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Hi, I have created this in the hope it helps others. It isn't very detailed but hopefully enough information to be helpful. Thank you. My setup: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS (I would prefer if this said CEntOS but that's another story) TurboSight TBS 6280 DVB-T/T2/C (SAA716x dvb adapter) Docker (I don't think this effects my guide much below but worth mentioning) Emby (emby/embyserver:latest version on as of 9th January 2021) Tvheadend (linuxserver/tvheadend:latest version on as of 9th January 2021) docker-compose.yml Install required software (Ubuntu, TBS drivers, docker, docker-compose) Check DVB adapter exists $ ls /dev/dvb/ Install required Docker images/containers (see attached docker-compose.yml) $ docker-compose up -d http://tvheadend:9981 (setup Tvheadend) Configuration > Start wizard > Language (save and next) > Access control details (either on this screen or after the wizard create a user with the username * and no password (see attached User login.png) Tuners and network (configure as required) Assign Predefined Muxes to Networks (configure as required) > Scanning (save and next) > Map services to channels (configure as required) > Finish http://emby:8096 (setup Emby) Settings > Live TV > Live TV > TV Sources > M3U Tuner (http://tvheadend:9981/playlist/channels.m3u) Settings > Live TV > Live TV > TV Guide Data Providers > Guide Data Setup (configure country as required) and Guide source: XmlTV > File or URL (http://tvheadend:9981/xmltv/channels) Settings > Users > Access > Recordings Notes: Recordings made through the Tvheadend interface are separate to recordings made through the Emby interface. If I haven't mentioned a setting, chances are I haven't changed from the default. Multiple screen shots are attached to help clarify some steps. The M3U link can be tested in VLC media player: Media > Open Network Stream > network URL: http://tvheadend:9981/playlist/channels.m3u The channels link can be tested in an internet browser by pasting the link into the address bar. http://tvheadend:9981/xmltv/channels I hope this helps someone docker-compose.yml

I want to say thanks you all the people behind emby. We all are so used to open source software that we forget the work that's behind. I experienced today that feeling of finally having everything in place, all the foto, the videos for my kids, the series for my wife...and that just thanks to awesome people that spend their time for this software.

HDR Tone mapping when transcoding will be in Emby Server 4.6. Stay tuned to the beta channel over the next week if you'd like to help test.

-= PLEASE UP VOTE & PROMOTE THIS REQUEST IF YOU WOULD LIKE THIS FEATURE =- DO THIS BY CLICKING THE "LIKE" BUTTON ON THIS POST REQUEST: Properly pool multiple M3u IPTV sources, so when adding more than one with the exact same M3u emby treats them as one source with however many "Concurrent Streams" you set for each. https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/63725-multiple-iptv-tuners-double-channels/?p=636718 https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/59607-duplicate-channels-one-tuner/?p=607031 https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/57420-multiple-identical-m3u-tuners-without-duplicate-channels/?p=560949 Basically once M3u #1 has used all 5 of its tuners, I then need to start using the login info that is within M3u #2... once those 5 tuners are used (now all 10 tuners), then emby issues "no tuners available". This is how emby treats HDhomeruns today, so it can't be to difficult. @@snodrog742 @@manolodf @@robrhedrick @@cayars

I hit "play all" on a collection and it doesn't show the next film in "Next Up" after I quit out of it. This is apparently intended behaviour, and the same applies to playlists. This is absurd. Why even have the "play all" option? Who's sitting down to watch a full collection's worth of films, or a full playlist? I have playlists for The Prisoner for its various episode orders, and there's no way I'm getting through them in one sitting. I was going to make that my next show to watch but if I'm going to have to keep track manually of my progress through the playlist it makes the playlist fairly pointless TBH. There's no reason playlists or collections shouldn't show up in Next Up.

Lets say you want to move everything from /mnt/mergerfs/tv to /mnt/mergerfs/media/tv cd /var/lib/emby-server/data sqlite3 library.db UPDATE MediaItems SET Path= replace(Path, '/mnt/mergerfs', '/mnt/mergerfs/media') where Path like '%/mnt/mergerfs%'; UPDATE MediaStreams2 SET Path= replace(Path, '/mnt/mergerfs', '/mnt/mergerfs/media') where Path like '%/mnt/mergerfs%'; UPDATE TypedBaseItems SET Path= replace(Path, '/mnt/mergerfs', '/mnt/mergerfs/media') where Path like '%/mnt/mergerfs%'; .save library.db; .exit simple as that

Are there any plans for Android widgets in the next release? I would like to start using Emby for playing and casting music on my phone now that google play music is being discontinued and the replacement youtube music won't play with the phone screen off (!). In my limited testing today, Emby is working for this, but the user experience could be greatly enhanced by a widget or two that would give quick home screen access to playlists and control features. The UI could also use some improvements- when trying to scroll through a playlist with my right hand I always end up rearranging the song order.

PIP is something I really need, but I can't seem to get it working on my iPad running ios 12 Will Emby ever support PIP for iPad, or should i look for another media server system? I really don't want to invest time into a system that never gonna implement what i require.. Thanx..

HDR accurate color mapping

I know. therefore the request is for LG.

I guess Emby isn't worth the cost of a Latte. Not to mention Latte will be gone in 5 minutes but the app license would be good for a lifetime.

Yeah I would love to do that but it suddenly just started working. I restarted the server several times and who knows.... it started working on the 4th or 5th restart This is one of those ones where I would tell the customer... hmmm i cant replicate that it works on my local and go on to coding something else

My emby is on a dedicated server "in the cloud" that is always on, I use it for me and my brother and his family. But the storage on this server (1To) is running short so I'm considering moving some files to a home NAS that is not always on (it's very noisy and I live in a small apart, no way I can keep it on all the time). That's a valid strategy, except that my archived movies won't show up anymore in Emby. So I try to think about things that Emby could do to manage this use case. What if for example I could configure a "Backup library" for each library. Emby would let me backup/archive/restore movies, managing a queue of transfers ? If we go further, emby could also manage automatically archiving, movies/tv shows that has not been seen since a long time ago could be archived. And if you watch an episode of a tv show and the next one is archived, maybe it can be restored in background for example. Also Emby could let me know when I'm looking for a movie that it's not on the main server, but it's archived and can be restored ? I know it's probably a quite complex feature to develop, I'm just starting a discussion to see where it goes.

We have an update in review with LG.

That should be doing a simple remux or container change from ts to mkv while copying all streams. It should be very fast doing this!

We enjoyed Greenland also, much more than WW84

Muchas gracias

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You were seeing two separate problems that looked the same. One was related to deficiencies in the hardware decoders and the other is related to trying to deliver HEVC streams in a certain way. The first was solved by you disabling the bad decoder and the second is solved by you avoiding delivering that stream in that way (by either transcoding or selecting an audio track or audio settings that will allow direct play).

Yes that's what it is.

The problem with distinct before was that so many people never knew the user settings even existed because they never clicked on the icon. Merging all settings into one menu has pretty much solved that.

Ok all good now. Figured out what was the issue.... all those folders that I deleted were spelt trailer... without the s.... strange but at least all corrected. Thanks.

I see yes look ok cayars

My advice is to avoid DV media in your libraries, unless you have the HDR10(+) to fall back on. Allowing a media player to always correctly use either the DV or HDR10 layer if remuxed together, is precarious. If you must have DV, separate if from the HDR10 and have both. DV is only best when using streaming media like Netflix etc. Amazon is HDR10 and HDR10+ exclusively, I believe. Dolby is screwing everyone, again. The tech is great, but the implementation is a nightmare.

to limit bandwidth per connection: location /download/ { limit_rate 300k; } To limit the person to a specific number of connections as well as limit their bandwidth: location /download/ { limit_conn addr 3; limit_rate 300k; } more info here: https://docs.nginx.com/nginx/admin-guide/security-controls/controlling-access-proxied-http/

I realize that I should better put the word "great" under quarantine until a political vaccine has been found and applied. So am I about getting into public beta very soon!

LOL - What should I say... I'm just adapting. Over the past 4 years, I've learned that this is the way to talk to you Americans

Yes it's on my list for review. Thanks.

Google Photos is no more free. This would be a step forward to use emby as a replacement. How is this going? thx

You're missing some of the basic principles here. I'd recommend reading up on transcoding requirements. There is a big difference between direct play and transcoding. Direct play means the playing device (ie: your HTPC which is a beast) can fully handle the file it is attempting to play so all it needs to do is access the file through your internal network. This all has nothing to do with any internet connection, in fact you can do it without being hooked to the internet at all. Transcoding is when your playing device (ie your TV) can't handle the file it is attempting to play, whether that be the codec, the audio stream, whatever... So at that point the hardware your server is running on has to convert the file on the fly into a format the playing device can handle. A 1.5ghz celeron processor in a NAS with no GPU can not handle doing that with a 4k video file. Your HTPC, with an i7 processor and a decent gpu could transcode multiple 4k streams without breaking a sweat. Hence my recommendation to run the server on the HTPC. But yes, it would have to be on 24/7 so you'd have to make adjustments for that but at least you can do so with what you already have and no extra money. I can't see you needing to re-wire anything though. You'd simply mount the share from your NAS to the HTPC with a NFS/SMB share so it's really just reconfiguring your remote to bypass turning the HTPC on/off. Your other option would be to upgrade your NAS to one that can handle that type of transcoding but that's not a cheap option.

An option that displayed a small auto removed popup when transcoded playback is performed on a HDR source would be nice, a additional warning system in the OSD would be useful as well. ”this stream may may not be displaying colours accurately” potentially the first part could be an optional yes:no option so that the user can make a better choice. if course...tone mapping..... ;)

HDR Tone mapping when transcoding will be in Emby Server 4.6. Stay tuned to the beta channel over the next week if you'd like to help test.

HDR Tone mapping when transcoding will be in Emby Server 4.6. Stay tuned to the beta channel over the next week if you'd like to help test.

You are asking the dev team if they will support a format that is not supported, which has no real TV support, and has an unknown future. Why don't you just ask them for lottery numbers instead, it would be far easier.

The workaround for now for me is using safari instead of the app so pip is available

Emby definitely needs booker reader functionality, cataloging books without the ability to read them within the app is just pointless. I would like to see this added when possible

The first post has been updated with a new release 3.0.14, which features an updated libmpv. Please try it out. Thanks everyone.

Apologies for my complete lack of activity, my Docker installation got corrupted (along with all my volumes) and I lost mostly everything besides my Emby which is the only service that doesn't reside on docker due to hardware transcoding limitations (I'm on Windows), and I didn't have the time nor motivation to fix everything up. Hopefully after Christmas I'll upgrade my hardware, get all of my Emby mods and services working again, and finally take a look at the issues people are having and help to resolve them. I haven't added any media besides music which has been working fine, so maybe something changed in the new betas that broke some stuff. I might end up rewriting this plugin entirely since the code is quite a mess.

For those interested in trying out a test build: Please leave feedback in that topic. Thanks. Thanks.

Hey guys, didn't you get the news? We are stopping development of the channel groups feature. He doesn't need it anymore...

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

Great! I'll try to be patient... One other area for improvement- managing playlist content. Right now in the app or the web browser, when you remove a song from a playlist it returns you to the top of the playlist. If you are several hundred songs deep finding where you were again is a scrolling pain.

Hi, yes we love the idea of implementing widgets, it's just something we haven't gotten to yet.

On a side note, the main post still says Addic7ed is still on request though it has already been added. As I was looking for specific subtitles that emby couldn't find for me, I came across a few new sites I had never seen before. Some of them obviously had no subtitles themselves just took them all from opensubtitles, addic7ed or podnapisi, but I found some I am not sure of. Might be worth adding later on after the more important ones are added (they seem to be multi-language): https://www.tv-subs.net - multi language but seems heavy on English subtitles, only for shows https://isubtitles.org - looks like many languages and movies and series hope it helps

We work very hard on Emby. We'd kinda like people to know what it is...

Do you have both "Missing Episodes" options enabled? User Preference-Display and Dashboard-Library-select TV library

What is the best way to add audiobooks into Emby? I have looked around and it sounds like the best way is to add them as a separate Music library and call it good. This sorta works however there is no resume support at all doing it this way and it also doesn't seem to want to play the next track. Has anyone come up with a better solution? And is there any play for implementing an audio book features?

@@Luke, Mp3tag has an option to select what cover type when you embed to mp3 files which includes front cover, back, icon, lead artist, artist and more but non of those types seem to be picked up by Emby as album artist cover. I imagined the lead artist or artist would be the cover type for album artist but Emby doesn't recognise it. However i found a way to mimic the way that Emby recognise the album artist covers. When emby auto detect well known artists and fetch the cover art online, those images are named "folder" and stored in the album artist folder. So from there i realised i could manually download any image then put in that artist folder and rename the image "folder". eventually Emby will recognise it as an album artist cover art. @PenkethBoy, If you manually add from Emby, the image is displayed but will not be in a folder and, if you manually put a picture in that folder Emby doesnt recognise or even detect the image unless you rename that image to "folder".

OK, well I guess I will keep an eye out for any improvements to Emby to add audio book support. Thanks

Na you're on to it, it's the best you can do at the moment