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Yes. Hard to believe how someone could think otherwise. It's too big for a plugin, but it is already something similar. Since migration and disruption of user experience had been brought up quite often as an argument against it (meaning that a switch from one day to the other would disrupt TV setup and functionality), I had changed it to be switchable via command -line parameter. This means that you can start Emby Server with classic TV features or with TVnext. It is possible to switch from one to the other and back, and both configurations are retained. To enable this, only a small set of low-risk changes needs to be applied to the regular server code, The current combined codebase has server beta 4.8.0.36 as it's basis. It can be updated to the latest server version within a few hours. I just need to hit a button, and an hour later there is a Windows installer setup ready to download. The installation can co-exist with a regular Emby Server installation because it uses a different installer and different ports (7... instead of 8...), allowing it to run side-by-side. And in addition to that, the server with TVnext allows you to switch between legacy TV and TVnext (restart required). This provides maximum flexiibility for all cases and has effectively killed most concerns and arguments which had been made. The bottom line is that there's are no technical reasons for which it could not be made available and there's no prerequisite work which would be needed to be done first. Though, I cannot publish this without consent. Whether it is made available or not is Emby's decision. It surely made sense to wait until after the release. But as we're past this now, I really hope that we can finally resume where we had left off.

I think I've mentioned it earlier, so you might be able to find it. It's just that as it's close to beta now, I didn't want to spoil it in a side note before there is an official announcement

You can't dangle a carrot like that and expect to get away scott free ...

@lukeoslaviaI don't wish you to leave the community either. I think you've been somewhat intentionally pointed in your questions but I've answered them the best that I can. We need a privacy policy that covers every part of our operation - which includes this forum. The forum itself is nothing but a huge set of "shared" information from individuals so requires a pretty broad policy to properly cover all possible outcomes. We also have the ability for 3rd parties to write plug-ins for our system and cannot always know or control their actions (but try our best to make sure nothing objectionable is ever done in them). We don't have the team of lawyers that others may have to craft something super specific but I don't really think we need one either because it has always been our policy that your server is your server, your content is your content. We do absolutely none of this: We never know what is on your server or what you are watching. That isn't our business model. That is exactly Plex's business model, however. You can either accept that or not. Your prerogative. Prosper.

No, it's a manual at the mo. I think it has good reason to be in the catalog! That's up to @ShanePto decide. I don't mind installing it manually, hopefully it can work with 4.8..

HI, yes currently these are hardcoded but they need to be reworked to be dynamic and use all of the possible provider ids that are in the server.

So a quick update to this feature. I've re-written the script to now automatically take all the suitable named playlist files (anything prefixed with [WATCHLIST] <name>) and create libraries from them for user <name> - no need for parsing xml anymore. You can launch it from scripter-x on a schedule - rather than needing an os scheduler Makes full use of the new Playlist permissions - so as an Admin you can give users permissions to make recommendations / watch list for other users. If they don't have access, then they can't add a recommendation for them. If permissioned, they can also view (or edit) other users watchlists. 'All Users' is now 'Spotlight' - and this creates its own Library called 'Spotlight' - I restrict this allow only certain users to add recommendation/content. I'll publish something soon.

Is it possible to have a banner on the front page, and/or popup to announce maintence going on with the MediaBrowser service. It would be nice to be able to announce a maintenance to family and my kids who are at their moms. Anyone else think this would be neat? thanks!

Found it, sorry the settings was lost in translation. The settings is under "PROGRAMMBEGINN". A better translation would be "Anmeldung"

You can support the existing feature request here:

@LukeI tried the Backup & Restore Plugin. Unfortunately, this is exactly not what I am looking for in this threat. This plugin just copies the backup files back to the new installation and makes some configurations. But it does not rebuild a complete new library.db database and imports the old backup configuration. And this is what I - and wordlover - need. We need a possibility to import the settings in the new library. Or we need a solution to somehow rebuild a brand new database and import all the information from the old database, which is full of old stuff. As you now, there have been problems in the past during updates.

Yes, the menu appears everywhere it should. I was able to resolve the error message appearing when Calculate User Engagement runs by removing all items from the Top Picks list and selecting my Movies library from the Library Location dropdown, however now the task just runs for 0 seconds and does not appear to add any entries in the log or actually do anything. Same thing for the Update Top Picks task. Also, Top Picks now does not seem to include TV show libraries; at least, I don't see anywhere in the configuration where I can select my TV show library. From scanning through this thread it seems like this may be intentional but I'm not sure. EDIT: manually adding a movie to the Top Picks allows both the tasks to run successfully and generate new thumbnails and everything but I still see this error in the logs: 2024-02-09 07:42:12.667 Error Top Picks: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. *** Error Report *** Version: 4.8.1.0 Command line: /opt/emby-server/system/EmbyServer.dll -programdata /var/lib/emby -ffdetect /opt/emby-server/bin/ffdetect -ffmpeg /opt/emby-server/bin/ffmpeg -ffprobe /opt/emby-server/bin/ffprobe -restartexitcode 3 -updatepackage emby-server-deb_{version}_amd64.deb Operating system: Linux version 5.15.0-94-generic (buildd@lcy02-amd64-096) (gcc (Ubuntu 11.4.0-1ubuntu1~22.04) 11.4.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.38) #104-Ubunt Framework: .NET 6.0.25 OS/Process: x64/x64 Runtime: opt/emby-server/system/System.Private.CoreLib.dll Processor count: 4 Data path: /var/lib/emby Application path: /opt/emby-server/system System.NullReferenceException: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at Emby.TopPicks.Drawing.SpotlightImageRenderer.RenderTopPicksThumbImage(Int32 rank, SKBitmap bitmapBackdrop, SKBitmap bitmapLogo, String output) at Emby.TopPicks.SpotlightLibraryUpdateScheduledTask.RenderImages(Int32 rank, BaseItem libraryBaseItem, String outputFolder, CancellationToken cancellationToken) at Emby.TopPicks.SpotlightLibraryUpdateScheduledTask.<>c__DisplayClass37_0.<<Execute>b__2>d.MoveNext() Source: Emby.TopPicks TargetSite: Void RenderTopPicksThumbImage(Int32, SkiaSharp.SKBitmap, SkiaSharp.SKBitmap, System.String) The fanart.png and folder.jpg items are still populated in the /data/top-picks directory and appear when I look at the Top Picks library in a browser though.

Hello guys! New big emby update and therefore a new update for the theme. Hopefully I haven't missed anything but so far seems to work good in my testing environment (personally haven't gone to the new version yet, but will soon probably). Emby-Stable-style-v2.9.txt

Edited your comment down to focus on the parts I wanted to repond to. But I'd love to have a conversation with you in some form (probably not this thread) about why forking open source software feels like theft to you, and why you feel that jellyfin is untrustworthy, despite all the code being open to inspect and confirm no sort of data is being collected. I mean that completely in good faith by the way, as I'm always happy to engage in conversation or debate when there's conflicting views on a topic.

I detest "privacy statements" and I also believe that they are worth nothing as they are generally written by lawyers (Upholstered parasites) and made so vague that their meaning can be almost anything. There is a big difference between: "We collect no user identifiable data" and "This is the data we collect and nothing else" (followed by a list of what is collected) While they may seem similar it is much harder for the Upholstered parasites to twist the meaning of the second than the first. However I have never seen a privacy statement that avoids vague wording and statements that can be twisted to mean almost anything. Since the lawyers have taken over almost everything I trust almost nothing and, where I can I actually check what is "collected" and avoid many things/programs that even seem sketchy. Plex collects a LOT of data in a form that contains user identifiable data and they may remove user data after they get it but no one can prove that to my satisfaction. So far I have never seen any user identifiable data being sent by Emby but that does not mean they are perfect. I just do not see how anything Emby has collected could harm me at all. By the way Jellyfin came into existence (They technically did not steal anything but it just feels like theft) I believe they are untrustworthy and therefore I do not trust them to do as stated in their privacy statement. I have not, except very briefly about 2-3 years ago, installed Jellyfin and briefly tested it. I found it severely lacking in both stability and proper operation but the current Jellyfin could be rather different. I just won't use it simply because of the underhanded way they got started. Currently I refuse to use Plex because they have lied to me many times and using Plex simply to watch media (which is all I do) and I think the lawyers that wrote their privacy statement made extra effort to make sure that they could do almost anything and that is exactly how Plex behaves. It should be noted that Emby's privacy statement is only a little better (again clearly written by layers) but Emby has also, so far at least, behaved like they are quite honest. This thread should remain open but I believe the moderation efforts should get very tight and bans should be both more likely and tightly enforced. I usually enjoy differences and like to hear many sides of an issue (sometimes I have actually changed my mind) but too many times this thread has become little more than a forum for name calling and making up stuff on both sides and that kind of rhetoric is not helpful to anyone. I have to single out @Abobader and say that he has shown remarkable restraint. I wish we could have a good discussion of all three media managers as to the pros/cons and feature groups and debate, civilly but that seem highly unlikely, at least in this thread and it is equally impossible for any forum on a website that belongs to any involved company to produce such a debate and have it not favor the hosting party. @Abobader I really hope you can avoid locking this thread but I will also understand if you cannot.

and we wait...

New updates will not supersede pending updates. So if 4.7 is pending update to 4.8.0.80 and 4.8.1.0 is then release the server doesn't do anything do to existing pending update. So if you have not restarted then you have to delete the update waiting to install upon restart. Goto C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\programdata\updates delete the update. Restart Emby should download newest updated version.

I updated to 4.8 and noticed that the Hide Played Media From section under the User Display settings doesn't have an option for Recently Released Movies. It would be great if this option was added!

My apologies if this has been answered elsewhere, but I have been searching everywhere without a definitive answer on this. I am running Emby server in Ubuntu server 22.04 which is running in esxi on an HP ML350 Gen9 with twin E5-2697 v4 CPUs and an AMD MI25 GPU. When I select Enable "hardware accelerated tone mapping" it still falls back to my CPU when it encounters an HDR video file that needs transcoding. The following is a screenshot of my settings: I was perusing through my transcoding logs and noticed it attempts to use the GPU but has this string of errors before giving up and falling back to my CPU: 01:07:01.882 [AVHWDeviceContext @ 0x3148b40] Failed to get number of OpenCL platforms: -1001. 01:07:01.882 [hwmap@f2 @ 0x24f4f40] Failed to created derived device context: -19. 01:07:01.882 [hwmap@f2 @ 0x24f4f40] Failed to configure output pad on hwmap@f2 01:07:01.890 Error reinitializing filters! 01:07:01.890 Failed to inject frame into filter network: No such device 01:07:01.890 Error while processing the decoded data for stream #0:0 01:07:01.906 Conversion failed! I've been getting conflicting answers about whether or not tone mapping is supported with AMD in a Linux environment, the last I saw mentioned it might be possible with openCL of which I have the ROCr runtime package installed alongside the amdgpu drivers. I'd really like to avoid having to use my CPUs for this given that they're terribly inefficient comparatively, and not using tone mapping at all produces terrible picture quality. I attached a transcoding log example as well as my latest server log. Thanks in advance! ffmpeg-transcode-d14eba47-9a25-4b1c-8e9b-5f0dcc5215ae_1.txt embyserver.txt

Hello, Perhaps I am not the first one to ask this question but it will be very cool if this feature could be implemented. I have 2 servers one at home and the other at work. ( and soon a third one...) So I have a movies library called movies on each server. I would like to see all the movies from a single 'virtual server location' when I use the app (ios or android ) where I will see only one movies library containing movies informations from the movie library at work and the movie library at home. It's an aggregation of movies informations from the movie library at work and the movie library at home. In fact when a user have multiple servers it will be perfect if another choice in the server list called "all servers" for example appears automatically with a merge of media informations from librairies with the same name on different servers.

It's up to you how you move forward, I am never going to tell anyone to disregard what they believe in, if you believe this is an Emby issue then ok. To me this looks like it is an FP, no other AV tool in the virus total list (not even kaspersky) are picking this up in a static scan, it looks like a kaspersky FP on a behaviour, the behaviour being the launching of a BAT file (regardless of what is in the bat file) and that possibly with the age of this new version (the file being very new) kaspersky triggers a detection, probably incorrectly thus causing this potential FP. If you feel this is something you need to stick with and kaspersky is correct, then you need to act accordingly. Having said all this, Emby can not fix this, it is what it is. You have the facts, put your big boy pants on and move forward, either delete Emby because kaspersky thinks it is malware or add an exclusion to allow Emby to run.

no, the assumption is that a show has one intro. I think playback clients also assume this.

Ohhhh NICE! Great catch Luke! There was an emoji in my server's name and after I removed the emoji I was able to successfully connect to Emby connect! Thank you so much, solved!

That is what they were asking for, a clearer privacy document on what is collected and how it is used. They were not asking for changes to the product or data collection. This was not directed at you or the admin team here in particular, it was not about locking or banning, it was more directed at the general user base of Emby that use this forum, if you say the something negative about Emby you can very quickly have a few of the more hard core users start to get snippy and dismissive, this is not just this forum but the internet in general I guess, but you can see it here on this forum and I have seen it a number of times over the years. It can be hard, people/users of a platform get invested, and it feels personal when someone points out issues they are having with your favourite media software, it is easier to throw it back at them than try to empathise and work out what their problem is. Perhaps a thread on the Home Lab forum on redit: https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/ I actually think this thread has been civil, no name-calling yet, some of the hard core fans here can get very in your face but in general most people here are cool and have some level of chill.

I've been working on something different during the past few months, a beta will be available shortly but it's not TV related. Regarding TVnext: I've kept quiet as long as it's on the razor's edge and maybe it still is. The one thing I can say though is this: In case you'll see any other TV-related work being done in the beta rather than resuming where TVnext was left off, then you'd have a final answer, meaning that TVnext will never come. But still...fingers crossed...

Yep appears to be new as just retested in 4.7.14.0 and Collection was maintained.

Now Playing is visible for me

Resolved.. Restricted that user to 1 Stream Restricted that user to NO Transcoding of audio or video That user is using a roku and was not exiting the emby app they were just hitting the back button I saw the video in the GUI now playing and it was direct stream I asked them to restart the video and that is when I discovered they were not exiting, closing the stream, properly. They probably had 3 streams going lastnight and this morning when I grabbed the logs. The cpu is much happier. I have left the 1 stream in the profile to remind them to exit properly.

With such a MASSIVE release would you make a 4.8 blog post highlighting the new features and changes, please? It's been more than a week, some info would be appreciated. And no, reading the GitHub changelog does not help much. Thank you.

Can reproduce as the Books themselves do not have tags only the folder so Suggestions and folder view show the content. See lots of empty folder as they are still visible via folder view. But believe there will be quirks when tagging folders vs items.

I did not mean anyone specific in my post of that Taylor Swift song. I posted the song so others would not join into this debate. I am sure I am not the only one reading this thread who saw it "Going South". Also I cannot perform those actions to punish users on these forums when they misbehave and attack with text. I help out on the Roku app and try to solve issues on the forum. We focus on what is important to our users and we listen to their input. We do not put the focus on monetizing your browsing/profile data, sending your watched lists to other users, or forcing you to tie your users to our services where we can spam them to death.

HI, we are discussing this whole thing internally, including the document. I can see what you mean because when you look at it from a glance, it mentions "website" in several places and this needs to be updated. It is a document that is intended to apply to both the website and software, but I think there are places where it is not specific enough.

There is a point worth discussing with the privacy notice. Just because someone does not agree with the Emby team or for that matter the community does not mean they should be singled out for moderation actions, I don't actually see any point in this thread that they broke any forum rules, disagreeing with people is not what we should be limiting.

OK ok @lukeoslavia For sure you do not want to accept the fact everyone had explain to you, and you keep misleading the fact with all your false indicating of something not there from the start. Your post now under moderation approval matters, you really force this on your account.

Is this something that is going to be implemented in the future by chance? I see many of the competitor options to Emby do fully support transcoding with AMD GPUs including tone mapping. I've been enjoying Emby a lot, but this is a bit of a deal-breaker to be honest. Either way thanks for the answer!

Pretty much yes, really depends on how much code you write depending on how targeted it needs to be. So target the view or container on each page to keep it local to that area. But text element will/could be different across pages so you will have add them per page.

Hi, the next update to the Emby LG app will be brought up to speed with 4.8 features and will support both multi-user login as well as the new profile pin feature of 4.8. It is currently in LG review so hopefully it will be available to you within the next week or two. Thanks.

Is this plugin available on the catalog? Or a way to have it auto update when an update is available?

Hey All, I see the new version is release so I can finally work on the fix... (I battled to get my hands on the changed libraries before hand). I will set some time aside this weekend to resolve. Once the new version is compatible, I will look at feature/bug requests. Priority is getting this on the new version. (I wanna upgrade toooooo). Awesome Sauce.

As much as I'd like to put my own branding on the server, I can see why the Emby team would want to keep their own logo to. @AlanQdoes have a good idea with the Powered By Emby branding option which I'd be happy to have, I know other software also has this, i.e., if you use a custom logo on Portainer, it shows Powered By Portainer underneath it. I think it should be a Premiere only option to. Just a quick logo here as an example of what custom branding could look like;

Guess this guy should stick with plex, since it does what it wants.

https://forums.plex.tv/t/apple-tv-4k-audio-sync-issues-with-enhanced-player/522782/1 I know that people have the same problem with Emby but my friends have the problem with plex and only with plex, that's why I know this post which dates from 2020 (well before even). plex (my friend): IMG_4760.mp4 Emby (me): 71511475431__328D8632-B0EA-4685-B627-BF40FC856467.mp4 Same video, same subtitles. Why wouldn't I have external subtitles? These are subtitles. This is precisely the point I made in my previous message. Emby does what he's asked. Plex does weird things. This same friend cannot play videos with subtitles in ass format without Plex transcoding on Apple TV. Emby does not do this for example on Apple TV. And I'm not English (that must have something to do with my English haha) so the subtitles are very used (forced or complete depending on the language of the audio) As someone else said previously, Emby's team is much smaller than Plex's. If I understand correctly there is only one developer for the Apple TV application who does a very good job and who, as soon as I have a bug, resolves it. The application for Apple TV is still young and improves from version to version. It's certainly nice, but it doesn't help at all for a media server. With features like discover, or others, it doesn't help to play a video correctly and doesn't help with the user experience for video playback (or music playback). And as I said emby is not absent of defects or problems. But Emby does what we ask and the team behind Emby, despite what we may say, is very responsive and knows what it is talking about and if you have problems, nothing is stopping you from opening a post in the correct section on the forum and I think Luke will be happy to help you.

I read the thread carefully and I think debating on "plex is better" or "emby is better" is silly because it depends on your preferences and judging a tool/program for its interface is nonsense and I think the answer to that question is to try. "plex the UI is way better" VLC is one of the most widely used players in the world, yet its interface is old and there's no real design. But why do people use VLC? Because it works and it does what it's designed to do: play media. I was a plex user and I left it because the playback problems were multiplying (I can name some that have been solved and others that still haven't and it's been over 5 years since I switched and the problems are piling up). I'm not saying that Emby is problem-free, but it does what it's supposed to do, without adding any more useless features. And I have friends who are just fed up with having to educate people to deactivate this or that feature because their users receive emails they never wanted with every new "social" feature. When I run Emby (or even when my users run Emby) they want to watch media, they can and have no problems with duplicate subtitles, out-of-sync audio (a problem that has been a top-trend on the plex forum for quite some time despite their update) and the interface doesn't lag (if you tell me it's not slow on TVs you're kidding yourself) And these are just examples. And to say: "look, we've got lots of features" but to be unable to play external subtitles without them being burned by the server into the video in addition to being displayed by the player is pretty useless I think (I can give you a very nice picture of the problem). Plex is moving more and more towards a streaming service than a self-hosted media server. And having an IMDB rating on a poster with PMM is good, it's pretty, but it's completely useless. My message may seem angry but it is not. I just find it odd that someone would sell a service on another service's forum. And I find that Luke (and the others I don't know) do a very good job on the interface and that it gets better with each update.

Wow! Even though it is a completely different thing than the "Recommend to a user" plugin we discussed here in this thread, this feature is also awesome. It can be like "Popular now" on Netflix, or just a custom list of things to recommend to everyone.. I like it. I do still however want the per-user recommendation system as well..

btw - watch this space. I won't say any more - but the first stages of having this appear as a channel/plugin on your emby screen are in testing as we speak ...

Thanks @chef It's a pretty simple concept tbh - I use an XML parser to extract the file path\location out of a normal playlist.xml file (stored in ..\programdata\data\playlists) and dump it to a .txt file which is just a list of unc filepath/names. This is then used as the input for the strm file creation (link to the real file) and it copies the necessary metadata along with it into the pre-created 'User Recommended' subfolder as part of the 'Recommendations' library. So you just permission up the relevant subfolder for that user - add the Recommendations library' to the top of their library list - and bingo, out pops user created recommendations based on whatever was in that playlist. The beauty is the STRM files match the watched status of the real file - so as they are watched, they drop off the recommendation list It probably should also remove it from the playlist, but doesn't currently. The script to create the strm files runs on a windows schedule. recommendations.zip My early (poor) proof of concept code plus xml.exe is in the attached zip if you want to see if you can rescue it into something workable lol - I am no developer haha. In sequence - the xml_to_txt file parses the playlists, then pl_to_strm creates the files in the correct library. Emby does the rest. I'm not sure if smart playlists or this functionality is on the Horizon but this sure would make a good plugin in the interim but I don't have the skills to do this - thus resorting to batch files .. If you like the idea and want to run with it for a proper plugin - then you certainly have my blessing.

And we appreciate it. But at least premium members should have an option to show logo. We also work hard to pay the subscription price

i wish Emby would allow live streaming using Youtube live and Facebook live links. So we could live stream football matches, live music etc.

We have discussed this and would like to eventually get there.