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Hi, I would love to have tautulli or equivalent for emby. Especially for people coming from plex, we would love to see something like tautulli. I know there are a few Statistic plugins but i think we all know there is nothing like tautulli out there. I love the way i see people currently watching movies on my server and the details of what is transcoding etc. i know emby also shows ppl watching movies but it isn't the same. I don't get a notification or even see a icon if someone starts to play while i have the emby page open. There is no icon that shows me someone is watching a movie. Tautulli is also open source so if someone has the skills in python to make it work for emby, this would be amazing. For me this is actually really the only reason I hesitate to switch completely. maybe someone can make this happen

Guys, The ebook side of Emby/MediaBrowser has been long stalled or rather stagnated. I would like to offer up a couple of suggestions. Many people use calibre as an ebook/comic book tool for scraping data and general management of their collection already. This program is absolutely astonishing in its ability to pull metadata from post calibre scans, as well as draw in metadata from the file source and/or directory structure. http://vaemendis.net/ubooquity/ Its a self contained .jar server/reader combination. And honestly I am very impressed by it's small footprint and wide range of abilities. The other option is COPS , which was written specifically with calibre in mind. It is open source, so making it work with emby I would think would be fairly easy. https://blog.slucas.fr/projects/calibre-opds-php-server/ Ever since the original release of MediaBrowser's bookshelf I have always wanted something that would allow me to 'read' my collection, rather than being basically nothing more than a place-set for images of books I own. I am sure that those who mainly have audiobooks are thrilled with bookshelf , but it's nothing more than an extension of the music library IMHO, not new features. We can have both right? Here I give you two suggestions free of charge.. Just because I love you, and Emby Personally I plan on running the Ubooquity Server along side of Emby from now on, just because of it's massive functionality and tiny footprint. But I sure hope that someone decides -- "yeah, ebook support should be in here too" and do something about it - rather than allow this now very very ancient issue to continue to remain an issue. And so I don't have to have 20 different ports open, some with SSL support - some not, because Emby isn't delivering the 'complete package'. (Please take some of this with humor, I know you have your hands full with improvements/bugs/suggestions/requests)

It'd be great to also have the IMDb URL or ID in the Reports Plugin so when I do exports, it's super clear which movie is which, especially when I'm doing a compare of what I own to what my friends own.

Thanks for the quick reply, you make me have hopes in solving this tonight! @kajYes, unfortunately the file seems to be the correct one; https://www.synology.com/en-global/support/download/DS418play#system, DSM 6.2.3 It seems there's something being done at 55% which really is hating on this downgrade attempt EDIT: Oh my God, I've found the issue... I've quickly copy-pasted the VERSION file contents and it seems I've lost the FIRST EMPTY LINE. Now it seems it's passed the installation phase, fingers crossed after 10 minutes it will show 6.2.3 ! EDIT2: It all worked out! Thanks a lot guys for this community and posting the relatively painless way to undo the "undoable". I'll spend some time around here, seems to be a great community!

Port 4322 is the correct port. It's the default port of the MPExtended service that will communicate with the MediaPortal TVServer. The port can be changed in the MPExtended config app. Just left click on the tray icon to open the configurator. I can't remember but i think by default MPExtended has a user Admin with password Admin. But also this can be changed in the config app. If the Emby MediaPortal plugin still cannot connect to the MPExtended service, check the firewall for port 4322.

If both routers are providing DHCP then yes you will need to step through port forwarding on each router. Double Router Forwarding (portforward.com)

There's no entry in the tray icon to start the TVServer! The entry you've clicked is named "Open MediaPortal" which is the frontend to TVServer. But you don't need that.

Thanks for the info. Emby does transcoding cause it says container is not supported. What I can also do as in term of test would be to place RPi on an antenna main plug, that is not occupied by anything (thus no splitters) and recheck for a few days.

Thanks! that got rid of the poster and the background is brightened, it's a good solution for what I wanted to achieve.

Ok.... let me check both in parallel....

He's just trying to create a test case man.

i think it would be one size fits all as css does not have a if then else type function would be doable with mode to the js files - but then it needs to be reapplied on each server update - not a huge problem but can be a PIA if on beta server which usually (not currently) changes on a regular basis

totally typical timeframes here

Thanks heciruam for the reply. I have been searching for this topic but obviously didn't find it. Thanks again.

Put them in the same movie folder and rename each file so that you have '{Movie Name} (YYYY) - {The Version Name}.ext' Emby will take the part after the dash as the name for that version.

I'm sorry to hear that. So, I saw that you still have a User in your query, just moved to a different part of the object instantiation. Have you verified that you're getting the movies ungrouped by version this way? I think you'll probably need to remove the User altogether. Once you know your movies are coming back ungrouped, you'll have a 'one to one' relationship between a BaseItem and a version. So, you can do this to figure out the resolution (adapted from bakes logic): //pseudo-code to find the MediaStream you care about MediaStream videoStream = baseItem.GetMediaStreams().FilterOrIterateToFindByTypeVideo(); var is4K = videoStream.Height <= 2160 && videoStream.Width <= 4096 && videoStream.Height > 1080 && videoStream.Width > 1920; if (!is4K) is4K = videoStream.DisplayTitle.ToLower().Contains("4k"); If is4k is true for your current BaseItem, you can just update the tags for that BaseItem as needed. You should be able to test for any other MediaStream property in a similar way.

Yes, it is /discover.json. Also, the app also is going to also work with tvheadend using its dvb interface. This interface uses the same discovery as emby (well almost). I have the discovery and getset commands working, so far. When you have an update, I will be happy to run a test. My device testing uses hdhomerun_config which sends 65001 commands to the device under test.

@chef Just remember that you don't need that last line where it's using GetMediaSources and trying to find an Id on one. Just verify that the count of 'mediaItems' is bigger than when you query with a user (or look at the count through a client app). I'm assuming that you have at least one multi-versioned movie at this point.

As long as exoplayer is used the issue persists. The only common denominator amongst all of this issue is exoplayer on the Shield. Remove that from the scenario and everything is perfect. I would be happy to use an external player but the frame rate matching is unable to be used and the shields framerate match beta option is hit and miss with VLC sadly

The original request wanted the ability to block their users from accessing one source (example 4k source) by tagging the baseItem. Which doesn't sound possible to do by tagging the baseItem. However, we can still build the auto tag plugin, it will handle auto tagging in a general sense. Probably should remove the resolution option from the configuration.

Yea, REALLY appreciate the explanation @softworkz. Seems strange to me that it can't handle playback on the server, but not a big deal since I've got plenty of other devices to watch on. Btw, I did test throttling as well, but it doesn't help when playing back on the server. It does help in general though so I've got it enabled now.

When I was a child, at late 70s, I got my father to buy me a video recorder to record live tv: Video Recorder 241 Color VR241 Sonido-V ITT Schaub-Lorenz (radiomuseum.org) It was one of the first to arrive in my area and my friends could not believe that I was watching something on the television that was not broadcasting, they said that I was lying, until they could see it at my house. A lot of water has flowed under the bridge since then. Then came Betamax, VHS, DVD and Bluray. In the basement I still have a pile of betamax tapes, vhs and dvd jars. I started storing digital media on a Popcorn hour A-100. It quickly became too small for me and I ventured out with a Synology NAS with Plex pre-installed. I finally made the leap to using a more powerful dedicated server and looking for alternatives to Plex, I discovered Emby and here I am.

Good you worked it out - the logs are a little overwhelming I agree - but errors are clearly shown by literally just searching for the word 'error' and they usually give you a reasonable clue on what to look for. Enjoy !

You'll be able to multi-select filter in the upcoming Emby Server 4.6 release. Thanks.

You'll be able to multi-select filter in the upcoming Emby Server 4.6 release. Thanks.

Depending on your frame of reference it has gone everywhere or it has gone nowhere or it has never changed but our access to it has just moved. Actually I do know the correct answer but I cannot tell you because it would create a paradox and it would violate the "Temporal Prime Directive."

Yeah, New Media Added is one of those notifications. Personally, my users and myself use PlaybackReporting>Pushover daily notifications (that can be configured for any service of your preference: email, Pushbullet, Telegraph or other), and it looks like this:

But it does happen every now and then. Extras used to pop up as its own folder. It was sometime this year that it was combined with Specials.

A good point Paul thanks - I was not aware of the support aspects of the folder name.

You can use any name you like (as I do, and have suggested to others) - so long as it's not an Emby-recognised name. If, for instance, you have two folders called "Specials" and "Extras" they will get combined as specials. The other concern is that we are told doing this is not supported, which means that in principle the devs are free to break it - not that that seems likely. Paul

Yes, this technically works and I do organize this way, as the picture showed, but it is not officially supported and the devs on here always mention it could stop working with any update. For example, Extras used to show up as its oen folder but now it auto combines with Specials in Emby. Another problem with this is the fact that deleted scenes, interviews, etc are very much not "Specials". Shows, for example The Office UK, have actual special episodes that further the plot along but exist outside of a particular season. These should not be mixed in with random featurettes. Also, if Emby did support other folders, it would be great to then not have these count towards unwatched content. As you can see, MST3K currently says i have over 550" episodes" to still watch. Which is obviously super inflated by all of those so called specials. There's just much better ways to have this system work that would not change anything for people that don't want to use it, but would make the program significantly better for those that do. One last thing, technically tvdb should not have extras listed as Specials on their site, but everyone listed them anyway. However, since tvdb might be replaced by another site soon, and if that new site does not have the same system, you're stuck with hundreds of files labeled "mst3k s00e234" without any idea what it is without playing it.

For one, DVDs and BluRays regularly have much more than 10 extras. For two, the different types of extras have different semantic meaning and priority to me. For example, I want to have deleted scenes available, but I'm much less likely to want to watch them at any given time than featurettes/making of documentaries. There are short films associated with movies, music videos, VFX breakdowns etc. Some are full on historical docs in their own right and I want to be able to highlight and emphasize the exceptional extras from the run of the mill stuff. Emby already interprets enough folder names as 'extras' for my curating needs. I just need it to honor those names on the front ends so I can quickly scroll to the *type* of extra I'm wanting to watch right now. Right now, I prefix a bracket to the extra file name ([DOC],[INTERVIEW],[VFX],[SCORE],[DS] etc.), but it just doesn't help much and it's ugly. Extras functionality would benefit from further development.

I've requested this for movies earlier in the thread. Might as well do TV too while they're at it.

Or...the developers could circle back to the currently barebones extras functionality so those of us that use extras extensively can get some of the features we're requesting.

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

Yes I certainly wouldn't use it for core ffmpeg transcoding, but it plays all the ATSC 3.0 samples I have which is why I created a HDHR-4K specific input addon. With a known source the main hack private stream 6 being forced to AC-4 probably isn't as bad as with unknown sources. Martin

It's like 5 bucks. If you don't think Luke and company deserve your support, then I am sure they will be happy to see you go and be ignored. Plex forums are famous for issues not being resolved and also for the silence of the dev team. Luke and everyone on the Emby team are EXTREMELY active in the support section, far more than any dev team I have ever seen.

So, basically you want everything for free? Or did I get it wrong?

I followed Zoroli's steps and they worked for me. I've written down exactly the steps I took in order to successfully downgrade from DSM 7.0 to 6.2.3: Hopefully this a little clearer for some people and might help out: 1. Ensure you have a telnet client available on your PC, and also ensure you have downloaded Synology Assistant to your PC 2. In DSM 7.0, enable Telnet and SSH access 3. Using telnet, connect to your Synology NAS from your PC: (x.x.x.x is the IP address of your NAS) telnet x.x.x.x 4. Run the following command on your NAS: sudo vi /etc.defaults/VERSION 5. Replace the entire contents of that file with the following: majorversion="6" minorversion="2" productversion="6.2.3" buildphase="GM" buildnumber="25426" smallfixnumber="0" builddate="2020/07/01" buildtime="06:24:39" 6. Save the file and reboot your NAS 7. Use the Synology Assistant to find the machine and connect to it 8. Install DSM 6.2.3 using the .pat file downloaded from the Synology download center. The upgrade will start but then quickly show an error stating you are unable to downgrade and must install a version of DSM7. Don't worry, because at this point, Telnet will be available and you will be able to connect to your NAS. 9. Telnet to your NAS like in step 3, but instead of using your account credentials from before, use the following: username: root password: 101-0101 10. Repeat steps 4 and 5, replacing the VERSION file with the new contents. 11. Install 6.2.3 again. Your NAS should successfully downgrade to 6.2.3. I haven't verified that this will retain your data on your disks - I didn't need my data so I performed a factory reset via the GUI before starting these steps.

Shield Experience Upgrade 8.2 (Relea | NVIDIA GeForce Forums I have a Shield connected to a SDR display and tone mapping is great.

I'm happy with my Roku Streaming Stick+ Personally I've always found Chromecasting a confusing way to do things, but maybe that's just me... Paul

Hi, it's always possible for the future. As of now, very few users have this amount of extras so it's just hard to prioritize this. Thanks for the feedback.

Bumping this rather than starting a new thread. My expectation when I saw that Emby supported multiple folders for special features was that each supported folder name would have its own strip under the movie in the client app. If you just did the main 'extras' folder, that's all you'd see, but if you took the time to break your special features down by type and put them in a corresponding folder, you'd see the results of that effort in the client app. After I didn't see what I expected, I looked into it more, and it seems like the alternative folder names are just there to accommodate content generators with their own established folder structures. But..I'd really like to see special features get that grouped presentation I originally envisioned. And maybe someday, their own dedicated tab where you can watch special features by type across movies and other fancy playback options.

Simple. Only music related options and nothing else, it doesn't matter how hidden the video player is or otherwise, it needs to not be there. Take a look at Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, PlexAmp, they're optimised for a workflow dedicated to play music, they all have give or take the same look, feel and workflow. This is why my wife will use Plexamp and won't use Emby for playing music.

A friendly bump! I installed Pl*xAmp on my wife and eldests phone, and they love it. She just can't handle the full app, it just behaves as you'd expect a music player to work, no getting lost in a video section or somewhere, it's intuitive as a music app because it's just a music app. Luckily I had an unused lifetime pass, so I set up a server which is purely used for music. I've now been able to dump Apple Music and my wife is extremely happy and in love with the music app. For a phone, a standalone music option definitely makes sense in my eyes, something that's set up with the sole purpose of playing music, I'm sure there are plenty of people out there who themselves or who have family members who just don't need the entire app. I've got to say, I'm impressed with it as well, it's installed on my phone as well as my music player.

Even that is much more specific than my request. I'm trying to keep mine as simple and broad as possible. Just keep the files in each folder together in the Extras line of each movie.

That's a nice manual option, that I'll use for certain deleted scenes or BTS if it's split into multiple segments. But it'd be nice to have them auto sort and not waste some of the name space on "Interview" or "Featurette". Even an option in the library settings that allows you to choose the order in which the files are sorted.

Yes I think this is a good idea.

Hey, I think it would be great, that after playing a movie you can give the movie your own rating. I know there is already favorite and like/dislike, but a distinct rating from 1 - 10 would be much clearer. I have a big movie collection and sorting after my own rating would be a great addition, because sometimes i forget how much i liked the movies i watched and if i rewatch them i have at least a little orientation. What do you guys think, is this possible?