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Luke has added something cool to the code for the next Beta that will be nice for many of you wanting some way to group channels. Stay tuned for more info on this.

At least I can tell that we made some very good progress..

i know of someone that got a partial refund under those conditions. email SD and let them know

This is a great video for anyone looking to build their first rack server setup. I have that same rack he's using, and some of the same components (I've had them long before this video).

LOL.. Yeah, "Skip Intro" was burned in by PlayOn and didn't do anything.

It does not come with the live tv rework but it's a possibility for the future. Thanks.

I mentioned it in another thread, but thought I'd put it here since this looks like a new section--just for posterity. Would like to have a bulk meta data editor function. For example, if I have 750 videos whose producing studio is the same, I want to select those videos and apply the name of the studio to those videos. Similarly, if there is a custom tag I want to apply to a subset of those movies, I want to be able to select them in bulk and apply the tag to those videos (instead of selecting them one by one).

Also, It would be cool if we have various m3u lists and have the option to choose/assign each m3u list for each user.. Example. In user settings we can choose which library to give them for VOD so this shouldnt be hard enough to do it for live tv too no? USER 1 - Playlist 1 - Playlist 2 - Playlist 3 USER 2 - Playlist 3 USER 3 - Playlist 1 - Playlist 3 Etc etc.... *** Delete this message from another topic I opened because I posted it by accident there

Please read this post first. I was wondering if it would be possible to add something that would allow you to skip the intro to shows automatically while binge watching. When watching Netflix it does this for some shows, and im not sure if thats a feature of Netflix itself or a Chrome extension i use called "Flix Assist" but it would be a nice feature to have within Emby as well. and possibly even create a custom timed skip for specific shows

** UPDATE ** There are two seperate plugins on this page - you will need to read the thread to see which one (or both) is best for you. The original plugin (Actor Web Scraper) works at the server dashboard, it cannot be used or accessed by clients. This is my first proper working attempt at this. Its a bit clumsy but works. I may revisit this one and update it, but for now it is what it is. The newer plugin (Custom Person Provider) is internal and works when you click an Actor card, it is also triggered by clients. (but configured from the dashboard which they cannot access). This plugin can quickly be turned on/off in the config page. ----------------------------------------------------- This is the first working beta release - special thanks to @roaku for their help getting the javascript on the webui working It only scrapes one actor at a time, im not going to do one that hits these websites continuously for the whole lot in one go so don't ask. Please feel free to try it, test it whatever. Built with net standard 2.0, so should be compatible with most emby releases. I have added linux support but have no way to test it - so let me know if it works Feel free to suggest anything it lack or improvements that could be made. Enjoy There is another plugin lower down in this thread, "custompersonprovider" which uses the internal Actor image system, its in Alpa stage, and it works seperately from this one. Please read the blub if you are going to try it. As always the blurb: I accept no liability for anything - use at your own risk Custom Poster Provider ** Updated 5 feb 2021 *** Added a few more scrapers, but also added the ability to pull images from other Emby servers ** UPDATE 25 JAN 2021 WITH FIXES ** *** NEW 3rd Feb 2021 *** Added Internal Image Search Scraper Plugin. This is seperate to the Actor Web Scraper. This is Called Custom Person Provider because it works when you click the actor image inside Emby. Try not to use all the scrapers as it will actually slow down load times for your clients who click on Actors that DO NOT have an image already. I have added a config page so that scrapers can be turned on /off. Trakt images are webp , they work well but may cause image processing error in the log from emby when it tries to resize it as it acesses it. I am currently not sure if all "client" app support it either, all of my tests do, but thats not all devices. ActorWebScraper.zip ActorWebScraper-server 4.6.0.20.zip CustomPersonProvider.zip

Doh, yes that's exactly what he said. Thanks. PS I'm excited to see what you guys think of collections and some of it's new uses, hint, hint.

What he's saying is 4.5.2.0 allows playback without transcoding but newer version force transcoding of Interlaced content. The clients can deinterlace and do not need it transcoded which robs the stream of CC and degrades picture quality.

The question is still why was this recently changed to transcode on the server when many clients like the Roku and Android can deinterlace just fine. This breaks functionality like CC. Other threads like this one are caused by this:

We're changing that for the next release. Thanks.

Yes

yes its SDR, and this is my current config and i'm pretty happy with it

yes its freesat. i think you're generally limited in what you can receive via the stream to now/next information

Die Videoqualität kann man beim Abspielen doch immer anpassen (auch bei nur einer Version), d.h. doch aber nicht dass du dadurch eine andere Version abspielst.

SD sent me a follow up email and acknowledged that their email could have had a little more finesse. They did state "At the time, Emby asked us not to send an email until their guide service was up and running". Given the experiences in this thread, I think Emby also needs to shoulder some responsibility for this situation. As stated by others, a forum post is not suitable notification to those of us who do not frequent the forum unless we experience a problem. Still, the Emby Guide service appears to be just as good so I suppose we should be grateful to avoid the SD subscription charges in the long run.

Its alive! It will tag whatever "resolution" is in the rule... if resolution exists. It is fast too. foreach (var rule in rules) { Log.Info(rule.Profile.Type); Log.Info(rule.Profile.Container); var internalItemQuery = new InternalItemsQuery(); if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(rule.Profile.AudioCodec)) internalItemQuery.AudioCodecs = new[] {rule.Profile.AudioCodec}; if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(rule.Profile.Container)) internalItemQuery.Containers = new[] {rule.Profile.Container}; if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(rule.Profile.Rating)) internalItemQuery.OfficialRatings = new[] {rule.Profile.Rating}; if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(rule.Profile.VideoCodec)) internalItemQuery.VideoCodecs = new[] {rule.Profile.VideoCodec}; internalItemQuery.IncludeItemTypes = new[] { rule.Profile.Type }; internalItemQuery.Recursive = true; var itemQuery = LibraryManager.GetItemsResult(internalItemQuery); Log.Info($"Query has {itemQuery.TotalRecordCount} items."); Parallel.ForEach(itemQuery.Items,new ParallelOptions() { MaxDegreeOfParallelism = 4}, (item, state) => { if (cancellationToken.IsCancellationRequested) { state.Break(); } if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(rule.Profile.Resolution)) return; //Parallel fors return, they don't continue. var videoStreams = item.GetMediaStreams(); foreach (var stream in videoStreams) { if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(stream.DisplayTitle)) continue; if (stream.DisplayTitle.ToLowerInvariant().Contains(rule.Profile.Resolution)) { //Tag this item.InternalId - it matches the "resolution" // It should also match all other rule conditons because of the query } } //Here is rule results when the rule hasn't got a resolution. }); } It looks like we can target HDR and SDR the same way in the future, if we want, although it is pretty much the same as 1080p and 4k... from what I can see. I shall continue LOL! Note: Year hasn't been added yet, because Year is an "int", and is a reference type, and always has a value. Year will be 0 if left empty in the config. This means the "internalItemQuery" has to have a condition, or else the query will try to return everything with Year 0. Should be straight forward.

Why do you want to change then? I know there's no Emby plugin for NextPVR 5, but is it really that important for you to create new Timers in the UI of Emby apps? Or would it also fulfill your needs to just watch live tv and recordings in Emby? Then go the m3u and xmltv route from NextPVR to Emby and set the NextPVR recording folder as a library in Emby.

Currently no, but if you run it through xteve, then you can change the name there, and it will be retained when the EPG is updated

ChannelsDVR using TVEverywhere and then creating the m3u stream from that to feed into Emby as an IPTV stream.

Is this Stats for Nerds from the TV or browser? Samsung TV doesn’t use the Web Video Player. If it is from the TV then we have a different problem

I understand....if it is beyond the the control of the Emby team I will adjust. Just wanted to bring it to someone's attention.

That's what we're striving for and getting people like yourself to try it for things that don't work in the ATV version.

OK, apk downloaded, tested and... instant playback on both AVI / mpeg 4 and MKV x264. And this is apparent on both Wi-Fi and Ethernet Maybe you should update the EXO player version in ATV. Would prob solve all my problems. thanks

Thanks. Will do a MKV x264/5 check later tonight

The only update is going to be the new version of Live TV which I've been told should be in the next few months or so because the problem we are all experiencing has do do with the core of the current Live TV so it would require an entire rewrite....which is what the new version of Live TV is going to be. So at the moment your only options are to do as I did and get a large SSD and dedicate it to the Emby transcoding temp file or not use Live TV at all.

@mbarylski - That might also help in your case, but only once the transcoding buffer limit has been reached.

Look at ThrottleHysteresis in encoding.xml... The default is 8 seconds. I wouldn't go below 2 seconds. No, and I wouldn't recommend to do that. It doesn't have the effect that you would expect.

I think this should be improved with the next release, thanks.

Local theaters in my area are starting to offer use of the mini theaters to families and friends of 12 or less. $100 or so with pick of movie to show from a pretty good selection. One theater is even trying to get an exemption to allow groups to bring in their own alcohol (no liquor licenses). Sounds like they are pretty hard up and just trying to keep the lights on. I don't watch a lot of movies these days in the theater but now that I can't, I want to. I'm really looking forward to seeing Top Gun Maverick on an IMAX screen. I'd pay the $100 and go myself to see that. LOL

If you are interested I am an Italian Youtuber, SD Review Bit.ly/SDReview321 Currently in Italy I am the one who has made more videos on Kodi of a certain level and I am also the first in Italy who brought OMV to the Raspberry where I installed my first media Server via docker /portainer which of course is Emby. If you are interested this is the video. Thanks again to everyone for the great support.

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 !

Since the item would fail on that provider do to no pin, Emby would proceed to next enable provider. Now if the question is will Emby reorder your already configured provider order when this change comes about, that is totally different.

I hope one day Emby can play music from downloads if a download exists for that song (especially when I only downloaded the songs from within the playlist and don't have all the songs from that album downloaded). So if i am in the playlist view and the download button is ticked (highlighted blue) because i have downloaded that playlist, I would like it to play from the downloaded file. That way when I drive through a dead-zone my music is not interrupted.

No, there's nothing you need to do.

thanks, I had this for the jail and it's doing the job : exec_poststop:/usr/sbin/service devfs restart exec_prestart:/usr/sbin/service devfs restart it's dirty but it works

I think we are waiting for the next Beta of Emby that will have the chromaprint mux built into the ffmpeg that ships with Emby. This way we can do away with fpcalc.

Good things are happening

It's something that we're interested in, just haven't been able to get to it yet.

Hi, well, our player is technically capable of it, but we just haven't carved out space in the user interface for it yet. It's something we can look at in future updates. thanks.

This will be in Emby Server 4.5. You'll be able to use the controls in the video player to set the playback speed.

No, but if you'd like to try something new, you may get a slight performance bump from this:

It's been some time I started tagging music artists. Got excellent results from tagging musicians to their instruments. Not only can I get to, let's say, all flugelhorn players on library but also, when viewing one flugelhorn player, Emby will provide flugelhorn players on the section "More from this..." This is a great feature and thanks to Emby team for providing it. I recently started tagging some music albums. I have just a few album tags on special themes or series (e.g. "Columbia Jazz Masterpieces" or "Rudy Van Gelder remasters") Today I accidentally found out Emby will return album tags as search results (web app). Did some tests, also in web app, and it seem not to return artist tags as search results. Questions are: 1) Should Emby return artist tags as search results or is this a known restriction? 2) Would it be possible to have a "cover image" or even a "background image" to a tag to be shown nicely on search results? 3) Would there be a "all tags" section?

I vote for this too. I would love to watch my movies and tv at 1.5X or even 2X

By default Emby connects all libraries for suggestions and trailers. It would be nice to have an option at the library or server level to simply turn off cross library suggestions and trailers. I've got separate libraries setup for adult content and kids content, but the suggestions and trailers don't care. When i'm viewing the kids libraries, I see R rated suggestions and trailers. Understand that this can be controlled via user accounts, but on a shared account (for simplicity since it doesn't require constant logging out and back in on the main tv), it would be better to have control at the library and/or server level. Being able to set parental controls at the library level would be good too.

I think in TV layouts this would be a good idea. I like how apple tv does it:

This needs sorting out. There are multiple threads with this same issue now that this has gone stable, and will probably be a few more until either a message is added to that page or something happens in the background to adjust the postcode string so it works first time with Gracenote.