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The simple fact of the matter is for something like Watchparty to work properly - Emby needs to allow the user to be interactive with options outside of just playing media. 'Alternative' ways of adding yourself to a watch party have already been achieved in the Proof of Concept done at the start of this thread - so as a PoC it works - but is this something emby would want to be used vs the offerings from Plex, JF, Amazon etc ? Of course not - and this is why while the PoC was successful, the concept could not be carried forward into a fully featured product. Until the necessary core functionality is added - it cannot be developed by a 3rd party dev/plugin - they simply do not have the tools to achieve a satisfactory solution. And if the Core did add the functionality, they likely want to use it for their own implementation ...

Have to agree, for me and my extended family, LiveTV is very rarely watched 'Live' and has not been for the last 5-10 years. If it's not available via streaming, then it's recorded from OTA via Emby and watched later - primarily to avoid the appauling number of adverts that make LiveTV a soul destroying experience .. With this in mind - WatchParty (for me) is a far higher priority than LiveTV.

Emby for LG TV's 1.0.41 has been released. Stay tuned to the blog for the release announcement.

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Hey guys I made these for my own setup - better to share than keep for myself. Hope you enjoy! Let me know if you use

.. so the starting sync aspect is probably workable. I have multi clients running near perfect sync - you just need to use the session id to gather the client type. Android for example appears to start 1.75s after a web browser - so you simply advanced that session start to match the faster starting web browser. curl -X "POST" "http://emby.rbjtech.lan:8096/emby/Sessions/7e2f75d246dc1ef13651893be1b4304d/Playing?ItemIds=3771839&StartPositionTicks=00000000&PlayCommand=PlayNow&api_key=*" -H "accept: */*" -d "" curl -X "POST" "http://emby.rbjtech.lan:8096/emby/Sessions/b7157f63e7db1a5f388f6daad89c3a63/Playing?ItemIds=3771839&StartPositionTicks=17500000&PlayCommand=PlayNow&api_key=*" -H "accept: */*" -d "" Pause and Messaging don't need the delay, they are instant in all sessions. They all work fine via the API as does jumping to the film page that you are about to watch. Each client probably has it's own set of 'delays' - so those just need working out vs the fastest one. Transcoding clients will probably be a challange... RemoteEndPoint will tell you if it's local or remote. Remote for me (WAN) adds about 0.5 sec to the equation. But that can easily be dynamically worked out all from the session id info. I have a remote session in near perfect sync - on my phone over a vpn.. What we really need is a way for the CLIENT to send back that it has started play at time X. So by simply sending the above http/https POST commands to the emby web server - ANY external services can control the sessions. All it needs is the session id's and the emby api key... Any web developers out there .. ?

Denial

Not sure which stage of the grieving process all of this is.

1. Media Center Theme now completely gone from Display Settings. Blue Radiance still there so why can't Media Center Theme as it is a single coloured background basically. TV more than powerful enough to cope (OLED model) 2. Backdrops do not display for Music or Music videos and the primary image (cover art) is always shown. Tried adjustment in Display Settings. backdrop.jpg is in the folder. 3. In Music Videos library, FOLDERS option, the cover art (folder.jpg) is still smaller than Emby Theatre and other apps show it. 4. Stupid rubbish looking left menu has been added and pressing BACK at home screen confuses it with webOS hub menu popping up over it. Need the option to disable that HIGHLY annoying left menu option which has crept into the Android app too (and has taken away a perfectly user acceptable exit dialog and just dumps you out of app without even asking). 5. The Theme background (Blueradiance in this case) does not show when you click on a tv programme from the guide. A grey background is shown instead with the programme details and play button. On a positive note, Continue Watching is back now on home screen in horizontal view.

Don't shoot the messenger, man. I'm just telling you how it is. But surely you understand that just because the software is closed source, it doesn't negate the terms of the GPL licence. The requirement to open source any code that has been made from referencing GPL code is something that has even been acknowledged in this very thread by the plugin developer. So take from that what you will.

Can we get back to the topic of the Watch party feature request?

Really?

Hi Luke, I installed the new LG TV App 1.0.41 and the "Continue Watching" Section in TV mode home screen: Horizontal is showing up again! This Ticket can be closed! -> resolved

Just updated my LG Emby app to 1.0.41 and now it works correctly. Thanks.

Tivimate is nothing of the sort. It's just an IPTV player. It does not provide any streams, just as Emby does not provide any media. Tivimate is completely legal and it's the most popular IPTV player on Android

Can't argue about it making sense logically but just wanted to chime in that having "yesterday" displayed in the Upcoming section is incredibly useful from a functionality standpoint. I would hate to see this removed. For me (and I suspect a lot of others), it's my go to to see which recently aired episodes I need to source each day. It becomes even more valuable when collecting shows (i.e. USA/AUS) that don't air in your own regions (UK) since one is less likely to be aware what day of the week they broadcast.

Yeah that watch party test plugin was the quickest, and dirtiest attempt there could be. No doubt. LOL!

You would be right, according to their blog when this was released: https://www.plex.tv/en-ca/blog/let-the-next-episode-roll/ Netflix also shared how they did this, or at least some details about it, in this article (which I've also shared previously): https://netflixtechblog.com/extracting-contextual-information-from-video-assets-ee9da25b6008 It would seem that text detection is often used, as well as some form of image fingerprinting (similar to how Intro Skip uses audio, but with frames of video), and black frame detection to fine-tune the result. I believe I also saw somewhere (though I can't seem to recall where exactly) that extracting motion vectors from video were also used to identify credits because end credits will typically have no motion or have constant motion in one direction. So essentially, it would seem that in order get this right, a combination of inputs would have to be used to accurately detect credits, and doing so would likely be significantly more demanding on any given system than the method used for Intro Skip. This is why Plex chose to anonymously (and by default) upload the identified credit markers in a cloud database to reduce the system ressources required for this process, though this would go against Emby's stance on data privacy.

Hi, in light of the removed functionality to show missing episodes in the episode list in 4.8, I would like to request a feature that helps to prevent the user from accidentally skipping over missing episodes. Example: I have a series where episode 5 is missing and I just watched episode 4. At the moment, when playing the next episode, emby will silently skip over episode 5 and play episode 6 instead. I would like to be warned and asked to continue (with input required) when that happens. The warning should be shown not only if the next episode is started automatically after the last one but also if I start playing it manually, later. I think this would be very helpful to avoid confusion and it would probably be sufficient to compare the number of the current episode to the last played one and if it is not n_last + 1, ask the user to confirm.

Thanks for the offer @soderlund91, I should have a version out in a day or two... Just trying to find the time

This has been reported in emby theatre forum by another user since it is not available it should be a future request. In WMC it is slightly complicated you create two files with the link to your radio station a bit like pls files. This is much better than tunein, tunein has too many cards and options this way only the stations you listen to will be listed there. With this there is no external app everything plays directly in WMC and you control it by remote. This is WMC mcl file <application name="Narodni Radio " url="Narodni Radio .htm" startimage="Narodni Radio .jpg" thumbnailimage="Narodni Radio .jpg" description="Narodni Radio " category="1" companyname=""> <capabilitiesrequired directx="false" audio="true" video="false" intensiverendering="false" console="false" cdburning="false" /> </application> Then corresponding htm file <script> function IsMCEEnabled() { return true; } window.external.MediaCenter.PlayMedia(1, "http://s7.iqstreaming.com:9498"); window.external.MediaCenter.Experience.GoToFullScreen() window.external.MediaCenter.CloseApplication(); </SCRIPT>

Well crap, that did it. Luke you saved me again. Perhaps I never clicked save and the persistent setting fooled me. I feel pretty foolish, but I'll leave the thread in hopes this helps someone else. Thanks again Luke, I appreciate you.

Now that 1.0.41 has been released , I’d just like to point that a blog post for release 1.0.39 never occurred.

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Honestly it works great it hasn't missed a beat that is what I am after it's easy to use, yesterday my family picked it up straight away but got stuck trying to do a series for a new show pass is a confusing term. UI could do with a minor refresh currently there is no distinguishing a series recording from normal recording. Emby uses the same indicator as WMC and to me circle and double circle is universal so not sure why they went with an ugly colour for the cell. I am just blown away how fast it starts the recordings on the Ipad and on Android tv your finger hasn't even lifted and it's already on the screen. So the devs have done an outstanding job in the speed and stability whereas in Emby android clients is every time I use it I had to cross fingers will the channel tune or not you know it's not going to tune after it goes over the normal 10 seconds delay. Some do some don't maybe there is something specific to Australian market where's channels DVR has figured it out. I also like that if something is recording and you click on it prompts you do you want to start at beginning or live. Used that yesterday to go straight live rather than beginning. It's these little details that make a product great. I haven't enabled the enhanced-library-browsing yet I just want to test the basics. The server has tone of options. Theater is good in windows because you can use the windows keys like for example I asked Luke can you when you press the home button it takes you to the default screen so when you get lost you press home, you press recorded tv you get recordings guide button takes to the guide whereas Channels DVR doesn't have a windows client. Emby has lot of potential and areas for improvement just getting tired of asking and sometimes I feel that I am the only one using Live tv in emby. Like TV guide not working properly I must have asked so many times in the last nine years that I am finally over it now that I discovered Channels DVR. It wasn't a problem before as I used WMC in the main living room. I have tried copying into the recordings folder but it didn't work it does work in the personal media and it organises it like in emby. I probable should kept quiet now we have turned this topic " To complain about lacking TVnext progress" into Channels DVR review

I notice my audio gets of of sync a lot when pausing on my apple tv, it might not be related to homepod because i don't use that.

The card layout has changed. It was a quick fix, and there is a chance that the card layout could have some extra time spent to make it look a little more pro.

Not sure then but glad you are back up.

plenty of free space, one of my tv drives was full but my main drive with the install has a couple hundred gigs free

thank you for your time

Are you maybe running out of HDD space? Or does your transcode-temp folder contain excessive number of files?

Appreciated. I'll try one other setup with a different emby server to narrow down the problem.

Just updated and it looks good. Thanks much @chef

Just to add to this as well, it doesn't matter how many times I run this or when the task is run, it always picks up the same amount of movies with multiple versions and always only selects 222 to merge. I ran it multiple times throughout today and my library appears no different than how it started

Hey Hoptional, It seems that it's only working (if at all) for a very small fraction of the content I have in the library. I went through recently and manually merged a large chunk of movies from the start of the library all the way to movies starting with the letter 'D' a few days ago thinking I could solve the issue myself only to have it all undone again when the task was triggered for version grouping I've checked a few different movies that I know have multiple versions and confirmed that they're matched up correctly with the same TMDB ID, I've never so far needed to lock metadata or used .strm files so they're already ruled out as potential issues One random example I have that I've experienced recently is 'The Beekeeper' which I know I've only got in 1080p and 4k, but every time I manually merge this it's split apart again any time the auto version grouping add-on is triggered. If I run the task manually with the files separated nothing happens, they remain as two separate entries in the library so I'm at a loss as to what's happening I did check if there were already versions merged together in these instances (star wars and star trek for example as shown in my first comment) but there aren't any other versions merged into any of the entries

It would be nice to have an announcement for 4.8 before 4.9 or 5.0 is released ... just sayin', cuz you know, it just seems like a reasonable thing.

Thanks @Luke I have pushed a fix.

@Luke I think I tagged you in another post about this a while ago, do you know what the ETA/timeline is for this to be implemented?

.8 seems to be mostly working from what I can tell. This plugin really should be part of the core as has been requested a couple dozen times probably.

I recommend using only what is native to the OS you are using as I find AV software to be more scam that effective. I have had infections in the fairly distant past when using three different anti-virus software products. I also have seen several different infections on friend's computers when using some of the best AV software. About 8 years ago I started only using what is native to Windows and I also started NEVER clicking on any email link. I also only use Thunderbird for email. Except I use Proton email's web interface. I also exercise care when surfing the web and I have not been infected since. Also many of my friends have also started doing the same and they remain infection free. I cannot say that the professional AV programs do not work but I do not think they are really needed if you just take reasonable precautions. Oh, one more thing: I do not use or even directly read any of the anti-social media. As far as checking of viruses or malware goes > use Microsoft's tools for that but they have not found anything, yet. I may be in some danger but giving my money to the charlatans and crooks that produce most AV products, particularly the ones you either pay for or don't pay for I have decided to withhold support until I actually become convinced that I am in danger or until I see real compelling evidence that there really is danger. I believe that 99.9% of of infections are the direct result of doing something stupid so I will try and avoid that and I feel about as safe online as I feel walking to my neighborhood market and the biggest danger there is that a LARGE excessively friendly dog might run up and knock me over. With proper care the internet is actually a very safe place. Also good regular backups are more effective at protecting data than just about anything else.

Just for reference here, there has been development on this, not by the original dev but there has been others that have contributed to keep it alive and working As mentioned by the other user above, this works for him and was working for me before I upgraded to 4.8.1.0

Funny. You didn’t post what version of emby you’re on or the version of the plug-in

Why would people think that this plugin works. Hasn’t the dev basically stopped support long ago? TV support in base emby is already there so they just need to like use that same code for movies. No reason this type basic feature should be missing.

True enough. I have always considered it easier to learn from others experience than to make all the mistakes myself......and that a friendly relationship is way easier to maintain then an adversarial one....

As mentioned above maybe sometime there could be a seperate Web Radio Library. Shouldnt be that hard just change some names and make it a little bit custom too "Top Header Display"

I had a few more ideas that would also be very nice Add the function to read out the now playing etc information of the current stream (if available) and display it where the song name should normally be If there was a separate library you could combine the song and album lines into one in the “Now Playing” screen and swap albums into artists: “Artist – Song” So if there is information about the current playback, it looks like this "Now running... Artist – song” or something Maybe someone is interested and this might get a little attention

Yes, sarcasm and / or ironi intended.

Thanks a lot for your correct answer GrimReaper. That's the way to do it It's like a hidden gem, when you (as I do) normally only use the arrow keys on my LG remote. When you use the arrow keys to come down to the movie list, it doesn't stop at the Movies header, and then you have to use arrow up, and then the Movies header becomes highlighted. None of my LG users have thought of that

Since the TV supports DTS I'm going to for the moment assume Emby is working properly and the problem was with their soundbar, which they originally told me they didn't have but apparently do.

Bump... I would like this to. I would be perfect to add your own webradio that you listen to , and have everything at one place. Then you can have all your movies , music , audiobooks and webradio at the same place. But i guess nothing came from this since its 6 years old topic. But maybe now...