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Since ATV is in maintenance mode of sorts, maybe @ebr might be willing to create an updated sideload only version with direct path access enabled for all versions of Android.

Seems like somebody heard you As always, thanks for the insight, you're the only one of the officials doing so and many of us appreciate those insights.

Letterboxd integration would be amazing https://letterboxd.com/api-beta/

I'd give it a whirl, although I never found file access to work very well for me.

Agree 100% - the day my primary clients (ATV) no longer work effeciently with 4K remuxes, is the day I say goodbye to using Emby - it's that simple for me.

I ended up making one with the template, thank you for that! Hope it's ok to post here? If not, I'll delete ASAP.

I dont understand the problem exactly, but i can't even begin to tell you how many specialized folders i have. From sports to military to knitting to educational and so on. I use mixed content folders and use a TV Show structure for naming. Turning off all meta fetchers in these folders. Works perfectly! Some of these folders have 100's of files in them. It just isn't automatic and you need to set up the folder structure like TV shows. It will do exactly what you are trying to accomplish. But you will need to label items and number them accordingly.

Yes, in this conversation, pages 1-3.

I'm a plex life time member, but I have been using Emby for over six years continuously, but there is a feature which I have always thought is missing in Emby which I would like and encourage the developer to consider including especially in this dispensation where families can social or commingle due to COVID 19. Today, I received a notification from Plex about it new feature titled Watch together you can read about it here https://support.plex.tv/articles/watch-together/ The feature allows friends and families at distance to watch same movies together instantly, you simply invite all your buddy, once they signed to the system which can be seeing in the server then play and pause as needed, this I think is cool feature should be added to emby. Let's here your though if Emby developer should consider adding this feature to our beloved Emby Media https://www.bing.com/news/search?q=Plex+Watch+Together&qpvt=plex+watch+together&FORM=EWRE

It would be nice if we could have an additional level in audio books for book series, rather than just author, book, chapters. It would be nice if they were listed in series order too. Author > (series) > Book > Chapters. I just realised.. this is probably not really doable if you're pulling data out of tags in the file... ah well. I guess it'd be more hassle than its worth, I dont see many people opting to add in series tags into each of their files...

Proposing to show the backdrop corresponding to the Artist when playing a song from a Various Artists album.

Correct. DVDs and VODs only.

I guess my own. I signed up for the account before it was Emby and now all of a sudden I'm having so many problems with it. Anyway it's too much of a headache. I was paying 25$ and now I just went to my whappdev acct(how I pay) and all of a sudden I'm paying 39.99$. So I just cancelled. I'm done trying to figure it out.

HI, we'll take a look at this. Thanks for reporting.

Adding some characters to the start of the ID without whitespace to fool the parser? Now that's an idea! I will give it a try and get back to you.

Hi, so in other words use the artist backdrop rather than the album artist backdrop?

Personally, I still don't think it has. Yes it has a good hardware support for AV1 decode - most devices in the last 2 years have it for example - but it has extremly limited h/w encode support. CPU encode is simply not fast enough for general use. h/w encode support on par with h265 (for speed) is a must for it to succeed. I believe the next gen of Intels CPU's will natively support this - and that is when it should really take off as a 'general' alternative codec to h264/avc or h265/hevc.

My guess is that Emby management is more focused on enabling users to have their own streaming service. This may work well in countries where fibre optic has as much upload speed as download speed, but like me, with a 50Mbit/s upload you could only offer absolutely low-quality material (but I know people who offer the same service anyway). Personally, I only provide my local network in the house, nothing outside, just for me and my wife. I also don't need to watch movies, tvshows, outside when I'm out and about, I can upload the little bit of music I listen to from my collection to my mobile phone. It's incomprehensible how you can do without a function like Directplay, which improves the quality of the whole package many times over. Please don't tell us that http would be perfectly adequate. That is not the case. Since I have finally been able to use the direct path under the ATV, I have had absolutely zero playback problems, apart from that one soundtrack.

Cool, will give it a whirl.

Similar to this. https://a.co/d/0IoaE45 Or this https://a.co/d/cFNqBqH

Need to see the server log from when item was imported or Refreshed.

I had to turn them both off. I think it helped a little to turn off durable handles, but it still took too long. It starts instantly now again with them both off.

Before calling the parsing "buggy", you need to see this in relation: It's been quite some time ago that I've seen anybody having issues with the parsing of file names of TV/series episodes. It's doing it's thing in a way that is working for 99.99??? % of cases that Emby users are encountering. The most recent case I've seen was actually my own case when working on a new plugin which involves parsing episode and season number out of titles from certain sources. Now I knew that all this regex logic is very sensitive as it has grown and maturized over time. A minimal change you would do to support an additional case has high potential to cause regressions for other cases. Also, you cannot simply allow setting custom regex expressions because: It's a multi-step procedure multiple regex matches are attempted in a certain order Each regex expression against which a match is attempted needs to be accompanied by program code which is aware of the potential match results and their meanings It's not something that can easily be made configurable like you've been alluding to. I ended up doing my own parsing and setting the results through a custom metadata provider - that's why I know that it's a workable way. It would be possible to make the whole procedure more configurable, that's for sure, but you also need to see that you're the first one since a long time to call the name parsing as "buggy". I have a lot of sympathy for your use case, and I can only acknowledge that the current parsing doesn't fit well for that case.

Arrow lake is supposed to have the same ASICS as ARC, so it should perform better than 12-14th gen Intel in regards to quicksync and should also support AV1 like ARC does. How it will actually perform, we again won't know until it's released and reviewed. With the latest news about Intel's processor degredation problems, it's really difficult to suggest even buying them as they knew for 2 whole years about the problem and stayed silent as customer's processors failed. I'd honestly say it might be best to get an AMD build, and if you want quicksync, just get an ARC card, as we know those work, or even an older Quadro like a P1000, or T1000. I personally just built a dumb NAS and use a i5-1235u laptop as my transcode server.

I disabled durable handles and it all still works but file playback starts at about 9 seconds now so that is an improvement.

You sure like the analogy. I don’t see how mcdonalds fits this scenario the way you present. To add direct file play back should not be that big a deal as other apps (kodi, vlc, etc) do it and passes google muster. Personally, i think it makes the app most versatile allowing for many connection options. Yeah i know, this has been beat to death and management has said NO. Its the reason i use kodi these days. Kodinerds with plex plugin and regular kodi with emby plug in. I like to experiment. The way the standard app is going isn’t to my liking as its UI is rather clunky. It works in that it does playback ok however. The ATV app is pretty solid and if any lesson is to be learned by management is that if they are indeed going to sunset ATV app, at least incorporate its functionality into the standard app including direct play.

Ok, I think my error was just a user mistake, but your extra debug output in the help , helped pinpoint me the problem root@Tower:/mnt/user/appdata/MDBList-Collection-Creator# python app.py Error occurred while getting Emby system info, check your configuration. Check your Emby url and port, user ID and API key: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='example.com', port=8096): Max retries exceeded with url: /emby/System/Info (Caused by NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x150a9fcb3f80>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 101] Network is unreachable')) root@Tower:/mnt/user/appdata/MDBList-Collection-Creator# root@Tower:/mnt/user/appdata/MDBList-Collection-Creator# python app.py Collection Popular movies of the week does not exist. Will create it. Basically it told there Emby userID , and I filled in the config just the username, not the ID. And sure, in the config file it's clearly written, but I still skipped it, and the error message the new version gave, was great and solved my issue! Thank you!

But in the end I do agree as it would appear the parser is getting worse trying to accommodate all the garbage users have in the naming schemes and should strictly enforce naming schemes per the KB. But even in this case since there are no season/episode info it would fail unless manually provided.

Right now on the Android TV a notification comes up and blocks about 30% of the screen asking if you want to play the next episode or cancel with about 40 secs. it would be nice to be able to set this to something smaller like 10 seconds or 5 seconds or even allow the episode to end and wait some amount of time. Right now it blocks the actual episode and is just annoying.

I'm happy to hear about this, since I'm sure maintaining one source would be a lot easier But this should definitely be treated as a bug. Currently if it's anything but stereo audio, you can select a different playback speed, but absolutely nothing will happen. In my opinion, it should downstream to stereo and proceed with the new playback speed (if it's not technically possible in Android TV), but I'm sure some would disagree.

Exactly! Transcoding requires a lot of compute power, but storing the results is not that performance critical that it would need a RAM disk. Not even an SSD. Even more when looking out for using TVnext. It can write loads of data to transcoding-temp (for time-shift buffer and when working with full transponder data), so there's a requirement for storage space but not storage performance.

Hey! Of course, I will reply here as soon as there is a change or I give up Thanks again for everything!

Even low end SATA SSDs that are kept trimmed should easily handle the IOPS and read/write data rates involved in transcoding and streaming media.

This is quite impossible when you do the math. Let's assume that your SSD would have only 2GB capacity and transcoding a 2h movie would create 2 GB of data in transcoding temp. High-endurance SSDs can do 10k to 100k writes per cell. Let's assume just 10k, which makes 20kh (20000h) of watching that movie non-stop. Means you could watch that movie 2.3 years non-stop. But now, your SSD doesn't have just 2 GB capacity. Let's assume 200 GB. This means that (due to relocations done by the firmware),, there's a factor of 100, so you could watch that movie 230 years non-stop before your SSD is fully worn out. When 10 users are watching in parallel non-stop, then it would still take 23 years.

As mentioned, explained in detail already: Full read starts here:

Transcoding to RAM is absolutely not recommended. I've given exhaustive explanations on that subject, maybe somebody can dig out a link to that conversation?

Only the very latest Nvidia GPUs support AV1 encoding and similar applies to Intel. From support requests, we have a pretty good picture of the GPUs that are used with Emby Server, and those latest models which can do AV1 encoding are used by far less than 1%. That's why it's not "a shame" but rather very reasonable that we are focusing on work from which a wide range of Emby users will benefit rather than niche cases. Of course this will change over time and conversions to AV1 is surely something that will be added in the future.

Hi, yes I think just like hevc it would start by being tied into the conversation feature. Thanks.

I did something and somehow the music player wouldn't show up and I couldn't find a "now playing" shortcut to bring it up. I have tried to replicate the issue to give you more useful information but I have not been able to. If It happens again, I'll open a new case with the details. Thank you.

Hi, I hope someone can clarify the problem. I have the TV show "Sliders". On the TV show page the cast/actors are listed: When I switch into an episode there is no cast/actor although there should be according to TheTVDB. I have configured the library like this: I am using only TheTVDB. If I use another primary service the actors get mixed up because the other services have the wrong order (airing order). Is that a problem with TheTVDB or is my configuration wrong? Best regards Goran

For reference, while we debate about reviews source viability and how professional the reviews are, Plex is expanding on their feature set (in addition to already available professional critic reviews - aside of how relevant those are). Something should certainly be better than nothing that we currently have?

On mine if both are off then it doesn’t work at all.