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So the question becomes can theme.mp3/trailer tags be ignored?

Dear Emby Team, I'm reaching out to voice my support for prioritizing faster channel change speeds in Emby. As an avid user, I believe this improvement is essential for enhancing the user experience. Given the long-standing request for this feature, I urge the team to consider expediting its implementation. Improving channel change speed will not only delight users but also showcase Emby's commitment to customer satisfaction. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

That did it. Easy solution, thank you!

I still struggle to think of any reason to justify getting Emby over its competition to others who might ask as I can't see any big selling point for it. IMHO this feature could be that point. Hope it doesn't get thrown away.

Just posted 1.7.6. Thanks.

This cannot be emphasised too much. The loss may be negligible, at least for some people, but it is always there. On the matter of the bit rate required by different codecs for "equivalent" quality (there are various definitions of this), the figures such as h265 requiring only half of h264 for the same quality are, I think, based on each being encoded from the same greatly superior (or even lossless) source - transcoding from one to the other is not an equivalent operation, because of the quality loss already baked in from the first encoding. Paul

There is an entire lifetime's worth of reading about codecs and compression on the internet - forums such as doom9.org etc are dedicated to it - but ultimately whenever you reduce the original bitrate - you lose quality in the conversion. Whether that is perceiveable by your eyes or your equipment reproduction (or others), it cannot be 'answered' on any forum. The only advice I would give before you go on a large 'conversion' journey - is to not accept that one setting fits all - it simply doesn't. What is acceptable at 3Mbit/sec on one movie, may look very poor (no detail etc) on another - so while there are many batch tools out there - REVIEW the results.

Does your user have Subtitles download and/or delete enabled in user settings?

Just my two cents and it's gonna sound like they're paying me, but I think Emby's support is phenomenal. Especially compared to the other guys... at least Plex, who I don't think ever once actually answered me on their official forums. Almost everything I've asked on the forums here has gotten an answer, and most issues I've posted about (even some complex ones that required months of back and forth) have gotten fixes. YMMV of course depending on the questions/issues and how well you cooperate with the team as they request info, but as much as I like and use the software daily, the support and interaction is a big reason I want to see Emby succeed and invest in the software as a customer.

..and from the video codec side, refusal to support Dolby Vision MUST be hurting their sales as it's pretty much a mainstream / defacto standard now on most devices. It's either Samsung being extremly stubborn or maybe some tie in with the HDR10+ Alliance that is restricting them from supporting it .. A shame, as it's the end consumer that ultimately suffers when they find out their shiny new Samsung won't play mainstream audio and video formats...

There is no fix for Samsung apps transcoding DTS. Samsung TVs haven't supported DTS since 2017. There should be a chart in your user's manual like in the link below. That is a list of all audio codecs your TV supports. Anything else will need to be transcoded. https://developer.samsung.com/smarttv/develop/specifications/media-specifications/2023-tv-video-specifications.html For best results always preselect a compatible audio codec if available. Otherwise, you can see buffering which gets worse the higher the bitrate of the input.

Not that I know of as these should all be future/Upcoming with no air date.

that is correct.. i actually set mine to 1h for emby...

That sounds like a leaving speech Not good as from what I've seen Softworkz and SamES do the actual coding work! Not feeling that positive as it shouldn't have had this much grief for something that so overdue. Makes me wonder where Emby is going now....

In that case, the websocket had just timed out. The client was still sending playback status back to the server, but nolonger had the connection open that allows remote control. Happens now and again. If I remember right, you can set that timeout in nginx with: proxy_send_timeout 2h; proxy_read_timeout 2h; Though @pir8radiowould probably be able to advise more.

I have this on already

Thanks, the listings are back again.

I will show you how to see it. Go into Music library. Goto Album Artists, then Artist. Then goto Songs. Select Filter Genre filter are from movies / tv shows. If you goto Songs directly in the music library, filter genres are good.

@Chiholam Hi there, let's look at an example. Please attach the information requested in how to report a media playback issue. Thanks!

Hi @Happy2PlayYikes !! I was able to get it to install on my pre-release 11 ver. same build OS build 26058.1400 @tiff1002 I am still finding issues on release builds of win 11 22631.x

The update fixed it! I have a bunch of JSON now that I need to parse and decide how to best go forward with integrating this data into my existing software. Thanks for your help - and your patience. It's much appreciated.

Awesome, I really appreciate that

Would love for this to happen. I could rip all my DVD/BDs into series folders without having to spend literal hours/days/weeks organizing/naming/ripping etc. Use MakeMKV, backup the ISO into season folder, done.

I've added this to our issue tracker since it is in issue. Using the same terms you used here. Even though technically we would have to do this a different way than SRT. We could convert them to WebVTT. But this would require the use of an HLS manifest to allow side-car the data. Then we could copy the video/audio streams leaving them untouched. Rather than burning them in. I see where you are going with this. It is a good idea. But like all features it has to go through the tracker. Reference: Issue #1579: Allow ASS to be sent as SRT as an option in app along with burning them in

I too read it as a leaving speech for softworx, (maybe contract over end of Feb?) but I also read that "in helping this to become a successfull parrt of Emby." thinking it was going forward without him. If so that would be a big mistake. Martin

Could the other devs really be considering actually junking a working development with the number of advantages we've been told about (notably, to my mind, a greatly expanded range of directly supported devices)? That would be concerning as an indication of their judgement. I hope if they do reject it, they are prepared to stand up and give solid reasons, but I fear that would not be entirely in character... Paul

OTOH, softworkz does say 'had the chance to work with and talk to so far', so I live in hope.

Did a fresh install (switched to Linux Mint from Xubuntu too in case that would help). It did not fix any of my permission issues. I did find a solution though: My setup is a local PC that's connected to my TV. Emby plays files from a folder on the PC. Install Emby according to the instructions. Then run this in a Terminal. It stops the emby server so you can edit the config file (emby-server.service) so that it will run as a User: You . (change mint in the code to what your username in Linux is, it's the same one you log in with). > systemctl stop emby-server > sudo nano /usr/lib/systemd/system/emby-server.service This opens the file. Change the line with User= User=mint CTRL+O to save the file. CTRL+X to close the file. Then re-read the changed config file, and restart emby. You can check with 'status' in the last line if it's actually running, or you can open it in your browser. > sudo systemctl daemon-reload > sudo systemctl start emby-server > sudo systectl status emby-server After this, Emby will see all your user folders and will have the right permissions to read. With SABDNZBD you can do something similar, this one does have quotes around the username. > sudo nano /etc/default/sabnzbdplus > USER="mint" > sudo systemctl daemon-reload > sudo /etc/init.d/sabdnzbdplus restart And for Sonarr it will ask 'run as user' and you can enter your username there (for me mint). Then all three services run as if they are you, so you can create a folder in for example /home/username/Sonarr that Sonarr organizes files in, and that Emby can read and play. Hope this saves someone a few hours of troubleshooting.

That was my thought too. I hope that's not the case, although i would understand if softworkz is leaving the Emby project in the event of a negativ decision.

Perfect! Thank you darkassassin07 that was the answer. Who would have thought it!

@Lukethx for looking into this. Ps.: back in the days i had it enabled, maybe there was some left over in the db. I think emby should clean all references when you diable the function (maybe with an question asking to delete all data). Also removed the "Live TV" named MediaItems from the DB, but it was a pain because it had constrints to other tables. But after i found those i yould remove them and "Live TV" is gone. thx

Thanks!

You're right. It does. I'll try to do it today when I get home from work. Thanks for help, Luke.

If you've made a copy of an existing server: both servers will have the same device ID and cannot be remembered together. To remedy this, stop the server, delete /programdata/data/device.txt, then start the server again. A new ID will be generated and both servers can now be remembered. I encountered this a couple days ago when I copied my production server to make a beta instance.

'This is the (Emby) way'

Even if the decision is yes, it'll be another year before beta And 2 years before it makes stable release

Well if it's no, I may have to 'mend' the cable...

Excellent news that there is news! Hopefully it'll be positive. Thanks for the effort @softworkz! With any luck, the hard work that has gone into this will bear fruit for all users that see benefit in it. Cheers Chris

Was the USB drive auto-mounted ? if so that wont work for emby or anything running under systemd, you need to make sure it is properly mounted usually in /etc/fstab

**Just forgot to mention i'm actually using the emby installation from Linuxserver not the official emby release** All i had to do is run a backup and restore plugin, Then setup Emby installation with folders mounted and then restore the backup on the Linuxserver version and the issue was resolved from there for me.

Hi @Lukethanks for the update. I've installed 4.8.3 and all working fine but no change. The Now Playing still does not appear as yet - just as you suspected. I'll try 4.8.4 maintenance release as soon as it is available and let you know. Appreciate you and the team working to resolve this.

I mean when I click on the folder selection (down arrow) the only choice available is the folder it is currently set to. No other folders are even selectible. The other two settings look identical but when I click the down arrow for those two options (Movies and Series) I have all my folders to select from and of course they are on the correct folders already so I don't need to change them but the Default Recording folder has a folder selected that I have never used as a default folder and I can't change it. The drop down acts like there should be other folders to choose from but only the one folder is there to select. It is weird, I don't remember this setting being wrong before but since the Live TV issue I've been checking settings and found the setting for this folder was wrong. Is there a config file somewhere where I could reset this option? I don't see any way to change it. I've even gone so far as to remove my TV source and guide data, restart the server and then added the source again but the setting doesn't reset to a blank or anything it just comes back as it was before set to the wrong folder. Again, it's not breaking anything I am aware of. It is just very strange that I can't change the setting... Ok wow... Reading is a marvelous skill... I just figured it out... The folder it is grabbing is the only one I have set to mixed content... I remember now having to change the folder after adding some television and movies together in it and didn't want to separate them so I re-did the library as mixed content and that is the only folder I have set like this so EMBY is seeing this and grabbing it as the Default Recording Folder. I don't see options because there aren't any other mixed content folders. Well there is one oddity explained. My fault... Thanks for asking, you made me think. Not my strongest suit today.

This statement may come back to haunt you. My statement stands.

Sorry, but the facts don't align with your point of view. Joshua Boniface is the Jellyfin Project Lead, yes. He is not however, the person who created emby-unlocked, which is exactly what I said. emby-unlocked was created by nvllsvm, who came up with the name Jellyfin and is part of the Jellyfin team. nvllsvm is not the Project Lead. Good revisionist history though. And I'm not sure why you think a picture of someone wearing a suit means they want to be Luke. A suit is a pretty universal form of professional dress code and not something Luke invented when he gave an interview. But that'll be the last I say on the matter, as the topic has been derailed enough and it's clear you are either purposely misrepresenting the facts or you are unintentionally perpetuating the narrative of the uninformed.

"JellyFish is used most by illegal streamers for profit. Fact." Please prove this fact. Where are the stats that show this? I'll wait... Until then, this is just you making an assumption, the same as the other poster who claimed Emby make most of their revenue from licences for paid shares. Do paid shares exist for both? Yes. Does that make either party complicit? No. "Now go debate this with them how they intend to stop it." It's fully self hosted, open source software. We both know that the Jellyfin team have no knowledge or control over how a server is used. But that does not make them complicit or in support of piracy. "They are not a competitor sir. I do not consider them to be." You may not consider them to be, but they are. Fact. When someone asks what media server they should use the options given are always Plex, Jellyfin, Emby. Usually in that order. The fact they are offered as an alternative to Emby makes them a competitor, even if you don't agree with it. "Perhaps read up on how that project started and why that guy still runs it." I'm aware of the entire history, including emby-unlocked. But you're cherry picking facts here. There is ONE person who ran emby-unlocked that joined the Jellyfin team. He does not "run" Jellyfin. It is a community driven project. The Project Lead is not the same person who made emby-unlocked. Jellyfin was created in opposition to Emby going closed source, not the fact that Premiere exists. There's plenty of anecdotal evidence on this forum and Reddit from people who purchased Emby licences but we're unhappy Emby went closed source due to their ideals towards OSS. "Then it becomes clear. They condone it." What you're doing here is trying to equate modifying software legally under the terms of a GPL licence to the illegal acquisition of media. Two very different things. You're allowed to be unhappy that Jellyfin exists, but you're still wrong about them condoning piracy when they openly object it.

Dude. Do not even go there. You, me, the trees, the forest, the dirt in the forest all know if people who want to run an illegal streaming application then they should run to JellyFish server. Notice I am not disparage the name. I know this is not the right name I am using. I do this intentionally. I do not want people to assume us the same. JellyFish is used most by illegal streamers for profit. Fact. Now go debate this with them how they intend to stop it. Emby uses the device limit. Now discuss here. They are not a competitor sir. I do not consider them to be. Nor does anyone else here believe them to be. Incite acts? I am not on their forum espousing for Emby. But they come here all the time to espouse for their version of reality. Perhaps read up on how that project started and why that guy still runs it. Then discuss some more. Then it becomes clear. They condone it. Emby does not. Then the discussion ends. It isn't a debate. Go read on Reddit. I'll wait... Edit: Here I will get you started. Start here...

That is not true in the slightest. The Jellyfin team takes a clear and hard stance against piracy and the moment you allude to obtaining your media in an illegal way, or using piracy focused software such as the arrs stack, then you're turned away and no support is provided. Please don't try and incite acts of negativity against a competitor just because you're unhappy that they exist. Be better than that.

Hi, please try lowering the in-app quality setting even more. That will usually resolve issues such as this. I would also try Chrome for comparison purposes. Please let us know if this helps. Also have you compared you nginx settings to this: Thanks.

With so many parallel services/applications/etc that many of us run alongside Emby, creating custom links in users' homescreens would be very helpful. For example, there could be another header of links in the left-hand navigation. Customizable header title with customizable links below. Prime example would be a link to Ombi. Or we could link directly to the Emby apps. The possibilities are endless with modular custom links like that. I've been following LDAP progress, so you could link to a management service with that as well. The same header and list of links should then be available as a home screen section, like My Media and Continue Watching.