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Years back when I first tried Emby Theatre for windows (both the install and the Microsoft Store version) they were buggy, laggy and borderline unusable. I recently tried them again on two low power machines and they run flawlessly. No issues at all. Anyway just wanted to say great work to the Devs. Thank you.

You'll find a lot related discussions around the forum, with users advocating for or against same - personally, I'm not inclined towards it and I like the distinction different apps bring; not all features are possible/feasible on all platforms and I believe that no platform should be crippled on account that something is not achievable on some other, i.e. app development should play to platforms' strength, not on finding lowest possible denominator that'll work across all of them. And I hate unified design that Emby is so aggressively pushing into every app, I don't want same experience sitting in front of my PC and consuming my media in front of a TV; I can suffer through Web app UI as I CSS-ed the sh*t out of it, but I detest seeing same web wrapper/quasi-Apple design on my TV. Though I understand there are users with contrary views, and that is fully legit. But, those are all personal stances, I'm just a regular user as you are and have zero input on design language, we'll see what the future brings. Currently, it doesn't look bright as far as I am concerned (or it looks too bright, depends how you look at it).

Everyone with remote users has dealt with this over the years. Not much has changed except maybe the default fallback bitrate was increased from 1.5 mbps some time ago. You can add your 2 cents to any of the multiple threads about this. In the end for your user's enjoyment and your sanity the advice below is the way to go. You can tell your remote users who use Emby from home to max out their "quality" and you can then limit the bitrate at the user level on your server. It's the easiest way to manage this for older and non-technical users. You can discuss and/or work through it with the more technical ones.

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.

I'm loving the beta so far. Just wondering what the final plan is for this project. Will I be able to host Emby server on my linux server and then use this GUI on Android/Roku players?

I see that there has been a couple of replies whilst I was single finger typing You could do it the way I have described and yes there is a possibility of minor congestion when moving a 4k file. however you could just put the TDARR cache on the same drive and then move the file which is instantaneous as there is no disk write involved, just a change in the adressing of the file. I think that you may be overthinking the problem (something I do a lot) and i suggest that you try it as i think you will be plesantly surprised how well it all works.

It looks like you have a very similar setup to me. I have everything running on the same machine. SABnzbd downloads to my SSD then unpacks to my Media drive which is a 24TB DrivePool RAID 0. Sonarr/Radarr then renames it and moves the file to the Emby Library folder on the DrivePool drive. This is almost immediate as it is a move on the same drive. TDARR then "sees" the file and waits 300 seconds (or however long you want) before transcoding the file onto the SSD. once finished TDARR moves the temp file to the DrivePool and then deletes the origional followed by a rename to replace the origional file. If Emby actually responds to the new temp file before it's deleted in the replace operation doesn't seem to matter as it then cancels the operation on the temp file and "sees" the new version of the origional file and processes that. Emby doesn't seem to react quite as fast as you may think and most of the time doesn't even "see" the TDARR temp file. This is all on a very old machine that can't even do any real time transcoding so unless you are like me and enjoy proving Microsoft wrong and are running W11 on a HP ProLiant N54L G7 MicroServer you should have no problems. BTW that's not the oldest machine I run W11 on

1) Sort of a personal preference as Emby see the media as I add it vs relying on next library scan. But obviously the media is going to be process more than once per the work flow of Original in Emby, then TDarr conversion, replace original process. So a minimum of Emby processing the media twice. May need to look at extending the RTM delay so then as default in the system.xml. <LibraryMonitorDelaySeconds>90</LibraryMonitorDelaySeconds> 2) potentially yes doing the conversion on the same library drives could affect other operations as you are already read the original content.

Would need to see library setting but sounds like you have image capture enable as that is the last resort if no online source is found. (per library settings)

Yup, have 1.8.0 installed now on the 2021 model (the 2019 Frame is stuck at 1.7.0). On the 2021, Samsung shows 1.8.0 released as of 6/12/2024. I'm looking for 1.8.8 for that TV, to see if the interlaced video fix helps this issue. No rush, the reduced video quality setting is working ok. Thanks!

4-6 store updates per year are about what to expect. The Samsung review process is slow, and because of that that also means we take our time between releases and making sure we're ready to submit. So just because you see a usb build posted that doesn't mean it's going to the store just yet.

terrelsa13/MUMC: Multi-User Media Cleaner aka MUMC (pronounced Mew-Mick) will go through movies, tv episodes, audio tracks, and audiobooks in your Emby/Jellyfin libraries deleting media items you no longer want. (github.com)

Hello. The issue was in my firewall. For some reason I got a second embyserver.exe in there with blocked accesses.

This would explain why the playlists disappeared. Is there a way I can give emby permission on the files? 2024-08-27 20:54:35.369 Error App: Error resolving path /var/packages/EmbyServer/var/data/playlists/MCU [playlist] *** Error Report *** Version: 4.9.0.30 Command line: /volume1/@appstore/EmbyServer/system/EmbyServer.dll -programdata /var/packages/EmbyServer/var -ffdetect /var/packages/EmbyServer/target/bin/ffdetect -ffmpeg /var/packages/EmbyServer/target/bin/ffmpeg -ffprobe /var/packages/EmbyServer/target/bin/ffprobe -nolocalportconfig -ignore_vaapi_enabled_flag -pidfile /var/packages/EmbyServer/var/EmbyServer.pid -defaultdirectory /volume1/Public -updatepackage emby-server-synology72_{version}_x86_64.spk -noautorunwebapp Operating system: Linux version 4.4.302+ (root@build5) (gcc version 12.2.0 (GCC) ) #69057 SMP Fri Jan 12 17:02:28 CST 2024 OS/Process: x64/x64 Framework: .NET 8.0.6 Runtime: volume1/@appstore/EmbyServer/system/System.Private.CoreLib.dll Processor count: 4 Data path: /var/packages/EmbyServer/var Application path: /volume1/@appstore/EmbyServer/system System.UnauthorizedAccessException: System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path '/var/packages/EmbyServer/var/data/playlists/MCU [playlist]' is denied. ---> System.IO.IOException: Permission denied --- End of inner exception stack trace --- at System.IO.Enumeration.FileSystemEnumerator`1.Init() at System.IO.DirectoryInfo.InternalEnumerateInfos(String path, String searchPattern, SearchTarget searchTarget, EnumerationOptions options) at Emby.Server.Implementations.IO.ManagedFileSystem.EnumerateFileSystemInfos(DirectoryInfo dir, Boolean recursive) at Emby.Server.Implementations.IO.ManagedFileSystem.GetFileSystemEntries(String path, Boolean recursive, FileSystemCredentials credentials) at Emby.Server.Implementations.Library.LibraryManager.ResolveFileList(List`1 fileList, IDirectoryService directoryService, Folder parent, LibraryOptions libraryOptions) Source: System.Private.CoreLib TargetSite: Void Init() InnerException: System.IO.IOException: Permission denied Source: TargetSite:

Hi Both, Please can the following be answered. Does Emby process metadata for Music and movies differently. Luke is this correct. It seems this is what may be happening. What is the purpose of Emby's refresh metadata for movies if above is true. @Luke I Scanned the movie library after unchecking Movie metadata downloaders Then re checked them and refreshed meta data for Trading places. This didnt attempt to go to the internet. Refreshing manually Dan Ackroyd and Emby went to internet and downloaded image.

True and can be impossible to identify unless it is reproducible. As initially I was thinking collapse flags but that has nothing to do with multi-versioning. But since these are single files in a folder it creates a parsing variable verses file in their own folder.

Recently Released Movies will order by release date, as the name implies. Latest Media will order Latest Movies by recently added, depending on the "Date added behavior for new content" setting. It sounds like you want Recently Released Movies to also contain this behaviour but that doesn't make sense when Latest Media already does that.

Just like the comment in FR why as Latest row is already date added?

What happens if you try to play those movies? Paul

Then use the 'latest media' lists. Sorting 'recently released' by date added would be the exact same thing as 'latest movies/tv shows'....

Indeed auto for remote clients isn't actually auto, it's 1080p 4 Mbps which you'll see in your logs when someone is looking at an item detail page, so yes you either need to set the bitrate higher on the device or you need to add remote network subnets to your LAN Networks config. This is personally how I'm handling allowing full bit rate for remote clients, though I am doing it in a very shotgun way because I'm not trying to figure out all the very specific subnets used by the ISP that my friends are connecting from, I'm just looking for successful transcoded segments or direct play requests for original.mkv within my reverse proxy logs (but you could do this with the regular emby logs with a little more effort) since I know those are successful requests from authenticated users and the shotgun is using the first octet with .0.0.0/8 for the rest. Now that I've been doing this for a while here and there I'll see a new subnet get added I include my actual LAN networks and VPN network as a base, and then append the rest and print out the list and then I just copy paste it into the field. Quick and dirty one liner, so dirty I'm even using backtick instead of $() for sub processes. Old habits die hard. P.S. I tried using 0.0.0.0/0 initially, to make everything seem like local, but I don't think this actually worked.

Thank you Jayce. I guess I'd have to. I'll add this as a feature request as well.

Those have move to database only configs now. So you have to look at the ItemExtradata table. UPDATE "main"."MediaItems" SET "Path" = replace( "Path", 'C:\Users\Media\Desktop\Videos', 'E:\Media' ) WHERE path LIKE 'C:\Users\Media\Desktop\Videos%'; UPDATE "main"."MediaItems" SET "Images" = replace( "Images", 'C:\Users\Media\Desktop\Videos', 'E:\Media' ) WHERE Images LIKE 'C:\Users\Media\Desktop\Videos%'; UPDATE "main"."MediaStreams2" SET "Path" = replace( "Path", 'C:\Users\Media\Desktop\Videos', 'E:\Media' ) WHERE path LIKE 'C:\Users\Media\Desktop\Videos%'; UPDATE "main"."Chapters3" SET "ImagePath" = replace( "ImagePath", 'C:\Users\Media\Desktop\Videos', 'E:\Media' ) WHERE imagepath LIKE 'C:\Users\Media\Desktop\Videos%'; UPDATE "main"."ItemExtradata" SET "Value" = replace( "Value", '"Path":"C:\\Users\\Media\\Desktop\\Videos', '"Path":"E:\\Media' ) WHERE value LIKE '%"Path":"C:\\Users\\Media\\Desktop\\Videos%'; If you filled in Network path on Library setup may need to look at also. xml is obsolete in new 4.8+ Cinema Intro plugin paths If you use AutoOrganizer you will need to update or delete the fileorganization.db If you applied user images then path will need updated users.db

Did you right click on the album in emby and go to edit? Then external ID's and see if the musicbrainz ID for the album was correct? When i have a temperamental album the first thing i do is open MP3Tag and erase all the extended tags. Then let MP3tag add the metadata back. This will embed the cover art and if you right click on the poster it shows you can save it as "folder" jpg. Then see what it shows after you refresh the album in emby. I see the art for the one album is more of a poster, not a square cover. I always go out and find the correct aspect ratio to be a folder image for use with emby. You can add this image quickly also using MP3tag. Sometimes, you just have to just go out and add metadata manually. Thankfully its just an occasional thing. Having spent years converting my album collection over to 1's and 0's, us album nerds are all about side a and side b, but i changed all my track listings to be just numeric because honestly there aren't many things that support A & B track listings. Good luck!

It is not really fair to believe that 5G data transfer with encapsulated TCP packets will be flawless. It does not behave the same way as TCP only packet delivery. You seem to believe this data delivery is the same. It is not. TCP packets are encapsulated and may sometimes be sliced up and arrive, out of order, inside mobile 5G packets. Then the end user's phone receives the 5G packets and pulls out the TCP packets, one at a time. This process is sometimes quick and sometimes not, depending on the Internet traffic, the 5G data network bandwidth and mobile signal strength. It is not a correct comparison to think that straight TCP packet delivery should be the same as TCP encapsulated into 5G mobile packet delivery. If there are data transfer issues resulting in 5G packet arrival and unpacking TCP response time, then this could be the cause of the transcoding issues. There are quite a few pdf white papers on this online. If you search you probably can find the latest. Here are some: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9205403 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1389128621003765

Hi all, in the meantime a made huge progress. Also I learned a lot around Linux based OS. In the meantime I still running a PI 4 with 4 GB with dietpi. Home assistant and emby a re running on the machine. The overall power consumption is < 2 W in idle. Now I also would like to add my external usb 3.0 Media drive directly to the PI. This workes great now. Now emby. I just would like to substitute my library paths with the new ip and network share name. Unfortunately there is no official way to this. I really would like to avoid a rescan because this takes ages .... I remembered a way to do this with SQL lite, where I did this successfully with a Kodi TV db. I also found this: Unfortunately it is not done with a path replacement. There is something else, but what? Maybe someone can help out here? Thanks! JuRo PS In the meantime I also testet a setup on a mini PC with I5 16 GB RAM. It's a windows machine where I run emby native in the machine. I also used Hyper V with a virtual HA system and a virtual Dietpi. Works good. But power consumption is around 5-6>10 in idle. So much more and total oversized and also active cooling system, what I don't need

FWIW I've done some testing with http2 and honestly the performance was way worse than http1.1. I see little reason to have to enabled. Edit: You can use a self signed certificate for your emby configuration because you can ignore the certificate check with your reverse proxy config, so you only need to replace the PFX as long as you set the expiry for. It matters that the reverse proxy certificate is valid but the backend doesn't really matter, as long as it has something that works to listen on the port. Edit2: It might be beneficial to add these options as well. Helps with keeping sessions open for remote users when they pause, I was finding sessions were being dropped so you'd resume a direct play and it would play for a bit and then just stop and you can only resume by backing out and resuming playback. KeepAlive On Timeout 6000 And some additional hardening: SSLProtocol TLSv1.2 +TLSv1.3 SSLCipherSuite HIGH:!MEDIUM:!SSLv3:!kRSA:!SHA1:!SHA256:!SHA384:!DSS:!aNULL SSLHonorCipherOrder on

Yeah, it looks as if the movies are still part of the server. I posted about this once before in another topic and the consensuses was I would need to delete the library.file (can't remember name of it right now) and rebuilt my library from scratch to get rid of it. I am not willing to do that at this point.

In TV interface I am don't found "Group By", but I have found button "View All". It get right view. I am happy with everything.

This looks a little deceiving as resetpassword needs to be false as true clears the password. postUsersByIdPassword (emby.media)

If I understand correctly this plugin should help.

thanks a lot, I've solved this issue by re-downloading emby server. Thank you for your concern.

Correct. I think it makes sense to add more options to control this though.

EDIT: Fixed in vanilla as of 4.9.*! I hacked it like this for now. This is probably missing a million checks server-side and could be made more efficient, but the SubtitleService has a lot of complexity I don't need. Provided I haven't missed some existing way to get this to work, I would appreciate if this got a proper fix in vanilla at some point. htmlvideoplayer/plugin.js //define "./../emby-apiclient/connectionmanager.js" ... _connectionmanager //... self.currentSubtitlesOctopus = new responses({ //... fonts: function(track) { var fonts = []; let apiClient = _connectionmanager.default.currentApiClient(); for (let stream of mediaSource.MediaStreams) { if (stream.Type == "Attachment") { fonts.push(apiClient.getUrl("Videos/" + mediaSource.ItemId + "/Font/" + stream.Index + "/Stream", {SetFilename: true})); } } return fonts }(track), //... }) MatroskaFontService.cs

I'm not married with Caddy. Plus,I want to learn + I don't like to leave any problem unresolved.

Si tu veux sauvegarder tes séries et films avec les métadonnées la meilleure solution c'est d’utiliser systématiquement les nfo et les mettre en source primaire pour les métadonnées. La sauvegarde tel qu’indiquée dans le guide du message précédent ne sauve que la configuration, les réglages et les utilisateurs. Je sais pas comment ces options s'appellent en français, mais si tu vas dans tes librairies -> click droit -> éditer, les 2 options devraient se trouver là. Ca permet aussi d'avoir des métadonnées customisées et de les conserver en cas de transfert. Très utile pour les anime de type fan kai ou pour le contenu local qui n'est pas listé sur TVDB ou IMDB. Optionnellement le nfo est également verrouillable pour être sur que les métadonnées customisées ne soient pas réécrites durant un scan avec l'option lockdata.

Same here, and it ran without errors

I'm guessing it probably did, but I have that script running at every bootup so it would have fixed then anyway.

Some further notes: Emby server transcoding seems to be working here also (software only) Surveillance Station required an update after the 7.2.2 DSM upgrade There is a new Surveillance Video Extension which allows Surveillance Station to continue to use AVC/h264. Also, if you used my script in the tutorials to allow WinSCP as a Super User you will have to rerun the script as the new DSM wiped out the changes made.

Here are my options for that section:

If you're using Caddy now you don't need the Emby pfx file. Caddy takes care of that.

I don't think there is any options to exclude backdrops from any library from appearing when you have "enable backdrops" enabled. As the Home Screen is more of global view and not restricted to library parentids. But a dev would have to confirm this.

Actually ran into another issue Deleted my Movie Library and then tried to add it back, but it would not appear, so I tried again and again, refreshing the page each time. Only for it to finally appear, as 3 Movie Libraries, Oops! But strangely, Emby would not let me delete any of them no matter what I tried. But in the end this was a good thing, I was using the Qnap app, so I simply uninstalled it and installed Emby as a docker instead, same as all my other services. I had updated the nfo files to use the file creation date instead, so they where now all correct and simply re-scanned everything, was extremely fast and then used Trakt to sync up the watch status.. So 30-40 minutes and everything was back to normal. I've got to give Props to Emby, it Scans VERY fast. Zidoo media player took hours even with the nfo files, Emby seemed to be done in 20-30 minutes

Requested here. Do not know the technical aspect of Auto on how it probes the connection but there is a hard coded value to fall back to in every client when Auto is selected. But in the end Auto does not really work the way anyone thinks it should and devs probably need a definitive answer on its functionality. But personally tell all remote users to set client to max and throttle via user limits. As Emby has no adaptive functionality if your connection gets worse or throttled you will see playback issues when streaming at high bitrates.

There's no "correct" version, both AndroidTV and standard (or Universal) Android apps work on AndroidTV devices - you'll find members on both sides of the fence here, as to which one is "better" (I fall into the AndroidTV app camp), though latter is bound to supersede former eventually (much to the chagrin of number of users). For the time being, just pick one that you fancy/that appeals to you more. You can also run them side-by-side, they won't interfere. It is tonemapped server-side during transcoding. Edit: If you want to keep up with the changes/feature-parity for Universal app:

Now, I find the season title for all series or anime are named after SeasonXX. But I found there are specific season title in TMDB that match my language preferance. I hope to get the season title that I want in the future. Thanks a lot !!

Hi, we can look into supporting season titles from MovieDb/Tvdb. Thanks.

Will get them up, I never made a backup, so all will have to be made all over again which will take some time.

> with the caveat that the various client applications will still need to offer support for an OAuth login flow. Yea unfortunately I think adding _any_ form of support for SSO to clients is non-trivial. I don't really have a solution for this that doesn't involve shipping an entire browser with these clients, or (where supported) using the device's default browser, then logging in with a flow that you mentioned. > Though trusting headers from the reverse proxy could be a faster way to bring SSO support if it’s a huge headache to implement OIDC support on the server. This is my interpretation of why Emby doesn't already support this - it sounds like devs don't want really want to implement or maintain OIDC support. While I definitely would prefer first-class support for OIDC or SAML, this would at least get some form of SSO support added (after being requested for years without progress).

The Emby team wanted to say thank you again to everyone that took the time to ask various questions during our Q&A session. Here are a few more answers to questions that a lot of our users were asking about. 1) How is beta functionality success measured? Often times people are curious about the process we use internally here at Emby as we go through the Beta process. We do rely heavily on the forum feedback and beta-tester feedback relating to open issues. It is also important that we take into account the overall experience of the beta release compared to the current stable release, especially when we are making large changes as we did from 4.7 to 4.8. We may be perfectionists at heart but we also understand that we can't spend forever chasing perfection on the release so we do our best to balance stability and functionality throughout the whole process. To reiterate what we shared in previous blog posts, we also understand that a tighter release window with smaller goals allows us to hone in on the stability of the beta and get releases out to the public. It is something that we here at Emby are striving to get to. 2) What is the split of time between actual development and forum duties? We get this question asked often so we thought we would give a little run down on this. Some of our developers such as @Lukeand @ebrand others split their time between development and the forums as things demand. Other developers we have on staff actually do not even engage in the forums at all as to solely focus on the development of Emby moving forward. This allows us to offer quick and prompt customer service and also focus on development at the same time. We thought it was important to answer this one at this point in time, because we do want people to know that there is more to the development team than simply what you see here on the forums. 3) What would help the Emby team the most to improve the overall product from the community? This is another question that gets asked often and it's something that a lot of you are already doing. Keep up the feedback! The more the better! Everything that's posted on these forums is invaluable to us. From pain points, feature requests, how you're using the server, what apps you prefer and anything else that people share with us about how they utilize Emby. Everything that you share is heard and taken into account by the developers. That doesn't always mean that things can get implemented right away or worked on immediately, but the value of your feedback is paramount to our work. We know that it doesn't always seem like it to everyone, but we 100% listen to everything people say and value the thoughts and opinions of our user base! 4) What are some of the biggest obstacles that the Emby team faces throughout development? A lot of the challenges we face throughout development are based on resource allocation from the sheer amount of hardware and software options that Emby runs on. Keeping in mind that Emby runs on everything from an old windows laptop, to Linux distros, NAS, server systems and more, we have to make sure that the program works on all of these systems. Also development of the apps falls under that same category. With so many options for our users to choose from dedicated media players such as Roku, Amazon Fire Sticks, Nvidia Shields, Apple TV Smart TV's, mobile devices such as Android and iOS, there are a lot of different platforms that we need to develop on and do our best to make sure everything is up to the standard that our users expect from Emby. View the full article