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Are we talking about syncing playback between users (devices) on one server, or is it more about attempting to sync playback across multiple servers. I can think of a way to sync playback across multiple devices connected to one server. But, I'm not entirely sure about syncing playback across different servers, that might need a 3rd party app, and hosting... Maybe? Inside one server, where users are on different devices, the playback sync might be easy enough... Not perfectly sync'd, but probabaly within the second... Perhaps millisecond depending on the connection speed, and location. I thought there was an app being developed which did this sort of thing, but I'm not sure what came of it. Sounds like it could be set up as follows, for a one server setup: 1. Users login (create a session) 2. One user is set to the controlling user 3. The controlling session user is responsible for beginning playback. 4. Probabaly some kind of config page off the server dashboard to setup a group to control everything... I guess... to start. 5. When the controlling session starts playback, we grab the event, and send the same command to the other device sessions in the group. 6. Maybe some kind of playstate pause command to sync everything up close (close enough) to each other. Like I say, that could be the easy part. Maybe... Across multiple server, this would need an authentication to setup, and login, sending server IDs around to attempt controlling. Might be too much for me to write. But the one server setup could be done.

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!

It would be nice to see all the file sizes for each downloaded file. I sometimes run out of space on my tablet, due to the amount of downloaded content I have on it. It would be good to know the file size for each item, so I know what I can delete to get those most space back.

Guys, The ebook side of Emby/MediaBrowser has been long stalled or rather stagnated. I would like to offer up a couple of suggestions. Many people use calibre as an ebook/comic book tool for scraping data and general management of their collection already. This program is absolutely astonishing in its ability to pull metadata from post calibre scans, as well as draw in metadata from the file source and/or directory structure. http://vaemendis.net/ubooquity/ Its a self contained .jar server/reader combination. And honestly I am very impressed by it's small footprint and wide range of abilities. The other option is COPS , which was written specifically with calibre in mind. It is open source, so making it work with emby I would think would be fairly easy. https://blog.slucas.fr/projects/calibre-opds-php-server/ Ever since the original release of MediaBrowser's bookshelf I have always wanted something that would allow me to 'read' my collection, rather than being basically nothing more than a place-set for images of books I own. I am sure that those who mainly have audiobooks are thrilled with bookshelf , but it's nothing more than an extension of the music library IMHO, not new features. We can have both right? Here I give you two suggestions free of charge.. Just because I love you, and Emby Personally I plan on running the Ubooquity Server along side of Emby from now on, just because of it's massive functionality and tiny footprint. But I sure hope that someone decides -- "yeah, ebook support should be in here too" and do something about it - rather than allow this now very very ancient issue to continue to remain an issue. And so I don't have to have 20 different ports open, some with SSL support - some not, because Emby isn't delivering the 'complete package'. (Please take some of this with humor, I know you have your hands full with improvements/bugs/suggestions/requests)

Here are 4 pre-rolls I created using Motion Array templates. (I have a subscription.) Emby-Dark-Tear.mp4 Emby-Explosion.mp4 Emby-Fire-Explosion.mp4 Emby-Space-Trails.mp4

Hi. Can you please add an option in the settings to hide the "Media Info" section? When using emby on my phone, it pretty much takes more then half of the page. On top of that, not having it be showing, it would clean up the page. At least gives us that option to hide it. Thanks.

I've noticed that the new 'Intro Skip' feature shows a great preview of episodes from its plugin page, by showing the episode image with the show's logo superimposed over the top, see below for an example: Regular Emby GUI Intro Skip Plugin Page I was wondering if this would be possible to achieve, if not now then in a future update, within Emby's primary user interface? Even just the option between the default 'thumbnail' art and this would be a fantastic choice for users to pick between. I know that I'd pick this intro-skip variant all day long.

Ah - is that from the "continue playing" row on a Roku? I think that may be missing the subtitle drop down in the Roku client (I know there's something funny, but I haven't got around to checking it to report). Alternatively, it just occurs to me, are your subtitles embedded, or are they separate files? And if separate files, are they in a "subtitles" sub-folder? - because having them in a subfolder is not currently supported by Emby (there's been recent pressure for this to be supported). Paul

tomorrow, i can try to remove and re install it, I will update you after done

Okay, a single server solution should be easy enough. Once the controlling session initiates playback, and the devices are sync'd, we'll connect all playback events from each device to the group. If someone pauses their device, do we pause them all? If someone stops playback (that isn't the controlling session), we'll just remove them from the group. Shouldn't be too complicated really... @Cheesegeezer @rbjtech, @BillOatman you think we should write this thing? Probabaly wouldn't take more then a couple days of writing and testing. Let me know

@Luke Is any additional information available on this issue? Perhaps I'm naive, but shouldn't you be able to identify what change(s) broke this capability by reviewing the code commits from the past couple of weeks? I'm an IT Architect and work with DevOps teams - that's definitely one route we would take to determine root cause. Also, if we rolled out a release to paying customers that broke a feature more important than the ones we fixed, we would roll back the available version to the last-known good. I appreciate that this may not be a full-time job for everyone on the Emby team, and I know supporting a publicly available ecosystem is difficult, but two weeks of not being able to use a core feature of an app we've paid for and only "we're looking into it" as a response feels a bit underwhelming. Thanks!

For single server @chef - this is almost a spinoff from the session work that Introskip autoskip does. get sessions, control sessions - that's pretty much it. I did a proof of concept a while back - controlling multiple sessions is no different to controlling a single session - you just do it multiple times lol. the 'difficult' bit is providing the control on everyone's session - as you need to watch them all and then feedback - because if one person pauses, then you need to send that to all users etc - and then resync once everyone is going again (easy enough to rewind 5 secs for all users.. something like that). I'm sure I've seen something along these lines in the Plugin or API posts ...

I believe Plex and JF are single server solutions. You are watching with friends and family, being on the same server should not be an issue. For multiple servers, I would envision needing the movie on all servers, and the clients connecting to their respective servers. Then the servers being in communication with each other to keep all of their respective clients in sync. But that's a buttload of work for probably not much of a use-case IMO

Moved. But, personally, I think the actual thumbs look a whole lot better...

Many thanks @Luke ... this works

yep

yeah, its open source, use it as you like. I am assuming the Emby addon is still open?

I have a custom dialog that pops up in EmbyCon for SkipIntro, you could use that, it is very simple. https://github.com/faush01/plugin.video.embycon/blob/develop/resources/skins/default/720p/SkipIntroDialog.xml and the code https://github.com/faush01/plugin.video.embycon/blob/d1f144d481ac930e91479a024493aebddec429b9/resources/lib/skip_intro_dialog.py#L15 it just uses a thread that is created when an episode starts playback and there are skip intro start end chapters, it monitors the playback and pops up the dialog when needed.

Looks like FF 103 Has Resolved the Problem! Mine Dots have Returned, Not like it makes a big difference but, they are back and working as they once were.

Finally! No more unwanted keypress multiplication here. One little exception: keyboard "Escape" always reacts with exactly two actions. It doesn't happen with the "Backspace" button, but now also with a keyboard where i never encountered any problem before.

I want to bump this and say that a music visualizer — ideally including the now-playing title and artist — would be vastly better than dropping into a screensaver. This would be especially great for those of us who use the TV system (Apple TV/Surround System) for primary music playback. It's a trivial luxury, of course, but it would still be pretty great.

HI, yes we'll take a look at it. Thanks.

I have pretty much moved to pre processing all of my files that have DTS 7.1 tracks to add a new audio track to all of them that is AC3 and 5.1. This allows Emby to play all of the files perfectly. It however takes a very long time to archive this with a large library. @Luke, I imagine we are not the only people who have run into this problem. I would like to put the effort into helping the Emby Developers fix this bug but I have no idea next steps? Is there a way we can open a bug ticket and work with developer to fund root cause and to help them troubleshoot/test fixes?

Try /Sync/JobItems/{Id}/File

Can we get this in the header for filters. Or another way to reset filters as a lot of these check/uncheck filter options can be tedious.

Or alternatively, make the section expandable/collapsible, defaulting to collapsed.