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Hi, The current implementation of Emby search is very basic. Based on what I can tell, it only matches exact strings in the same exact order. Example: "Mission: Impossible" In this example the following queries will return a positive match Possible Impossible Mission Mission: Impossible And the following queries will not return anything at all (The worst offenders are highlighted) Mission Impossible Missoin: Imposible Imposible Impossible Mission Mission : Impossible Mission Impossible Another example would be "Mr. Robot" where if the dot is missing, nothing is returned or in general terms any variation of any string that is not an exact match will not return anything at all. Let's not even attempt to try a title like "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.". This makes the search difficult to use and at times even frustrating. As the examples above show, the major theme is special characters and punctuation and they can probably be bypassed by just ignoring them, which might or might not cause other problems in the process. This problem also affects titles that have letters with diacritical marks or glyphs such as "Amélie" and "Æon Flux", if you can't type them exactly, you can't find them. In my opinion a better attempt would be to use a difference string matching algorithm such as Levenshtein distance, you can then define an acceptable threshold and return the closest matches. I found a couple of C# projects that implement this and might be useful as a starting point. FuzzyWuzzy, a port of Python project in C#. https://github.com/BoomTownRoi/BoomTown.FuzzySharp FuzzyString. Has some additional string comparison algorithms too. https://github.com/kdjones/fuzzystring Thanks.

Sorry to be blunt but it's getting really annoying. I've mentioned this before a couple times starting about a year ago. I have a playlist with about 20 shows inside. Says 3700 episodes up top. Been using the playlist for weeks now and not only does it play the same episodes over and over again but it only plays from 5-6 shows. To add to that sometimes it will just play from 3-4 shows unless I start and stop and then it will adda couple other series. Some series not even one episode has been played. Friends - plays random episodes How I met Your Mother - plays random episodes Three's Company - never played Rules of Engagement - never played Just Shoot Me - never played Dharma & Greg - never played Married With Children - never played According To Jim - plays random episodes Hot In Cleveland - never played Melissa & Joey - plays random episodes My Name Is Earl - never played Two & A Half Men - plays random episodes (seldomly) Everybody Loves Raymond - plays random episodes Scrubs - plays random episodes (seldomly) Home Improvement - never played Night Court - never played Seinfeld - never played The Big Bang Theory - plays random episodes Anger Management - plays random episodes (seldomly) WKRP In Cincinatti - never played Attached a log in case it helps. embyserver.txt

-Bunny mp4 any resolution and size works fine with resume/skip. -Bunny mkv/flv/3gp up to and including 360p at any size works fine with resume/skip. -Bunny mkv/flv 480p and 720p at 5mb works fine with resume/skip and from 10mb and upwards sound plays but video freezes and when the file is done the video frames catch up in extreme speed... -Coastal mkv works fine up to and including 1080p and starts failing from 1440p with sound playing but video freezes. -All other smaller nature videos work fine. Hardware: 4k chromecast with google tv (android 12 latest update) hooked up on 1080p tv with cinema set (supports only older ac3/dd/dts surround sound formats), so files above 1080p or containing modern audio format means emby (latest with no software bitrate caps during testing) will transcode. Seems weird, but al least the above you could maybe try on your 4k unit (be sure to have it updated like mine) and replicate.

+1 from me for an eBook / comic reader. EMBY is the best app that I have encountered, if that is implemented then it will be pure perfection!

this statement is not true on a global level, may be true for your live tv, but is not true for all regions / sources. android tv plays this back fine without transcoding for me.

it is very poor but it has been brought up many many times before and we are told that this is the best they can do. i seem to remember luke posting that they had made some improvements to the randomness of the shuffle within the last year but i don't notice any change. i regularly shuffle from one series which has 14 seasons and between 6 and 8 episodes in each. i almost always get one of the same 10 episodes first up every time i do this and never had a single episode from a number of seasons at any point. so very similar to your experience but on a smaller scale i understand that true randomness and completing the playlist is difficult to achieve but the user experience is pretty rubbish here

HI, yes the apps require updates. Thanks.

@kyma88 Yes the second log shows you removed the strm files but only added one episode from S01 (S01E04). I believe it takes multiple episodes from the same season to create "CreateTitleFingerprint". strm files cannot get this info as the media has never been played and has no media info until first playback.

Telegram Notifications Plugin for Emby Finally after using it by myself for over 3,5 years and "supporting" it in another Thread https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/42912-telegram-notification/ i decided that with the latest Version it would be good to have a destinct Plugin Thread for it. Nope it is not in the Plugin catalog, because there are only plugins by developers which are "willing to fully support it. That means keep it up to date with server versions as well as fix any issues and respond to user help requests." Because of the closed source code of Emby and the lack of Plugin development documentation that is something i cannot ensure. What it does? It simply forwards the Messages of the Emby Notification Framework to a Chat or Channel. Not more, not less. Sorry no fancy posters etc. because the Standard Notifications of Emby dont support it. That could be hacked into, but those things can break easily on every update and i dont want to spend more work on this. How to install? Install the Plugin by downloading the DLL (or build it yourself using VS2019) and putting it into your Emby Plugin folder Restart your Emby Server Talk to @Bodfather with your favorite Telegram Client to create your Telegram Bot Start a chat with your bot (or place it in a channel) and send a message to it Fire up your browser and type the following URL: https://api.telegram.org/bot<BotTokenGoesHere>/getUpdates (without the braces) and find the ChatID Use the Settings Page of the Plugin to set Bot Token and Chat ID Activate the Telegram Notifications Plugin in the desired Server notifications Known Issues? There are no issues with the Plugin itself because it is really simple. The problems are inside the Emby Notification Framework for example if you want to use it to keep your Family and Friends up-to-dat with the newest Additions to your server. For every scan Emby only sends 10x New Media Notifications so if you add 100 Movies you only get the first 10 send to you. That is something that should have been worked on for quite some time but nothing happened. Where to get it? You can download the Source and DLL v1.4.0.0. here: https://codeberg.org/bjoerns1983/Emby.Plugin.TelegramNotification/releases Have fun with it. If you have a cool idea simply open an issue. To be honest i dont know how long this Plugin will be maintained. I mean it works since nearly four years without any problems. I am really waiting for the New Notification Webhook feature which would make these kind of notifications way more easy.

In my house, I would like to see a User Profile selection similar to Netflix. Using my single logon, I would like my family to choose between who is watching. That way each of us can watch shows without marking it watched for someone else. In this scenario, I would have a 4 users in a Family Group using the same username/password.

Add a setting which will allow a user to globally hide/show the channel number in the Guide listing

sorry chefs for marking you again but I am not sure whether you'll notice it if I edited and inserted the mark afterwards - in addition I guess that you marked that post as "done" somewhere because of my false statement about vlc Found three more (quite new released) seasons with this behavior - I'm absolutely aware that on special cases transcoding has to be done, but afaik you want emby to be able to direct play as most as possible. I'm happy to share more information, just tell me what. Best regards @Luke@softworkz@ebr

Happy days! FireTV Cube Gen3 update has enabled TrueHD Atmos passthrough for apps. Wooohooo Now just need Emby to update to have AV1 HW playback

Thanks for following up !

Good Day, I figured it out. In previous MB versions, you could line the channels up in any order you wanted in the metadata manager and that worked. But now I had to go through livetv/channels from the dashboard and move them into place. It worked but I think it was much easier using the manager. Anywayz, it's done. Cheers!!!

Yes as it will not be considered Remote as longs as it maintains that IP address.

Si, usando la sintassi "Name (Year) [tmdbid=xxxx]" funziona bene tutto. Grazie

for me - the video download folder are located on ~/Library/Containers/com.emby.mobile/Data/Documents/Video

Hi and welcome. Please see: https://support.emby.media/support/solutions/articles/44002137137-remote-setup

Hi Are there any updates on the clients reporting the HDR status of their display back so SDR / HDR streams can be chosen without interaction? Playing around with tonemapping and the various android clients I have Fire Tablet (Emby for Android 3.2.89), Fire TV (AndroidTv 2.0.79a), Chromecast HD (AndroidTv 2.0.83g) etc all try and play an HDR stream even though the OS (and attached display) is set to SDR. If you drop the streaming quality low enough so that the file has to be transcoded then tone mapping will kick in and the colours are as expected. Even a toggle similar to the supported audio formats (Always use SDR Y/N) would be great as I bet most people don't switch devices between displays all that often.. Thanks!

It would be amazing to have a theatre keyboard shortcut for playback speed adjustment!

hi again i managed to fix the problem by adding whole season . i can say for make this work at least need more than 5 episodes of a tv series season. thanks everyone for help hope this futures support strm file as well . by the way this function still doesn't work on lg TVs thanks again

I've definitely noticed VirtualTV seems to play the same handful of things over and over again.

I did a search first but didn't see the info you posted about it being the best they can do. It's very unfortunate if that's the case. Especially these days where people are cutting the cord, for me personally Putting playlists on shuffle is 75% of my viewing during the day. I can't watch the same show for hours on end.

I can confirm that, was a collateral damage I'll fix it in next version

Thanks for the PR, i have a look at it on the weekend so i also understand what is different.

Hi Luke thanks, I think I now have it sorted, I downloaded all of the servers and opens untill one worked! not very scientific but thats me. now my server is 4.7.10.0 and is reopening on my Phone great.

Can we please have the apostrophe excluded in the web browser searches. It is easy to forget adding one in especially when pasting in a title. You may have the title and forget to add the apostrophe and not realize it.

Am indeed a premier Taking Trailers out - Plays fine - Adding the trailer back in - Fails Folder Configuration: Trailer configuration:

Also get your Granddaughter a netflix and disney subscription you cheap ass

I removed the two extra paths for splitting the recordings to movies and series. So I am using only one path for both now. I created a new Library with "mixed content" and now the server seperated by itself a tvshow to tvshow and a movie as a movie. Scrapping is working also now.

+1 for any and all options to customize the interface. Those options help people get that special feeling of comfort with the app. It's like arranging the furniture in your living room - if your options are too limited, you feel less comfy. You can't please everyone, but if you give them enough options, they will feel like you really tried, and they'll appreciate it.

Per the log I can see these are not independent images. Since you went to beta server you cannot downgrade as the log shows plugin load exeptions. There are DB changes making it no longer compatible with 4.7. Suspect you have to start a new database or revert back to 4.8.0.21.

I was just following @cayars' instructions.

Hi. How many episodes of Westworld do you have in that season currently in your library as physical files?

Good call. As a network and home automation engineer using Untangle/Ruckus, my observation isn’t common. I forget in the real world using ISP provided equipment is common. That being said, I couldn’t agree with you more. I hardwire EVERYTHING possible. Wireless is a fallback convenience, not a go-to staple

I have one coming tomorrow, so if not already answered by someone I’ll let you know.

Good Day, I HAD the same issue with several providers over the years. I say several providers because at the time I was searching for a provider that I could rely on and would stay with them for some time. Longer story short, I have been with this provider for over 4 years now and I only had to eliminate the unneeded channels initially and then a second time for some refinement. I was using NP++ because it is fast and simple to use and didn't add any additional things to the file. I also found a desktop app with a GUI interface that made it even easier to edit. For instance, I could edit out tons of channels based on their grouping, language, etc. And yes, the original m3u file had well over 35,000 channels. Once I edited the file, and as long as you are using the same provider there is nothing more you need to do. Hope this helps...cheers!!!

What exactly did you do? I still see westworld strm in that log.

Hi, how did you configure this in Emby library setup?

Been working on a cool feature. Added in a custom api function to allow users to create their own RAL lists to the home screen. This will let the user chose what they want for every library to be shown. Home screen with size menu implemented. expand the menu and then choose the Custom Library option then play with the options most calls will require a userId and an apiKey, the json option allow for the couple of scenarios where the Json return isn't wrapped in an Items: array Tested without json on return an empty array Test Ran with Json turned on - Returns my custom api call to get top rated items.

OK I see what you mean. Thanks.

I also get this happening intermittently. It's a pain as not everyone in the family is tech savy so I always get called to sort it out. Normally a restart solves it, that or using the d-pad on a wireless keyboard. The tv guide shortcut also stopped working last night. Solved by a restart.

Yep, I likewise can confirm that the problem is still there, also intermittent and seemingly random.

Maybe the feature can look for a bespoke image type - embybanner.jpg / mainbanner.jpg or something which if populated in the media folder, emby will use instead of banner.jpg ? Simply having the OPTION to display 'something' above the 'My Media' is a huge win here ..

I am having the same problem but only intermittently. Affects the keyboard and my Logitech Elite remote control.

It would be great to incorporate a book reader, so I can have one app for all my media consumption.

Hi, yes it's certainly possible. Thanks for the feedback.

Hi, I am still hoping for this. This would make Emby really great. Would be nice to hear what the progress is.

Hi, I don't have an ETA, but yes, we do have a plan of how we're going to support this. Thanks.