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Thanks @mickle026 for the kind words. My code is always open source for anyone to use as they like. I benefit if they make better plugins. We each learn from and teach each other. I am not looking for credit or recognition. I have already received my share 10 times over. No one need ever to mention my name. Sometime, I hope you and I can work together on a plugin, I learn c# from you and you learn more javascript from me. Thanks again, vic

it has come a long way Anytime anyone builds a plugin and makes it open source, they pave the way for more and better plugins - which is a good thing in my opinion, fixing issues helps others fix issues and not give up! It also helps them indirectly come up with clever ideas and clever solutions. I have even used your code to learn some javascript (mainly about arrays and the scope where things are defined) - which you probably didnt know, and that curiosity has lindirectly ed me to learn more about flexboxes. My pages in the future will be so much better for it so many thanks for that! Huge thumbs up

That is a very bad model to use to develop software. While allowing a few of the richer folks to control development direction and timing it effectively disenfranchises those of us that do not want to or are unable to donate. We are a money driven society but the effect of money is often bad and, even when it could be good, there are just too many ways money can bastardize software development. As an example of how wrong things can go think of the effect of money in the development of RoboCop in the second RoboCop movie. Money can cause too much to be done and it can limit or eliminate the effectiveness of whatever product is involved. Pay for access to features might be good but paying to have features added is just a good way to ruin the software involved.

We're discussing the possibility of requiring Premiere for the Android app on a TV device (like the other TV apps do) and not allowing an unlock which then allows people to get around the device limits.

to be honest... maybe... i do not know. I did NOTHING to my app nor to my server. (heck i did not even restart the server let alone any upgrades) and suddenly it just started working when I hit emby on the nvidea streaming device. Frustrating as heck (especially for someone like me who does development lol I hate defects you cannot consistently replicate)

It is still incompatible with the app store version as Amazon change the signatures. https://developer.amazon.com/docs/app-submission/understanding-submission.html#app_signatures

You can disregard this theme, op has posted the same stuff 2015, 2017 and 2021, now its 2024 and almost 10 years for a theme. if he's not dead. then this is just something he post to get attention every now and then. @Lukeprob should lock this thread.

As a lifetime user, please don't add a monthly fee to my server. I would much prefer to have a one-time payment add on if I want to have the TV guide data.

I just want to bring up attention to AV1 as additional target codec for transcoding and comverting video. It's supposed to further reduce bitrates, which can be great in situations with limited bandwidth. Hardware players start to have support, with the Max version of Amazon's 4k FireTV sticks being a very popular and cheap option. Hardware Encoding is coming for sure too. So if/when HEVC gets added for transcoding, AV1 should be kept in mind too. And for conversations, things might actually be already there, since ffmpeg does have a encoder integrated.

I would like to request a sleep timer function for the Emby app. For example, when a song is playing, it should be possible to quickly and easily set a sleep timer to shut off the song after a desired interval. Options could include 5, 10, 15, 20, 30, 45, 60, 120 minutes. If it had this, I would be happy to purchase Premiere.

HI Admins Is there a way to prevent the sub-user from accessing his settings panel? So he can't change translation settings, or arrange the main screen, or change colors

Two days ago, the searching function on the Emby app on my Apple TV 4K suddenly stopped working. If I type in keywords or even just select the suggested keywords under the search, it searches without ever finding anything. Search works fine on my iPhone. I think this is related to a recent app update. I believe it worked fine until I closed the app, it autoupdated, and then the search function stopped working when I reopened the app. I have restarted my Apple TV and the Emby server (4.8.3.0), and I still cannot search. I supposed I should add that I can manually scroll for items, and that works fine.

Imho every app on every device, except browsers, should require Premiere! Why should owners of a Sony TV do need Premiere, but not the owners of LG or Samsung?

@Luke @HA Ich meinte diese hier: https://thetvdb.com/?tab=episode&id=10412177. Das kommt davon, wenn für den Nachrichtenaustausch ein Übersetzer genutzt wird. Aber es sieht so aus, als konnte der Fehler von @Happy2Play reproduziert werden. Es werden die Felder für Ausstrahlung während Staffel und Ausstrahlung vor Episode nicht gesetzt.

And this is another reason why we may need to change policy here. This is a loophole that is being leveraged by bad actors and, while good actors can complain that it isn't fair to punish them for other's actions, I'm afraid that is just the reality because no one will have the system if we get kicked out of all the stores due to people using our product for illegal means.

I will guess the example is just not showing you both options. So add "UserConfiguration" Enum UserCopyOptions (emby.media)

On one of my episodes of a TV show, no subtitles appear, which led me to question my subtitle settings. When I went into them, I noticed my setting was "smart" which I do not remember changing it to. So I changed it back to "no subtitles." My library download settings seemed fine, so I assumed a larger problem. But once I checked other episodes of the TV show, I was able to find subtitles on open subtitles. I then realized the issue was isolated to S1E01. I'm not sure why, but it is listed as a movie on open subtitles, so I'm wondering whether there's some confusion. Either way, it doesn't seem to be a systemic issue like I thought.

In my test user only saw items in "More Like This" that they had library access to.

you'll want to look at the `emby/Users/New` endpoint and in the payload include at least - "CopyFromUserId": "{specified user}", "UserCopyOptions": [ "UserPolicy" ]

Your not getting old, if you where, you would not remember

My vote would be to remove the thread.

This explains it. I'm aware they aren't playable within Emby, and that was never something I was trying to change or even discuss in this thread. Thank you for your help!

Why do you want/need the samba share mounted directly to the container? I've got mine mounted to the host os, then used a bind mount to mount that to the container.

That is what I was initially thinking. But if you want to keep the plugin I would look check/verify the "Use original art aspect ratio" plugin setting.

It did resolve it when I deleted the picture file. I will monitor if any of the new movies I will add will come with these picture files

I guess there sort of is documentation here with the warning of running as a service. Running as Windows Service | Emby Documentation But since you are using a custom location, the method mentioned will not work as the installer is only for default locations. So your options become manually get from Github or manually launch Emby app (not service).

Hi, this will be resolved in Emby for Apple TV 1.8.6. Thanks.

sorry, I should have come back to update this. It ended up being the audio settings for NVIDIA Shield TV itself. so far, so good.

Seems like someone found a rather cumbersome solution: here.

That is the problem. I wanted to capture an image that is being used for a collection and I could not do that and I could not find a clue to exactly where it was stored and even what its name is. I ended up finding the particular image by searching the internet and sifting through several dozen and following a tree of links until I finally got to a page but it occurs to me that, if i ever need to do that again, it would be super easy if I could use a normal right click to get capture it or get its address. The context brought up by a right click in Emby is extremely useful until you want to do something "outside the box" so I thought I would ask. There is always some way to accomplish a task even if the primary way is not possible. BTW: That image did not show up on an attempt to edit images for the collection. I believe that Emby found it shortly after I created the collection (almost 2 years ago) and it disappeared from Emby's image search sometime thereafter. The particular need I had is now gone and I asked this so I might know of an easier way if I need anything like this again.

Hello, just visited the forums to say this: search on my apple tv 4k doesn't work anymore since the last update i think. Exact same behaviour : If I type in keywords or even just select the suggested keywords under the search, it searches (the little search animation is working) without ever finding anything Still works on other devices.

Yes, the information is correct. It shows LAN and WAN IP addresses. I just tried remotely on my phone and it works. This has happened a few times. I wonder what changes to make it stop working? All I did was do a completely fresh install. Thanks!

Now if the wrong information is shown that would suggest your server is not talking to Connect and would have errors in your server log. But you could try removing your Connect Username from the local user, hit save, then readd Connect Username and hit save to see if the server info gets updated.

Not necessarily for the reasons of this post…. But the Emby team has started engaging more with users here and on other forums as to how they use their servers, what use cases etc. We are making a conscious effort to engage more and “talk” to our users.

yes, performs very well, used intel_gpu_top to monitor and removed that amd gpu, prefer power efficiency to having that 10+ year old gpu

Hi People, here I am with a big update As now all generation is automated I'm planning to make a New Set with other icons, ideas or proposals welcome. -Minor Fixes -NEW Requested Categories: Kids Music Workout Christmas Music Playlists News Stand Up Documentaries Sports Variants Books variants Pictures (new image) -NEW WHITE Theme -NEW TRANSPARENT Theme with variants, shout out to @mike3821 for the idea -NEW Dark Text Variants -NEW SOURCES INCLUDED!!! You can still make requests!!!, the sources are for those that requested them and have knowledge to use them (Photoshop or similar knowlege needed and use of Variables needed) The Generation of images are Automated thru variables. Disclarimer: As usual, this is for private use. Attribution to icons author are given and I encourage you to buy his icon set as I did. Bye EMBY_MAXIGMV_ICONS_DILIGENT_VARIABLES_2024_03_25.zip

Why do you think Emby do not have costs ? Emby is not 'just a piece of software'. Hosting, Development Licenses, LiveTV programe data provider, Metadata Providers, Developers (they don't do it for free) not to mention corporation tax etc .. After 6 years of no price increases, I don't think it's unreasonable to review this imo.

Hello and thank you for the reply. I'm making no assumptions at all for someone that has hardware to spare in terms of compute power and limited space availability it makes very little sences to keep a redundant copy of the exact same movie for streaming purposes consistently using space for only being used a few times a year it seems for me at least a very obsolete solution. It make far more sense to be able to utilise my 3090 or 5960wx horse power for on the fly transcoding. Why not have both options as most igpus these days transcode to h265 very efficantly.

Also finding my self in dire need of this feature to trancscode and stream in h265 while traveling on holidays or for work. While in limited connectivity camping as well as it’s becoming more and more evident that places and provides are using limiting practices for bandwidth. lets take for example a family of 2-4 trying to stream from a regular Australian connection where bandwidth is limited to only 20mbps upload not to mention that most hotels have a 5-10 mbps download limit it’s quite hard to get anything decent quality wise out of 264 without buffer moments. Been a long time premium member of emby and would love to see this feature finally become available as a server side setting or even as the prefrance and fail back to h264 if client device isn’t compatible for decode. love your product and support guys just want to push my preference for this feature.

Almost there! Only 3 and a half more years guys But serious now, dont you think its time to get this "Killer" feature now? Mark it as "Experimental" or hide it in a "Expert" section to enable, in case is would confuse ppl (tbh we are all enthusiast here, be real! We know what we are doing/looking for, even IF, thats a big if, ppl get problems with this feature, it would be the minority... ) Its about time to get H.265 as Transcode option, since the new Codec AV1 is already getting supported and with that pretty much any device since 2020 (Wild guess) supports H.265. Something funny here, I saw the question in this thread: "Why do ppl use Emby instead of JllyFin, when they can support feature like that?" Simple Answer: JellyFin got NO Apps on all divices like Emby does, other wise no one would use Emby! <- My opinion.

HI, we'll add this back in the next 4.8.X maintenance release. You'll need to create a new collection to get it to appear. Thanks guys.

I resolved this issue by disabling the default GoogleTV launcher and installed Projectivity Launcher as a replacement: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spocky.projengmenu&hl=en&gl=US. Once it is installed, I followed the instructions below to disable GoogleTV launcer and make the 3-rd party launcher as the default homescreen: Disable default launcher: # Disable com.google.android.apps.tv.launcherx which is the default launcher on CCwGTV adb shell pm disable-user --user 0 com.google.android.apps.tv.launcherx # com.google.android.tungsten.setupwraith will then be used as a 'fallback' and will automatically # re-enable the default launcher, so disable it as well adb shell pm disable-user --user 0 com.google.android.tungsten.setupwraith Re-enable default launcher: adb shell pm enable com.google.android.apps.tv.launcherx adb shell pm enable com.google.android.tungsten.setupwraith The 3rd party launcher is clean, has more configuration options (no ADS!) and you can add Emby to the home screen for your Play Next movies/series. There is however a catch here if you also want to populate the thumbnails. CcwGTv does not allow http communication inside the LAN. So your Emby instance MUST be running in https mode with a valid domain name AND certificate inside your LAN. That means: you log in to your https Emby domain name (eg. https://myemby.examplecom). After logging in all Emby thumbnails should show on the home screen. My solution for running Emby in https mode inside my LAN is using Pi-Hole to map the domain name to my local server's ip address. Then I registered the domain name with CloudFlare (or any domain services as you wish) and pointed it to 0.0.0.0 so that it is not being proxied by CloudFlare. Then use Synology as reverse proxy to map to the https domain name and point it to my local Emby server. I am using Chromecast with GoogleTV Ultra 4K. It works like a charm:

My frank concern for the development of Emby is that the powers that be simply want a bigger piece of a smaller pie. I have no idea of what their revenue stream is, or what their market/business potential may be. From a resources standpoint, they seem to be in need of additional developers and possibly even product managers, however bringing those resources in will dilute revenue. On the other hand, who knows how much opportunity cost the developers of Emby have experienced due to a lack of execution. As a user who goes back to the MB days, I sincerely wish them continued success, and continue to use the product stack as the alternatives leave too much to be desired (IMO). Still, there are a lot of QoL and long-standing execution issues that can be frustrating.

I've always liked this model when done "correctly". By that I mean a company opens up a portion of development time to monetized backing of specific features. Perhaps 75 to 80% of development is still company driven which is from their ideas or from user requests in the forums, basically how things are now, while 20% to 25% of development is purely based on monetized funding of specific feature requests.Obviously, any feature added would need to be a benefit in some way to Emby/users and will not hurt the product in any way. Over the years there have been some requests that make a ton of sense to add but would only be truly useful to larger systems in an initial implementation. Being able to get a half dozen to dozen other power users on board with the idea knowing we could pull together and pay a little to get that "killer" feature that makes our life easier would be great.

There are some detailed tests posted on doom9 in regards to this. The thread linked has almost a decade worth of information. Nvidia is faster, but Intel is a close second and is superior in every metric. Though we are at the point where both NVENC and QSV transcoding are at the level of x264 slow (as Emby still doesn't do HEVC encoding, and no idea if or when AV1 will be added) in regards to quality. But even for HEVC, Intel QSV is superior, and their AV1 arguably beats software AV1 (mainly cause it's not a single threaded piece of crap).

Hi, please take a look at our backup guide and let us know if this helps: https://support.emby.media/support/solutions/articles/44001159936-backup Thanks !

The better question is, what isn't it? Link courtesy of @softworkz https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTtWQwRLBTPp5TNh8KmtSH3Rvz9Zm6ovUL__YL9Ax1ikzGLCzdfhryjMJ6-g5N1rJIf5LrDGjE5jqds/pubhtml?gid=1930489182&single=true Hope that helps, and gets others who were unaware of some things to come.

LOl, you seem to be fantasizing a bit - we are far, far away from making use of this. Many things need to happen before and it will take years until AV1 HW encoding will be a common mainstream feature. Hardware Intel AV1 encoding is only supported by Alchemist graphics and these cards won't spread out widely as they aren't competitive enough with Nvidia+AMD. Sales figures will be low. No current Intel CPU supports AV1 encoding. It's included in the Meteor Lake architecture only, and Meteor Lake might not even be released this year. But let's assume that it would get released in 2023. Even two years later, in 2025, Intel will still sell quite an amount of pre-MTL CPUs. Until all those CPUs will become outdated and replaced by newer ones with AV1 encoding support, it will take another 3-5 years, which makes => 5-8 years until AV1 will be at a similar level like H.264 has achieved today Nidia, AMD Similar story regarding market share evolvement Clients It's pointless to let the server encode something when most clients cannot decode it, so in this area, it will take time as well The announcement of a new SoC means nothing. It takes time until the first devices will be available which use the new SoC. drivers will need to be written, support for this will need to be added to the Android (Exo)Player, and this will take years as well. Streaming Protocol At this time, it's totally unclear and unpredictable what will be the most common and most widely support way for streaming. for example, the HLS spec doesn't support AV1 (yet) Summary: There are still years to go until this becomes relevant.

It's primarily a marketing scenario - at least in terms of transcoding. It can only be used in cases of pure encoding, but not when you have a full hw processing pipeline with decoding, processing and encoding. They have an implementation for handbrake but not for ffmpeg anyway.

Agree - it's still far too early to take sides, but AV1 has a lot more going for it than HEVC. Just because Apple doesn't support something doesn't mean much now, they haven't innovated for years. It's the 'streamers' that will dictate the next major codec - youtube, prime, google, netflix, disney+ etc - they have already started to use it and it's gaining traction - Primarily because it's royalty free. Most recent hardware seems to have AV1 decode support - so it's just the AV1 encode that needs to catch up. I suspect Nvdia 4000 will have AV1 encode - I think they would be crazy not to have it given Intel do and AMD (RDNA3) appear to be almost confirmed. At the end of the day - it's also ffmpeg that largely dictates the emby codec 'strategy' - so if it supports AV1 well, then emby will have the option to follow. If they don't - and remain using h264 then they will be left behind ..