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I updated the Knowledge Base to include local files usage.

I updated the Knowledge Base to include local files usage.

Send me a PM and I can give you some instructions like registering a domain name to have on hand and then can do 2 quick remote sessions with you to get this setup. Need to do 2 because there is a pause while Cloudflare validates the domain.

You would not double you library as all you do is add 1 track to existing files. All other streams are copied. Of course you could set it to also convert any video to a specific format if you wanted or convert interlaced to progressive video. Basically anything that would cause transcoding (bandwidth aside) to be fixed. Since you're really just added a track you could actually remove the track later with a new remux and be back essentially to what you started with. This IS the solution as I doubt you'll ever see this in Emby clients across the board as I don't think it's possible. This is just personal, but I try and make my media consistent so that it doesn't matter if I copy it to my phone, play it in Kodi, VLC or any other player. It does take time, even to remux things but I did it to well over 100K files in under a month so it's doable.

Feature Request: Have User Groups and all settings applied at the Group Level That way you can just assign users to the appropriate Group and all settings will be inheritated.

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 know the answer to this is probably going to be no..... ...but.... A standalone music player for iOS would be very useful. Trying to get the wife to use the full client for music is just not happening. Something that was simple and intuative and quick and easy to use would be killer, something like spotify. The simpler the app is to use, the better. If all else fails, I have a project that's on the back burner that was an iOS music player for subsonic, but I could always target emby as well. It had an spotify a-like interface. Screenshot from as far as I got with the UI, it was playing back music from the server.

As I mention in a related post, I love the additional subfolders for Movie Extras (eg, Shorts, Scenes, Interviews, etc.)! It would be awesome to extend this functionality to TV Series as well. Specifically to add support for many/all of the same folders supported for Movie Extras, eg, extras specials shorts scenes featurettes behind the scenes deleted scenes interviews trailers As well as any additional folders that get added in the future (eg, hopefully Galleries). Support Placement of "Extras" Folders Within Each Season Folder, Plus A Naming Scheme to Link A Particular Extras Folder with a Specific Episode (eg, "\Season 1\E1 - Deleted Scenes\" for episode 1 deleted scenes): I want to clarify that it would be great if these various "extras" folder types could reside within each Season folder. So for example, within a Season 1 folder we could then have an "Extras" folder, a "Deleted Scenes" folder, a "Featurettes" folder, etc. And furthermore, that we could designate a particular folder to refer to a specific episode (eg, "\Season 1\E1 - Deleted Scenes\" for episode 1 deleted scenes). See more below, particularly why I think this would be so useful: https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/55915-emby-server-theater-additional-extrasspecial-folder-types-for-tv-series-similar-to-movies/&do=findComment&comment=587195 Thanks for your consideration! 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.

A checkbox in the server settings somewhere to hide the domain and IP address in log files so they can be uploaded for troubleshooting without needing to be edited.

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.

Just manually updated my Synology DS418play to Update 3 and everything with Emby appears to be good. It hasn't shown up in DSM yet in most places, so you will need to manually download the update or just wait a few days For information about the update and where to download the pat file from can be found in the link below https://www.synoforum.com/threads/dsm-version-6-2-3-25426-3-released.4761/

well re-reading it, I described it poorly. Added a small edit to make it a bit more clear, while not messing with the history of the topic! Thank you again!

I use eARC into my receiver

Hi, yes this is something that needs to be improved. thanks for the feedback.

I used mkvtoolnix recently to label my audio tracks, remove the default designation on the videos, and convert containers from mp4 to mkv. Each file just takes a couple of minutes to process, and it just copies the files you select from within the container over to the new container as is. I've also read people recommending mkvmerge (which mkvtoolnix itself uses) on the command line to do it all in large batches, but I was too lazy to go that route. The job queue functionality was good enough for me. Edit: Of course, if the header editor will do what you need for your case, it will be faster.

use the header editor in mkvtoolnix - no remux required

Yes it is.

He's talking about remote control, so yes this should work. We'll take a look at it. Thanks for reporting.

That's the problem - even that doesn't work. Note that I'm not talking about on the TV itself - I'm doing a remote control from another device, like a browser on my desktop or the Android client on my phone. Based on the browser, there's no time state being sent from the TV, so when it tries to do the jumps or seeks, it passes NaN as the time index, which obviously doesn't work.

The core issue I think is the fact the collection is simply an XML file .. it is not stored in the database .. that doesn't detract from the fact that the user should not get the option to remove/edit (ie rw) the XML file. You could simply make the XML file Read Only at the os level, but then it blocks Admins from editing it as well .. I'm not sure tbh why emby is still using XML for collections especially as there is a collection field in the db that could be used instead ..

At this point of my testing, i'm not sure anymore if i didn't get things right. Is live-transcoding to HEVC (especially 10bit) actually supported or is it hard-coded to 8bit-AVC? I've test multiple versions and clients (of which all of them support HEVC/HDR via direct stream), but as soon as i lower the bitrate to trigger transcoding, i'll never get HEVC. I'm running a system with a RTX2060, which has the right HW-encoder, i've also tried it without HW-encoders enabled, but there is never more than 8bit AVC coming from emby, without HDR>SDR conversation sadly. I'd love to have the option to use HEVC (and also 10bit) as target for live-transcodes, ideally independently from resolution/bitrate, i seriously need more control over those profiles here.

Not yet, sorry. It's on my list.

That's what I thought. Nothing much different than when the dynamic address changes..

@kiran.das Could you give the mono package another try? I added the alpine families to its list of supported architectures: https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Emby.Releases/releases/download/4.6.0.6/emby-server-synology-mono_4.6.0.6_armv7_legacy.spk Sadly all alpine CPUs seem to have issues with the dotnet runtime, so this is not just a Qnap thing after all.

your ip will change but that's it.

I will try to record a quick clip of the opening scene on my 50 inch Panny plasma with MRMC vs Emby for Fargo so you can see the difference. I will be using a FireHD box to playback both. It will be done tonight (in 10 hour time)

Drivepool is working fine for me two years in..

And/or @Swynol @Spaceboy.

@cayars should be able to assist with this.

I'm trying the suggestion made earlier of manually updating all of the embedded tags in the files themselves. Tried a couple that I knew were causing problems and this worked brilliantly already. All I had to do was rescan the library files once I updated the tags in the files and voila, it worked. Trying some tagging software now as well that I found - https://www.mp3tag.de/en/dodownload.html. Looks promising. Seems like if Emby has the right tags to begin with it's perfect, so that's the way to go.

Yes as the query will by by providerid not by name, so TVDBid, TMDBid or IMDBid.

@Luke Here's why I described the multi-versioning feature as synthetic and front end only: First, as I brought up in this thread, when you retrieve movie items through the Users/Items endpoint, you don't get all your movies or a multi-version 'container' of all your movies. What you actually get is all your single entry movies and the *first* (as the DB query sees it?) entry of your multi-version movies. The alternate versions of your multi-version movies don't exist at all through this endpoint. There's no way to retrieve them. You can only see metadata about those *first* entries. The front ends appear to have been coded to do extra requests once a user clicks on one of these first entries to get and display properties of the alternate versions and it does and this mostly works. Except the resume feature reverts to the first entry not the one you were previously watching, the auto play does too, and it looks like according to that new thread, chapter seeking does the same thing. And not all of the UI even knows about multi-versioning. The metadata manager doesn't. Which means there's no way to edit the metadata of alternate versions because they don't exist to it. This 'breaks' (in my opinion) any feature that depends on updating the metadata of alternate versions to work. So far, I know of the parental control feature and tags. Yes, you can workaround the fact that you can't edit the alternate versions of your movies through the UI...but that's proof that something's not working. It also means plugins like the reporting plugin can't report on all of your movies because it can't see all of your movies. If you're curious how many movies in your collection are 1080p...you can't find out, because you can only retrieve the ones that are single entry or happen to be the first of a multi-version grouping. This is a synthetic feature that only exists through front end client apps. This wouldn't be that big of a deal on its own, but the API is also hobbled to accommodate it. It lies about the nature of your collection when you retrieve 'all' of a User's view of movies by hiding N number of them. I don't mean to sound overly critical and I'm very happy overall with Emby, but these are real things that are and aren't happening and so far, the responses suggest there's no plan to even admit this feature needs additional work.

I can see how this would apply to a series but not Season or Episode. @Luke would there be any relevance at those levels?

Historically it has been a restriction applied at login, but that's something that ought to be removed in favor of just intercepting at the time of a playback attempt.

If you have no plans to truly deprecate the deprecated field, could you at least put in some logic that checks if the new tags field has values before wiping out the existing tags because the half deprecated field (now) never has values?

Hi, it shows up pretty consistently for me now. You could try making the blast alive message interval a little more frequent, although the beta channel has already lowered the default to once every five minutes.

But your userdata is never deleted. So all resume points are maintained forever for that specific providerid item whether it still exists or not.

The best way is to see what your preferred metadata provider does, and follow that scheme. Paul

Yes we probably shouldn't show it for things that aren't playable yet.

library config is in programdata\root\default

I actually prefer that mini-series, mostly, be treated as TV shows but those that I really want as movies I simply (or not so simply) join all parts together and put them in a movie library and use the IMDB ID to get a match for metadata. It should be noted that those that I want as movies never were broadcast in greater than three parts. For those with four or more parts I always use the TV show format.

We'll try to reproduce this. Thanks for reporting.

Plex announced HDR to SDR tonemapping in beta today (Plex Media Server - Announcements - Plex Forum). Time for Emby to start catching up.

Luke, you post from 26th Nov 2018.. I understand if all the bells and whistles is not implemented asap, but this.. Also Plex users are pissed off by lack of HDR tone mapping support. Implementing it would gain new users right away. Any roadmap..?

Personally my only reason to still use Kodi with the Emby plugin and not the Emby App is the lack of the ability to select "download subtitle" during playback. This is a killer feature in Kodi, and I hope you guys can consider bringing it to Emby, I do have my Admin area set to automatically download subtitles, but many times (even so I have the option to only download exact matches) the subtitle is not the right one to the video file version, and the ability to just download a new subtitle on the fly is very welcome. Hope you guys can consider this Null

Downloading subtitles during video playback is coming to the next version of many of our apps - android, iOS, etc. iOS will actually be two updates from now as we've already submitted one to apple. Enjoy.

Dolby Digital Plus would be even better, especially now that ffmpeg supports it. DD+ is also backwards compatible with DD only devices: Is Dolby Digital Plus content backward-compatible? Because Dolby Digital Plus is built on core Dolby Digital technologies, content that is encoded with Dolby Digital Plus is fully compatible with the millions of existing home theaters and playback systems worldwide equipped for Dolby Digital playback. Dolby Digital Plus soundtracks are easily converted to a 640 kbps Dolby Digital signal without decoding and reencoding, for output via S/PDIF. The 640 kbps bit rate, which is higher than the standard 448 kbps used on DVDs, is fully compatible with all existing Dolby Digital decoding products such as A/V receivers, and can provide higher-than-DVD quality from Dolby Digital Plus soundtracks when played back through existing systems. https://www.dolby.com/uploadedFiles/Assets/US/Doc/Professional/dolby-digital-plus-faq.pdf

So, I don't know if this is the right place to put this here, but I have a dilemma. On my Oculus Go I can go to Gallery and my Emby server shows up under sources. It is awesome, I can click on it and watch a movie in a VR theater room which is awesome. I really like how everything works, but my problem is it automatically logs in and access ALL my content. I need to be able to log into a restricted user so that only certain content is available. Don't need the kids getting access to my other movies. Is there a way to switch users?