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Let me put it like this: Unless you hit the jackpot by accident like veehexx, you might need a long time to find a problem that I can't fix quickly and easily - ho ho ho.. It's not a really difficult task to find the place where it's happening (or rather not happening). But it's tedious and boring...

Wait...let me think. Maybe I just give you the 300 and we close the case

The issue appeared also with directplay/hw transcoding. Installed 1.0.93 and I can confirm that it’s solved for all situations. Thanks @SamES

It might (or might not) be related to below:

You cannot force Emby to direct play. You have to ensure that it has no reasons not to do so. Reasons Emby might not be able to direct play: -- The client cannot handle an encoding in the file; this may be video, audio or subtitle format. Note that the handling of one incompatibility may introduce another - for instance, transcoding audio might then require re-muxing, and that may then require video transcoding (because Emby's default streaming format when remuxing doesn't handle HEVC, for instance); or subtitles which need burning in require video transcoding as part of the burning-in process. -- The bit rate of the file may be too great. The possible bit rate is determined by: hardware and network limitations; rate limitations set within Emby Server for internal connections, external connections, or individual users - they may also be set in individual clients. Transcoding is used to reduce the bit rate as specified. When playing, use the cog menu to bring up "Stats for nerds" which will tell you the reason for transcoding - you can then correct the setting, or ask for advice on how to prevent it. Some information is also on the server dashboard (try clicking the (i) symbol related to the client connection for greater detail) Note that the term "direct streaming" implies that the container has been changed - this is often because the audio is being transcoded (which is trivial), but not the video. Note that the client speed setting of "Auto" has a reputation for misjudging things, so it's worth trying explicit settings which you are confident your system can handle. Paul

PS: Anybody who can answer that question with 'YES', feel free to contact me via PM if you like. For all others, I still got some great news: we will soon have some significant performance improvements for large SqLite databases!

Unless I'm being a bit blind (highly possible!), I'd love a way to hide a couple of the top green navigation items without hacking it in myself. For example, in Movies I don't want the 'Trailers' item to appear for any profile and for TV I don't need the 'Upcoming' nav link. Obviously not a major issue but thought it would be a nice thing to have, perhaps allowing them to be re-ordered like the home page items but again just a nice extra,

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

Right now there is no scraping for Audiobook content. If a user adds a book to their library, the have to fill out metadata by hand. With that said, it is possible to scrape Audible.com for most types of metadata that are relevant to Audiobooks. This is already implemented by the community for Plex: https://github.com/macr0dev/Audiobooks.bundle Since Emby will officially support Audiobooks, it would be nice to see that implemented here as well.

Hey softworkz, I got another problem but for um, a, say $300 I can forget about it. LOL Seriously however, I hope this isn't a needle in a haystack type thing but something you'll get lucky with.

Many thanks for the quick reply

Why don't the trailers in my movie folders show up in the trailer tab in Movies? I don't have trailers plugin installed because they show up in recommendations but the trailers on my server should show up in the trailer tab regardless.

I'm going to have the tab just not show for audio book libraries.

The problem will be all the other guys that would come tomorrow reporting the same problem...hehe. I'll need to debug this in ffmpeg, the next time I'll be working there. Feel free to remind me in case... Thanks!

Assuming they are all attached to the same online store and account, one purchase unlocks all devices via store/account. As for Server Premiere no you do not need to unlock clients as the server license covers 25 active devices.

paypal ready to go no problem on the wait; software encoding is performing acceptably on =<1080p content which is 99% of my media. struggles a bit on seeking, but cant grumble for a cheap entry CPU.

Aha - look at that:

HI, yes this is something we plan to add in future updates. thanks for the feedback.

Well they push cached info so until they update their cache you do not get current information ever. No provider is 100% live that I know of. TMDB has a delay also.

I guess a combination of my import process (which delays the import until after hours), the 'arrs' delay if no metadata option is available is stopping the issue for me. I have little hair anyway - so I guess I got off lightly .. I'm hoping the v3 API can simply add the missing data as opposed to a complete refresh, here's hoping. Glad you got it sorted.

The only scenarios I can think of for enabling it are: A) You want to see if you're missing an episode and significantly longer library scans don't scare you (That's me right there) B ) You're dealing with a static TV library (you have no plan to add anything to it ever again) C) You enable it, do whatever you want / need, then QUICKLY disable it back

Installed it 30 minutes ago. Will report back tomorrow thanks for the help thus far!

To be clear, no one on this thread wants, or is trying to run an enterprise version of Emby, especially if it costs anything more than premiere. That is not of interest to us and it's never been our goal to convince you all to work on something for corporations to buy (which i can't imagine there is a market for). This is incorrect. This is a pre-container orchestration mentality of what it takes for a DB to be HA. In K8s, Mariadb, Postgres, or cockroachdb offer free self healing, fault tolerant, highly available deployments that (with only three nodes) provide all the SQL you'd need and scale horizontally. This is the new norm. It seems some people here are confusing an HA version of emby with architecting an application to be container friendly/optimized to be run as containers. But for now, all this boils down to is that softworkz, Luke, et al are simply not interested in building a modern container friendly application in regards to emby, and that's their choice even if we consider it a mistake. It was built to be run on an OS. Yes there is a docker container, but that doesn't mean the container is anything more than a wrapper around their application. It doesn't follow container friendly application design. Particularly SQLite is stopping Emby from being horizontally scalable. https://medium.com/faun/5-tips-for-building-container-friendly-applications-9920db4f3dc9 I've looked into Jellyfin again recently because of this conversation, and it's come a long way, I'm really hoping it succeeds. But even k8s @ home's Jellyfin helm chart simply provides a highly available SINGLE INSTANCE of Jellyfin with persistent config and media. That's great, and a step in the right direction. I suggest Emby pursue this at a minimum. The next obvious step is to separate Jellyfin (or Emby if they were interested at all) into individual responsibilities, starting with an external DB, and allow scaling of those micro-services independently (or automatically). I think my personal goal is to have 3 instances of a media server with load balanced requests. And yes that means I'll also have pods managing a highly available DB, and maybe someday something like this will be involved https://github.com/joshuaboniface/rffmpeg. But,.. Just the discussion of allowing a configuration option to use an external db has caused this much pushback and mention of it being "enterprise" with tons of costs. Now take that a step further and imagine them investing time in a proper micro-service architecture or a k8s deployment and you'll realize as I have that the chances of that are about as good as hillary winning in 2024. edit: Clarifying I feel like I wrote this poorly, but the point I'm trying to make here, is that Emby was not architected to be a horizontally scalable container based application. When we ask for the option of an external db, it's because THAT is the primary obstacle of us running Emby in that way. There may be other issues, but they may be trivial. Things such as cron jobs may run too often, etc. We've already used iSCSI or NFS for the storage separation obviously. But we may be unaware of other issues with the architecture that would prevent multiple instances from running. Also, it may constitute a separate project/effort entirely. But the only way to really know is to try, and I think that's all we have been looking to do. Thanks for all the consideration and it should go without saying that the only reason we're interested in this is because we already like emby so much.

The original feature request just asks for external database support, specifically MySQL. The high availability stuff is really another request altogether.

Highly related:

Yes, I think so too... I also believe that something like this requires a very strong character to be able to remain somewhat calm. THEREFORE: Thank you all for helping so much that it runs smoothly... Stay as you are... Love greetings Tommy (Kann hier jemand Deutsch? Liebe Grüsse schreibe ich immer, weil ich es so meine. Doch "Love Greetings" klingt voll schwul... Ist das so?)

HI. Our option is not "auto play". It is "auto queue". That is how it should be labeled. The player plays all items in the queue. The FR I linked to would cover what you want.

Thank you quickmic, will test this build on FireTV Plattform the day.

span up a new emby server on gamingpc (windows10, i5-8600, nv3090), applied premier key to enable transcoding, copy source example file to it, and retest with hw encoding; problem is not present using nvenc. also tested with the i5-8600k quicksync dx11 encoding (nvenc on decode side) and that too works as expected. Neither of these HW encode tests show the vertical 'highlighted' line as you can see on the left side of the SW & HW transcode screenshots in my original post. so... unless i've overlooked something, that confirms the issue is server side and either linux or VAAPI. Edit: turns out i5-5200u does h264 encoding, just not h265 (that is 6th gen>). Fedora with official rpm & HW transcodes fine. this is pointing to either AMD or container specific issue. guess theres no point trying to get my fedora server working anymore as AMD dont officially support it with their drivers (even though kernel comes with amdgpu modules). time to try my server with a ext usb drive and a properly support distro like ubuntu and retest...

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I’ve let the Shield sleep for about 12 hours, just woke it but the new update didn’t fix the issue. It still disconnects from/doesn’t reconnect to the server, therefore not processing any updates.

@nayr Thanks, but you missed the point of my question. Development of such pro features will have a significant cost. And you'll surely understand that it would be unfair when we would fund the development for this feature in a way that it would be paid by the 99% of Emby users that have no need for those features. So let me re-phrase the question: Who would still be interested in these pro features when it would involve license cost in a range from $1000 to $3000?

In general I would say no. I would stick to the specific decoder and only use DXVA11 variants in case of problems. What happens under the hood varies by vendor and may even vary by codec. As DXVA is what's being used by platform video applications (e.g. WMP) one could speculate that it might be handled more conservatively (=better not touch it when it's working) because it would affect a huge audience, while the audience using the vendor-specific audience is much smaller, which means less impact and so higher acceptable risk, which in turn means that it might get updated and improved more frequently. In many cases you may just get the same results, though. What I said so far was just about possible differences of the pure decoding operations. The parsing is an additional factor, and in that regard, the combination of ffmpeg parsing and DXVA decoding will be able to playback some files that otherwise wouldn't work. But that depends again on the codec. So far, I've only seen problems with MP2Video and HEVC with QuickSync decoders. Feel free to compare performance - again, that can vary, so everybody should do this on his own system and not listen what somebody might say, as you can never be sure whether it applies to your setup as well.

request: have Emby be able to read m4b chapters About half of the audiobooks I have do have chapters. I used to use $5 mp3 audiobook player pro but no need anymore on iOS since BookPlayer ($free) does everything. Only three things BookPlayer doesn't have that mp3 audiobook player pro does have are: 1) search (titles of book library). Not such a big deal since you can sort them various ways. 2) doesn't list size of m4b book 3) statistics shows last 30 days and average listening time, etc. None of those are deal breakers so I'm using the free BookPlayer even though I paid for the $5 one. Ok so from emby server if you use the iOS emby app you can download the m4b audio book and listen to it offline. Also supports streaming and resuming no problem. However, it doesn't show chapters even when fully downloaded. So a workaround is to connect via safari or any browser and navigate to the m4b audiobook on the emby server then click the ... (3 dots) and choose Download. It says view or Download. Choose download then save it to Files then open that up and open it up in BookPlayer and then I got chapters. Flacbox ($4 in-app) also can stream from wedDAV or SMB or cloud services but no m4b chapter support. So not sure if it has to read the entire file but I know it's not part of the metadata since I've stripped out all metadata and all hundreds of m4b audiobooks and the ones that have chapters still show. I strip out all metadata with MusicBrainz Picard so I can use folder based navigation and seems to work semi-decently. Anyway book player you can view the open source and see the code and see their implementation on how they read chapters for m4b https://github.com/TortugaPower/BookPlayer I'm not a coder so no idea if this is relevant or not 41A1B111226F88C500EA0400 /* Chapter+CoreDataClass.swift */, 41A1B112226F88C500EA0400 /* Chapter+CoreDataProperties.swift */, 41B2AC8D1D43CCE8005382A9 /* ChaptersViewController.swift */, 4140EA76227289B50009F794 /* Chapter+CoreDataClass.swift in Sources */, 4140EA77227289B90009F794 /* Chapter+CoreDataProperties.swift in Sources */, 41A1B139226FEDAD00EA0400 /* Chapter+AVFoundation.swift in Sources */, oops didn't see this thread. Mod: merge my post into this thread please.

In my test adding it, it shows proper new information. So if you Refresh the Entire Serie you will/should get new information. Unless you have refreshed to many times as Emby will use cached information. So a Episode refresh does not have any information in the api but the series does as I have already stated. Don't know the extent of TVMaze costs but looks like the are/will be charging also. Premium TV Show Tracker | TVmaze But the image clearly shows they appear to be querying the Series not the Episode. So you want Emby to query the entire Series every time one episode is added?

You can update your email by clicking your user name at the top of the forum and click Account settings. Editing original post.

Playback speed for audio will be in the next release. Thanks.

Hi, this will be in the next release. Thanks.

Its funny there is so much talk over this. I bought a lifetime emby subscription over a year ago now. Its well worth the money. There is nothing out there that is free that does what emby does. The closest competition is plex and even there if you want it to do what emby charges for they charge for it as well. The differance is support. The guys here at emby actually provide prompt informative support. Not only that they listen to customer suggestions and i have seen many of the suggestions posted in the suggestions / features thread actually make it into the build. They really dont ask for a lot of money in the grand scheme of things.

I've started some new threads for a few of the layout issues that could be improved. I know that some of you have expressed other fine-tune features. So be sure to setup a single new thread for each enhancement that you'd like to see added. The devs have asked that we create a new thread for each individual feature request so that they can track them individually.

Hi, this will be in Emby Server 4.6. Thanks.

I believe these should be cleared up with the next release of the server. Thanks.

What would work best for me would be to retain the language selection, but have an additional check-box for "Also select undetermined". That way I'd get the right language in places it's specified, and typically the expected ones when it is not. Paul

Keep it, it's just a recommendation. Actually Kodi 19 breaks so many plugins, it's better to start from scratch to have a defined state. Especially for people who used a lot of plugins in Kodi 18. Even if plugins are already migrated to Kodi 19, they mostly in a early dev state.

Yes angleblue was a she. I think she just moved on to new things, supporting an addon like this can be very time and energy consuming, after a while if you can not get the balance correct you can burn out. I have been working on these addons on and off for years now (originally as null_pointer but I changed names due to confusion), you need to be able to take a step back sometimes, users can and will be very demanding at times, I have a strong idea what I want EmbyCon to be so stick to that but it can be an easy trap to fall into to try to add all the things to a project users ask for. This will end in a bloated hard to support mess that will quickly cause frustration and consume you. I am not part of the Emby team, I built EmbyCon because I use it, I am just a user. I am not sure if quickmic is team emby or not, if the new next gen is an emby made and supported addon or not, this has not been made clear at this point. EDIT: actually that is not true, it looks like this is the official emby addon now as the first post states it is from team emby, so there you have it, this is the official supported team emby addon now.

+1 to that, hopefully nothing too bad happened to her ( I like to think she was a she) But QuickMic + TeamB seem to have pick up just were she left off. I'm wondering what % of all Emby users are using Emby for Kodi/Embycon My pinky tells me small share getting smaller, with the ton of alternatives* out there. That being said, once a Kodi head... * All the rage (and apparently most emby update work being worked on) is Android TV

Please carry on this discussion in the existing feature requests but much of this has been discussed there already. It boils down to something that is very interesting to us but not really all that necessary for the vast majority of our users in our current target market - especially with our ability to use graphics cards for transcoding muscle. If and when we did this it would likely be a new class of product targeted at something like an enterprise.

Hi, not from us, but the image from Linuxserver.io is debian-based. What do you mean by tooling, and what do you require? You could also very easily create a simple Dockerfile from ubuntu that just installs our Deb.

Hi there - I'm wondering if the Roku client will ever be updated with this feature? My understanding is that neither the plex or emby clients can support this (possibly due to roku?)

Sometimes I binge-watch but don’t want to watch episodes mindlessly (or lose my place if I fall asleep). Would like the popup to show so I can either press “play next episode” or have it end normally and go back to the list.