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As another recent convert from Jellyfin to Emby, i am sorry to say i spent too much time trying to get Jellyfin to work. Emby is just so much more polished and a much better experience. I tried out plex, which was ok but i didn't like it's interface and how it worked, to Jellyfin which was more of what i wanted. I didn't realise at the time that what i actually wanted was Emby. Great work guys. Excellent software. I would recommend anyone on the fence to give emby a chance. I'm glad i did. It's all i wanted a media system to be and gladly purchased.

But then I don't look cool, giving a solution. LOL Kidding aside, yes, good point. I can put together some scripts that can do things like this for the tools/utils section that can find movie dupes, change trailers to higher resolution, vacuum, etc in a new thread. I've also got a cool way to run things from a batch file (for windows users) that runs scripts and dumps results to text files so they run quickly and allow you to later view the info.

When setting up a new user I think it would be great if I could copy an existing user. Even better if you could copy certain aspects of a user like views , library access , parental settings

Could you folks please consider catching up the feature set of emby theater to the latest web client? Specifically the media config context menu during playback, and subtitle timing adjustment? I find it incredibly useful to be able to tune the details on the fly. Thanks :D

You've tried the rest, then found the best. Welcome to the Green side. PS Maybe best 1st post ever.

Here's the way it looks on my system. I've combined discs so I have one file vs two. I've also rip some of the extra stuff on disc and make videos of them as well but they go in the extras folder. You can merge multiple files via ffmpeg or if you want a gui that's decent use avidemux (open 1st file, append 2nd file, save).

I remoted in and helped him setup a few scripts like finding dupes as well as a couple of scripts to do exactly what's requested all ran from a couple of batch files to make things easy.

If you save the TMDb/TVDB/IMDB id in your folder names, Emby will use them for identification. I started using IMDB for movies, and TVDB for TV and can't remember having a single misidentification since. Example Movie (2020) [imdbid=tt000000000] Example Show [tvdbid=0000000] This also completely solves the issue of multiple movies with the same title/year.

Hi, Thank you for the great product. It is a pleasure to use it. I have seen some posts but they are years ago regarding my request. Is there a plan to have notification (when adding movies, shows, live tv etc.) from the emby app ? This means to get a push message on my android phone, iphone, windows app, etc. With 3rd party software its not so cool. Thank you.

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!

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)

You'll find it's just not the software itself but the community as well that make Emby such a great system to use. We've got some great mods who are also very, very active in the forums and devs who probably spend to much time in the forums helping users and tracking down issues. Of course what mostly makes our forums really great is our user base which is some of the most helpful bunch you'll find on a forum anywhere which is a reflection of the software itself. Anyway, welcome aboard!

@cayars Thanks for the suggestions. I will try to rework the networking to see if that's the issue. I can either switch to another 5 ghz channel or switch to 2.4 ghz (thanks, @pwhodges). I will see if I have a long ethernet cord that I can connect temporarily too. I'll test these out and report back. I also turned off debugging mode for the logs. @nmkaufman The server does not have a wifi adapter, so that's not an option.

Haha no, that's not it. I've actually managed to get it working now, but what I've done is made a little system for my son to play some of his kids shows by placing one of his toys (that corresponds with a particular show) on top of the tv stand (with an NFC reader hidden underneath). When he places the toy there my Echo Show says "Playing (Show Name) on Emby theater" and then turns on the TV and starts the selected show/movie

If these files all came from the same DVD, handbrake's auto-cropping feature is likely to blame. It's turned on, by default, on all of the built-in profiles. Save a custom profile with the cropping turned off, and use this when you know you're going to be combining the files afterwards.

Yes, that's true of the server on any platform.

Things like this would good to have in a how to kb or in tools and utilities section.

New Version available 5.1.14: You can load from here, or wait till repo is synced. http://embydata.com/downloads/addons/xbmb3c/multi-repo/beta-leia/plugin.video.emby-next-gen/plugin.video.emby-next-gen-5.1.14.zip Fixes: Incremental Sync rewritten: Remove unnecessary updates, should improve performance and correct issues Progress update to Emby server corrected. Transcoding etc is now reported correctly New: Transcoding audio options added Known issues: Multiserver not working Dynamic lists slow/artwork Special episodes play index -> Kodi seems to have a bug. Index is one increment off (too low) General info: -

OK i didn't actually look at the specs of the unit to see what it actually supports. What i meant to say was, if the NAS supports hardware acceleration, then yes Emby Server can utilize it.

Done, but what a pain, is there a way to do this without having 2 seperate projects or removing and re-adding the nuget packages?

Merge them in the web interface or move them to the same folder.

Hi, you can use the image editor in the web interface to delete them.

You might be thinking of the orange server.

Yes, you would want RTM enabled for the recording library. If you move the file out of the recording library RTM should kick off a library scan while you're processing the file to remove commercials, convert and stuff. Then auto organizer would deposit it in your normal (not recording) library.

This is READ ONLY and would not change anything so no chance of messing this up. I could set this up for you remotely in about 3 minutes and show you how to run it if you like. Send me a PM if you want to do this. Otherwise I could set this up to run for you from a batch file (point and click) with a few files in a zip file.

The thing I like about it is being able to super easily binge a season, or a playoff series, or whatever. It autoplays the next game, and if I take a break I can pick it up in Continue Watching.

If you look in the emby tools sub forum i created a how to with Post Processing using Powershell - its simple and would need enhancing to do what you need but it was done to give people a starting point

Release 20210210/20210210a: HDHR5-4K: Rollup of ATSC 3.0 improvements and fixes. HDHR5-4K: Shift ATSC 3.0 channels to 100+ range to avoid conflict with ATSC 1.0 channels. US models: Faster OTA channel scan. CC models: Faster channel scan on cable systems with SDV (with or without tuning resolver connected). HDVR/HHDD models: Performance and memory optimization storing recordings to disk. All models: improvements to diagnostic logging. Firmware Changelog

Soon it will be in the normal beta channel release. We have been doing some private testing of it first with a hand full of users each with different hardware. The UI needs an adjustment or two but the actual conversion with tone mapping itself is working quite well with the right hardware.

By any chance is your Server connected by Ethernet but the client via WIFI? If so it depends on the WIFI setup as it could run everything through the router main IP. Kind of like some routers have a GUEST NETWORK that does this as well but could show the router inside or WAN address. But with the internal IP address it shouldn't be applying any bitrate limits. If your TV is on WIFI how far is it from the Wifi AP/Router? Using 2.4 or 5GHz?

that is my point, Android 11 has blocked access to this location which was previously accessible in the android/data folder on internal or external storage

You are joking. What they have is something that we would never publish. Their software tone mapping is so slow that they are not offering it. Their Nvidia tone mapping is slow and they have no solution for QuickSync.

I think that you are now being rather arrogant. It is not being Lazy to want to keep only one copy of a film as there are many reasons for wanting to do this. Just because it is not your idea of best practice is not a valid reason for your response.

As of now the emby player when searching for subtitles searches by the file name. This is very inconvenient. There can be a lot of noise in file names. Plex allows the user to modify the search query and so does the external player I use. I find it very strange UI/UX-wise that I cannot do this.

Plex just introduced 2fa last month. When will emby do it? 2025?

Having recently installed the JF server, the Android mobile app and the Android TV app, I have to say, they are not a patch on the current official Emby versions. They are functional, but Emby has so much more finesse and class.

They have to be open source since that's the license they inherited with the source code. They have no choice over the matter. It of course will work ok at the server level as it's built on an older version of Emby. But Emby has improved many things from that version such is the transcoding engine, now customized version of Exo player, etc. Jellyfin has some nice things for sure but it's no V5 Emby. Around the corner is a new Live TV that will be game changing for many Live TV users. Of course those are server features. Emby has really nice apps and clients which are in a completely different level of functionality to those from Jellyfin which falls way short in this regard. Anyone using Live TV in the US, CA or UK is most likely paying for Guide Data which is included with Emby. The lifetime license of Emby for those users actually pays for itself. Some people also feel like purchasing an Emby Premiere License is a worthwhile investment and they feel it's worth compensating developers for the work they do. Emby in turn is adding people to the project to help it's customers as well. Heck we even do remote help with people. As far as the last line I quoted. My question to you is, why are you hear then? Go do your work on Jellyfin and enjoy the Emby Fruits you got for free. Maybe a thank you?

+1 would love to see this

I totally agree with what fizzyade has said. I have been looking for something that will play my own music in a clean and simple manner outside of Emby as a native music player for an Emby music library isn't currently available. I have tried a few free services like Airsonic but having another server to manage wasn't great and kept crashing. I love Google Play Music as it works and does everything i want it too but it is closing its doors by the end of the year and YouTube music wants a premium for the same features that GPM offers for free now. I think there would be a big interest in a standalone Emby Music app. Emby has gathered a lot of attention and user respect over the years and to continue getting more Plex users to convert i feel it has to offer what people want if competition is offering it. Even Jellyfin has a Music App, even if it is in its infancy. Hopefully, developers can add this to the top of their 'to do list'.

There is an app for Jellyfin on Android called Gelli that seems to work with Emby. I briefly tried it but really doesn't add any functionality and don't know how long it will be compatible with Emby. If your interested you can download the apk from https://github.com/dkanada/gelli I like to use Yatse. It is not a separate music player but it has the shortcuts to music mentioned above and they are configurable (at least on Android). It also does smart playlists which I like but it is not free.

Luke, anything in the pipeline to have an app like 'PlexAmp' with the Emby Premiere Subscription?? Emby Music possibly?

Not yet, sorry.