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Intention - yes. There also exists internal consensus for making it available to selected client apps/devices. The keyword being "selected", though. The regular themes are adaptable and able to work well even on rather low-profile clients - for example by disabling visual effects, animations, transparency and gradients. The WMC theme in contrast, strongly relies on all these things and makes intensive use of bitmaps with alpha-blending and newer CSS features. Illustrating that by example is one of the reasons why I have given some insights into the anatomy of the toggle control in the post above. Getting this to work on all clients/devices is a lengthy process with continuous work, reacting to user feedback and making changes accordingly - something that @Luke has painfully gone through for the core themes over the years. You might be able to imagine his reaction when I had told that the theme would be using around 280 bitmaps (for comparison, bitmap count used by core themes: 1). Thanks @Luke for still not turning it down! But what's clear is that the burden for maintaining this across all apps and devices cannot be put upon him, neither do I have much interest in working on degrading the experience to make it work on less capable devices. Either it works and looks in the way it's supposed to do or it's not the kind of theme it's meant to be. When a client device isn't capable to handle the theme smoothly, it won't be available for those. Candidates on the "very likely" side are apps running on desktop PCs with decent hardware or Android devices with powerful CPU and graphics. Rather unlikely are non-recent smart TVs or low-power/low-mem SBCs and sticks. For everything in between, it's yet to be determined. There's also a "No" side, which includes clients that are using different UI frameworks like the Android TV app or Roku. As you can see, while the question is simple, the answer is less, as I do not want to create any false expectations. The above is all I know for know.

Just saying hello and thanks for Emby!

Funny part tho, some are now posting in some sites that we got breached, well if we did, we indeed will inform "all" our members groups. The facts are: - The reason for the forum offline, that we do the tasks and it will take a long time to completed (many accounts of the group "Member" with 0 post). While going we got flood from that group for accounts removal. - As we explain many time why we force password reset for the group "Member". Well, all will be done today .

Background Plugins, extensions and integrations make an important part of the Emby ecosystem. Plugin development is open to everybody and many great plugins have been created by Emby community members. To show our appreciation for the great work and achievements of community developers, we took steps in order to improve in an area where we haven't done that well in the recent past: Developer Support. When talking about support, there are several different facets to evaluate and consider. We probably did fairly well when it was about responding to user questions - but not that much when it came to providing accurate and up-to-date information, documentation and code examples. Emby SDK It has been just about time to make a change to that and over the past months we have intensively worked on improving that situation. Eventually, we have ended up with a fully loaded package of information, resources, tools and sample code - exclusively for all of you developers, so today we're proud to present: The EMBY SDK https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Emby.SDK Website - emby dev In parallel to the SDK, we are launching: the new emby developer site https://dev.emby.media Introduction Video For a comprehensive introduction to the Emby SDK, watch the video, either by installing the Plugin for The Emby Show Or watch it on YouTube: The Emby Show Episode 3 - Emby SDK - or below Questions? Please ask questions in the developer forum: https://emby.media/community/index.php?/forum/47-developer-api/ Watch View the full article

@Cheesegeezer - The OpenSubtitles plugin does it as follows: It registers for the event IConfigurationManager.NamedConfigurationUpdating: https://dev.emby.media/reference/pluginapi/MediaBrowser.Common.Configuration.IConfigurationManager.html#MediaBrowser_Common_Configuration_IConfigurationManager_NamedConfigurationUpdating In the event handler it does this: if (!string.Equals(e.Key, "opensubtitles", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)) return; OpenSubtitleOptions newConfiguration = (OpenSubtitleOptions) e.NewConfiguration; if (newConfiguration == null || string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(newConfiguration.OpenSubtitlesPasswordHash) || newConfiguration.OpenSubtitlesPasswordHash.StartsWith("h:", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)) return; newConfiguration.OpenSubtitlesPasswordHash = this.EncryptPassword(newConfiguration.OpenSubtitlesPasswordHash); For encrypting and decrypting, you can use IEncryptionManager: https://dev.emby.media/reference/pluginapi/MediaBrowser.Controller.Security.IEncryptionManager.html?q=IEncryptionManager private string EncryptPassword(string password) { return "h:" + this._encryption.EncryptString(password); } It prefixes the encrypted string with 'h:' to make sure that it doesn't encrypt an already encrypted string.

For those who like a project, here is a script which attempts to find better TMDB matches. Unfortunately it is not very accessible as it requires you request a TMDB api key and has only been tested on English. Emby is correct the vast majority of the time. My frustration is all my movie additions (folders and filenames) are matched to TMDB with correct image when added to file system so Its a bit galling when Emby occasionally chooses wrong. Since all my movies have their TMDB image prior to Emby it took a long time to notice when Emby's choice was not optimal and i like my metadata biography surfing..hence the script. Its worth noting (although things may have improved in the last few years when i last built the library from scratch) that it may not be just TMDB responses that could benefit from a bit of post processing. There was a time when Artist "Duran Duran" was detected as "Duran Duran Duran"

Hi, It would be nice to have an option, maybe a checkbox to ether ignore articles or not in the sort title. It is really annoying to edit the metadata and add the sort title on every movie. If a movies real name is "The Punisher" i don't wanna need to change the sort title, because this is the real name. An option would be great. Thanks

Hi. You do realize it is way more complicated than adding a checkbox, right? That "competitor" has that because that app is just a really old version of our app (you cannot tell that anymore because they removed all the attribution from the code) with some modifications. We used LibVLC in some cases long ago but it ended up having way too many limitations. I doubt we will be looking to re-introduce it but we are constantly working on accounting for whatever deficiencies exist in Google's Exoplayer. We are working on this now.

Good day, We put the community forum offline to clean and removal none active old accounts, it will take long time till it done. Community forum will be online when all work done. Thanks all. My best

I just wanted to say THANK YOU!!! to the emby team! Back in 2016 or so I gave up and tried plex...worked great for watching stuff away from home and on the phone but having been a huge fan of XBMC it wasn't easy for me. Time went by and plex kept adding crap I don't care about and couldn't remove (not easily, if possible) and then I ran across an old emby file and decided to check it out. HOLY COW you guys have kicked butt on this!!! If I remember right, it's free too?? No way I'm gonna not pay for this but the option to still use it when I need it most (if I lose my job or some other catastrophe) is so awesome ❤ The ways emby is better than plex are so many Please PLEASE don't go so corporate or sell out like they did Thank you again everyone!

@davedick It shouldn't actually apply to your "members" group only "member" group.

I moved from Plex to Emby and even though I think Emby is superior in its flexibility there are some things I like better with Plex, especially in terms of its looks. This theme is trying to fix that by making it a bit more similar to Plex but with some, in my opinion, improvements. The CSS is attached to this post for anyone interested and below are some screens to show it off Good to know I only use Chrome so I can't guarantee this CSS works as expected in other browsers. If you want the sidebar menu to look like in the screens, make sure to pin the sidebar. Watched badge/banderoll is inverted which means that the badge will not be shown if media have been watched, like in Plex. For desired look, please use the "Dark" theme for both Theme & Settings theme in the display settings. Emby-Stable-style-v3.6.txt

Hi, I have quite a lot of videos that were filmed vertically that I'd like to view on my iPhone. Unfortunately, when I click play these videos are auto-rotated into landscape mode, meaning that the content becomes small and hard to watch. There is no way rotate the video back into portrait as far as I can tell - no button on screen to force it to rotate; I've tried turning the phone with Portrait Orientation Lock Off and turning the Lock on - no luck Is there actually a way to watch portrait content vertically that I am missing? Versions: iPhoneX iOS 15.1 (19B74) Emby for iOS 2.1.1

I want to suggest you guys, please add LibVLC player as an alternative internal player to ExoPlayer. It's just a matter of adding a configuration option in the client for Android TV, in which I can choose between the different options ExoPlayer, or LibVLC, or an external player. An Emby competitor's Android TV client already has the configuration options ExoPlayer, or LibVLC, or automatic, or an external player. It is that if Emby's competitor already has two internal players, the official Emby clients would also have to have the internal LibVLC. Since the problem of playing MKV files, which contain Dolby Vision and HDR10, is unique to the Emby's ExoPlayer player, but if I had the option to choose LibVLC, right now I could play absolutely all my files that have DV and HDR10 with LibVLC, if you were as an internal player in the Emby client for Android TV. Although VLC a few years ago has problems with small jerks or jumps in the image when playing SRT text subtitle lines, I only use forced subtitles with a few lines of text in movies or TV series episodes. I leave you an attached image with the configuration options that should be added to the client for Android TV: Thanks. Greeting.

@Luke, I can imagine you guys have a lot of work to do. Still, for me, a reliable download is crucial for an Emby Premiere subscription. In other words: You could probably make more money if the app is fixed and updated (if necessary) on a more regular basis. I can hardly wait for the fix...

Hi, there's already an open request for this or something functionally equivalent. Please join in and contribute to the existing discussion at:

I did some further research and figured it out. It's from a duplicate account. My email inbox accepts multiple formats of my emailaddress so I received an email for my old old test account in an inbox with the same name as my new test account. My fault, apologies for the confusion.

Okay, I'm going to write a failsafe method. Firsts it's going to check for all the nesessary images, then it's going to attempt to find them online (it does this already), but... If the images are unavailable to create custom thumb images for the current set, and finally if there isn't a current thumb image to use, the set going to default to primary. If the providers don't have the images, and they dont exist as physical files on the server, I'm not sure what else can be done

Maybe worth checking: 1) TMDB: The Movie Database API (themoviedb.org) The Movie Database API (themoviedb.org) 2) Trakt Trakt API · Apiary

Hello neik... That's a great idea. I will look into the effort needed to implement it. Thanks, Vic

I didn't really think it was an issue, it's good to remind people to change up their password every now and than. The weird thing it that I got the mail for my local test account which isn't even connected to emby connect? (or the forums for that matter)

Do not request account removal if your account from 2013 to 2017 with 0 post, it will get removed today.

I am putting the forum online, if I get a lots of old accounts removal request (as we already doing that but it will take time to finish), I will force to put the community forum offline again. Thanks you all for your understanding.

As an individual who received this email may I give some feedback. I wasn't sure that the email was, spam (or not); After some validation, I decided not; so reset my password; I had to click on the link in the email (something I normally avoid wherever possible) as logging on manually took me to an insecure site asking for my username an password(!) May I politely suggest that maybe some explanation as to why I'm being asked to do this would help (although still necessary to validate that the request is not phishing) remember that users have security issues to deal with as well as admins. Thanks

opened new thread here:

Some general thoughts - The apps don't really have themes, more colour schemes and separate adjustments - some adjustment of poster size for example. In a browser you can have those plus any css you add - there's a Plex theme and my, well, not theme, but mods, plus various other css bits scattered about. There's also a WMC theme thats being worked on by softworkz and an app by cheezegeezer. so -

I appreciate the easy reset button. I checked the "from" email, googled "emby community" and it was a match. clicked the button, still a match= good to go

Updated music files not in the same location that I added to Emby. *embarrassed*

I've had Google flag Google-sent e-mails about resetting a Google password as suspicious. It's a paranoid false-positive. It's default behavior to protect people who otherwise have no idea what's going on. I understand and applaud you going to the website directly instead of the link (I do the same), but this isn't the right way of going about it. The correct course here is, I think, the one proposed already. The forum software sent out a basic form e-mail, that wasn't customized for Emby proper. It's been mentioned as something they want to fix. It is, however, amusing to see people get up in arms about poor security because the team tried to warn you about security. Even worse, it's because people were re-using passwords.... Seriously, the e-mail could have been better, but people getting mad at the Emby team for trying to keep the forums secure by sending a password reset to potentially abusable accounts is absolutely incredible. People just want to be outraged by something, I guess.

I'd like to remove the "More Like This" row in item details.

Hallo, Es gibt ein kleines Nebenprojekt, nämlich einen Alexa-Skill, der derzeit die deutsche Sprache behandelt. Wir suchen derzeit deutschsprachige Personen, die folgende Voraussetzungen mitbringen. 1. Eine Domain, die Ihren Emby-Server erreicht. 2. Ein SSL-Zertifikat. (wir können dabei helfen, wenn Sie eine Domain haben) 3. Jedes Amazon Echo-Gerät. (wenn Ihr Gerät einen Bildschirm hat, der noch besser ist, aber nicht zwingend erforderlich). 4. Optional: ein FireTV-Stick. Wenn Sie denken, dass Sie daran interessiert sein könnten, an einer Beta-Alexa (deutsche Sprache) teilzunehmen, senden Sie mir bitte eine Nachricht, und wir können weiter sprechen. Benjamin

It's picked different things, so that's a start, let's see how it goes for a couple of weeks again. Thanks @chef

Any estimate on when v2.2.6 will be release?

Hi, no, although it's not a bad idea to support.

I am going to disagree here. If one uses (and EVERYBODY should) any decent password manager, it will verify that the web page is legit. If you are VERY paranoid, you could use an isolated browser in KASM environment. I did think that this was a fishing email, so I did look at the raw message. I looked kosher so I opened the link. The admin of this domain practices very good email habits. The email wasn't rejected as all the necessary DKIM SPF DMARC have been generated and verified. There are much bigger operators who still fail this basic safety check. Having said that, it is very encouraging to see that more and more people are aware of the fishing attacks (both users and the websites admins). Small price to pay. Also, I have this dream, that one day websites and users will implement email digital S/MIME signatures. They still are unreasonably expensive IMHO, but this is one more way to stop the crooks in their tracks.

So email sent from the Emby domain requesting to change your password is incorrect action to do? OK, next time we will send you that on Twitter.

Do you have the intention to bring this fabulous theme to the client apps, too?

Some good news. .41 does a good job.

And if you drag and drop the video directly into the browser it does the same correct? Most previous topics it is either the system HEVC addon or possibly HWA in the browser itself.

Does that happen on all 1080p mp4s or is limited to any particular item(s)? There is no "force transcoding" feature, but you can lower playback quality to the first lower value than item's bitrate, that'll trigger transcoding while giving similar results. Try it with MS Edge or Marmaduke Chromium or use Emby Theater.

It looks amazing. If there had been a toggle in WMC, that is what it would have been. I can't wait to see this. Keep up the great work! It's awesome to follow.

It's not far away that I'll need some help to identify glitches and issues, but there's a lot of other work for me to complete and I can only get to this at times when I'm stuck on other tasks or waiting for something. So I haven't got any news to show today.......except one little thing: Building a Skinned Toggle Control Emby has those toggle controls in its set of UI components and those toggles are also an optional components for list items in the new Plugin UI framework: The problem is: WMC does not have such toggle controls, not even something of similar functionality. The closest would be a checkbox. But checkboxes are not always a good replacement for toggle controls and especially not in those cases where toggles are used in Emby. So it was clear that I needed to build my own toggle control in WMC style. A toggle consists of two elements: a 'track' and a 'knob', and when thinking about these two individually, I came to the idea to try using a radio group item element as the 'knob': ..but I didn't expect it to fit well. And it seemed I was right: Focused Unfocused The problem is that all the WMC elements are transparent and you can see through to the layers behind and after properly styling the 'track' element accordingly (transparent background, border and some inner shadow) it looked even worse: With some special CSS it's possible to give a single element a background color and a bitmap above it at the same time (without pseudo elements, because the element itself is a pseudo-element already). But the problem is that whatever background color you choose, it will look right in one case (bottom) but not in other cases (topmost): Only with transparency it's possible to always get the right shade for the knob so that it will look natural. What would be needed, is a way to have the knob "skip" the background of the layer below (= the 'track') and have only the lower levels shine through it. Unfortunately, that's not possible (it contradicts the logic of layering at it's core). One way to simulate that would be to create a copy of the lower background (below the track) and use it as an intermediate background in a layer above the track and below the knob. There's no commonly supported way of doing that with CSS at this time. The other way would be to adjust the 'track' itself in a way that it doesn't get painted in the area where the knob is meant to be shown. In that case we're lucky. There exists a less commonly known CSS feature named "mask-image". This can be a bitmap, whose alpha channel determines the visible areas of the element, and it can also be a gradient. And here we're getting closer, but how can a gradient help? There are not only linear but also radial gradients. And when we adjust the stops properly, we can create a black circle on a white background and ultimately also a transparent circle with a non-transparent background: Finally, we can take this (pure css) gradient and use it as the "mask-image" for the track element to cut-out that part that is covered by the knob, in a way that the knob will always have the lower background to shine-through it. Of course it has to adapt in size and position to the knob depending on the current state and must be animated in the same way and speed as the knob when toggling on or off. Without the knob it looks like this: Finally, it's hardly possible to see that the track is html/css while the knob is made of bitmaps. As a nice surprise It turned out that In disabled-on state, the dot from the disabled knob fits perfectly into the track. So here's the result:

You can't do it natively in Emby, but you can check out this plugin from the catalog that adds this functionality.

Kudos mate!! yeah I completely agree with “WMC” themes. The interaction with the server is most impressive! if you put a thousand dollar price tag on it my missus would make me pay lol!! She loved WMC and MB and was lost when it died and I upgraded to Win10. can’t wait to see it come to release and so glad you have done it. cheers and happy coding bruv!

Dashboard and Settings UI Wmc_Settings_Basic.mp4

HI, we'll have a new iOS app update out soon with another round of improvement. Thanks guys.

hello everyone I am an enthusiast from Xinjiang, China. I have been using EMBY for 3 years. My native language is Uyghur*. During the years of using EMBY, I have translated Arabic into Uyghur through secondary compilation. Now I hope there is an official to add Uyghur language to EMBY, we will be very excited. Hope to provide Uyghur translation for EMBY Thanks. * Language International Name: Uyghur Region Code: Ug Text direction: RTL(Right to left, same as arabic)

@Luke I'm having a similar issue, playback will stop after a few minutes when using Safari. All other browsers work fine but I prefer to use Safari for it's PiP mode. Problem happens every time on all media. Emby then marks the item as played, almost as if it just skips to the end of the media. It started happening a couple of weeks ago, I have wiped the Mac and done a clean install of MacOS Monterey and the issue persists.

Thanks for the report.