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How many hours and extra money would someone have to spend on a PC to match the out-of-the-box experience of a Shield?

Sorry - disagree here. A PC will have HDR issues, No Dolby Vision, No HD Audio,3rd party remote control, constant OS updates,constant incompatibility issues... and despite what you may think, still uses more power than a Shield which is single digit Watts in standby, 10-15W Max when playing 4K. There is a reason HTPC's as a mainstream platform have died .. I do however agree the shield is on it's last legs - if AV1 ever got going, then I think it would kill it - but as it stands today, it is still the best player with mainstream support for playing high end/high bitrate media - ie 4K remux, HD Audio and DV. It plays them without issues and has done so for years. It is also the reason they have stayed 'expensive' - they are simply in demand because they continue to 'just work'.

Yes, Remove from Collection needs removed from non-admin User context menus.

I just figured it out! I needed to add the following to my `docker run` command. --env GIDLIST=44,109 You can determine which GIDs to list by typing this into a terminal shell on your host: getent group video | cut -d: -f3 getent group render | cut -d: -f3 Now I can see VAAPI and QuickSync.

Yes. CrApple devices have a serious problem with letting users use them as they want. They are great if you want to stick to their eco-system, but otherwise I would steer clear of them.

I'll check that, I had an issue in my current development version. Not sure if 10.0.12 was also affected. EDIT: Yes, 10.0.12 seems to be affected too. I'll fix that in next version.

Folders yes segregation in the UI no as every folder name is just an alias. More aliases for Season 0 folder underneath series: extras specials shorts scenes featurettes behind the scenes deleted scenes interviews

Yes that's what I have seen so fare. I have seen it play trailers, behind the scenes, featurettes, other. After skipping a couple of times I finally get to a movie. I have rotated logs, and shuffle played 1 of my collections. Here is how I can reproduce it every time I do this. Movies -> Collections -> any collection. embyserver (3).txt

NGINX and emby Config Version 1.0.4 Last Update 1-1-2024 Update by Pir8Radio Why Use NGINX reverse proxy ahead of my application servers like emby? With NGINX or any reverse proxy ahead of an application server you have more control over your setup. You can do things the application servers were not built to handle, have better control over your security and logging, replace lines of code without editing the application server code, better control of caching, etc, etc.... One of the main reasons is so that you don't have to open a new port on your firewall for every application server you host, all you really need to open is 80 & 443 and the internet can reach all of your different servers through one entrance. Will NGINX work on my OS? Most likely, you can find various versions of NGINX for most OS's and they come in different flavors, with options baked in, or just the bare NGINX that you need to compile. See below for download links to get you started. Will NGINX break things on emby? Absolutely if you don't configure it correctly! I HIGHLY suggest when choosing a scheme to setup your domain URL you choose SUB-DOMAIN and NOT sub-directory, more below. Also if you come to the emby forum with things not working, or issues you have and you use a Reverse Proxy, PLEASE make sure that is one of the first things you mention in your forum post. ESPECIALLY if emby works on one platform or client, but not another. So many times people complain "but it works on chrome, so I didn't think it was the reverse proxy". Mention you have a Reverse Proxy please. If the reverse proxy is setup correctly it should be totally transparent to the user and the application server (emby). I'm not going to go into how to purchase and setup a domain name. Lots of how-to's on that out there. Once you have a domain name and its pointed to your IP address, you can go to that domain name and hit your server then continue on.... Sub-Domain vs Sub-Directory: Lets say your domain name is: domain.com there are two main ways you can direct traffic from the internet to your backend application servers like emby. One is sub-directory, something like domain.com/emby or domain.com/other-server This is doable in nginx, but there are some catches and you need to know how your reverse proxy and application server work in detail.. This often breaks different features in emby and other application servers.. To keep with our "Totally Transparent" goal sub-directory doesn't work well, it requires a lot of rewriting and work-arounds to make it work smoothly, if you choose sub-directory you will run into issues you will need to address. The other option is Sub-Domain, this is the cleanest, most transparent, easiest to setup and maintain, it's also what I highly suggest you setup. A sub-domain looks like: emby.domain.com or other-server.domain.com The below config is based on Sub-Domain I will include a sub-directory example as well. NGINX Downloads: Official nginx downloads(LINUX): nginx.org Official nginx downloads(Windows): nginx.org WINDOWS users I suggest this version: nginx-win.ecsds.eu download links are at the bottom of the page. This Windows version has lots of cool features compiled into it already, and is optimized for windows. They keep up with updates, its a FREE (for non-commercial) third party build that I highly recommend. Additional Links: Content Security Policy info (CSP) (For Advanced Users): A CSP WILL break your server if you don't know what you are doing, I suggest reading up, lots of googleing, and understand what a CSP's function is and is not prior to venturing into this area Example NGINX Reverse Proxy Config: 3-29-2020 - ADDED A LINE FOR CLOUDFLARE USERS SO THAT THE X-REAL-IP HEADER IS CORRECTED. THIS ONLY EFFECTS Cloudflare USERS. 4-11-2020 (V1.0.1) - MOVED proxy_buffering off; FROM LOCATION BLOCK TO SERVER BLOCK 12-18-2020 (V1.0.2) - ADDED 301 SERVER SECTION TO FORCE ALL TRAFFIC TO SSL. 9-23-2021 no nginx config change, but cloudflare changed how they cache video files, so emby users that use Cloudflare now need to add a rule like below to make sure video is seekable and playable. 8-18-2022 - added a line for photo sync to cover large uploads of videos and images. (client_max_body_size 1000M;) 1-1-2024 - changed http2 setting per @weblesuggestion in this thread post # 1309363. ** The below "Page Rules" are only needed for Cloudflare CDN users, otherwise ignore. worker_processes auto; error_log logs/error.log; events { worker_connections 8192; } http { include mime.types; default_type application/octet-stream; server_names_hash_bucket_size 64; server_tokens off; ## The below will create a separate log file for your emby server which includes ## userId's and other emby specific info, handy for external log viewers. ## Cloudflare users will want to swap $remote_addr in first line below to $http_CF_Connecting_IP ## to log the real client IP address log_format emby '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" ' '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" ' '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for" $request_time $server_port "$http_x_emby_authorization"'; log_format default '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" ' '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" ' '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for" $request_time $server_port'; sendfile off; ## Sendfile not used in a proxy environment. gzip on; ## Compresses the content to the client, speeds up client browsing. gzip_disable "msie6"; gzip_comp_level 6; gzip_min_length 1100; gzip_buffers 16 8k; gzip_proxied any; gzip_types text/plain text/css text/js text/xml text/javascript application/javascript application/x-javascript application/json application/xml application/rss+xml image/svg+xml; proxy_connect_timeout 1h; proxy_send_timeout 1h; proxy_read_timeout 1h; tcp_nodelay on; ## Sends data as fast as it can not buffering large chunks, saves about 200ms per request. ## The below will force all nginx traffic to SSL, make sure all other server blocks only listen on 443 server { listen 80 default_server; server_name _; return 301 https://$host$request_uri; } ## Start of actual server blocks server { listen [::]:443 ssl; ## Listens on port 443 IPv6 ssl enabled listen 443 ssl; ## Listens on port 443 IPv4 ssl enabled http2 on; ## Enables HTTP2 proxy_buffering off; ## Sends data as fast as it can not buffering large chunks. server_name emby.domainname.com; ## enter your service name and domain name here example emby.domainname.com access_log logs/emby.log emby; ## Creates a log file with this name and the log info above. ## SSL SETTINGS ## ssl_session_timeout 30m; ssl_protocols TLSv1.2 TLSv1.1 TLSv1; ssl_certificate ssl/pub.pem; ## Location of your public PEM file. ssl_certificate_key ssl/pvt.pem; ## Location of your private PEM file. ssl_session_cache shared:SSL:10m; location ^~ /swagger { ## Disables access to swagger interface return 404; } location / { proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8096; ## Enter the IP and port of the backend emby server here. client_max_body_size 1000M; ## Allows for mobile device large photo uploads. proxy_hide_header X-Powered-By; ## Hides nginx server version from bad guys. proxy_set_header Range $http_range; ## Allows specific chunks of a file to be requested. proxy_set_header If-Range $http_if_range; ## Allows specific chunks of a file to be requested. proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; ## Passes the real client IP to the backend server. #proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $http_CF_Connecting_IP; ## if you use cloudflare un-comment this line and comment out above line. proxy_set_header Host $host; ## Passes the requested domain name to the backend server. proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; ## Adds forwarded IP to the list of IPs that were forwarded to the backend server. ## ADDITIONAL SECURITY SETTINGS ## ## Optional settings to improve security ## ## add these after you have completed your testing and ssl setup ## ## NOTICE: For the Strict-Transport-Security setting below, I would recommend ramping up to this value ## ## See https://hstspreload.org/ read through the "Deployment Recommendations" section first! ## add_header 'Referrer-Policy' 'origin-when-cross-origin'; add_header Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=15552000; preload" always; add_header X-Frame-Options "SAMEORIGIN" always; add_header X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff" always; add_header X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block" always; ## WEBSOCKET SETTINGS ## Used to pass two way real time info to and from emby and the client. proxy_http_version 1.1; proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade; proxy_set_header Connection $http_connection; } } }

The clients display the Cast & Crew in the order that they appear in the xml file. Sometimes the order that they are in is not what I want and so I would like to change it. Therefore within the metadata editor could a simple up/down arrow be added to each actor so that the order they appear in can be controlled.

Right emby fights with alot of issues because of poor development choices and lack of skilled developers. Not a device issue lol. Jellyfin is open source so no wonder they have issues getting people to write niche UIs for tv os that change. Honestly plex/emby etc should drop all tv os support and just focus on the 3 apple/android/roku

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I'll try again. I did it once and it was wrong! same server same everything, just different directories (docker)

Ah yes my test was with a library "CollapseSingleItemFolders": false,. Will retest again with a "CollapseSingleItemFolders": true, when I get a chance.

The collapse hidden config switch will likely impact this. With it being set to false now on all new libraries and installs, this shouldn't be reprocubile anymore.

I deleted all the anime series from the series folder and copied them back in without the *.bif files. Now it works, the series are displayed correctly. I don't want to call this a "solution" directly, but in the end it works that way.

Errata: Baixei novamente em outro pendrive e funcionou, portanto desconsiderem minha mensagem, Obrigado

H265 support natively in the browser in Linux/ChromeOS can be tricky to achieve, not all the patches required are merged into the upstream I think. I've been following a thread for arch linux where a mesa patch was linked which should resolve it but it's not merged yet and I'm not currently building mesa from git to merge it myself to try. I've even seen mixed results from my friends using chrome on windows where some are direct playing h265 and others are being transcoded, even though I know they have hardware capable of it with modern Nvidia GPUs.

agreed, on 4.8.3.0, the option to remove collection is there as well for non-admin users.

Including me and that's the reason my Shield has an auto-start to Emby which is basically the only app I use on it. That way I avoid to see all the shit that Google places in the home screen.

(Beta 4.9.0.12) Remove from collection item pop-up list does happen for non-admin user. Perhaps in baseitemcontroller.js maybe missing some 'if' function parameter to designate admin only somewhere around... BaseItemController.prototype.canRemoveFromCollection=function...

sorry for my late replay I had to much private stuff to do and I also was a little bit frustrated with all this stuff. Since Emby feels like that theres different ways to create paths for each operating system, for example, I didn't realize that under casaOS the paths in the app itself must first be created on the dashboard before I can then create a library with my paths in emby setup page. Now its working so thanks for youre help. Now its time to learn how to use emby for my needs.

We're looking at adding that finally.

He said the metadata is already there but in a proprietary format so I believe what he is asking for in this FR is for us to support that format...

Why not just create, and save, your own Custom Query - that's what it is there for.. There are some example custom queries in the drop down box.

Did you create partition1 folder ? I didn't have to set SElinux to permissive. Use sd*1 instead of sdg1. And make scripts such as mount.sh and unmount.sh and put your commands inside these scripts and use termux-widget app, then you can just click on home screen icons to mount, unmount the hdd. Cheers !

Thanks for your reply. Yeah its a pain in the bum not being able to pass through dts too. Sometimes there is a stereo track i can choose, is that what you mean or do you aquire a different surround sound format? After a lot of fiddling im certain its down to the hdmi terminal being very loose and also using the ARC feature. I did try to gently prise the housing in a bit, it has helped with the fitting but i still get the little blips, i wiggled it in firmly and it seems to have helped, so it looks like i need to try and fix it better. I had no issues when i used the tv speakers and i tried an optical cable too so it just seems to be using the ARC.

Hi Luke, thanks for taking and interest - I've loaded BUpnP onto the same android phone that I normally use StreamMagic on. With the minimum necessary change to BUpnP' set up to get music to play on the right device (Evo), I have pointed it at a library on my PC, similar to the test I described previously, except the PC library that is under Emby management now only has one folder, one MP3 file with embedded art at 220x220, and as before, one Folder.jpg file (1400x1400). I was trying to keep my test a minimal as possible. Hopefully, the labels on the pics I attach are reasonably self explanatory. A feature of the Evo is the display panel, which only shows the current playing file (at 480x480) and no matter what I try to do, BUpnP doesn't seem to to allow the art to display on the device's panel. As an aside, I know that embedded art is not being used in any of my tests, it's only the 'Folder.jpg', because I also added a second file into the test folder that had no embedded artwork, and at the file level, StreamMagic and BUpNP both showed correct artwork, and the Evo showed correct artwork for both both files only when playing from StreamMagic (no artwork on the Evo panel from BUpNP). I suspect the fault is with StreamMagic and the way it somehow selects the artwork to show at folder level, so I have raised a support case with Cambridge Audio. They are usually pretty good, but may need some expert help or at least clues from you to fix this. Given that the Evo unit is probably the top all-in-one HiFi streamer the moment, it would be a shame if users were put off Emby by blurred folder-level artwork, for something that may be trivial (if only we could nail it) - this certainly put me off Emby last year, but my interest is now renewed as I'm about to buy new, bigger NAS unit (Synology) that claims easy Emby integration.

Hallo das Problem mit der Anmeldung hat sich erledigt. war mein Fehler habe den Verlauf mal im Browser gelöscht und da ging es. Bin begeistert von Emby Das mit der Netzwerk Freigabe liegt glaube ich an OMV. Ich habe noch ein altes system die 4.. Version von OMV die smb Freigaben tauchen in Emby auf, die neue Version 7.. nicht. Habe alles verglichen alles gleich . NFS (OMV) geht leider überhaupt nicht mehr taucht noch nicht mal in Linux (Mint) auf. Muss auch nicht sein, bin erstmal glücklich komme so zurecht . Mit der Lösung "mnt" komme ich zurecht.

I think this is a much-awaited feature: an EPUB / PDF file reader and this possibility of creating a real book database.... why does it take so long to create this feature? no news ? I'm willing to pay if that's the problem.

Hi, I wonder if this is a bug. The recentlyplayed node displays recently added movies, but not recently played ones.

Okay those results are certainly perfectly respectable, maybe just a smidge on the low side because even though it's 1gig you won't actually get 1gig you'll usually top around 940 to 950 at most so seeing at least 900 would be a bit better. The client to the server had some retries which can happen with wireless clients but I'm a little surprised to see that from a LAN connection. Maybe you need to run the tests for a bit longer to see if there are periods of retries, maybe when there's other traffic occuring through the routing/switching device(s), can do -t 60 or higher to make it run longer. But again these are still speeds several times over the bitrate of the media so I'm not sure that the networking equipment is the problem here. I'm still concerned that you are not able to reach the proxmox GUI when this occurs. This has me leaning towards the mini PC. Are you able to run a continuous ping against the device while introducing the problem? This may also provide a clue while streaming the high bitrate content if ping times jump rapidly. Additionally if possible, have an SSH connection going with some kind of process monitor (top, htop, glances, whatever you like) to monitor for anything like sudden spikes in memory/cpu or even if the session just starts being laggy or downright unresponsive. It may also be worth trying a telnet to the proxmui web GUI as well - if you can reach the web GUI port via telnet that suggests that a web GUI component is not responding thus causing the page to not load, but is otherwise accepting the port connection request.

Thank you so much... Vic

Is it possible that SyncedNodes are broken with KODI 21.0 (stable) and Emby Nextgen 10.0.12 ? After the initial sync everything seems to be fine, all of my emby server nodes (e.g. Movies, TV Shows, Kids, ..) are shown when navigating to "Synced nodes (emby)" but after a KODI restart they are gone and won't come back. (only the "static" SyncNodes['root'] are shown but no library nodes anymore) Any idea? Thanks!

RPi4 with Lineage ATV13 works quite well though you have to figure out the remote. Otherwise a Nokia box 8000 if you want something cheaper and more ready out of the box... Forget about HD audio though

hi! I would say this is a really good idea and I would use it for web applications. But in 2024, we're still waiting for ios clients and Android clients to do the same, such as hiding the Navigation Items TAB that users don't want to see.

Samsung stopped adding a DTS decoder in 2018 which is why I have an alternate audio track in all my DTS movies. I prefer not to transcode whenever possible. Otherwise, you may need to toggle that transcode setting on the server until SamES can get back and take a look at what's happening to FLAC music.

If you're in the USA you can buy an i3-8100T off lease micro PC off eBay for under $100 which will run circles around a Shield. Will easily run Linux or Windows or even Android if you want. The Shield is just a poor choice these days. If you want to do some retro gaming as well, you can get a Ryzen 5 2400GE for about $100-$125 which will also run circles around a Shield, and you can just use Batocera while installing the Kodi plugin for Emby on it. Both these systems can software decode AV1. The Shield is pretty much dead.

@LukeThe problem in the center of the highlighted part of the lyrics has not been corrected.

The new sections are still only in the beta releases - if you are using a store download (2.0.98 (27th Oct) then it won't yet have it. Current beta is 2.1.11(Apr 2) You can sideload the version that has it below or wait for the release to be promoted (not sure when that will be @ebr?) 2.1.01 (7 Feb) Fix playing collections of music with server 4.8 Add new home sections Add support for new Profile PIN or just use the latest beta which is 2.1.11(Apr 2)

@Luke I am also watching the other thread on this, under Google TV I believe. (https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/126643-shuffle-all-issue/) @ebr appears to be the analyst on that. I'm travelling in the insanity of Texas eclipse land right now without my laptop where my server (v4.8.3 IIRC) is located, so I can't attach logs or the like. Everything seems to point to a server issue, not client. My additional info for debugging, I also use multiple genres (like "Rock; Pop"), but out of 20K+ MP3s, I'd say less than 2-3% have more than one genre. The genre shuffle is not tied to those exclusively. Cheers!

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My scans are now very much improved, and I am getting things that didn't identity appearing in the library now looping back to I set my scan library to a hard limit of 1 hour, and that really gives me a much smaller log to go through I had a moment this weekend to look at the errors Muscbrainz is throwing and the specifics of them. It looks like a lot, for me right now, are related to the issue linked above. where the MBZ plugin will import the discogs release ID info, and that will be incorrect when queried against the Discogs plug in. It is causing a double whammy, imo. MBZ imports and writes bad info, then discogs tries to look that info up I know you said you wanted to look into writing the embedded DISCOGS_RELEASE_ID tag, can you also look into seeing if the MBZ plug can NOT write discogs info? That seems to be the source of many problems. Can there be a discussion about order of operations for lookups, I mean embedded vs online metadata, and the info that is read or write for plug ins? I feel like this is something that will need community feedback to overhaul.

I ended up following this post: https://passbe.com/2020/gpu-nvidia-passthrough-on-proxmox-lxc-container/

IMHO that would be out of scope of this plugin, you should take a look at Bulky plugin instead.

Thanks! We need to add a similar thing to the restore process of the backup plugin to assist with changing platforms.

Hello, there have been many discussions about it, like 6 years ago, but I kind of want to ask something else. When I play recent movies in browser (currently FF) I can see that audio is getting transcoded to AAC 384bit (stereo i guess?). As we all know, regular downmixing to stereo is never a good thing, what I do for selected movies is "nightmode" downmixing beforehand which is kind of... annoying. (See https://superuser.com/questions/852400/properly-downmix-5-1-to-stereo-using-ffmpeg > Downmixing with Robert Collier's Nightmode Dialogue ) The difference is quite big! My question is, is it possible to add an "dynamic stereo" option to Emby playback (mostly browser and mobile might benefit from it) that forces stereo downmix with above option. So lets say, my source file has an ENG 5.1 DTS, I currently only see 5.1 as audio channel, and when I play it, it gets downmixed to stereo in a quite bad way (usually voice is much quieter than anything else) which is always been bad. As soon as the action scenes come, its getting too loud, and when you turn it down, you might not understand conversations anymore. So the new option with add an "on the fly" stereo channel, additionally to the 5.1. which will force emby audio to transcode, but using a specific downmix mode like "Nightmode Diaglogue" or whatever. (Admins might be able to add/select their own "filter" in the server managements transcoding/advanced options or disable this feature ). Example (hardcoded): The new dynamic option instead can be show as italic or "*" ed option, to mark them as something special. This way, I can turn the - already happening - downmixing into a more useful one. I don't need to transcode the audio beforehand, and I save some storage from just adding "Nightmode Stereo" to all movies, while I only need it once in a while. I guess hardware these days is fast enough to allow this ? Cheers

Yes certainly.