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I'm not around here just for chatting. But before a change can happen, the circumstances and risks need to be explained and understood. When it's important, though, things can go pretty fast. Luke has changed the html title and I have suppressed the transmission of headers. Hence I said: "Feel happy and corrected!"

No change sadly. Just updated to 22.06. Set plugin to "Refresh All Items" , ran the scheduled task manully and got the same JSON error mediainfo -h MediaInfo Command line, MediaInfoLib - v22.06

It's not the permissions on the binaries, unless they are being called in some special way by the plugin. I have done two things to demonstrate this. 1) I have changed the permissions on both binaries to 777, that's the most permissive a file can be on a Linux system. With those permissions anyone and anything can read, write and execute the binarys. That made no diffrence. 2) As requested above I have run mediainfo as the user emby, see below. The emby user was able to run the binary without issue. sudo -u emby mediainfo --output=JSON "/mnt/media/Movies/The Lion King (1994)/The Lion King (1994).mkv" { "creatingLibrary": { "name": "MediaInfoLib", "version": "21.09", "url": "https://mediaarea.net/MediaInfo" }, "media": { "@ref": "/mnt/media/Movies/The Lion King (1994)/The Lion King (1994).mkv", "track": [ { "@type": "General", "UniqueID": "325487425604656655180182799631349113347", "VideoCount": "1", "AudioCount": "7", "TextCount": "7", "MenuCount": "1", "FileExtension": "mkv", "Format": "Matroska", "Format_Version": "4", "FileSize": "963944906", "Duration": "5303.560", "OverallBitRate": "1454035", "FrameRate": "23.976", "FrameCount": "127158", "IsStreamable": "Yes", "Encoded_Date": "UTC 2021-03-21 19:43:14", "File_Modified_Date": "UTC 2022-08-20 06:02:43", "File_Modified_Date_Local": "2022-08-20 07:02:43", "Encoded_Application": "mkvmerge v49.0.0 ('Sick Of Losing Soulmates') 64-bit", "Encoded_Library": "libebml v1.4.0 + libmatroska v1.6.2 / Lavf58.45.100" }, { "@type": "Video",

A major annoyance with the Identify mechanism is that there is no way to refine a search. After I try to identify a movie, I might get bad result, but I want to add more info or modify the info I already input to the form. There is no way to do this. So I hit the <- (that might make you think you are 'going back' to the previous screen so you can modify the search) but that just exits the search. As it is, I have to start the Identification again, and start inputting criteria from scratch.

Yep. Ok, thanks - I was running 3.0.6. The skip buttons are working again with an install of 3.0.16

Completely agree. I moved over to Apple TVs in the house for a better experience with Channels DVR and Spectrum TV and the unified apps aspect it offers. Up to that time I had used Android devices and loved Emby. Now I've had to move to something different to get the experience I want with my media. I keep coming back to the forum to see if anything has updated but it's been over 4 months now with nothing much. Only the line we're given - coming soon... I really hate that line. No intro skip after all the hype about it in the last server release, can't even skip forward using the native player, etc. I signed up for the Beta hoping for something but only changes on the iPhone so far. I don't watch stuff on my phone so that doesn't help at all. Anyway, hoping for something, someday unless I just keep using what I am using now.

Ladies and gentlemen, the myth the legend cheesegeezer. Thanks man. Hopefully we can get this out soon!

Sorry, didn't see that one. I'll wait for it to show up in the Synology store. Thanks Luke!

It’s frickin awesome, enjoying it right now!! I think we are all educated enough to read digits that state the order even though they are not displayed in order lol

I’ll look at this tomorrow for you its 23:25 hr now

I can put this in the plugin catalog anytime. The reason that I am waiting is because there is a core feature that the devs are working on, that will help organize how the ranked items appear on the home screen. Currently, I have no real control over where the items get placed. We can rank them, and create the custom thumb and primary images, but when they get displayed they may or may not be inorder. The devs are going to add this ability for one of the upcoming releases of Emby. Then I'll put it in the catalog for everyone to use. It will be awesome!! Just as an aside, this will be a paid feature though. I think it's worth a couple bucks for the time it took me to write and refine it.

Oh wow you have _two_ apps for Windows. Yes the desktop version is MUCH better! In summary solution seemed to be a combination of further server optimization combined with client correction. OK to close will re-open if it re-occurrs. Please remove the log files.

Got it. Resetting the password did the trick.

Hi, I have done a more thorough fully research and it looks like the n3050 has h.265 he support but only for the 8bit encoding (no hdr support). It explains why the transcoding was not working. So I think I can withdraw the request about the video problem. In my own defence I can say that the Intel documentation is misleading in many ways. Regards

Here is

Here you go..... JSON

@10479 No problem, thanks for explaining from your end as well. I was going to say the same thing, I’ve just been busy. @Luke Thanks again for looking into it.

OK I see the issue. We'll get an update out to resolve it. Thanks.

Nope. I was linking to that to show that IMHO we should be adding the Live TV stuff (which is 99% server work) instead of doing minor things like hiding video player transport buttons.

Well, I'm running out of ideas then... We actually do have quite a similar setup, also Ubuntu LTS here.

Anecdotal - I don't personally use xbox, but I have a few users that do. I was informed today that someone "couldn't pause". So I installed emby on my xbox and found that I couldn't pause playback as well. I did try clicking on the seek bar. I hit every button on the seek bar, even B, which backed out. I was only able to pause a video once I changed the Hide video player transport buttons from Auto to No. From my personal user experience both clients in this case are original Xbox One's and both required this settings change. Thanks @adavis219 for pointing me and my users in the right direction.

@FrostByte Same issue for me as soon as i open the app the top filed is blank but a item is select. then i fi move to a different item then it starts to work. Pease check out the video then when i scoll all the way down the select movie or tv shows blanks out

I don't have any issue with the standard app passing through any audio format on my Shield. Everything lights up on the AVR that its coming through correctly.

I would guess so, as the plugin is not expecting any password input and therefore fail. Make sure the user "emby" can access mediainfo cli without any PW input.

Just did and I can run it without su. Old habit using su for every command when debugging. Here's a snippit. /usr/bin$ mediainfo --output=JSON "/mnt/media/Movies/The Lion King (1994)/The Lion King (1994).mkv" { "creatingLibrary": { "name": "MediaInfoLib", "version": "21.09", "url": "https://mediaarea.net/MediaInfo" }, "media": { "@ref": "/mnt/media/Movies/The Lion King (1994)/The Lion King (1994).mkv", "track": [ { "@type": "General", "UniqueID": "325487425604656655180182799631349113347", "VideoCount": "1", "AudioCount": "7", "TextCount": "7", "MenuCount": "1", "FileExtension": "mkv", "Format": "Matroska", "Format_Version": "4", "FileSize": "963944906", "Duration": "5303.560", "OverallBitRate": "1454035", "FrameRate": "23.976", "FrameCount": "127158", "IsStreamable": "Yes", "Encoded_Date": "UTC 2021-03-21 19:43:14", "File_Modified_Date": "UTC 2022-08-20 06:02:43", "File_Modified_Date_Local": "2022-08-20 07:02:43", "Encoded_Application": "mkvmerge v49.0.0 ('Sick Of Losing Soulmates') 64-bit", "Encoded_Library": "libebml v1.4.0 + libmatroska v1.6.2 / Lavf58.45.100" }, { "@type": "Video", "StreamOrder": "0", "ID": "1", "UniqueID": "400837986913532488", "Format": "AV1", "Format_Profile": "Main", "Format_Level": "4.0", "HDR_Format": "SMPTE ST 2086", "HDR_Format_Compatibility": "HDR10", "CodecID": "V_AV1",

Happy to test when it' enters beta.

Hi, yes this is on our to do list to resolve. Thanks.

Hi, this is expected. Web browsers do not support dsd.

If the cli works, then unless there's a permission problem, I'm not sure what else you would need to do. I installed using the Synology package center, so everything was simple. Permissions were set by the package installation. Then all I did was tell the plugin where they were installed.

Hi, yes we plan to improve this in future updates. Thanks.

Hi. It looks like something in your network environment is blocking access to that Github url.

Yes. Any server prior to that version will not see it.

It's more than just getting through a layer of security, it's also a matter of what they can do beyond that once they have. If access to Emby enables them to enter other parts of the system, that's far more interesting to them than merely getting access to a load of video files. (EDIT: as you noted in a later post) Paul

Skipping has become a nightmare. The OSD was bad enough, but now you have to hit select or the play button after skipping. It used to be a great way to watch football games, I could skip to the next play easily, but now it's clunky and very annoying. please, I'm begging, give us the option to suppress the onscreen display, unless you explicitly want to be in the timeline scrub bar. And bring back resume play after skipping. Wife Acceptance Factor is dropping like a rock with these changes. I'm on Windows 3.0.16

Seems to be. I have noticed some similar behavior. Because I always use next episode all the time, it never gets marked as watched, nor does it show the episode that follows. for example: in the next episodes01e03 is displayed. After I have seen E03, s01e04 should be displayed there. But it is still e03 and it is still marked as unwatched.

And then another user mentioned another exploit and the discussion went about the risk of elevation vulnerability. The wider-level door-opener would be the ability to gain restricted access which would in turn increase the risk of the elevation vulnerability. Once there would be a working chain of attack, the remaining question will be how to find suitable targets. Such chains of attack are way more dangerous (=valuable for an attacker) than every single step alone. These things are closely related and cannot be evaluated in an isolated way only. Feel happy and corrected!

Great script. Thanks for sharing, @dcrdev I am using Raspberry Pi 4 with Raspberry Pi OS that is based on Debian 11. On line 42 I had to change `sh` to `bash` to be: `sudo bash "$0" "$USERNAME" "$GROUP" "$MEDIA_DIRECTORY"` for the script to work, otherwise I was getting `declare: not found` error message. Also it seems my Debian version doesn't include `acl` package, requiring `sudo apt update && sudo apt install acl` for installation. Hope this is helpful.

That's right, but that brings us back to my original point: Emby is not big enough for those people to perform extra effort for detection. This is mass data processing, and when the first http request doesn't bring evidence, it's unlikely these people would do a second one (I mean - not for Emby), because such operational behaviors are multipliers to their processing load. What their "clients" want and pay for are things like vulnerable word press instances for which a whole bunch of exploits exists or similar. Emby is not big enough to be an attractive scanning target. Yet, when instances are so easy to discover like with Shodan, then that's something that we can avoid to happen. We won't be able to provide high security, probably not even in the long run, as that will always depend on each individual user. But what we should and can do at least, is to avoid such cheap and obvious ways of discovery. For any attacker, it's always about the relation between the required effort and the expected success rate, hence I think we should do everything we can to keep that relation as unattractive as possible.

To highlight on this again, it would be so nice to have a section that shows new tv show/episodes this week. It helps find new tv shows and seasons when discovering new content to record. Channels DVR is a good example of this.

For the most part, yes. There are some older lower end models with Intel x86 processors. The DS415play I believe was one of the last ones specs of the J3355: Intel Celeron Processor J3355 2M Cache up to 2.50 GHz Product Specifications

I'm definitely not a Unix guy, that's why I use DSM try something like this from the command line mediainfo --output=JSON "/mnt/media/Movies/The Lion King (1994)/The Lion King (1994).mkv"

Nevermind, I feel really stupid - the problem came down to incorrect Unix permissions on the filesystem holding the movies.

OMG! I can't believe the number of hours I lost due to this stupid rookie mistake! Thank you very much for pointing that out...I feel so dumb. What is even worse, is that obviously this library has not been working for a long time...I never noticed it before is all. But this time I moved so many media items to it, that I noticed the difference. Wow...that's about 5 hours of my life I can't get back! Oh well...at least I got the new Beta installed! Thanks again...much appreciated.

Yes it does. Absolutely loving it. It looks so good mate

Yup that works. Good to close will re-open if still an issue.

Hi. A lot has changed since then if you want to try again.

That is how it should be already. There must be a mis-match in the Android TV app right now but, if you use the standard Android app, then this should not be an issue.

Yet another good argument against using/allowing remote access.

Ok, then I am humbly asking to maybe include the described functionality, similar to the guy four years ago in the linked post. Would be a really meaningful and practical addition I think. Thanks for your time and the explanations on the topic, I just didn't get, why the pictures being generated by the chapter scanner anyways can't be used for this. Have a nice time.