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因为网络原因，我无法直接访问到 元数据 的服务器，Auto Organize之类的插件因此失效，希望能给元数据搜刮提供 HTTP/SOCKS 代理功能。 谢谢 embyserver.txt

That's what it was before but it caused a ton of issues with people incorrectly purchasing it. Long standing home users shouldn't really have a need for more devices if using the product as intended. Simple is just better. Thanks.

Plex got a lot of media coverage recently for having this feature, because users absolutely hated it and it caused a massive backlash.

Yes, as SDH attribute is recognized only from beta 4.8.0.49 onwards, in previous versions subs will be displayed without that flag. <moviefilename>.en.ext (additionally <moviefilename>.en.sdh.ext for future-proofing) <moviefilename>.en.forced.ext or <moviefilename>.en.forced.default.ext In user settings>Subtitles, set Subtitle Mode to "Default".

I want this feature

I guess I'm Penny...?

I also need this feature. Proxy is a must for those who use Emby on mainland.

Any news guys? Simple will be the idea, let the user upload any image and just allow to link it to a play list or a specific movie/series. no more than 6 or 7 items. And to turn it on and off if they want to. Off by default for people that does not know how to use it.

On the conversions page (server dashboard > conversions) it would be nice to be able to sort the list by: - Title - Date added (to conversions) - Last activity - Number of items Suggestions for other sort types welcome Right now it sorts by last activity only as far as I can tell. This is great most of the time, but becomes difficult if you're looking for a specific title in a large list. I've decided to convert much of my libraries to HEVC for the sake of space savings so this list is growing pretty large, mainly with shows that are continuing to air so are being left to automatically convert new content.

hey would it be possible to get a plugin to allow strm files to be merged within collections please? this use to be available on another plugin but was taken away from it with updating. i have so many libraries, one with all my main films and other libraries all as STRM files. there is so many of multi films the same in collections i cant actually see what's in them lol either by emby or by a community dev Thanks guys and hope you can help EXAMPLE

I have a few anime series that are rated TV-MA that are IMO more them TV-MA. I don't really want more adult type visible with ones that just violent. I increased the rating to X so they are not visible. When you go into anime series list, its just as it should be, the ones marked X are not visible. When you are on home screen It is visible and watchable. I tried to scan the library and refresh metadata with not luck. Any good suggestion on how to deal with this problem. The user in question cannot see ratings past TV-MA. I have the rating on the series set as X in both of the rating fields.

You might well ask. Well here's one reason - https://www.reddit.com/r/4kbluray/comments/188bqlh/the_digital_purge_is_happening_another_reason_to/ Feel free to add your own...

Hi, expect to have more home screen options in future updates. Thanks.

The plex feature also relies on sending newsletters when activation was not intended (you had to change the option when the popup appeared, otherwise the option activated itself). This was a problem for many people. It's not necessarily directly related to the feature request. If the administrator can choose who sees what and when, and the end user can also choose to see what the administrator has authorized, I don't see what the problem is. And it can come in handy when a parent wants to know what their child is watching (And that he is not the server administrator) (for example). Which is far from stupid......

I did that.

Im halfway there, I can boot the Ubuntu server, auto login, auto run firefox, open up the playlist tab. Now I'm looking at a plugin that open's a link, if I can do that, I'll document it and post it

+ 1 For this to happen if its on the road map

I have seen requests for a Live TV Custom favorites group/tab however, I do not see those features in Emby. Please allow me to request this feature to be implemented once more. With so many channels in IPTV this is a must feature to be able to sort channels in a meaningful way that makes sense to the end user. I see the sorting features and tags in the guide that up to a point can be made to work like groups/tabs but still is cumbersome and not as easy as a custom group or tab. Users are relying in other IPTV channel sorting services for an extra expense to catalog in an intuitive manner but still falls short of something easy like a custom group/tab. It would be ideal to make groups/tabs and put in those groups/tabs whatever channels you want. If you want to check the Movies just go to the “Movies” tab and there is the guide to those movie channels designated by the end user. Easy to find and see what is playing in that group/tab. I am user of Dish Network, in the receiver I can make lists of favorites one for each person in my home. They can glance in their lists and see what is playing in their favorite channels at a glance. Anyhow I hope this feature can be implemented to make the interface intuitive and easy to use. Thank you.

Hi @Luke, Sorry for the lack of responses. I haven't tested it extensively using the latest iPadOS release, but I will. I actually had the same problem while watching a video from my Shield TV Pro settop box: I realize I may have made a gaffe when I was streaming. I copied over a file with the same name while I was watching it. It must have errored out somehow, but still, it gracefully exited. I've identified a workaround to help emby-server persist by leveraging a simple bash script to check whether emby-server is running, and if not run it: 1. create a script called check-emby.sh sudo nano check-emby.sh 2. insert the following contents #!/bin/bash service=emby-server if (( $(ps -ef | grep -v grep | grep $service | wc -l) > 0 )) then echo "$service is up" else service $service start fi 3. ensure that it is executable sudo chmod +x check-emby.sh 4. modify cron jobs sudo crontab -e 5. append the following entry to have this execute every minute * * * * * /path/to/check-emby.sh From a workaround perspective, if emby-server shuts down gracefully for whatever reason, I can have a cron job scheduled to ensure that it is restarted. If not, it just prints that it's running. Might be a bit excessive, but since I don't want to SSH every time that the server goes down and restart it manually, this might pay off for me.

Thanks. Realtime disabled now from all libraries and restarted. One stream online. Usage increased from <300M to 756M. Keeping my eye on it...

Sneak peek [[A2023-12-05 12:42:52,337 - __main__ - INFO - Log initialized. 2023-12-05 12:42:54,211 - __main__ - INFO - TMDB ids for list Planets: ['tt10219322', 'tt6769208', 'tt0296310', 'tt2092588', 'tt9253866', 'tt0795176', 'tt5491994', 'tt10324164', 'tt9805708', 'tt16986646', 'tt9805674', 'tt9805678'] 2023-12-05 12:42:54,211 - __main__ - INFO - URL with TMDB IDs: https://******/emby/Items?api_key=***********&Recursive=True&Fields=ProviderIds&AnyProviderIDEquals=imdb.tt10219322,imdb.tt6769208,imdb.tt0296310,imdb.tt2092588,imdb.tt9253866,imdb.tt0795176,imdb.tt5491994,imdb.tt10324164,imdb.tt9805708,imdb.tt16986646,imdb.tt9805674,imdb.tt9805678 2023-12-05 12:42:54,397 - __main__ - INFO - Emby API Request: https://******/emby/Items?api_key=***********&Recursive=True&Fields=ProviderIds&AnyProviderIDEquals=imdb.tt10219322,imdb.tt6769208,imdb.tt0296310,imdb.tt2092588,imdb.tt9253866,imdb.tt0795176,imdb.tt5491994,imdb.tt10324164,imdb.tt9805708,imdb.tt16986646,imdb.tt9805674,imdb.tt9805678 2023-12-05 12:42:54,398 - __main__ - INFO - Emby API Response Status Code: 200 2023-12-05 12:42:54,462 - __main__ - INFO - Emby API Request: https://******/emby/Collections?Name=Planets&Ids=204434%2C204460%2C204563%2C204572%2C204575%2C204587%2C204627%2C215791%2C215988%2C216195%2C216218%2C216219%2C216224%2C216279%2C216361%2C216401%2C317966&api_key=*********** 2023-12-05 12:42:54,462 - __main__ - INFO - Emby API Response Status Code: 200 2023-12-05 12:42:54,462 - __main__ - INFO - Emby response: {'Id': '349395', 'Name': 'Planets'} 2023-12-05 12:42:55,110 - __main__ - INFO - Emby API Request: https://******/emby/Items/349395/Images/Primary/0/Url?url=https://theposterdb.com/api/assets/237256&api_key=*********** 2023-12-05 12:42:55,111 - __main__ - INFO - Emby API Response Status Code: 204 2023-12-05 12:42:55,111 - __main__ - INFO - Emby API Response Text: 2023-12-05 12:42:55,111 - __main__ - INFO - Emby API returned a success status code: 204

3.3.49 beta

Sorry I might be having a brain fart, I replaced the old certificate on my Linux box and everything started talking again. Could a moderator please delete my post or lock it?

MetaX is a movie, tv, and video file metadata editor. I curate my files before I put them into the Emby Library for proper identification and many other reasons. Including the reason of needing metadata in other programs as time progresses and (hopefully not) but if something were to happen to Emby or my ability to use it, the information is embedded and does not get lost. It is much like what TagScanner would be to audio files. It can aggregate this information from online sources such as TVDB, iTunes, IMDB, and many others.. you can get a free trial at the link for the name. A few screenshots

*Done*

Okay, time for an update. The problem still persists. After some trial and error, it seems that it's qBittorrent that's causing the problem. When it's running, the connection has the problems. When I quit it, the problems go away. Oddly, even if there are no downloads of any kind in progress, the problems still happen.

No, no, no. You must be mistaken. The standard app is superior in every way and always works to fix your problem. Just ask Luke.

Hm, it eventually will in 4.8. But for now, try experimenting with: <moviefilename>.en.english.sdh.ext <moviefilename>.en.english sdh.ext See what gives.

Yes, the first part was just hypothetical, won't happen unfortunately. The use of fiber for cable TV distribution is nothing new. This has been done since more than 20 years ago here and allowed offerings of internet connectivity via tv cable. Lately, there are offerings here as well (often called "Triple-Play", phone+internet+tv). The TV is in this case IPTV, but "real" IPTV in the sense that you get the original broadcast signals (same bandwidths) delivered via IP. In many cases you also still get TV from the coax, but not that many channels. But this is not an official successor to CableCard, just a different offering, right? I'm sure @arrbee99won't mind as long as it's about TV

I can reproduce this on stable 4.7.14.0. for TV shows. None of the >TV-MA ratings (NC-17, AO, RP, UR, NR, X, XXX) prevents item showing in Home Screen Latest row (while it does in Library view), neither does blanking out Rating field with "Block items with no or unrecognized rating info" enabled. For Movies it works as it should, item is not shown on Home Screen.

I whis that emby does change the seek bar putting total running time in place of ending time end moving ending time below the actual time of day. In fact if someone like me uses h24 time format, seeing 1:34 at far right is unclear: ends at 1:24 A.M. or the movie last 1h and 24 minutes? Look at kodi basic skin far what I feel more functional. I would do: actual running time / total running time (- time left to the end) And in upper right under the clock the "end at" time (like kodi)

@Luke update i just did fresh build from scratch of emby beta on new hard-drive. now i can see if i get any more failed recordings. i wasn't able to get emby to choose logo from m3u until that setting is built into emby. for now i just manually selected logo for each. the backed up metadata\livetv. which should work until it doesn't. i did find a nice trick to get emby to auto set the guide for each channel from the m3u. by changing the name to the callsign of the channel.

HI, yes it's not a bad idea. thanks for the feedback.

Hey Rbjtech, I can't thank you enough. This is exactly what i needed. It's really saving me so much time. Great work. Much appreciated. Greetings bartpet

I would also love to have this new feature. Due to GFW, EmbyServer cannot access metadata sites. I have used proxy software such as V2RayN, but none of them seem to work. These proxy software seem to have no effect on EmbyServer, so I eagerly hope that the new features will be able to connect to HTTP proxy. Translation 我也很希望有这个新特性。因为GFW原因，EmbyServer无法访问元数据的站点，我用了V2RayN等代理软件，但似乎都不起作用，这些代理软件对EmbyServer似乎是没有作用的，所以我迫切希望新的特性里有能够连接到HTTP代理。

Already did, also used LDAP for a couple of years with Emby, thanks for the advise ! MediaCenter is the last service I need to integrate to my OIDC. While I understand that this feature may not get prioritized as security is not always a priority for the typical user, it is a priority for me as I don't like Emby directly handling the auth part (I prefer emby to focus on what it does best) and not integrating properly with my other services. I've dropped LDAP support due to the OIDC one-way sync limitation that I had, as well as trying to move away from legacy protocols. Also this from your previous post, clear text creds : "With the LDAP plugin, Emby gets the user name and password of every user who logs on in clear text and the server attempts to log on with these credentials at the LDAP server. "

Yup, thanks for clarifying. In fact it wouldn't be a problem at all for most TVs and tuners - at least for more recent ones. The reason is that manufacturers are designing their models for international markets and as DVB supports HEVC and AVC/H264 for 4k resolutions, many models can handle that anyway. Some may not support HEVC in order to save the license cost for US models, but as soon as these are "Smart TVs" and support tv "apps", they still need to include HEVC. Adding support for HEVC in the ATSC spec would have been a relatively small change, just adding a new stream-type ID and a new stream descriptor definition. It would even be possible to craft an ATSC broadcast with HEVC which uses the DVB stream descriptor for the video stream and (surely not all but) some models would be able to play it without any modification. For standalone tuners like the HDHomerun, no change is required at all, because it transparently outputs the streams without having to deal with it. The ATSC2.0 spec had E-AC3 added, just like DVB, but it never came into effect. BTW, the DVB spec defines support for AC4 as well, but it was just a minor spec update - not a big thing at all That's a somewhat different story, because it is still one-way. It works as follows: The original broadcaster inserts SCTE35 messages into the stream to indicate begin and end of commercial blocks. Regional head stations use this to replace the original signal during that time and transmit regional commercials instead. ATSC3.0 is at least provisioning for scenarios where they can identify who you are and locally replace the broadcast commercials with some which are coming from an IP stream and are "targeted" to your personal profile. I don't know whether this is being used already, but it's something they want to do. That's also why it's being stated at many places that ATSC3.0 presentation is more like a "web page", which is being presented as a kind of achievement or benefit, sometimes also referred to as "interactive tv". But the one and only motivation behind all this is to overcome the anonymous (one-way) nature of broadcast TV. They are just trying to hide this behind some fancy marketing speech. Correct. Providing full quality IPTV is usually implemented via multicast IP backbone which is hardly feasible to provide in a global way (i.e. crossing provider-boundaries). Of course it's not generally a bad thing. In mobile situations, it's even beneficial to have lower-bandwidth streams as you don't need full quality on small device screens and the network wouldn't be capable to transport high-bandwidth streams. But for recording and possibly viewing on large TV screens, you always want to have the best possible quality as input to Emby server, and TVnext will allow you to have both at the same time: record a tv broadcast in full quality while streaming it to a mobile device at lower bandwidth simultaneously (while receiving just a single stream from an IPTV provider or allocating just a single tuner otherwise). I think the one and only important question in the context of this transition hasn't been really answered yet: What does the "substantially similar" requirement, which has been set up by the FCC, mean with regards to DRM. Will it mean that the "replacement broadcasts" must be free from DRM or not? There's no clear statement on this yet, but I hope they will come to clear up on this during the next 3.5 years..

@Luke i decided to do a fresh install of beta again. then moved the folder to the new hard drive i got. and started setting up. what i found is <PreferEpgChannelNumbers>true</PreferEpgChannelNumbers> is set to true. which normally i would say yes for the majority of people. but there is no way to keep it as false. if you add m3u , shutdown emby then change to false. it will stay until you add/remove m3u or guide. and since it is set to use guide logos by default instead of ones from m3u. before you have a chance to shutdown and change to false it already loaded logos. and another issue is when it has loaded the guide logos it wont allow you to choose the one from the m3u. the simplest solution is to have a on/off switch in livetv section. i found an article on api for emby but not sure if that would help. but it does show that setting.

Can be closed, the setting (allow subtitle extraction on the fly) was disabled since my NAS struggles with some high bitrate HDR 4K HEVC files that contain a high number of subtitles for performance reasons. However if the setting was disabled, the remote playback of certain files containing subtitles was rejected for whatever reason. Enabling the setting allowes the remote playback once again of all files. edit: pls remove the embyserver.txt attachment from the inital post, thx

Actually it's not really "enhanced" in significant ways. It uses AC-4 audio which ties it to Dolby, it uses HEVC, but that's not something for which ATSC3 is needed for, and it uses a different container format, which makes it incompatible to everything else. It brings in back-channels via internet connection which allows them to display targeted ads and track users for what they are watching, when, how and how long. It's primarily a wet dream of the industry in order to fence their market and push their patents into it. Digital TV has always been driven by DVB and probably they didn't want to be the little brother or passenger anymore, just cooking their own little soup on top of it. Probably it's also an attempt to work around FCC regulations demanding a certain amount of free and non-DRM-protected content in broadcast TV. Technically, there wouldn't have been any need for this (when proceeding in parallel to DVB like usual) Interestingly, LG is no longer including ATSC 3 tuners in their TV models from 2024 onwards. North America, South Korea and Brazil (only testing/consideration), that's pretty much it. For using better video codecs, it doesn't require a new standard. Better radio transmission technologies could have been introduced with a small standard update which would have remained compatible (like DVT-T2 did). Content encryption has always existed for DVB standards. Actually, the first DVB broadcasts were paid services with encrypted content only, which hadn't changed for a while. Encryption exists and is in use for all variants (S/C/T) but there is a reasonable balance between free and encrypted channels. ISDB is a derivate of DVB and used in Japan and Brazil (DVB tuners can be used to receive ISDB with different firmware) Then there's DMB in China, about which I know nothing. All the rest of the world uses DVB (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATSC_standards#/media/File:Digital_terrestrial_television_standards.svg) It should be noted that these usually cannot compete with broadcast television in quality. A private beta is already behind us. Next-up is a larger-scale beta, involving a broader audience, so it won't be just a few hand-picked people like the previous one. Yet, I can't say when and how. Only thing I can say is that it hasn't been filed dead, and it's surely good to keep asking, even though it's probably the most requested major feature already.

Yeah, okay, that was nitpicking... There is the user-button which brings up the menu that has the app settings button on top. It really was just a first impressions thing and "being used" to the tv-client.

Hi. The system is reporting its refresh rates in such a way that it is confusing the app. We can possibly improve it so it won't do that.

When can we test this plugin?

Intel is THE KING when it comes to hardware transcoding, period. I've linked for you testing by Rigaya. If you don't know who they are, then you don't take encoding seriously :P. AMD is garbage tier when it comes to transcoding, both in speed and quality. And why spend so much on a NUC? If it's just going to be doing the transcoding, I'll parrot my "buy a smashed screen or refurb laptop of fleabay". You can get a 12th gen for about $200. (my i5-1235u was $130). In regards to 12th gen to 13th gen, there may be a little speed difference, but the ASICS are the same, so you won't get any new features. Even an i3 will do the job. You don't need an i9 if you're doing quicksync transcodes. I ran an i3-8130u and it had no problems with 10+ 1080p transcodes, and could handle 3 4k trancodes at most. As for the buggy or laggy, hardwire the server. Wifi is horrible for data transmission, no matter what the specs say.

I agree with @pir8radio that rewriting on the fly in a reverse proxy configuration is much easier to maintain because you don't need to change .js files after every update. I use traefik as my reverse proxy and I found the rewrite-body plugin. Follow that link for examples and how to do the static configuration. In my dynamic configuration I just have one additional middleware to use the plugin: middlewares: emby-change-title: plugin: plugin-rewritebody: lastModified: "true" rewrites: - regex: "<title>Emby<\\/title>" replacement: "<title>Steve's Server</title>" monitoring: methods: - GET types: - text/html logLevel: 0 # (Trace: -2, Debug: -1, Info: 0, Warning: 1, Error: 2) You can have as many rewrites as you need. The one in this example changes the title of the main web page. I guess we all have our reasons for doing this, and I also understand why it might make some emby devs nervous. My reason for doing it was that Google marked my domain as malicious because they decided that my Emby server is probably trying to steal passwords from app.emby.media users (which of course gets a lot more hits than my little server) since the login page has the same title and image. Their bot isn't smart enough to realize that the reason my login page looks the same is that it's using the same software and branding and that Emby doesn't easily let us configure our own branding. So I had to resort to making some changes this way. Just posting to add the traefik example to the above, really.

I'm looking through the options for some type of screensaver for the home screen in emby theater. My 70 year old grandma (who loves using Emby) regularly falls asleep in front of the TV and has complained about how bright the screen is. She would really like some kind of screensaver that auto dims to 95% or something. Told her I would pass that suggestion along to the developers. I tried looking for a screensaver plugin and searched the forums. If something does exist, or even some kind of workaround I'm all ears. I told her to find a dark spot in a movie she likes and just hit pause in the mean time. I have all power saving options in windows disabled, not sure if that matters, or a possible work around could be used with windows power options?

20220517_205852.mp4 Horizon： 20220517_220435.mp4 emby轮播海报实现思路，给有缘人，如果你看到并且对你有帮助，不客气。 搭建另一个轮播的网页，引用这个网站的frame框架到emby内部，就行了。 你甚至可以把爱奇艺首页搬进emby，但是那样是无法实现点击标题跳转到emby的媒体页面的，必须给每个URL一个media item ID，然后才能跳转到对应ID的媒体页面。 所以这个首页轮播的网页只能你自己搭建，设置自己的item ID。 并且，因为同一部片子，在不同的emby服务器上的ID 也不同， 也就是说这个网站搭建了以后，只能给你自己用，给别人引用，也是实现不了点击跳转的，因为Url跳转的itemID跟他数据库的ID对不上。

Hi @chef - did you get anywhere on the Plugin for this (re our 'Recommendations PM's) - Yes it won't be a full screen poster (and never will be, unless custom designed or a strip copied out a background) but using existing 'banners' works pretty well to give you 2-3 'spotlight' items - which look very different from the other posters on the main page. Maybe lets re-engage on that ?

HI, I would like to request a feature where, when searching for a movie or tv show, if multiple versions exist in seperate librarys,then the librarys would be labeled. For example if I search for movie YYY I might get two returned search results, but I have no idea if this is the 4k version, the non 4k version etc(unless playing). So a library name on each movie in some way to indicate which library movie YYY is in. thanks

I would like this to be configurable on / off and not random. The server administrator should be able to manually define the content of this section. It would be useful for my family, especially for older members who feel uncomfortable browsing libraries.