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@Spaceboy nailed the real NEED IMHO. Personal opinion only following: It's one thing to CUT commercials but another to just be able to keep the recording AS IS but detect commercials and skip them. Some channels or shows just don't work well via comskip and you can end up missing part of your show if the commercial cutting goes a foul (doesn't work right). If each and every client could download and use an EDL file then the client could show commercials on the timeline in red or something, skip them automatically BUT allow you to RW/FF in case the EDL is wrong. This way it's pretty automated but you NEVER miss part of your show/movie. This IMHO is a long awaited feature we should have. Right now with a new Live TV release in waiting it doesn't make sense to add this but as each client will have to be changed to use the new Live TV features it would be a great time to incorporate this. Generating the EDL files on the server is really easy. Using them on the client is more complex. Once EDL files are generated they could also be used to cut commercials as well but we can save that for another thread.

Right I mean we went through this same situation. The difference with us is that we've always been friendlier to our users and I think that's why people took it better.

Yes we'll add this for the next release, thanks.

Because what they want can't be done with MCEBuddy. Think looking at a movie or show and seeing the timeline color coded with the commercials as detected by comskip.. You set the client to AUTO SKIP commercial. Something didn't go right in the commercial detection and you miss something critical. If you cut the commercials there is nothing you can do about it but using EDL files the file is WHOLE so you can RW and play back what you missed. Same with beginning of shows or end which comskip sometimes cuts off prematurely.

Another question is are these playlists that you created in Emby? Other playlists that Emby imports are not save in playlist folder.

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!

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.

Anime4K Anime4K is a set of open-source, high-quality real-time anime upscaling/denoising algorithms that can be implemented in any programming language. The simplicity and speed of Anime4K allows the user to watch upscaled anime in real time, as we believe in preserving original content and promoting freedom of choice for all anime fans. Re-encoding anime into 4K should be avoided as it is non-reversible, potentially damages original content by introducing artifacts, takes up to O(n2) more disk space and more importantly, does so without any meaningful decrease in entropy (lost information is lost). Disclaimer: All art assets used are for demonstration and educational purposes. All rights are reserved to their original owners. If you (as a person or a company) own the art and do not wish it to be associated with this project, please contact us at anime4k.upscale@gmail.com and we will gladly take it down. v3 The monolithic Anime4K shader is broken into modular components, allowing customization for specific types of anime and/or personal taste. What's new: A complete overhaul of the algorithm(s) for speed, quality and efficiency. Real-time, high quality line art CNN upscalers. (6 variants) Line art deblurring shaders. ("blind deconvolution" and DTD shader) Denoising algorithms. (Bilateral Mode and CNN variants) Blind resampling artifact reduction algorithms. (For badly resampled anime.) Experimental line darkening and line thinning algorithm. (For perceptual quality. We perceive thinner/darker lines as perceptually higher quality, even if it might not be the case.) Installation Instructions for GLSL/MPV More information about each shader. Real-Time Denoising (Experimental, WIP) The upcoming version 3.2 will focus on denoising. One version (Heavy-CNN-L) of the experimental denoiser is released for preview. This version is for heavily compressed video. Note that it will likely change/improve upon release. The main focus will be speed, while also keeping a good quality. The new denoisers are/will be trained using a mix of the SYNLA Dataset, DIV2K Dataset, In-The-Wild Images and a tiny subset of the Danbooru2019 Dataset. *Note: Here it is evident that PSNR is not always the best indicator of perceived image quality. The waifu2x denoiser looks shaper, but hallucinates many artifacts, especially near line edges. Real-Time Upscalers Comparison The new Anime4K upscalers were trained using the SYNLA Dataset. They were designed to be extremely efficient at using GPU shader cores (extremely thin, densely connected CNNs). All three versions outperform NGU and FSRCNNX both in upscale quality and speed while also keeping the number of parameters low, as seen in the test image below. This test image was not part of the training dataset, nor is it used as validation for hyperparameter tuning. Performance benchmarks are based on 1080p->4K upscaling and were performed using an AMD Vega 64 GPU. The low resolution (LR) images are generated using the average area downscaling operation, which is the correct downscaling operation when we want to avoid using low pass filtering. Low pass filtering with bicubic/lanczos downscaling works well for natural images, but will destroy fine details in line art. The operation used is equivalent to interpolation = INTER_AREA in OpenCV and -sws_flags area in FFmpeg. Note that this operation is only equivalent to bilinear if and only if the downscaling ratio is exactly 2. The correctness of average area downscaling is especially apparent as Anime4K-L was trained on average area downscaling only, and it generalizes well on unseen bicubic/lanczos degradation (24.94->24.81dB), while FSRCNNX-8-LineArt and waifu2x-CUNet were trained on bicubic/lanczos degradation only and do not generalize well for the unseen average area downscaling. PSNR of (24.93->24.47dB) and (26.02->25.61dB) respectively. Bicubic/lanczos downscaling preserves edge sharpess better than average area downscaling. This artificial sharpness does not represent well the distribution of true LR images (images that were originally low resolution and did not pass through a bicubic/lanczos filter). Link to results file. It has also come to our attention that many anime might have been suboptimally downscaled using the aforementioned low pass + bicubic method, as it is the default operation of FFmpeg. We will tackle this problem in v3.3 (after the v3.2 denoising update) by training the neural network with many different downscaling operations. Comparison Table First in each category is highlighted in brackets. Algorithm x2 PSNR (dB) ↑ Runtime @4K (ms) ↓ Parameters ↓ Bilinear 23.03 0 0 ravu-r4 24.09 3.6 41.4k FSRCNNX-16 24.57 30.4 10.5k NGU-Sharp-High 24.69 11 ? Anime4K-M 24.73 [1.5] [1.6k] Anime4K-L 24.94 2.5 2.9k Anime4K-UL [25.14] 10.7 15.9k waifu2x-CUNet [25.61]* >1000 1283.3k Link to results file *waifu2x is technically first in PSNR, but it is not a realtime algorithm and is 80 times larger than Anime4K-UL. It is included only for comparison purposes. The complete images from this comparison can be found under results/Comparisons/Bird. *FSRCNNX-56 failed to launch when playing back 1080p video. Projects that use Anime4K Note that they might be using an outdated version of Anime4K. There have been significant quality improvements since v3. https://github.com/yeataro/TD-Anime4K (Anime4K for TouchDesigner) https://github.com/keijiro/UnityAnime4K (Anime4K for Unity) https://github.com/net2cn/Anime4KSharp (Anime4K Re-Implemented in C#) https://github.com/andraantariksa/Anime4K-rs (Anime4K Re-Implemented in Rust) https://github.com/TianZerL/Anime4KCPP (Anime4K & more algorithms implemented in C++) https://github.com/k4yt3x/video2x (Anime Video Upscaling Pipeline)

Please wait for the next beta of the server and, hopefully, this won't be necessary.

That FR does exist.

Not as hard as you think. Check out this thread to get pointed in the right direction.

IGNORE ME! I used environment: - PUID=1000 - PGID=100 in docker compose. instead of just UID and GID. EmbyServer is now running as user 1000.

and this is why there is no visible roadmap. As soon as they went over the time limit, people would complain

Well, that certainly is your call, although a minute or two that was required would likely not have catastrophic consequences, but to each their own, I fully respect that. Was just taking a wild guess that secure protocol MAYBE doesn't allow paswwordless(?) login, hence the test, but that's something that the devs might give more insight to. @Luke

Watched status is recorded for specials ? My idea would be to mark ALL the associated specials as watched if you watched all of the crossover episodes in whatever show you first watched it from. as an example - say I watched a series of 3 crossovers in Chicago Med - consisting of the extra two 'specials' made up of Chicago Fire and Chicago PD. In those two shows, I also mark those 'real' episodes as watched and I also mark the specials in those shows as well. That way, when I get to those shows, the 'crossover' is already marked as watched in it's entirety and will skip accordingly. Yes you need to keep a local db of the members of the crossover, but unless the metadata is available, what other options do we have ? I think this is a prime candidate for a 'Crossover' plugin - as long as we have somewhere to store the crossover details (manually added by the user - by ID number) then it can easily create the .strm files as specials and a nightly scheduled task will cover the playstates. I've got some of this working already, but have only just started playing with the API so leaning as I go ...

Hi You are possibly trying to run the batch file from a network drive ? Try copying the batch file to the actual drive in use and run it from there - batch files have some issues with UNC file paths in certain circumstances. Re the multiple track - sure this is easily doable by just mapping the extra track - ie "C:\Emby-Server\system\ffmpeg.exe" -i "%%x" -map 0:v -map 0:a:0 -map 0:a -map 0:a:1 -c:s copy -c:v copy -c:a copy -c:a:0 ac3 -c:a:1 ac3 -disposition:a:0 default -disposition:a:1 0 -f matroska "%%~dx%%~px%%~nx-AC3.mkv" If you wanted the 2nd AC3 track as the default - just change around the disposition statement - ie -disposition:a:1 default -disposition:a:0 0 When ffmpeg runs - you'll see it adding 2 extra tracks now - ie Stream mapping: Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (copy) Stream #0:1 -> #0:1 (dts (dca) -> ac3 (native)) Stream #0:1 -> #0:2 (dts (dca) -> ac3 (native)) Stream #0:2 -> #0:3 (copy) Stream #0:2 -> #0:4 (copy) This is meant as an example of what you can do - not necessarily as a direct solution - for conditional DTS selection, then you need to start adding logic to the script - probably via ffprobe to scan the file first to see what it needs to convert. Anyway - have a 'play' with a copy of the file to see what you can do. You can run it directly from the command line if you like to test - no need to do it from a batch file - ie "C:\Emby-Server\system\ffmpeg.exe" -i "G:\Films 8\Cast Away (2000)\Cast Away (2000) - test.mkv" -map 0:v -map 0:a:0 -map 0:a -map 0:a:1 -c:s copy -c:v copy -c:a copy -c:a:0 ac3 -c:a:1 ac3 -disposition:a:0 default -disposition:a:1 0 -f matroska "G:\Films 8\Cast Away (2000)\Cast Away (2000) - dual-ac3.mkv" I hope this helps - good luck.

When I got like really no money, like a year ago I was like "Heck no I'm not paying this thing". Now, a year after, having work and understood the value of 5€ (and having it lmao) I can say Emby is totally worth it. And especially I love the support of Luke and all of the guys gives here. I think with only donation they would never do a great job as they do now.

thanks, I'm really looking forward to seeing the new LiveTV

If you map the shared folder as a network drive with a drive letter as described here it should work: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/map-a-network-drive-in-windows-10-29ce55d1-34e3-a7e2-4801-131475f9557d

Without an official roadmap blogpost or the like, this is just pure speculation.

I am not holding my breath. Revamped TV has literally been announced for years. (yes, years with plural 's').

No, we'll update it and add an option for users to enter their tvdb api key.

That works great. I was hoping there was an option like this so I can stop manually identifying movies every time I move my server around. Thanks!

This is something as well as other Live TV/DVR enhancements we'll look at after we get the new version released with all the new core feature enhancements.

Right I think part of the blowback against tvdb making this move is that they've never had a very friendly community to begin with. A long time ago when I was just a Media Browser user I reported some incorrect show data on their forum and was responded to rudely about it. At that point I said I'm not doing this again. I've heard more similar stories than I can count over the years. So at least Tmdb does not have that problem. I'm just saying that down the road they may grow to a point where they can't sustain themselves being free either, and hopefully users will be understanding if that happens.

Yes there are some defects when trying to get info from TMDB and can get them wrong. As the TMDB lists Transformers: Beginnings (2006) as the first result. I believe there is still a +/- year variance as release year can vary by a year is some cases. 2021-01-20 18:19:22.102 Info App: MovieDbProvider: Finding id for item: Transformers 2021-01-20 18:19:22.104 Debug App: Throttling Tmdb by 196 ms 2021-01-20 18:19:22.301 Info HttpClient: GET https://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/movie?api_key=f6bd687ffa63cd282b6ff2c6877f2669&query=Transformers&language=en 2021-01-20 18:19:22.441 Debug App: Throttling Tmdb by 159 ms 2021-01-20 18:19:22.614 Info HttpClient: GET https://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/25565?api_key=f6bd687ffa63cd282b6ff2c6877f2669&append_to_response=casts,releases,images,keywords,trailers&language=en&include_image_language=en,null 2021-01-20 18:19:22.708 Debug App: Running OmdbItemProvider for C:\Users\Media\Desktop\Videos\Movies - DB\Transformers (2007)\Transformers (2007).strm 2021-01-20 18:19:22.717 Info HttpClient: GET https://private.omdbapi.com?apikey=fe53f97e&i=tt1236486&plot=short&tomatoes=true&r=json 2021-01-20 18:19:22.866 Debug App: Running BaseGenreCleaner for C:\Users\Media\Desktop\Videos\Movies - DB\Transformers (2007)\Transformers (2007).strm You can manually Identify to correct or the fail safe method is adding providerid in the naming scheme and you will never get invalid results. see the "ID Tags in Folder & File Names" section in the kb. Emby Movie Naming : Emby

@Sentinel thanks for the validation! @ParcelRot - that worked! I only have a 1080p TV so I set it to 1920x1080. Making windowstate.json read only was key. It would be nice to understand why this happened, but at least there's a solution.

Exactly this! Being able to just mark for skipping would be a huge bonus to an already great product in Emby Live TV.

I will Carlo. This is the second time it has happened with a channel I never watch in a couple weeks. First time I thought I had done something, second time I knew it was either a bug or a ghost. Everything is fine now, only using tuners I record on every day. Like I said before, I stopped using Live TV to watch TV because I was having nothing but problems. Now I am using it only to record while I wait for the new version of Live TV...which is fine with me, I'm patient to get what I want.

Plex also does this now which is why I have gone back to plex for live TV functionality. Emby needs this to compete in the Live TV arena. MCEBuddy is just another program to manage and keep up with.

Yes only you need to run the Emby SERVER. Your users will use a web browser or any of the Emby CLIENTS. Theater for a PC, but we also have clients for ios and android phones, Android TV, ROKU, apps for TVs, etc. Check out https://emby.media/download.html (scroll down to client) for all the different clients available. Let us know if you have any additional questions or if you're good now.

I've dropped back to v4.5.2.0 a month or so ago with no problems to report. I'm anxiously awaiting the fix for no Closed Captions for LiveTV in v4.5.4.0.

Exactly! You got it. Only one server is required, get your friends and family to connect their Emby client of choice to your server.

Look in your TV library settings, you should see all the settings for the meta data sources. I don't agree with what tvdb are doing, I also dont agree with some of the comparisons in this thread, they did not have a zero cost data source they just decided they would sell. It was supplied by volunteers, that does not make it zero worth, something freely given with an expectation it would be free to all, that was the expectation of the contributors. Again with everything, time will tell how this plays out. My guess is they will lose some users to other services, and eventually maybe thoes other services will go subscription as well, perhaps someone will stand up a new free community service. Given that these sort of meta data services are core to a large group of home enthusiast there will always be option as people find alternatives and solutions.

Hi. Your users can download one of our apps from a store (like for Android or iOS or Android TV or Roku, etc.) or just use their web browser and point it to your server's address. Do be sure and give these users with external access a password. All your users should have passwords.

In my humble opinion the best thing to do is setup some type of DDNS service for your Emby server or get yourself a domain name and point it at your WAN address. This way anyone can get to your server by name. They can then use the username and password as setup on your system without the need for the extra optional Emby Connect. My personal users have no idea what an Emby Connect username is and have no use for it.

Don't use email addresses for user accounts. Keep it simple and use the person's name. Like Mom, Dad, Sue, John, Bob, etc You can setup a password for each user. Your Emby Server does not use emails. You can add an Emby Connect username (these will be an email address or forum account ID) to the user you created. You the admin have no control over the user's Emby Connect password (only they do).

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Hi, check out this KB article: https://support.emby.media/support/solutions/articles/44001159102-movie-naming Scroll down to the Multi-Version section to see exactly how to set this up. It's important to put all versions of the movie in the same folder.

@Methodman104 How are you making out? Have you gotten remote access setup? Have you been able to setup a local account (without Emby Connect) and test that?

As noted above, you can do exactly what you want but just use separate files instead of embedding multiple video streams.

Remember that Emby Connect and the login to your server are different things. When you create a user in your server you give it a password (which can be skipped on the local network if you set that up). You test that by connecting to your server directly using that login. If this is the first time you've attempted to set up a connection to your server from outside your network, you'll need to go through this checklist as well: https://support.emby.media/support/solutions/articles/44001849007-connectivity After you know that works, then you can set up the link to Emby Connect, which is a separate account with a separate login and password - but in my view that only really adds value if they are using more than one Emby server. Not using Emby Connect reduces reliance on Emby's infrastructure as well. Paul

Ma di che tipo di film stiamo parlando Quello che ti posso suggerire é di creare più utenti (impostazioni/utenti) e preferibilmente di lavorare a cartelle, quindi dando o togliendo accesso agli utenti a determinate cartelle. Io faccio così più per praticità, mio nipote ha la sua cartella mista, io e mio fratello abbiamo accesso a tutti i film, lui alla sua musica, io alla mia. Quindi tutto viene confinato manualmente. In alternativa, sempre nella gestione utente, c'é il "controllo genitore". Ad esempio puoi permettere ad un utente di visualizzare solo quello emby ha riconosciuto e che rientri in una certa classificazione. dove vedi classificazione per genitori consentita, trovi delle voce. Emby mi pare segua la classificazione MPA https://it.qaz.wiki/wiki/Motion_Picture_Association_film_rating_system E' un sistema che potrebbe dar luogo ad errori, perché se emby prende un film al posto di un altro, saltano i criteri di classificazione. Insomma, generalmente non é nulla di grave ma parliamoci chiaro: se hai una cartella di pornazzi, appunto lavora di cartelle come ho scritto in partenza impedendo l'accesso a quella cartella ad una determinata utenza. Perché sei hai un film che si chiama Biancaneve sotto i nani, ed emby per errore riconosce il film come Biancaneve e i sette nani, capirai che abbiamo un problema. Più in basso, sempre nel menù genitore, c'é il filtro per TAG. Ma é un po' più ostico come controllo, dovrai sicuramente metter mano ai metadati, io per il momento non ci punterei troppo

Luke, And I must say, it is working fine. Also changed the Netflix button on chromecast with google tv remote with Emby (and a nice emby sticker on top of the netflix logo) Tnx

I know this is an old thread, but this is something I would love to see implemented as well. I have a substantial collection of Movies and TV, and this would help myself, my family, and friends to pick something to watch without endless scrolling, to see if something catches the eye.

It would be handy to be able to see missing episodes on the series cover so that I know which episodes I am missing from which series without having to enter all of them and scroll. Something like this mockup, where the red "1" beside the "2" would indicate that I am missing 1 episode that has aired.

I would agree on more dynamic on home screen. Just assume one wants to have a definite library (no new content) which is quite large. If apart from continue watching home screen always shows only latest added items (as it is now) it is not only useless but annoying. Appearing random items, collections, persons and playlists would be great.

I've attached something like the sort. On the home screen of emby you have multi options of sections, why not add more versatile selections. Home screen section 3 Movies - show latest Home screen section 4 Movies - show random Home screen section 5 Movies - show genre comedy

Ah, didn't appreciate that - glad I asked then and glad I am using the Desktop App!

Very definitive, and what I assumed - why though?