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Just expanding a little on what @Cheesegeezer has said above. Fingerprint/Chromaprint is the task of reading (disk I/O) the Audio from the media file, copying it to local disk cache ((disk I/O), transforming it into a 'fingerprint' (cpu) and then copying that into the emby titlesequence database (disk I/O). As you can see from the above, the majority of this stage is disk I/O - it is not cpu bound at all. We have found that unless you have a monster disk I/O subsystem with multiple independent controllers, a large number of parallel HDD's - increasing this number beyond 4-6 simply 'queues' up the disk I/O tasks - thus you gain very little and in some cases actually make the performance worse as the disks are being thrashed/seeks with massive random I/O (slow). Once you get to detect however, all the processing is done from the dB (with as much in memory as we need) for the finger print analysis (cpu intensive) and also ffmpeg is used in Black Frame Detection mode for the end sequence detection (disk I/O again to get the file fragment) but this is extremely cpu intensive. We have tried to tame it - but this is actually an ffmpeg limitation. RAM usage is very low, as we now only read the data and keep it in memory as needed. On the detect task - I'd suggest you keep an eye on the cpu temps - as it will hit 100% across all cores if your disk I/O can keep up ..

What about the idea to post an ipk on the forum so people could sideload it. Just like you do it with the Android TV beta's? Messing around with LG seems to be somewhat unpleasant and leads to dissatisfaction on all sides.

which? server or plugin. For the plugin, We moved the testing to a bigger closed group. And working on the fixes there before releasing anything. We are soo soo close!!!

@Luke I want the functionality this request is pushing for but I don't think the requested feature would work. I'm unlikely go go through my tracks and mark each one with a 'like it/don't like it' tag. That said, if you added a control during playback that make it easy to flag songs I dislike and then filtered them out for the future, that would be awesome. So when playing a playlist, using instant mix, or shuffling a genre or artist and a track that I don't like plays, I could click the 'this sucks' icon. The track would then be skipped and marked to be ignored in this kind of playback in the future. If it's a playlist the track could automatically be removed from the playlist too. Over time those tags would shrink the list of content emby would select from when playing in various mix modes to just things I might want to hear. I'd love that.

The reason is pretty easy to explain: ffmpeg doesn't have a focus on detection (like MediaInfo). It only detects what it can decode or demux. So, as long as nobody adds a decoder for these formats, there won't be any detection. And even when these formats aren't new, there don't exist any open source decoder implementations for it. There is some ongoing work, though, and I think at some point ffmpeg will get support for these things - at least partial (while partial support might be sufficient to get full detection).

FP is disk I/O not CPU intensive, so during the FP you wont see much. Wait until you get to Detection, things will certainly change!! Try and reset the season. and run FP and Detect again. What we have noticed is that the Detection can be cut short the core library scan or config backup tools run. We will add a disclaimer when released. but there is nothing we can do about it.

So i now have external access to my local stuff including emby which is great. here is a rough routing external -> ovh vps -> external nginx reverse proxy -> zerotier tunnel -> internal nginx reverse proxy -> local server. All seems to work well and have full access to the services i need if you would like more information please let me know

Could we get this listed in the transcode settings? I think it would be useful to know what profile is being used

Hola a todos, les traigo un aporte y espero sea permitido por la comunidad Emby. Se trata de cambiar el favicon.ico, pero principalmente de cambiar el título "Emby", esto debido a que hay muchos usuarios reportando o preguntando como se hace esto, y la verdad hay varias soluciones en la comunidad, pero practicamente a todas les falta siempre algún detalle. Por este motivo les traigo la solución definitiva y la que estoy utilizando actualmente. Lo más sencillo primero, Cambiar favicon.ico Lógicamente lo primero es tener nuestro nuevo ícono a mano. (extensión .ico) Bien copiamos nuestro nuevo favicon.ico, y nos vamos al directorio /system/dashboard-ui/ allí damos clic derecho Pegar nos pedirá confirmación para reescribir, damos Sí. Cambiar el título "Emby" por el nombre de nuestro servicio o servidor ejemplo "Server-multimedia" Lo primero que tienes que tener en cuenta es que necesitas editar 3 archivos y dentro de cada uno de ellos, debes buscar la palabra Emby varias veces, yo te indido... Nota: Realizar una salva de cada archivo que edites por si te equivocas, volver al original. 1er archivo a editar: /system/dashboard-ui/index.html dentro de este archivo index.html debemos buscar la línea: <meta name="application-name" content="Emby"> y reemplazarla por: (Server-Multimedia es el nombre que quieres poner) <meta name="application-name" content="Server-Multimedia"> Buscamos la línea: <meta property="og:title" content="Emby"> y la reemplazamos por: <meta property="og:title" content="Server-Multimedia"> Buscamos la línea: <meta property="og:site_name" content="Emby"> y la reemplazamos por: <meta property="og:site_name" content="Server-Multimedia"> Por último buscamos la línea: <title>Emby</title> y la reemplazamos por: <title>Server-Multimedia</title> Guardamos los cambios. 2do archivo a editar: /system/dashboard-ui/manifest.json Buscamos la línea: "name": "Emby", y la reemplazamos por: "name": "Server-Multimedia", Buscamos la línea: "short_name": "Emby", y la reemplazamos por: "short_name": "Server-Multimedia", Guardamos los cambios. 3er archivo a editar: /system/dashboard-ui/modules/appheader.js Buscamos el parámetro: document.title="Emby"}, y lo reemplazamos por: document.title="Server-Multimedia"}, Hay que tener cuidado con este archivo appheader.js debido a que no es por líneas sino que parece todo un párrafo, por eso debemos buscar bien el texto citado. Guardamos los cambios. En la mayoría de los casos debes, limpiar los datos del sitio en el navegador que usas, y reiniciar el servidor Emby. Al actualizar de versión, debemos realizar nuevamente los pasos, y es posible que cambien las ubicaciones o nombres de los archivos editados. (ya ha sucedido) Saludos y espero les resulte útil. Probado en Emby server 4.4.3.

Hi, currently I miss the sorting option for photos, as it is available for the other media types / tabs. The reason is, that I would like to see the most recent photos at the top. Because the sorting is missing, I have first to go to folders tab and then navigate myself there. The default sorting option for photos is by name. How it's done right: And here: Is there any possibility to add that option here? Thank you for your help.

Can that note be added to the Download page.

system.old does not exist on Linux - at least I don't find it - but I will get some of the releases and extract the ffmpeg files from there and see how they behave comparing to the latest version. I'll let you know about the results.

Thanks for all the work so far quickmic! Is there any chance (and is it possible) that the Intro Skip add-on/plug-in will be integrated with Emby Next-Gen? Or would that need to be an entirely separate plugin?

Hi, some info on this topic, same issue here (no manage menu, IsAdministrator = true, TrueNAS as host), I tried delete all plugins .dll with no effect but i discover in configuration folder (/var/db/emby-server/plugins/configurations) duplicit naming caused by case sensitivity. I had two Mediabrowser.Plugins.Trailers.xml (with browser and Browser) and two Statistics.xml (with stat... and Stat...) files, after deleting the older ones management menu starts working again.

Hi, yes we're looking into this. Thanks for reporting.

yes, I've made a lot of changes now, all seems good, and used the freezer trick to get some movies back. it was more hassle than anything else in the end, new problem now mind you, but I can live with it, my main screen no longer updates with added media, fingers crossed it either works on an update, or ill wait back up emby & reinstall it. thanks to suggestions here , I used the screen guard place too :). made new backups of the library as well. and used a lot of suggestions here too thanks to all that commented.

Well I "thought" I was going to say that if it works correctly through your domain it should also appear that way through emby connect... however I just did the same thing (I hadn't use app.emby.media in quite some time) and it still shows and "open lock" not secure. It works though, and my server doesn't allow not ssl encrypted traffic. It is forced by NGINX. So I am inclined to believe it is talking about the connection to app.emby.media, and I am not sure of the implications of that... In my head, I thought the app.emby.media was just forwarding things, but I must have that wrong... But it would seem that traffic between my server and emby.media would be encrypted because that is the only way to access my server, and traffic to and from whatever client is connected to app.emby.media would be in the clear. I am not even using emby connect for any of my users, but all of the sudden this topic is of interest to me... I need to figure out what is going on too. Just in case I'll let you know if I find out anything but I am pressed for time this afternoon... -G

As was I.

Just one addition, since I did experiment with G30s Air Mouse (https://www.amazon.com/IHANDYTEC-Control-Control-Buttons-Learning/dp/B085C2BL7J) which uses an USB receiver (just a propriety RF protocol @ 2.4 GHz and not Bluetooth, as far as I know). The results with Emby for Android match those obtained with BT remotes - the navigation key pressings get multiplied. Hopefully this additional piece of information helps you to identify the problem in the code.

Yes, @horstepipe rule groups are on the list for future features.

You can't, as Genres (and all same-property values) are ORed. Provision should be made for them to be ANDed. Bit of longish read here:

Good morning Niek... I am employing Swagger to try out ideas on how to use the Emby API to filter. Things are going slow because my goal in writing this tool is to learn more about Javascript, jQuery and the Emby API. You can help by listing what you would like to filter on. I am currently using a phrase in the title. My progress my slow down for a few weeks because of family obligations before Christmas. I appreciate your comments and suggestions. If you have some time, please try out the new features for adding selected media to collections. Vic

Yes, delete is working again. Thanks.

@heula Please let me know if the delete is working, thanks.

It's fantastic to see more community members on board! Thanks everyone!

sorry i completely missed the @ in that request. I've deleted my response so as not to confuse.

The server is installed on ubuntu, server version is 4.7.0.18 beta

New experimental version available 6.2.0 build 190 (ex22): delta changelog: fix delete item via context menu fix multivideo selection cancel option improve multiselection 3D-content loading time fix limitindex fix invalid timestamps

I've just run FP and SD. In the "wheel of time" i already had the first 3 episode detected correctly, episode 4 and 5 are new ones. But i see them without intro even if there is one. Here is what i see. Do you want me to try anything?

Hello @chef, I now just test through piece by piece. In this example, unfortunately, he takes the version as a part of the title: I had read in the log somewhere something with subtitles, so I just tested it with (I don't know if this is ready yet). The subtitles have not been transmitted. And here, so far, it doesn't recognize the directors cut and puts it on as a standard version. What I also noticed last week: For some, the resolution is not taken into account, because the spellings are strange, or it is not noted at all. Can't you just read that out of the metadata? Still on versions: Maybe the possibility to add your own flags can be implemented somehow. Then also the problem with special versions would be solved, which are not considered in the list yet, because the version is used by the name only with a certain film.

Considering what I am seeing in that screenshot and giving the specs you have, you can surely use more than 4 instances im parallel which should then speed up the whole process.

I've tried WMC, KODI, PLEX, and EMBY. I found EMBY very impressive. I happily paid $99.99 to help developers to continue improving this awesome EMBY software. Anyway, I really love Live TV, Schedules Direct Guide, and its built-in recording capability. I use SiliconDust HDHomerun Connect device that carry CC (Closed Captioning for Hearing-Impaired) data. Sadly, this Live TV does not have a feature to allow us to enable CC. My son informed me that he recorded one TV program and used an external VLC player and it worked fine. It's much a hassle using the external player. Otherwise, we have enjoyed movies with perfect subtitles. It is my sincere hope that Emby developers will improve Live TV to include the essential CC capability in near future. Keep up with your excellent work on the software. Thanks, David

@Gonzalogtc Unfortunately, if the app is not available via app store you will have to update via usb every 30 days. Samsung Tizen SmartTV (2015 - Present) Beta app Install from USB - Samsung Smart TV - Emby Community What tv model do you have?

Might be client and display mode prevalent, but in the web client it is the top left corner of most cards you will see the multi-select bubble.

Only thing I have seen that can view bif files is a tool posted here in the forum.

Here are details on the format from Roku, who originated it: https://developer.roku.com/docs/developer-program/media-playback/trick-mode/bif-file-creation.md They provide a tool for generating the bifs, but I don't see anything about viewing an existing one.

Well, that is just blatantly incorrect as they have complete control over the "provisioning" of the application.

I'm curious as to why are you constantly leaving additional video files in main movie folder, as this would be the third time I'm advising you to put all additional files in \extras: As that is likely the reason that folder gets interpreted as multi-movie folder since it doesn't have 'same' filename hence can't be multi-versioned: Additionally:

That actually makes a lot of sense!!! Please add this option to emby.

And this seems like a good opportunity to plug the Subsonic API one more time. The devs wouldn't even need to worry about creating a separate app—and, thus, dividing development and support time—because with the API, you could use the dozens of Subsonic apps that already exist.

Almost all the NAS unit's a remote into and help people with are connected directly to the Internet and have the easy remote network vendor crap turned on. I myself would never allow that but instead would have a VPN setup (I use wireguard) that you login into first using 2FA. It's an extra step when remote but is well worth it. What I've never seen people do that I remote in and help with is have their servers/NASes sandboxed with both inbound & outbound firewall control. That allows you to catch/deny any outgoing requests from software that you haven't authorized. It helps to not run docker or 3rd party apps on your storage machine as well but to use it more like a "server". You can then setup docker on another machine or run them on a couple Pi 4s or something for tighter control with no access to your massive storage.

Universal closed caption support is coming:

I was a big unraid user up until recently, but i did not like the way it handles dockers to be honest, i also tried TrueNas (beta) and hated that to be fair. Unraid overall as a nas type setup is pretty solid, but i remember there were many tweaks i had to do under the hood to get it where i wanted. Funny thing is i switched to proxmox to try that out with an xpenology VM (not recommended) and some minimal debian Vms for docker and loved it overall. But to be honest i love playing around with Linux now and anything i could do in Unraid i can do on a minimal install of Debian and throw docker on it and good to go. Have you checked out DietPI? That OS is minimal yet very user friendly and they have an inbuilt package manager so it can even install Emby Server on setup. They do different versions for various devices. I run it on my Pi4 and it makes setting up a device quick and painless, very light on resources and has tools in the setup now built in for quick nfs and samba mounts if your storage is not local

Thank you!

Hi, yes we will be expanding on photo sorting options in upcoming updates. Thanks for the feedback.

Hi Mickle026, thanks for providing this great tool. I installed Emby on a Sonology DS1019+ and the BIF Generation aktually takes very long (round about 30 Minutes for one movie). I guess this is because the CPU is not the fastest. So I tested the Windows GUI Tool in Version Bif Generator -alpha 4 and gereated the BIF-Files on my Synology Diskstation using my Desktop PC which has much better hardware. And indeed the tumbnail generation runs faster. So i would like to ask, if you have an updated version in the meantime? Maybe a version which supports "file queueing" istead of only single files? Thanks a lot!

+1 I have 2 emby servers. One is primarily ripped dvd movies/TV shows. The other is primarily live TV (via hdhomerun extend) in my father in law's home about 3 miles away (he has a much larger/longer range antenna than my home..... so the hdhomerun in my home doesn't get a lot of channels, particularly if there is any weather). I would love to be able to merge the 2 servers into one so I don't have to keep switching servers. Its just terribly inconvenient. I'm paying $50 a month for YouTube TV, basically so I can watch local channels easily from all the TV's in my home. I also have premier....which would save me $50 a month if it were more convenient (and "wife proof").

This! There are two approaches, better for us users who can choose which one to use. Thanks for sharing your solutions! :-)

Emby has a very low cost to use/test. I started out testing it for free using just the web app. Then I paid for the Android TV app (I had plenty of Google Rewards $). Once I was sure I wanted to switch to Emby, I bought a lifetime membership. There are a couple of things that bug me still (minor), but for me, the development rate and community here were deciding factors. Buying the lifetime membership felt more like supporting a project than simply giving the developers money.

Why don't you just add the track to the mkv with mkvmerge? It can be done is seconds.