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First release candidate for v3.0.0 is available. Complete rewrite. Now written in Go, you no longer need Java on your system. Project moved to Gitlab. Download from the project site: https://gitlab.com/ddb_db/embysweeper Please give it a try and report any issues. This is mostly complete as far as I can tell. A couple of minor tweaks to some output that isn't really important is about the only thing I've noticed so far. Unless people report issues, this will likely be the final v3.0.0 release. The wiki is a little light at the moment. I plan on documenting more examples before the final release. As mentioned in the release notes: Please run this version without the -d flag and inspect the output of what it plans on deleting before you let it delete anything. I've been using it with success, but it doesn't mean it's not without bugs. You've been warned. Release notes copied from release page: v3.0.0 RC3 The first release candidate for v3.0.0. v3 is a complete rewrite of embysweeper from the ground up. Code rewritten in Go; you no longer need Java installed on your system Items can be ignored by series tag in addition to series favourite status New command: serieskeep Ensure only a set number of episodes of a series are kept, deleting the older ones Commands now accept both include and exclude libraries This is a release candidate and is not the final release for v3.0.0. Especially given the fact that this is a complete rewrite from scratch, please be careful when upgrading to this version. Specifically, test all of your command lines WITHOUT the -d flag first and review the output of what the tool plans to delete before you let it delete anything. I can't stress this enough! I am using this version in my environment with success, but it doesn't mean it's not without bugs.

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Cinema Mode used to select a trailer randomly from all your trailers, but Luke changed that so now it selects a random trailer from movies that are "related" to the current movie. Can an option be added to go back to the old behavior? I liked the incongruity of having a trailer from a completely different type of movie show. Plus it helps me remember movies I've added.

Guys, The ebook side of Emby/MediaBrowser has been long stalled or rather stagnated. I would like to offer up a couple of suggestions. Many people use calibre as an ebook/comic book tool for scraping data and general management of their collection already. This program is absolutely astonishing in its ability to pull metadata from post calibre scans, as well as draw in metadata from the file source and/or directory structure. http://vaemendis.net/ubooquity/ Its a self contained .jar server/reader combination. And honestly I am very impressed by it's small footprint and wide range of abilities. The other option is COPS , which was written specifically with calibre in mind. It is open source, so making it work with emby I would think would be fairly easy. https://blog.slucas.fr/projects/calibre-opds-php-server/ Ever since the original release of MediaBrowser's bookshelf I have always wanted something that would allow me to 'read' my collection, rather than being basically nothing more than a place-set for images of books I own. I am sure that those who mainly have audiobooks are thrilled with bookshelf , but it's nothing more than an extension of the music library IMHO, not new features. We can have both right? Here I give you two suggestions free of charge.. Just because I love you, and Emby Personally I plan on running the Ubooquity Server along side of Emby from now on, just because of it's massive functionality and tiny footprint. But I sure hope that someone decides -- "yeah, ebook support should be in here too" and do something about it - rather than allow this now very very ancient issue to continue to remain an issue. And so I don't have to have 20 different ports open, some with SSL support - some not, because Emby isn't delivering the 'complete package'. (Please take some of this with humor, I know you have your hands full with improvements/bugs/suggestions/requests)

I can stream George Gently seasons 1-4 on prime after that it goes to britbox. Better than nothing I guess, I'll give it a go.

@GrimReapercan you merge with existing topics.

True I guess someone could build a plugin to read the data and apply it to a specific user. As the only client that uses this info I believe is Kodi.

Probably I should really add a done notification.

Die Abfrage kommt nur bei Transcoding. Dort ist das im Moment nicht abschaltbar. Ich vermute du hast Transcoding versehentlich eingeschaltet?

For a 3.5" HD you need a 12V adapter such as this SATA->USB for 2.5" you don't need the power adapter. For the pi I use these coolers plugged into the 3.3V power the are nearly silent and keep it nice 'n cool.

User info is problematic in nfo as it can only apply to one user.

Thanks, this was indeed the reason behind the lag. However, I'll leave a note here for future readers as this wasn't as straightforward as just disabling the spindown all together (which I had done prior, using the recommended way via `hdparm` some time ago, without effect). Some SATA controller manufacturers may implement the standard used for power management in a pretty dubious way, in the case of my Seagatte Ironwolf Pro, any software reported that the power management setting for HDD sleep / idle / spindown was off. All standard commands I used to check the drive's power state would first wake it before reporting anything, but one: `smartctl -i -n standby /dev/sd*`, which helped me realise when the device is in standby. Since the power management settings were useless, I tried forcing the drive to stay awake by adding a cronjob that would read some data from the disk device, but that would not work as, at least what I suppose was happening, the kernel (or the device driver) would subsequently read the data from some cache and not use the disk at all. Ultimately, using `dd` with `iflag=direct` parameter, which as advertised, reads the data directly. Set this up as a cronjob and voila - all my issues have been solved! Here's the cronjob for those interested: */3 * * * * dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null bs=1M count=1 iflag=direct Thank you!

Yes. Feature Requests - Emby Community

Change the episode metadata order as you are saying get from TMDB then TVDB.

The next thing I am adding is a way to jump directly to channels to avoid cycling through the channels. this should help those with a high number of channels. Vic

For $150 you're going to have to use older parts. I would recommend something like this. Yes you will be limited by what you can fit in the case, but it's something you can use to start her off. The i5-8500 has a max TDP of 65 watts (real world twice that), but does have a high idle of around 46 watts. If you are ok with having the drive as an external, you could look at the mico-pc's from Dell/Lenovo/HP that have an 8500T, which has a peak power of 35watts. You could buy the above unit and buy an 8500T processor to drop in it's place but I don't know if the HP bios will support it. Since both of these are 8th gen, they will do hardware quicksync of HEVC so the system will be in idle usage most of the time. If you had a larger budget I would suggest something like a low powered NAS, but they are massively overpriced. Here is a link to a site with some guides on older, used hardware that you can usually get for cheap cheap. Serverbuilds forums are fantastic and are a great resource. I personally use a home built NAS with a e5-2670 in it, and have an i5-1235u laptop as my transcode server. NAS uses maybe 140 watts, laptop uses 12-30.

From what I understand in order for AV1 to work with HLS you need to use HLS.js which is against the spec as it doesn't specify AV1 as a valid value in the CODECS field. That is why it freezes as it doesn't know what to do so it panics and freezes. This is akin to the kid who wanted Emby devs to support features that Intel specifically said they did not support.

Today I added a "quick-start" style menu on the "Select Media" pages. This lets you continue using the pulldown menu technique employed in "Quick Start" to build channels. Give it a try. You will like it. Vic PseudoTV.dll

It's real quick and doesn't display a message that it's complete. I did request some sort of message earlier saying it was run. Think I pressed it several times a while back myself thinking the same. Might be something in the logs saying it was run.

Some users have also had success simply asking their ISP for a routed IP address (i.e. not subject to cgNAT). Paul

Hi All, I removed the new version and I installed again the 4.8.3.0. Emby works fine again. I'm waiting the 4.8.5.0. Regards

It's not fixed in the latest maintenance release, so when will you actually "take a look at this"? This is really annoying.

You don't.... You convert the OPUS Track into one that your equipment can support, remux the second track in and set as default while choosing to keep both or just the supported one.

Users have been asking for this as an option from the beginning. That's why it was implemented with view options in ATV. Why would you put this out and not include options? It also needs movies and shows split apart...as an option.

Thanks for the quick answers. Unfortunately, I still experience the bug in 14. I also did factory reset before trying to delete after the update. Maybe more info will help: Running Kodi and Emby server on the same computer, mac-mini running monterey, library on local disk. not using path substitution.

i was about to report it, since no HW acceleration detected good things i check this thread first, the new upload fixed this, as well the playback issue on web version, thanks!

People items have always been separated, no?

Yeah local trailers seems like hard work. I chose the trailers plugin (new and upcoming) hoping it would replicate the cinema experience and peek my interest in new movies. Alas the quality is lacking with most of the trailers and the randomness is also bad. If I'm watching a action movie I want to see other genre's trailer wise (comedy/sci-fi etc.). It just didn't work like cinema intro's/trailers should so I'll give it a miss for now.

This ball was picked up sooner than I thought in an attempt to migrate from what seems like a possible corrupt install, I decided to try importing metadata and inserted an example you requested in a new thread as I want to keep the issues separate and I’m no longer migrating from macOS

thanks for your patience on this front. I updated the PIN and everything continues to sync (as of v4.8.3.0) the only thing I notice is if you update the “date added” on the Emby side of things, it doesn’t update the date collected in Trakt. the workaround is to delete the item (or your collection) on Trakt and have Emby resync. It’s a non-issue for me right now but just a heads up if you decide to fix it.

hey i just want to close this loop. Let’s pick up this ball the next time I encounter this issue during a migration so I can capture the exact behavior and state a specific example. While it was quite the meditative exercise, I restored all the resume points and favorites by hand.

@gonavy63Tailscale as @Luke said is a great solution to this. Easy to setup and get running. More than happy to help if you need it.

It should be an option. I would prefer completely random trailers.

Some adjustments, yes. Thanks for the feedback.

context menu I also activated the delete after watch option, so it pops the question about deletion. Same result with both paths.

And when it supercedes HEVC, if you're still using your ancient hardware, you'll probably continue to blame the devs of Emby when it's an issue with the way AV1 is designed to work. There are no magic work arounds for a base codec's inability to be used in a certain stream style. Upgrade your home theatre receiver or process the files before adding them to your library. There is only so much hand holding a dev team can do when users refuse to use modern hardware. It's like people complaining that XP support no longer exists for newer programs. Sorry man, but that's the reality of the situation you are in. AV1 is still in its infancy, and there are a lot of inherit problems with it. As for your thing with Plex, Plex has over 100 staff members, tens of millions of dollars to play with, and don't add things until they know they work 100%. There's a reason they are "so far behind" in regards to video codec support, as AV1 is still not ready for mainstream, yet Emby users demanded it, and now people aren't happy that there are problems with the half baked implementation. I don't know why this is a hill you're willing to die on when the solution is such a simple one on your end.

HI, apologies for the disruption. Replacement builds are currently uploading so please redownload the release from our website, install, and you should be good to go. We'll also do a 4.8.5 this weekend to ensure everyone gets notified of the fix. Thanks.

Here is the next round of answers from our Emby Q&A session. The feedback from our previous blog post was exciting to see from all of you, and we are excited to share even more answers. The next round of questions and answers will be released next week as well! 1) What are some of the future goals of Emby? Emby wants to continue to grow and be the best media server option available for our users. We hope to move to a quicker release schedule than in previous iterations that is both more efficient from a development standpoint and exciting for our users. We love what we do here at Emby and we want our users and potential users to see that! 2) Would the Emby team ever consider moniterary "bounties" to help offset the development cost. We have actually seen this question a lot lately. We do not believe that this is the best way to decide what goes into development for a few reasons. First and foremost, we do not want people who have more money than others to decide what goes into production while others who may not be able to afford to donate or contribute go unheard. 3) How does the Emby team decide on what's next for Emby? The answer to this is deeper than most people probably think. Feature requests is one place that we look at to form our roadmap of future goals. Sometimes it's as simple as user feedback that something is not working as intended or could be implemented in an easier way to use etc. Other times our development staff has ideas based on industry trends as well as their own experience that they believe should be implemented. We take all of that and as a team decide what should be added and when. 4) In what areas can Emby improve? We as a team are always seeking to improve. We fully acknowledge that as a small company we are sometimes stretched "thin" but we do our best to always be both proactive and reactive with all of you. As mentioned above we hope to move to a quicker release schedule with a more agile methodology that allows us do so. We think we do a pretty great job at communication with everyone here on the forums, but we continue to strive to be even better here as well. Being able to give more flushed out answers and as much information as we can. Our goal is to always continue improving. View the full article

Any updates on this? It's been over a year

And 4k will work on Xbox?

Or https://iptvboss.pro/

Hi, we have some changes in mind, but haven't done the work yet. Until then you can use the external player feature to open videos using the zidoo player.

Thank you to everyone who took the time to ask the Emby team questions across all of the different platforms including here on the forums. There were a lot of great questions that were thrown our way and we've been excited to get the answers out to you. While some of the questions we were not able to answer, we did our best to give you the most accurate and clear answers possible. Now without further ado, here is the first series of questions and answers for you to look over! Please keep in mind more questions and answers will be coming in additional blog posts in the coming days, so not all questions are being answered today. Who owns Emby? Emby LLC owns the Emby product and is a private entity. The owners are undisclosed but note that the development team has full control over the direction of the product. We are not beholden to or under the influence of any investor or investment group. What is the history of Emby? Emby grew out of an open source project called MediaBrowser. Emby's origin in concept came out of that project but there is actually none of that code base still within it. Emby ended up being completely built from the ground up to be a server-based ecosystem as opposed to just a single app as the old MediaBrowser was. Around 2011 what is now the core development team for Emby were contributors to MediaBrowser. We saw the opportunity to build something more flexible than the WMC environment would allow and embarked on creating what we then called MB 3. The core developers spent over a year furiously writing code before anything was released to the public. It was then probably another two years of dedicated development before anything was truly usable as a system. In 2015 it was decided that we had moved so far away from what MB originally was that we needed a new name. A few of the devs got together and came up with "Emby". There are a few reasons behind that name but one of the main ones was that you needed something that wasn't already trademarked and domained. Emby fit that bill and has the benefit of sounding like "MB" when you say it. With the new name, we needed a new logo and we actually held a contest in the forum taking contributions from users and that finally landed us on the logo you see now. Since 2015 we have expanded the team and worked diligently to try and continue to craft the best truly personal media server system we can. We still have a long way to go but have also come a long way to where we are. What are the most popular Emby clients? We do not have exact data on this, due to sideloading and the such, but through the app store platforms we can gain general ideas. Android is the most popular amongst our userbase (both mobile and TV) with iOS in second place as the most downloaded app. What Emby clients do the development team use most for personal use? Our development team uses a wide variety of apps just as our user base does. We have people on the team using Android on mobile and TV, iOS, Apple TV, Roku and Xbox as well. As you can see our dev team really is as diverse as our user base when it comes to how we use the server. These were just a few of the questions about Emby as a product and who we are. In the next blog post we will be covering a few different things such as some of the future goals of Emby as well as release schedules and more! View the full article

@Luke I wrote down the process I followed to create a custom DLNA profile for my stereo. It occurred to me that it might serve as a starting point for Emby's documentation. Please feel free to use it, with whatever modifications you find necessary, to develop the Help page for this feature: ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Creating a Custom DLNA Profile Emby's debug-level logging can help you identify your DLNA device. The information found here can be used to create a custom profile. Finding detailed device information for DLNA: 1. Enable debug logging on Emby server. 2. Allow your DLNA-capable device to connect to your Emby server. 3. On your Emby server, go to Settings > Logs and open the most recent log. 4. Find the entries in the log file that resemble the following: 5. In the first line of the sample log above, find the "User-Agent," and its value. This will be used to create an HTTP Header in your custom profile (the value is the entire string between "User-Agent=" and the comma preceding the next parameter. In the sample, the "User-Agent" value is "Mediabolic-IMHTTP/1.8.225 UPNP/1.0 DLNADOC/1.50"). The information gathered above can be used to create a custom DLNA profile for the device on your Emby server. Creating a custom DLNA profile: 1. In Settings > DLNA, select the "Profiles" tab. 2. Click the "+" next to "Custom Profiles" to create a new profile. 3. Give the profile a name. 4. Select a library, or leave this field alone to use the default. 5. Expand the "Identification" section. Use the information you found in step 4 to populate these fields. 6. At the bottom of the "Identification" section, click the "+" next to HeaderHttpHeaders. 7. Use the "User-Agent" value that you found in the log file to fill this out. Name = "User-Agent" (without quotation marks) Value = [value from your log] 8. Click "Save." This will create a profile that should allow your DLNA device to successfully connect to your Emby server. The default values of the fields not discussed above should be suitable for most users. It is recommended to only change them if you know what you are doing. Testing the profile: Once you have created your custom profile, you can test it by allowing your device to re-connect to your Emby server. Examine the log file again, as you did at the beginning of this process. If the custom profile is successfully used, instead of seeing "Using default profile for: ..." your device, the log file should say: "Found matching device profile: [name of your device profile]". Be sure to set the "Enable debug logging" back to "No" when you are done.

HI, yes it's certainly possible for future updates. Thanks.

This is not possible. How can I acquire an original AC3 track for a release done by the Scene? Also, it defeats the purpose of having Emby transcode/manager stuff for me in the first place. For Direct Play we had Kodi to begin with. This issue will always come back, AV1 hasn't superseded HEVC as of yet. But trust me it will. AV1+Opus makes all the sense. Not only for streaming data but for storage since it occupies less space.