TraktChannel { public string Uri { get; set; } public string TraktListUserName => TraktHelpers.TraktListUriParse(Uri).Username; public string TraktListName => TraktHelpers.TraktListUriParse(Uri).ListName; public bool Enabled { get; set; } public string ChannelName { get; set; } public int Id { get; set; } }

Maintenance Window: 11pm Eastern Time on Nov 16 - 2am Eastern Time on Nov 17 It is time for another back-end system upgrade to keep up with software that we use. All Emby back end systems may be unavailable during the window above. We hope for the actual downtime to be less than one hour but want to provide warning for a larger time frame just in case. This may affect Emby Connect and initial Premiere validations. Most operations will be unaffected. Thanks.

Ok - this is a version of DB issue (not the first and probably wont be the last) i made a new db with 4.6.0.5 and now i cant reproduce the issue - i get the same result as H2P So Luke fixed or changed something he did not document (not the first or the last time) in the last month or so - that causes this problem with a very slightly older db and before potentially Deleting the AB library might give you the same result - but you would have to test that

Or is this more of another defect in the Roku itself?

This is not possible in Emby, as there is only a start and end episode number in the metadata.

That worked! Thanks! I wonder why my Roku TV was still connecting normally?

Yes, that is the problem. The app is trying to connect to your router instead of your Emby server. Correct it in the network settings on the server.

I really don't think we could (or should, rather) do that. Right now we send absolutely no information about your media anywhere outside of your network. Even as an "opt-in" feature, this would just open the door for people to think we're doing malevolent things with knowledge of their media. I don't really want to crack that door open.

No, Plex is using the built in player. That's why there's been buffering issues with it for so long. they managed to get it to work though and it's been working for years. Luke can fix this now, he just doesn't want to.

Indeed, the issue was music brainz tag "artistId". Removing it solved most of the issues. I noticed that also multiple artists were mentioned in music braint artistid separated by comma. I had to change from comma to "/" to make this work.

Ever noticed how Netflix will not give the "Skip Intro" option on the first episode in a series, it will only allow intro skipping for all following episodes. I think that if Emby were to handle it the same way, it would eliminate issues of having only one episode, should any arise. Netflix's intro skip isn't perfect either. However, creating a community API, which allows people to submit their intro configurations would be a good idea. Calculate duplicate submissions and find an average time for each episode in a series. (big job you say?... probably... but video backdrops does it). The fact that some shows will recap prior to the intro would also have to be taken into consideration. Something like this seems like a small enough bit of data to handle an online resource. (this is just a made up example...) { SeriesName : "Star Trek: The Next Generation", SeasonIndex: 2, EpisodeIndex: 2, IntroStart: "00:00:05:00", IntroEnd: "00:00:30:00" }

@chef I just pushed the code to gihub: I moved the CTOR stuff to the JS init section that seems to have prevented the duplicates in the config, but if you have a way to do it in CS thats better/cleaner for me I think. The code works now, you have to reboot after you do the config, but thats because I moved the coded to the JS instead of CS. Also after each run the channel is duplicating the movies Though If I just do 1 list per plugin it doesnt. If you want to issue a PR or something that points it in to a better direction would be great. Im sure I missed something some place with how Emby does something, but Im just throwing darts and seeing where they hit. https://github.com/bakes82/TraktLists The idea is to have a set of 10 lists that the end user can customize, and then another section where I chose the lists, they can enable/change the name, but not the actual list. But yeah you need to set the pin and the channel has to be enabled for it to "show up" if its not enabled then I hide the channel from the user.

Hi. Delete the device from the "Devices" screen.

okay figured it out, as long as you only use "refresh metadata" the problem does not occur. You need to "scan library" @Happy2Play - Grab the folder I provided and add them to an audio books library -> all good - Change the album artist tag of the files in mp3tag to album artist 3 - Do a ibrary scan in emby -> all good - Change the album artist tag of the files in mp3tag back to album artist 2 - Do a library scan in emby -> Album Artist disappeared from Emby edit: refreshing metadata afterwards does not bring the aa back

https://savvytime.com/converter/est-to-cet-gmt/nov-16-2020/11pm

Sound advise. Maybe we should close this thread at this time on that note so specific issues can be dealt with in their own threads? @Happy2Play

Would appear old api will be turned off March 2021. Reported in the other guys forum

Never had to use it from Android App, but I guess you could just access your server from any mobile browser > switch to Desktop mode? Edit: Or, within the mobile app, Settings>Display>Display mode: Desktop, will it be scrollable then?

Short answer is we do not have this functionality anymore (it was only ever in the WMC targeted app). It hasn't been a very requested item in all these years either and, I know from experience of just trying to use this type of RainMeter plug-in and also from our past experience that it is, in fact, very difficult to keep these working. The "owners" of this data tend to try and thwart people using it for free.

Its just a python print thing, I don't think it is actually transmitting that https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17473195/how-to-avoid-the-l-in-python

Maintenance Window: 4am GMT/UTC Time on Nov 17 - 7am GMT/UTC Time on Nov 17 I believe this is correct for GMT/UTC time from eastern. I believe you are 5 hours ahead of eastern. Hope this is correct.

Audiobook library (default no changes) folder C:\Users\Media\Desktop\Videos\AudioBooks Added \YouTube Audio to Library containing the two tracks

Hi, we're working hard on it. We'll release it as soon as it's ready. Thanks.

This is weird, why would TruenNAS delete a file at random? The default devfs rules are at /etc/default/devfs.rules, the ones at /etc/devfs.rules should not be touched by the OS. You still need to apply the hack shown above; download the tarball by bingemeister and extract it in the root of the jail. And also the symlink we spoke about (which I solved by the poststart="ln -s blabla"). The symlinking needs to happen on the host (wont work in the jail, not allowed). The easiest way to verify you have done everything right so far is to run "vainfo" in the jail as the Emby user. Vainfo can be found in the "libva-utils" package. The output should be similar as my post from 1 March 2020.

It's coming, but we're just trying to be realistic with timelines for you. These are high priority issues but ranking behind Live TV which will benefit many more people.

We agree Emby doesn't decode in hardware 10 bit files YET (will in the future) but it does do this via CPU so it's not "lacking", just not the optimal path to decode, we both want. It IS an enhancement the team WILL make in the near future but can't be done right now as some of the devs are full time, others team members part time on something else at the moment that is much bigger to Emby overall for customers and requests. I don't think it's any secret to anyone that reads the forums that @softworkz does most of the GPU transcoding work and this type of thing is best left to a single person to work on this type of thing (as it can get tricky) to assure things work on all platforms and OSes. He has spent tons of hours/weeks just studying document before writing a single line of code. He is presently neck deep in the many enhancements/rewrite of Live TV which is closing in on a "alpha" release of everything that's been working on in regard to Live TV. As one of the testers I can say this will be a game changer for many people feature wise and will rival the best of any Live TV setup out there (for most people) once released. I'm not one for hype, but it's going to win a lot of folks over to Emby with it's feature set, additional hardware support and advanced controls, yet easy to use and setup for advanced features, much automated! No longer will someone need to use Myth or TV Headend to get high end TV features as they will be built in to Emby. Most plugins for TV won't be needed as well. There will be no comparison of Jellyfin to Emby when it comes to TV after this release! Features, fixes, issues and Enhancements to Live TV make up a bulk of requests for Emby over the last few years and we are working hard on delivering a very solid "next generation" platform for Live TV. Once this makes it to a release a lot of resources will be released to work on some other things. But right now this is the "hot project" that is getting a lot of resource time by many resources. Of course while this development is ongoing we're still getting client updates and other server updates released. That's probably more than I should say, but don't think it's a secret for anyone reading the forums and knowing who works on what. 10 bit decoding will come "soonish" but Live TV is the high priority right now. We will get to 10 bit decode in hardware (if you have the hardware to use for this) as well as HDR. These are likely priority 2 & 3 after the new Live TV so it's not far off. But in the mean time 10 bit decoding can be done via CPU while encoding can be done via GPU so thing do work, just maybe not optimal to your specific hardware. At the end of the day, there are only so many resources that can work on any one thing at a time. We try and schedule these things to help the most people at any one time. Right now Live TV is the top priority but enhancements to GPU transcoding will follow shortly. Carlo

Interesting comments here: https://www.reddit.com/r/jellyfin/comments/jrvly5/thetvdb_new_api_and_licensing_model/ Supposedly, Jellyfin was asked to pay a few thousand $ per month which seems ridiculous. 2 interesting options have shown up for discussion: * Custom Metadata Server * Add TVMaze as a metadata agent

Hi, The developers that work on transcoding are already fully involved in another project at the moment which is why this is schedule for a future release. It's not a simple as you think it is and Jellyfin does not do 10 bit hardware transcoding so I'm not sure what you tested. Even their documentation states this https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/administration/hardware-acceleration.html "10-bit is not supported by NVIDIA acceleration" Jellyfin is not even close to Emby GPU transcoding! I'm not sure why you think "These issues cannot honestly be that hard to implement in a paid software" as there are rather involved to get right for CPU (Intel & AMD), QSV, Nvidia & AMD GPUs, not just partial support on some platforms and/or operating systems.

Hi. We are a personal media server and provide no content so you need your own content or live TV source. Please see: Quick Start

Best guess is Extended tags (musicbrainz ids) (alt-T or right click tracks). I am guessing each on has a different musicbrainzalbumartistid which creates a AlbumArtist mismatch and creates the issue you are seeing.

+1 Having cached copies of all library images would be fantastic. I have a ton of custom movie posters, wrestling event posters, TV show covers and thumbnails, etc. Because of this I keep all of my images in the media folders in case I have to do a rebuild (and have just lived with the downside of sluggishness from a library browsing perspective as the lesser of two evils). Having copies of all images saved in the media directories saved to cache would be an awesome option to mitigate the downside entirely.

So, a final few words on this thread... All is well and so much better than Plex. I've set up a monthly subscription to Emby Premiere. My friends are saying it's easier and quicker to access, log in and play videos. I am very happy and can recommend anyone who's thinking of jumping ship from Plex to just do it. I have questions on the API and other little tweaks but I'll start new threads for those... ...so for now... cheers and happy Emby'ing! Paully

That's what I thought when I made the switch about 2 years ago myself. That's what I thought! Today, Emby serves up all of my media and my TV service. I have completely moved away from Cable and/or Satellite, and even got rid of my my terrestrial antenna and TIVO service, and I have everything I could ever want or think that I might want, all at a fraction of the cost I used to pay. I get my local programming in Emby through Locast, and the Cable networks from an IPTV service. And, unlike Plex, with every new update it just keeps getting better, instead of becoming more and more bloated and commercialized. Factor in the Awesome support team and community membership, and you've found yourself a solution that you'll not regret!

For anyone else here is a quick fix. UPDATE MediaItems SET Images = NULL WHERE type=23 AND Images LIKE 'https://image.tmdb.org%'; This removes good and bad TMDB urls. Then do a Refresh-Search for Missing or Refresh all if you like to repopulate image urls. Don't have a system with bad urls, but modifying a couple to bad urls seemed to work.

I want this, too, but 99.9% of emby's paying clients are only using this software for commercial movies / television, and metadata scraped from the internet. They could care less about adding personal tags / metadata. There are other programs out there for curating your own personal media, specifically, built from the ground up around tagging.

Hi, I did and same things 4K video still not working while with Plex everything is Ok

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