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After battling these same questions for nearly 4 years - Emby for FireTV/AndroidTV vs Emby for Android - Emby need to make a decision. Either make Emby for Android the new and only version in the store (and I suggest you call it 'Emby for Android/AndroidTV'). Maybe Emby are reluctant to 'upgrade' from Emby for AndroidTV to Emby for Android (I would be ..) via the store, but inevitably - that's what they need to do. For the previous (and in many way superior ..) AndroidTV/FireTV app - then make it APK sideload only - and if you really do plan on removing it - then a sunset timeline should be provided so people can plan their path.

OK that can be fixed. Thanks.

It would be great if emby can advance over the typical media servers by offering an animated hover thumbnail to videos. maybe in m3u8, webm, mp4 or gif format? There are several libraries on github that can do the task of generating the files needed for the thumbnails with a quick google search I found the following: https://github.com/grafov/m3u8 , https://github.com/tjenkinson/hls-live-thumbnails , https://github.com/video-dev/hls.js/, https://github.com/flowplayer/flowplayer-thumbnails I think it is up for the user to use these libraries to generate animated thumbnail on the video. What emby should do however is give support to animated video or gif on hover. I have not seen this feature implemented at another media server. I am aware that emby has the animated backdrop support to some extent. But this different. Netflix currently uses this feature on a tvshow/movie level and not on each single episode. I know the emby developers here are against animated thumbs.. Imagine browsing through your library with all thumbnails animated.. it will be distracting and messy! thats is why I think animatition on mouse over (or on selection in case of tv apps) would be the best idea to satisfy both sides.

Thanks for Emby. It is an amazing platform that I am so glad that I've found. I have a suggestion to simplify authentication of remote clients. The use case is a family with a mix of devices in a range of areas. Users range in age from very young to very old, so everything needs to be simple to use.

If you aren't ready to buy a new TV (and don't want to update via usb every month), another option is to get an external box like a Shield which will be much cheaper. An external box will also support more audio, subtitle, etc formats than Samsung.

I and several others have updated to DSM 7.2.1 and now 7.2.2 without any problems.

Oh okay. Unfortunately I never use MX player because it has no frame rate matching.

As suggested by @ebr I have split my original request to allow better monitoring of interest and progress. The original request is here https://emby.media/c...brary-overhaul/ If you are interested please like the post. It would be nice to including a face recognition that would allow us to sort our collection by people and give us the possibility to name them. As an example if I sear for "Mom" it would display all the pictures with my mother in the library ! This could also be done by scene (city, sea, mountain, etc.) or by place based on GPS coordinates this could automatically name the place and allow us to search or sort based on this item. I am not sure this is an easy one, maybe there are some existing piece of code that could help with this ?

@StewieGreen something like this?

Updated to 7.2.2 without issues (today a minor fix came out, FYI https://mariushosting.com/synology-dsm-7-2-2-72806/ ).

So I ended up doing a fresh reinstall of arch and for some reason after reinstalling and re-configuring everything it finally worked. I'll list the exact steps I did from a fresh install: Install emby-server: sudo pacman -S emby-server Start and enable the service: systemctl start emby-server.service systemctl enable emby-server.service Create the group with permission for accessing the hard drive and add the users: sudo groupadd stuffaccess sudo usermod -aG doug stuffaccess sudo usermod -aG stuffaccess emby Edited my /etc/fstab file to mount the hard drive with files on boot: (it only worked with ntfs3 as the file system. ntfs-3g did not work for me) # /dev/sda2 UUID=D6C45D9BC45D7F25 /mnt/stuff ntfs3 rw,uid=doug,gid=stuffaccess,nofail 0 2 Restart the system, access emby's dashboard and set the backup directory for as /mnt/stuff/Backup/Emby And after restarting again and running the backup task it ran with no issues. I have no clue why it was not working before. I had tested both ntfs3 and ntfs-3g on my fstab file and neither worked, but thankfully after reinstalling it's working again! Thanks everyone for the replies!

Yes you may need to elaborate as it sounds like you may be reencoding instead of just changing containers.

Good question.

I will do this this evening and post the logs.

Sure I don't even have any Amazon device.

No, eventually the APK becomes available in the relevant Play Store, but sometimes the process of releasing a newer version takes time, so @ebrmakes the APK available as a download.

DP, Maybe, since you include French in your preferred selection, when Emby looks for subs and finds the first one in the media is French, it just serves that as your sub. It's just a guess.

For a few years, i was only using my own Emby server and everything is working just fine. Recently my friend got himself setup with an emby server/unraid/kodi etc. So i added his server to my Emby next gen app in my Kodi. (where i put in my username he made for me and connected to his Emby server) From there, his library loaded into Kodi along side mine. (When viewing by tv show/movies/etc.) Sorry, i am not super computer smart....I think that means i have two Emby servers as a source at the same time? This is where i am getting the duplicates from each instance. As a short term solution, i can go through the lists in Kodi and 'remove' from my library. Just not sure if it will resync it back in over time. Thanks for your time.

It helps to know that now. tinyMM lets me easily make bulk changes to nfos. Anyway I won't be changing containers again so it should be good now. Thanks for the input Luke!

edit 30/08/2022 I've updated the script as follows - - On repeat usage, added Progress Monitor when skipping existing STRM files (rather than thinking it's hung ..) - Added Summary page of the New Libraries This also works with TV Series - due to the nature of each episode needing it's own STRM file - it takes a little longer, but works just as well. ------- I've created a simple script that creates a copy of the structure of an existing emby library (file path). It then populates this new structure with strm (link) files back to the original video files. You can then use this library as a new library within emby - and subsequently you can choose the metadata language as you would do as part of the normal setup. This means you can get : native language metadata (if it exists) native language artwork (if that exists) subtitle language as required (you can do multi language subs in the core system) The video file is played from the original library - so there is no need to duplicate the video files. If required, user permission can be removed from the main library, leaving just this new library to browse in the users native language. Usage (windows batch file) Copy the batch file 'libstrm.bat' and 'library.txt' to the emby server in a suitable directory. Modify the 'library.txt' file to match your system. In the example file I have - D:\TV Series\;D:\French TV Series\ D:\Films\;D:\German Films\ Also works with UNC - \\media\TV Series\;\\media\French TV Series\ \\media\Films\;\\media\German Films\ The first path is the original location, the second path is the new library location (with the strm files). Note - the path must end with a \ and the entries are separated by a semi-colon. The 'library.txt' file can contain any number of drives and folders - I suggest testing with a sample to start with. Run the 'libstrm.bat' file from a command. Depending on the number of folders/files - it may take a few seconds or more to complete - but it will show progress as it goes. Once complete - create new emby libraries pointing to the new locations - remembering to set the metadata language as required. For example :- Once setup and emby has scanned the new folders (it will do this automatically if set to monitor - or a manual scan) - all the relevant metadata will be imported. As an example - in my test French library :- Note the French metadata, episode names and artwork. In my test German library :- Again, German metadata & artwork. Keeping the system updated ... Because creating the strm files is manual - to add NEW media, the script can just be run again (via the Windows task schedule ever day for example). If the strm file is already there, it will not recreate it. However, if media is removed from the original library (remember it links to it, it is not a copy) - then the strm link will unfortunately break. It can of course just be removed manually by deleting the strm file. I've added a progress bar to now show when items are skipped (every 100 items gets a # displayed..) Media Playback ... The resulting playback will of course be identical to playing the original file (as it IS the original file) but any playback preferences will be remembered for that library. So if the Audio was set to French with French subtitles, then next time it is played, it will remember those settings. There may be a way of setting these to a library default in the native language - I have not experimented with this. Feedback welcome. (rename the libstrm.bat.txt file to libstrm.bat) library.txtlibstrm.bat.txt

Thank you for this scripted. Works beautifully. Just one tiny issue, movies with *.avi files were ignored. Was wondering why there are less movies in the german libarary than in the english library. After some comparing I found that alle the missing movies were *.avi movies. So I added that to the script so that strm files for avi movies are generated too. Works fine. Thank you!

Most remarkable is that it's much better readable, even though the font color is just half as bright.

A little cosmetic improvement that would be helpful is if the mini guide had an overlay underneath, so it is easier to read. WMC UI has it and it makes it much easier to read.

Update, I sort the issue out by adding cache bypass for videos to cloudflare. I follow suggestion from this post (http.request.full_uri contains "https://emby.example.com/*videos/*/*")

Perfect, thank you. I'm going to try something big for the people of Spain to see if I can achieve something.

Try searching for emb And not emby

Good to go

Got it, thanks for the quick replies guys!

@them8os235 @kbx81 @chj915 @janmemby @lexm8 I've merged your posts into this conversation, to have it all in a single place. Please see my conclusion on the subject above. Thanks for providing all the information!

Okay, let's conclude on this subject: First of all, thanks a lot for taking the effort in testing these things. From my side, these results are good enough to justify us looking into integrating hwa support for those chipsets in the short- to mid-term. For the time line, there's a pre-condition regarding ffmpeg: it can only be added after we've updated our ffmpeg to the latest state, which will still take a few months until we get there. From then on, it will be subject to internal priorization. Once it's been given a go, it will start by acquiring a device for development and testing, then we would integrate the changes from that repository into our own ffmpeg and extend our build systems for building ffmpeg binaries for that platform. We'll also need to be able to detect different RockChip platforms, to know which exact capabilities are available on each. Finally, we need to develop the transcoding logic and command line building at the side of Emby Server. After that, it can be delivered for testing in the beta channel.

Thanks for following up.

Yes, but did you try instead of updating actually deleting the app first and then reinstalling? That certainly fixes some problems in this thread. Paul

Hello good, A few days ago I discovered the error, or at least I think so, I noticed that the m3u tunner plugin was updated in July just when it started to give me problems. I have deleted it to install version 1.0.29 which is just before July and it has not given me any problems again.

jajaja que facill gracias compañero , es un placer

Heya all, give the latest version a download, you'll need to manually update from http://www.ballingtons.com/products but it should be good to go. Thanks for your understanding.

WTF kind of ignorant statement is this? You realize there are things out there called DVR's where the technology is not perfect (especially when it comes to Emby's own offering)? Get your act together and leave your judgemental BS assumptions at the door next time. Funny how in one thread you guys try to tell people the Android TV app is being deprecated and they need to move onto the universal app, yet here you're telling people just to go back and keep using the old app that's soon to be put out to pasture. Good way to just kick that can down the road rather than actually fix the problem that you've created.

Is it working now, if so happy to have helped

Lolololololol... You are absolutely right. Perhaps the only setting in Emby where that's the case, but you are correct - I didn't read the settings screen closely enough. Thanks!

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Bingo, I didn't give user permission. What an idiot I am, it was so simple I didn't even think about it. Thanks Luke!

Yes that did help did not know I had to be log into a certain account but that took care of it for my fire stick I had to buy another thanks

ok I was finally able to get it to work. Im not sure exatcly how, but suddenly the emby connect was removed from my user. Then when I put it back in it worked. Thank you for the help

I appreciate your efforts to improve. Personally, I think there is no problem to some extent. Thank you.

Looks like my router needed the IP forwarded. This seems like a no brainer but let me explain. I have had this server in my basement for over 4 years. I have had the Mac address reserved in DHCP all of this time. I have had the port forwarded to the local IP all this time. I have not touched that. I found that my server still has the same IP address I've been using for the past 4 years. The weird part is that I've been able to remotely connect until sometime in the past week or two. I'm realizing I cannot reliably say when it stopped but I do know I have used it within the last month. Sigh. I have no idea how my server can get a MAC address that is completely different than what I have reserved in DHCP. Either way I'm glad it wasn't a software issue and I still feel quite dumb. Thanks for listening to me figure this out on my own. Haha.

Sorry for the late reply Happy2Play. To answer your question, yes the player stays on and continues to play only the audio. And the desktop is showing in place of the video playback. I paused the Windows update when I first started this thread until today. And after KB5041582 was installed earlier today, the aforementioned problems resurfaced. So it is definitely the cause.

I have the same issue as of a few days ago, running Emby 4.8.8.0. The only thing that helped me resolve this was deleting and recreating all my libraries. I remember seeing something in the logs along the lines of "discovered relocated / moved item to location x" over and over at some point.

Sembra funzionare Grazie!

Sending positive, motivational, and inspirational waves your way! Might I suggest a Hotline Miami themed playlist to keep you relaxed yet focused while you hunker down to develop?

While Emby already has recommendations built in based on previously watched items I find they are not all that helpful. They seem to be based on genre only, for example, because you watched a comedy here are other comedies in your library. I do like how the also directed by/appear in recommendations work though. What would be great is if Emby could incorporate Trakt's recommendations as they are much more sophisticated. Trakt's recommendations are not only based off of what you have previously watched but also what your Trakt friends and other Trakt users have watched. It takes user ratings and trending/popular media into account. Ideally Emby would include full Trakt integration allowing users to rate media after watching, view lists and recommendations, and view upcoming media all from within Emby but for now I think recommendations would be a nice addition. Trakt has the potential to give Emby that community feel and allow users to discover new media, find something to watch, and recommend media to other users. http://docs.trakt.apiary.io/#reference/recommendations

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