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Update: Hey all, just thought I would put out a little update, there was quite a major change to the way v4.8 Emby frontend handles loading scripts and the like, so after much frustration (and help from @Luke) I can proudly say that I have the backend and frontend working with Emby 4.8. I have noticed one or two small issues I still need to address and would like to do some more testing to make sure all is well, don’t wanna break everyone’s stuff. I’ll drop a new version in the coming days if all goes well.

We need the missing and upcoming episodes old features back The new ones are terrible

Sure thing. I'll make it public. No issues here.

As you wrote the original code @chef, then you say if it's public or not - what emby copied/used/derived/asked to use/didn't ask to use in their private code is imo irrelevant. We kept it closed source at the time as we knew JF were sniffing - but I see zero reason why it cannot be open source now ? 100% up to you my friend.

I have a pretty big library (two figure TB) and the Emby database is about 120 MB... In this day and age that is nothing. I'd much rather have an option to add this feature back for a bit bigger database. Hell, even twice the size is NO problem whatsoever tbh

In agreement with everything @samuelqwesaid above. Maybe ask @chefif he wants to change the private repo to public - but in it's current state, some elements of the plugin are broken - and many sticking plasters have been added to make it work as integration to use the clients 'skip' was added after that got implemented (actually @Cheesegeezerwrote that bit) - and tbh was one of the main reasons why development stopped as we were told this was breaking things (which it wasn't..). I still use the Plugin today rather than the Core as frankly the Plugin still works better for me, but for how much longer I'm not sure. Emby need to finish what they started - no ability to change/lock the data, no editing, no credits, no exclude, no ignore episode 1 intro skip, no permission based skip, no proper intro naming/labelling, no stats etc The MVP attitude is a little sad - we were proud to be better than Plex at the time - with all the features we added (the main one being Credits) - now emby is sadly lacking the competitors in this area, as well as many others such as transcoding DV etc where once it was at the forefront.. We should not be 'catching up - we should be innovating...

Look for settings enabling web socket connections. In an nginx config it's the lines: proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade; proxy_set_header Connection $http_connection;

OK, looks like I found the issue. Without realising it, I had 'Under attack mode' turned on in cloudflare. I changed it to 'High' level security setting, and now I can connect using the android app & emby connect! So, I guess the app and connect cant beat the interstitial page, but a web browser obviously does. Thanks for the pointers guys, much appreciated.

Hi, Thought I would give some quick feedback on emby after using it for a few days, coming from a Plex user of several years. The big pro's: It just works for playing back your media, almost every file I have tried works without faffing about, using FireTV & Shield clients HW acceleration and tone mapping works (apart from a problem with tone mapped HD appearing dim on SD devices, probably a setting somewhere...) Just concentrates on my media and nothing else The one big con's: Music smart playlists - everyone in my family uses smart playlists, things like not recently heard tracks, favorites tracks, favorite dance, genres mixed with ratings etc etc General music playback - Plex has a separate music playback app called Plexamp which is really outstanding in navigating and playing back your music, auto generated mixes, library radio, sonic adventure, headless playback via a Pi etc. If at least playlists could be sorted I would consider switching over full time. Anyway hope this helps in some way

A friend of mine brought over a mini pc i5 with 64gigs of ram with 3 external 16tb drives for me to install ubuntu server on and copy my media onto his hard drives last night. He bought a monthly key for emby and I set it up for him as an emby server only and he will be connecting his external drives to his windows pc and adding movies shows to the ubuntu server over a shared network. So here's the thing, I have never had any luck with live tv on any windows server I had ever used for emby not ever but I added live iptv to his ubuntu server last night and put on a starz movie channel in my living room on fire stick and left it run and even now today while I am mapping channels the same channel is still playing without a hitch. I have never seen this before, emby live tv has never played for me more than a couple hours without shutting off. It will take a few more days for me to finish copying my movies to his external drives so I get to test this out a while longer, looks like I will be switching everything to ubuntu server also and going from 16gigs of ram to 64gigs. Maybe emby was just choking due to not having enough ram or the fact that ubuntu works better or maybe a combination of both. This definitely puts a smile on my face after years of trial and error with live tv finally finally found a solution

Thanks - although on initial inspection the information was correct (Remote (WAN) address was pointing towards the correct remote address), i noticed that Last connection to information pointed to the local ip address. i think i have figured out what was going on and have fixed my issue. Both my servers ( which are geographically apart- UNRAID is the local server and OMV is the remote server) share the same LAN IP address (10.0.0.50) on there respective networks (I did this to make it easier for me to troubleshoot and to use the same bookmars in the browser). Additionally, i was using the default port for both of them. It seems to me that when i connect to the remote server (OMV) it grabs the In-Home (LAN) network IP from it. When i reconnect to it ( say restarting the app or when i click change server) it first tries this LAN IP - and as this was identical to my local server IP (UNRAID), it instead connected to my local server. I have fixed this issue by changing the ports on one of my server. Although i understand that my case could be an edge case, i wonder if the code to recognize when to use remote ip and when to use LAN IP could be improved.

Kinda related, but if I manually identify something that's been misidentified, anything that has no info in the correct identification retains the incorrect identification. For example, if it's incorrectly identified as something that has an IMDB ID and a TMDB ID, then I manually identify it as something with only a TMDB ID, the incorrect IMDB ID is retained. Same goes for artwork.

Wow, I think all I had to do was go into my reverse proxy settings and click Create > WebSocket... It added those two lines and my HTTPS looks like its refreshing that info as expected now. Thank you!

@plawl94I might have some time to look into this today. Can you enable debug logging and run the grouping task again?

@NitroNine@Jägs I've been researching and experimenting with this a bit more (on and off) over the last couple months. If you are using the web app you can use custom CSS to likely achieve a Music view that suits your needs.. It is possible to hide any sections that you don't want to see and also swap the order of those that you do want to see. Check out this thread for hiding Sections (thanks to @beckfield ) Check out this thread for changing the order of Sections: The various bits of CSS code should work for the latest stable Emby Version 4.8.1.0.

Okay, now we are cooking with Crisco olive oil! The HDHR doesn't have a web interface, but I did a channel scan via the app and now the channel shows in Emby. What had me thinking the HDHR was okay was because it already knew about the channel as I showed here https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/124572-huntsville-al-channel-483-changed-to-365/&do=findComment&comment=1310894 I didn't know Emby relied on the same channel listing the HDHR apps did. I guess the channel list from the app scan gets stored back to the tuner. Weird that the API saw the channel but the HDHR doesn't automatically add it to its own channel list. Thanks for helping get to root of this and it being such a problem.

Since we can now detect end credits, or manually add them in other cases, it would be nice to see this, rather than an automatic percentage/time remaining, trigger the "next episode" popup and decide whether an episode is resumable or not. Even better if it could expand to movies for the latter point.

Disclaimer: If you decide using the delete option, IT'S YOUR RISK! If you are using fileops on Kodi, LOOK and VERIFY what Kodi is about to delete or modify. The affected folder is clearly shown in a Kodi popup message. Release Notes: Emby server 4.8 and higher supported The plugin has now 4 parts. Audio and image are just helpers to fix Kodi's issues with plugins supporting multiple content types. Video must be installed LAST. Audio and Image are usually not updated. The service plugin is the new core module. Configuration can by accessed ONLY via this module, STABLE VERSION 10.0.47: Download Links: https://kodi.emby.tv/Public testing/emby-for-kodi-next-gen-10X/plugin.service.emby-next-gen-10.0.47.zip https://kodi.emby.tv/Public testing/emby-for-kodi-next-gen-10X/helpers/plugin.video.emby-next-gen-10.1.1.zip https://kodi.emby.tv/Public testing/emby-for-kodi-next-gen-10X/helpers/plugin.audio.emby-next-gen-10.1.1.zip https://kodi.emby.tv/Public testing/emby-for-kodi-next-gen-10X/helpers/plugin.image.emby-next-gen-10.1.1.zip Release Notes: skip retries on async requests fix multiversion content assinged to collection fix Windows specific connection issues fix dynamic node recommended (double items) fix upcoming dynamic node when not item name is reported fix soundtrack tagged as compilation add context menu refresh option for seasons and series add config redirect from helper plugin fix boxset/collection updates fix init sync for records when recording in progress fix recently played synced nodes fix player crash for edge cases fix http issue when chunked data are received fix realtime sync issue for unsyncable content e.g. photos change log modes rename dialog files fix remote playback issue fix remote playback client selection fix remote playback commands fix nodes sort order fix minor shutdown issue add translations disable Emby server offline msg on wake from sleep mode add additional notification options fix sync pause issue fix queue issue fix http header recv issue fix Kodi profile library folder fix Emby server (hard) restart issue add settings option in context menu fix dynamic nodes in hybrid mode disable remove worker pause cache DNS fix connection when http prefix is missing add tracking of Emby server version (for mandatory resets) workaround for dynamic nodes folder browse (Emby server bug) fix sync paused issue for realtime library updates fix http connection fix node typo fix transcoding playback intercept pillow library issue minor changes in Player session ops fix websocket messages delay fix session logout fix several minor http issues faster https socket connection support http redirects (including websocket connections) fix Emby session stop sync pause only for Emby scan tasks rewrite http communication with Emby server (remove urllib3 dependency, http comminicaion is now on low level socket-basis) fix context menu rewrite emby login handshakes fix textoverlay position fix minor artwork issues remove song artwork from synced content (let Kodi handle it) fix menu options in content helper plugins fix library Id filters for dynamic nodes fix dynamic node Genre for Audiobooks and Podcasts fix sort orders for dynamic nodes improve performance for dynamic nodes change plugin structure (fixes content detection issues for dynamic nodes) fix server busy progress bar when server restarted or shutdown fix websocket issue fix init sync when server is busy (sync re-started) increase paging limit for MusicAlbum remove sorting parameter for unlimited synced nodes (performance) add Kodi database indexes (performance) improve sync performance fix pillow library issue Improve multicontent sync, thanks to Luke for modifications (currently only in Emby server's beta version, will be backported to next stable) disable sortby (could give minor sync performance plus). This change breaks Emby server 4.7 support. It's no longer supported by plugin fix sync pause while watch-togeter and remote-mode fix progress updates -> never delay add translations fix favorite sync issue fix Boxset realtime updates fix websocket issue rollback multiversion content changes from 10.0.21. The performance issue will be addressed in one of the next versions. -> different approach add option to adjust the max URI length fix delete after watched function fix pillow library issue fix boxset updates for realtime sync when content was added unify code improve realtime boxset updates sync performance (de-double updates) fix favorites linked by sub-content fix image overlay for favorites, when added via Kodi's favorite option improve internal queue fix sync crash fix dynamic nodes refresh when content was deleted, added or modified supress unnecessary progress updates e.g. after episode playback, season was updated by incoming Emby server notification. fix content detection by PresentationUniqueKey improve init sync speed for multiversion content disable http HEAD request forwarding to emby server (less server load for Emby) fix dynamic nodes refresh when content was deleted fix userdata updates for Tag, Studio, Playlist, Person fix favorites and use image overlays more reliable delete-after-watched option several minor player fixes fix strm files including a plugin source fix head (mime type) queries from Kodi fix boxsets to tags option intercept .ifo request in webservice fix skip credits jumps (thanks to user skyfish) fix webservice threading issues (special thanks to user seashell) add EventName into playback session dict fix boxsets to tags option fix watch together (seek and timezones) fix recording syncs fix webservice threading issues (special thanks to user seashell) fix minor multicontent selection issue add Next Episodes played node fix websocket close issue fix recoding library sync fix delete episode issue in native mode fix recently played nodes fix websocket close issue fix multiversion episode delete issue fix dynamic node search fix node cache reset fix next episodes node fix continue watching node fix reset resume position via Kodi when content is marked as watched fix watched status for dynamic nodes fix strm file issue add uniqueids for musicvideos add ratings for musicvideos fix musicvideo sync issue add option to set imdb as default rating provider fix minor rating issue (for updated content) fix tvshow/season sync issue fix nodes transcoding livetv, respect bitrate settings fix folder view for home video/photos close sync progress bars when server connection drops urllib3 v1 support fix strm file issue when https links are included update Chinese language file (thanks to whisperer) fix download content episode node add download content series node fix Kodi shutdown issue fix emby connect remove sdr from strHdrType add transcode option for video: vc1, prores, msmpeg4v2 add transcode option for audio: aac_latm, dtshd_hra, dtshd_ma, pcm_s16le, truehd, opus change hdrtype assignment to "VideoRange" change urllib3 dependency to >= 2.0 version fix library removal issue for edge case fix player crash fix date created not updated add additional debug log information remove kodi workaround option (fixes are added dynamically) fix API issues replace requests with urllib3 fix 'FreeTypeFont' object has no attribute 'getsize' -> python pillow api change workaround for Kodi chapter bugs for MusicVideos and Movies played via widgets remove reuselanguageinvoker -> causes Kodi issues fix File name too long issue fix playertracker issue fix MusicAlbum sync issue fix Studio sync issue improve incremental boxset sync on Kodi start fix BoxSet sync issue add remoteplay option fix episode intros fix player stop issue fix extracted bluray and dvd playback fix some minor intro issues fix A-Z node order add support for favorite photos and homevideos performance improvement for init sync (disable autoindex, temporary disable database indexes) fix multiepisode season detection add people for MusicVideos remove countries and directors nodes for tvshows (not supported by Kodi) keep settings on reset -> not deleting favorites if favorites sync is disabled improve support for special charecters in filenames fix multiselection filesizes fix notification timings add translations fix MusicAlbum sync issue when album was moved to different library fix cinema mode markers and disable intros for in progress content fix movie artwork -> backdrop assignment to thumb if thumb not exists fix sync issue for invalid episodes metadata exclude photos fix virtual tv fix typo fix SesaonId detection by PresentationUniqueKey -> compatibility with 4.9.X Emby server fix Emby server 4.9.X episode issue (SeasonId not reported) port 9.4.13/14 bugfixed to 10.X fix nodes window reload fix Kodi content detection add additional nodes fix nodes fix favorites remove

Can we get the option to lock external IDs, just like you can lock other items under metadata? There are times when the show you are adding isn't in your main metadata provider, but it is in the 2nd or 3rd option. However, Emby overrides the lower options to find the most similar one in your main provider. It would be great to add the ID from a 2nd tier provider and then lock it so Emby won't search another provider for that particular title.

Hi, After upgrading to version 4.8, all of the My Media category images changed to have transparency shadows instead of the black shadows in the old version. Is it possible to bring back the black shadows? They do not complement the aesthetics of Apple TV and do not match the Live TV interface if I want to add Live TV to the home screen. Please see the attached photo. Thank you in advance.

I have a lot of scraped informal movie data, and I often use Filters to filter Genre under certain actors to watch. Since 4.8 became beta the Genre Studio Tag in Filters has disappeared.... I install almost every version to see if it's back. Currently I'm stuck on 4.7.14.0. Will it be added back? I'm using the translation

I just Refreshed the metadata on the show and image appear correctly now with no language code.

Gotcha - That is refreshing metadata for recently released episodes that may not have metadata on the source cause its just been released. I will disable and give the library a few scans to see what happens. Thanks

You can delete those folders anytime and the server will recover from that.

Hi, it is currently in beta testing and should be available soon.

Hi there, let's look at a specific example: How to Report a Problem Thanks.

I’ll admit, I didn’t really think about that at the time. Although I was involved in the project since the very beginning, I did not write the plugin. I wasn’t the only one involved in the decision to go closed-source. I cannot change the fact that we decided that, at the time, going closed-source was the way to go for the project. Right, I don’t think we ever expected Emby to add everything the plugin does, that would be unrealistic. I am happy we even got the feature at all, though there is always room for improvement. As I said earlier, and I can only speak for myself, my mentality at the time was more in line with the second scenario you described above. I wanted to see the feature in Emby and it eventually got there. I didn’t really think about it beyond that. Thanks for all the work you do! Chapter Editor is very useful

I can test the beta app, are you talking about side loading it or beta through the Google Play store? I never got in on any beta for Google Play. I am in it on the fire TV though.

Just to follow up; I think the easiest solution will be to stick to 1080p/H264 releases. I was able to direct play some HEVC content on the Windows PC in Emby Theater today, but it isn't consistent. Most of my devices don't have 4K resolution anyways, so I'll just adjust on my end. Thanks for y'all's help

But that is fundamentally the difference in an open project, you want to share your work with everyone, regardless of the project, it is how open projects work. If you have that open project vibe you are happy to share your thoughts, ideas and research with everyone, that is how I treat all my plugins and projects, a number of them have been used in other projects like Jellyfin, its cool, that is what I did the work for, its open so everyone (the whole media sharing community) regardless of project gets to benefit. Do I agree with everything all the other projects do, no not all the time, but people should have alternatives, a single solution ecosystem is just bad for everyone. For most uses this is just a checkbox on the feature list of the product and that is ok. For some they want power options to fine tune this and that is also ok. Emby is going to in most cases supply the MVP (minimum viable product), they just don't have the man power to do anything else. Emby is trying to give the broadest users in their customer base that check box, and they do that reasonably well. If you are enjoying the work and users find it useful, then it is never a waste of time. This all come back to what motivates you to do the work in the first place. 1. If it is because you enjoy the work and want to help the wider community, then keep doing the work, it is never a waste of time. 2. If it is because you want to help the Emby team build a better product and beat all the competitors and the Emby team is telling you not to do the work, then yeah, stop doing the work. I am all about 1. While I want Emby to succeed and will help with that, that is why I am here and not elsewhere, I also like building shit and the shit I build generally helps the media sharing community.

I don’t doubt that. It’s not like we were doing anything particularly new and innovative, but we had worked hard on getting to where we were and we felt we had to protect it for a bit longer. That’s pretty much it. I was referring to the way things went down when Intro Skip was integrated into Emby. Essentially, we were all happy to see the feature natively implemented. It was the first version and it was a very basic implementation, but we expected that. We then made suggestions, were told improvements were coming, and those improvements never came. Alright, we’ll just keep working on our plugin in the meantime and use it to fill in the gaps, we thought. But then anytime we suggested doing that, we kept getting told it was a waste of time and that the improvements would be coming soon, and they were telling people to uninstall and stop using our plugin. Seems like they don’t want us working on this. Fine. I guess we won’t… I don’t think the Emby developers had any bad intentions, but we didn’t really like how this was being handled, and had little motivation to pick the project back up.

Thanks for understanding. How do you describe something no longer there???? I'll wait on a solution. When an update happens sometimes you don't know if it disappeared on purpose or not. I used it all the time to see what items I'm missing in a collection.

Nothing you can do right now as @Lukehas to correct the code as you see the hide element above. So it hides genre and links.

@LukeThanks for the quick response. It's all set up through a lot of Synology's automated processes so I think it would be hard to compare to that tit for tat. But I can take a look. EDIT: I took my phone off the network and the Android app wasn't refreshing either. Put it back on my network and it worked fine. Guessing it probably is a setting somewhere in my reverse proxy. I'll mess with it a bit more tomorrow following that HOW TO when people aren't watching stuff.

Luke would have to confirm but don't believe embedded tag sort has been applied for any field. albumsort albumartistsort artistsort composersort

I don't know what to tell you, but FF and Edge are doing the same thing. The options are different in the FireTV app, for instance, so that needs to remain on Horizontal Stretch for the video to display correctly for the duration of playback. I suppose that's possible, but I'm seeing this consistently with multiple files. If this were the case it must be some kind of mastering error on the original DVD. But, as I mentioned in my first post I compared the headers of the problem files with others that playback correctly, and I didn't see any differences (though admittedly I'm not an expert here). Of course. I cut the first 10 seconds from the video I took screenshots of in the first post; this is a direct stream copy so it has not been re-encoded, and I've confirmed that it exhibits the same behavior on both FF and Edge. The full file is too large to upload here, and is also under copyright, so probably not a good idea to have it posted in the forum. But if you have a more direct way for me to get it to you I'm happy to supply it. Thanks. Test.mkv

Your WAN address in the canyouseeme results. But may need a mod to do it for you @GrimReaper

No, sorry. Best is to send your xmltv file to the Sparkle developer over at Reddit.

Nothing wrong with the fact that it's showing that address. That is just indicating the most recent one used.

@Nastream new version 1.11.27 should fix this, let me know if it does.

It's not new. The general rule of thumb is to use ParentId for folder tree-specific function, and use SeasonId/SeriesId for tv show-specific function. ParentId and SeasonId will usually be the same, but is not guaranteed. The same idea goes for audio files with ParentId and AlbumId.

Cool, just worked it out before you posted. This is the best Emby plugin by far. I have 10,000's of songs in my various librarys, and can make perfect playlists in minutes! Thank you for the great work! @Lukethis needs to be part of the Emby catalogue! Makes Plex Stations look amateur!

Circled back to confirm Join notification works as expected on Version 4.8.1.0!

OK this is great and all but what good does this do for a regular user watching a series and not realizing an episode is missing or being able to easily see future episodes without having to dig in multiple menus. This is fine to add but i believe someone else already mentioned it, but the missing episode stuff is a end user feature that most like to use and have readily available, and as far as managing the missing episodes most are doing this in Sonarr or similar. I would rather see something like this created to help find duplicates or episodes and movies with multiple versions, this is a filter Plex has had for a while now. I know i have talked to several people that want the missing episodes option restored. Someone mentioned the performance hit, and something about it being dynamically generated now when a user looks for it. I have never noticed any performance issues and i have a pretty large library. Can we have an option to turn it on in the clients and list it in line like it was, and have it default to showing upcoming episodes.

I would suggest removing that custom css once you have the 4.8.2 maintenance release. An adjustment has already been made for this and you will no longer need it.

To answer the original question, this is the reason for the log being so large.

Pretty much all smart tv apps are web based, so you could try pointing it to your web app url or http://app.emby.media Then maybe you can bookmark it to the home screen and make it feel like an app.

This is only true if it's encoded. One can easily use mkvtoolnix to just repack the ts file into an mkv without having to re-encode anything.

I use https://emby.example.com/system/ping as ping target in UptimeRobot. Seem to be working.

@NitroNine@Jägs Yes, you are not the only ones. I would also prefer Songs to be below Albums. I suspect that many Emby music fans would have large ALBUM focussed libraries rather than large SONG focussed libraries. For me the songs/albums order is the main aspect that I don't like on the Album Artist pages. Everything else is very good overall. (Possibly people that stream a lot of their music from online services, e.g. Spotify, Tidal, etc. would prefer songs first???) There is at least one way to set up Emby to show only Albums, but it would take a lot of work and you also lose much of the other good info. Essentially you could make the main Collection folder a defacto Album Artist Collection folder by assigning music Albums into individual Artist Collections. I was experimenting with this over Christmas and posted a suggestion here: Even though this is possible to set up, I still personally prefer the current Album Artist pages with all of the fields (Songs, Albums, Tags, Appears On, etc.) Maybe one day in the future we (or Emby) will be able to change the order to suit Album oriented libraries?!?!?