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The trouble stems from the fact that multi versions are being used for two different things. If they are used (as designed) for different encodings/resolutions of the same film, then having a single tracker makes sense - as when you decide to continue viewing on a different device a different "version" may be optimal and so Emby should use it. But if the versions are being used for different cuts or edits, then a shared tracker is entirely wrong, as you will wish to continue in the same "version", whatever Emby thinks. Basically Emby needs a way to tell or be told which kind of versioning is in use. But then, what if you have two "technical" versions each of two different cuts of the film? You can make a collection of the two cuts - but what then if the film (whichever cut) is part of a collection itself? It's actually a complicated mess, and I quite understand why Emby hasn't yet found a solution. Paul

Hi, This has been talked about a lot on the Apple TV forums, but there is no formal request for it. So I do it here, please add support for MKV HEVC HDR playback using Apple TV (without tone mapping). I don't care what technique you use. Either adding HLS fPM4 support to the server or improving the MPV player. I anticipate that I am not satisfied with you saying that Apple TV does not support that, since most players on the market support it. Thanks

Currently version 0.1, it works but its rough. It's meant to be run by an emby server owner, as it requires a server api key. It essentially reads the room leader's location, jumps room members to 10-ish seconds ahead of the room leader, and finally unpauses roughly in sync. Tested clients: iOS, Android, Amazon Fire devices, and the web player. Also working, but only as a stream or room leader, not as a follower: Chromecast and Roku. (Supposedly these devices may work as a following player if the server is on the same local network as the player, but I have not tested this) If any client falls out of sync/halts playback, it resyncs immediately. You must log out of Emby Sync, or "leave room" to stop syncing. Sessions offline for more than 10 minutes will automatically stop syncing. To force a resync, rewind a bit on the out of sync follower. Emby clients only update the server with status info every second or so, so sync is only possible within a couple seconds in either direction. (Close enough for watching with friends online for sure!) To try it out: Easiest is to just fire up the container and point your browser at http://<containerhost>:5000 and log in using your Emby Connect username. (The Emby password is not stored, it is used against the emby API for auth only) Sorry, no local only emby accounts or emby email as logins right now. Only your clients which have been active within the last five minutes will be visible, if you don't see any clients to select, make sure the client is open, logged in, and recently interacted with. docker run --name emby-sync -e EMBY_SERVER='<emby_url>' -e SECRET_KEY='<emby_server_api_key>' -p 5000:5000 lastelement21/emby-sync:latest I've set it up in Docker Hub here: https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/lastelement21/emby-sync It's on Github here: https://github.com/cameronurnes/emby-sync Todo: Local user support, unpause when room leader unpauses instead of waiting/resyncing, test more clients, Chromecast as follower, adjust session cleanup task, try out using session info from api for unpause during sync instead of timers, consider using stored user access keys instead of API key, better GUI stuff. I am not a frontend developer, so any help on that would be appreciated.

Sometimes when searching for a movie to watch I will set numerous filter criteria (Unplayed - Action - 2014 - PG13) for example. After Ive found what Im looking for its sort of cumbersome to have to go back in and unselect all the above individually. Any chance we can get a "clear all" button of some sort to get you back to viewing your entire library unfiltered? Plex does this and its very convenient. Thanks!

She can't even log in using my credentials, so something going on where she lives i guess

I've been doing this for years but I've been using ASUS routers which can do OpenVPN or MS VPN. I currently have 4 VPN tunnels running 24/7. I then have another used for general remote access. But I'm no help on the ubiquity side of things.

Check with the owner of the server what rights you have been given. Paul

Has to be a configuration issue if a Android setup worked and changing to a Windows setup does not. But as @cayars is getting to, we will probably have to break it down step by step.

If you have Emby Premiere it would be great idea to install and setup the Backup Server Config plugin.

Then there is the other side of the router or WAN side. If you "think" you need 10Gig internally then you plan on moving lots of data around internally. If this is mainly for Emby use then you have to ask where all these clients are going to be located. If these are remote clients and you have at best a 1Gig connection to the Internet then that will always be your limiting factor and the speed of your internal network is mostly pointless. Where higher speed networking is quite useful is between different file servers or NAS boxes when you need to copy/move data around often. Keep in mind the majority of things you likely use won't support more than 1Gig like your Rokus, Android, FireCubes, XBox, PS4 and likely not your laptop/notebooks either. Low end NAS boxes from the likes of WD and Synology don't support more than 1Gig. Even a decent Synology box like the 920+ only has 2 1Gig connections. If your storage disks used for Emby are directly attached and not network shares then the speed of your network is even less important. So use matters a lot. Like @rbjtechmentioned you can overbuild and waste money on bandwidth that may never come close to getting used in all but the most extreme cases.

I've seen a lot of home labs on the internet lately, and they all seem to run 10 gig lines between two separate redundant drive arrays for backups. I think for my home setup I'll have to use my cat 6 for one gig at the moment. I do intent on upgrading a full rack of ubiquity server stuff though.

Well tracking is done by providerid not path so you have two different libraries with two copied of the movie you get 2 Continue Watching or more for every ungrouped copy you have. So it is more about grouping vs ungrouped (ie multiple different library copies).

No - my view is a realistic/economic way of thinking. Unless you have a specific need for 10Gig, then currently, putting it in for 'future expansion' is poor judgement as it's 10x the price of 1 Gig networks and a home user simply cannot use it and is highly unlikely to need it. On the SAME interface - 1gig will give you simultaneous capacity for :- 10 x 80Mbit 4k remux streams 50 x 16Mbit 1080p streams 100 x 8Mbit 1080p streams Price of a 16 Port 10Gig switch (not including all the expensive SFP's, 10Gig Nics) - £500-600 Price of a 16 port 1Gig switch (no need for expensive SFP's, NIC's will be standard or included) - £50-60 So in summary, 10Gig = 10 x the Performance (which you cannot use or do not need) and 10 x the Price This is where 2.5Gig and 5Gig come in, still expensive vs 1Gig, but nowhere near the cost of 10Gig. btw - I build DC's for a living, 1Gig, 10Gig, 40Gig or 100Gig is chosen as needed - you build for the demand - if a 1gig network meets that immediate demand with capacity, then that's what we build. Granted in the DC, most things are 10Gig as standard now - but this is in the DC, not the home.

Hey so just to let everyone know I fixed it. I just went and bout a new Chromecast. And now all the functions works play pause skip next episode rewind ect. I'm not sure why but none of that would work on my other Chromecast and it was a Chromecast with Google tv. I switched back to a 2017 3rd gen Chromecast and now not a single issue. Not sure why. Maybe emby content like the new generation Chromecasts.

This may be too obvious, but is your computer set to the correct time zone? Paul

That's a limited way of thinking. Do you only have one stream of data in your network at a time? I can and do write to multiple arrays simultaneously. So that can be around 700 - 800MB/s. And while that's happening, I'm downloading, streaming and have a few other network tasks going on. 10G = 1250MB/s, 5G = 625MB/s and 2.5G = 312.5MB/s. With NVMe drives being common, and having read/write speeds upward of 3000MB/s, anything less than 10G when building a new network is ill advised. Always build for future expansion.

No, watched status applies to the movie, not the file. If you have 5 versions of the same movie, all recognized as the same film in metadata, you'll have one watched status tracker for all of them.

7 bulks monthly, thats is the price of my vps hosting to my home, nevermind i will pay for ratting plugin, the dev must review this price, but a voucher will be welcome

Hello, I support this request and have been using emby for many years (early Media Browser days). We moved to Apple TV three years ago and it is a solid platform. Please continue to support the Apple TV and plan to add some features such as HEVC HDR playback. We use this system daily for recoding television and for playing back family photos and videos from a Windows 10 server. Thanks to the developers and to vdatanet for your knowledge and your community support.

I have released a new version of the screen saver that has an option to wait for the user dialog or not, you need to set this under the Screen Saver settings in the screen saver selection area of Kodi options.

@cayars Nobody said he wants to record something from the VirtualTV channels, instead he said he wants to pull up the osd guide with every kind of video playing to see what else is going on or to create a schedule for his real live tv channels. This is completely independent to the VirtualTV plugin.

I will release a new version of the screen saver today with an option to not wait for the user dialog.

Thanks, at least it's just not me.

There is an end in sight! My lighting isn't exactly straight, but I think it is close enough. Yeah, I can lift 4x8 sheets of dry wall over my head, and install a ceiling on my own, but my entire body hates me for it. Mental note: I can not do dry wall for a living, or I might actually die. I also updated the AP's in the house. I decided to spend of the of the money on a security gateway from unifi for the network, and one of those unifi network keys that in the Ubiquity dashboard.

Hi there, thanks for the feedback and kinds words !

Hi, yes we can certainly provide you with more control in future updates. thanks for the feedback.

Had an interesting thought come to mind and wanted to throw it out there to see if there was any traction/feasibility to my idea. Have the ability to enter a watch party room with other logged in users. One stream is running between all people in the channel. Thoughts?

It is no different than setting up any other m3u tuner... M3U Tuners

I Just got an idea that would be super helpful right about now that we’re quarantined. To be able to view a movie at the same time with someone. Maybe have Emby follow one of the users. So for example if I’m watching a movie with a friend and I pause it have it also pause it in the friends screen. And also have Emby run the same movie at the same time. It would also help with long distance relationships. Hope I made sense

Wouldn't it be nifty to be able to use your Emby server as a "viewing party"? As in, you and some friends pick a movie to watch, and then once all the users are connected and logged in, you push the movie to their sessions and things are synchronized. Play/pause commands are sent to everyone involved, as well as skip/rewind (or maybe the ability to designate an optional "host" user who controls that so things can't get out of hand lol). Things like volume remain user-specific (e.g. if someone knocks at the door, you can turn your volume off and talk to them without your movie being heard in the background, or your friends toying with the volume controls lol). I recognize that each person's Internet connection quality would be a HUGE factor, as would intermittent issues therein, but that's obviously a requirement of viewing the stuff in general. You'd just be "capped" at the performance of your group's worst connection really, and if it gets that bad, they just leave. I dont think thats something that would require accounting to make viable - that would be their internet connection's problem... But I just can't help but picture it. Even if your husband or wife is traveling for work, or if you have friends online in all different areas of the country or world, or if you're in a long distance relationship, or you just wanted to show someone a funny scene... The possibilities are there. Maybe some chat, voice or even webcam capability would be cool to integrate too (though that's just as easily done with Skype or Facetime, etc, so the benefits-per-complexity is low). I would be willing to donate heavily to a plugin like this.... But what do you guys think? It has some viable uses, if you have sufficient bandwidth with each user? I think it'd take a big disclaimer "you'll ALL need some great broadband internet to make it work" tho. But for those of us who invest heavily in our home theaters (and -- perhaps -- not so much into travel or our social lives), this might be a fun thing. I like the sound of something like an Emby Party.

Has anyone been able to unlock their account the same day after it’s been locked?