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I developed an alternative to the AutoCollection plugin - the plugin that merged different movies with the same providerID into one. I missed the features in the original plugin - merging by Kinopoisk provider and splitting the movie by providerID. Features of the plugin: runs automatically on movie add (configuration "Run Automatically"). merge movies in separate libraries or between all libraries ("Merge Across Libraries"). ignore locked movies ("Do Not Change Locked Items"). merge can be invoked manually in Scheduled tasks - "Merge Movies" in the "Movie Auto Merge" section. global (all movies in all libraries) split can be invoked manually in Scheduled tasks - "Split Movies" in the "Movie Auto Merge" section. split of a particular movie in the plugin configuration by providerID (search in all libraries). merge by all available Emby metadata providers - IMDB, TMDB, Kinopoisk, etc. complementary merge, e.g. if the first movie has TMDB, the second - has IMDB, TMDB, and the third - has only IMDB, and all those movies are the same, they all will be merged into one movie. site: https://github.com/luzmane/emby.movie.auto.merge/releases/latest/download/MovieAutoMerge.dll

I suppose/suspect that Emby have some sort of proprietary relevance algorithm that determines the relevance results? Some of their factors could perhaps be: Term Frequency: How often the search term appears in the metadata of the media items. Field Weighting: Certain fields (like titles) may be given more importance than others (like descriptions). Exact Matches: Items that exactly match the search term could be ranked higher. Content Type: Different types of content (movies, TV shows, music) might be weighted differently If Year was being considered as a secondary sort, then perhaps the Search page could have some kind of Sort By tab, like other pages do? E.g.: Sort By: Relevance Date Date added Title Exact match? Other??? A Sort By function could also allow for ascending and descending ordering? The existing search filter tab options are quite good now (for me anyway), some Sort By options could be useful for more individual customisation.

I'd really like to have 2 Factor Authentication added to the login screen. It's just this (optional) extra layer of security to help secure the server (which, especially if people use camera uploads) contains pretty private data. There are for every type of programming language quite a few libraries available, so implementation on a server shouldn't be too hard to realise

Be able to create playlist based on a certain criteria, like genre and or year, in order to create a dynamic playlist that it refreshes automatically when new content is added. This way you can for example, create a tv comedy playlist from the 90's, or a new sci-fi Movies playlist. Some other criteria for rules could be the rating, watched/unwantched, score, tags, language, audio codec, etc The possibilities could be endless

I recently found a need to look up additional information on a director. I was hoping to look at the director's profile and see not only the movies I had in my collection but also a list of other movies that they have directed. This would be displayed below the library's current movies. ex: My movies: Movie 1, Movie 2 Other movies by this person: Movie 3, Movie4 ================ This could help one expand their library and to discover a missing gem.

Thanks for the lastest Apple TV update. As a new Premiere user trying to switch from plex I'd like to comment this one regarding HDR playback: 1. If I switch from auto or mpv to native playback in Emby for Apple TV many of my 4k hdr 10 mkv test videos are not working (no stream available). 2. If I switch to auto or mpv all video content is playing but way to bright 3. If I switch from auto or mpv to native playback and enable both content and bitrate settings (or just the content one) in TVOS setting I can play all of them but they are hardware transcoded and tone mapping (hubble) is used instead of HDR 10 AND audio is totally async (about half a second delay) 4. Doesn't matter if content and bitrate settings in TVOS are enabled or disabled, both plex and infuse are fully working (direct play with enabled and working HDR) 5. New I guess: Sometimes native playback is working but they are hardware transcoded and tone mapping (hubble) is used instead of HDR 10 (audio in sync) It looks like HDR content isn't working at my side. Tested via Apple TV 4k and a panasonic + samsung 4k TV. Is there anything I can enable or switch to get HDR content fully working on current Apple TV 4k with Emby client? (Thought it would be better to create a new topic. Corrected some points)

CURRENT STATUS: SSO: Not yet planned LDAP: Development COMPLETED - BETA AVAILABLE >180 direct endorsements >30 MONTHS (>2.5 years) >12,000 views PLEASE BUMP - - - - - PLEASE LIKE - - - - - PLEASE BUMP - - - - - PLEASE LIKE - - - - - PLEASE BUMP This would greatly expand Emby's usage, and possibly more enterprise level adoption, user templating, user groups, SSO, etc. There are also users who have completely abandoned Emby and ended subscriptions due to the lack of this necessary basic functionality. Note: SAML2 is also part of this request. (header auth is also acceptable, at a minimum.) Context: I am trying to use something like openfire as a Instant Messaging solution which already supports LDAP and SAML2. So this would allow the current user of emby to seamlessly use web-based instant messenger with the same username and password as Emby without the need to enter them into a form. This would also allow universal login to be shared with my home PC's, Spiceworks, Ombii, Organizr, etc. The multitude of possible flexible functionality this could add is truly incredible. THIS NEEDS TO BE DONE, myself and others cannot manage a userbase with proprietary passwords for a single service (with no self-service password reset/recovery), when things that have only months of development implement it within days, easily. Status: LDAP - Development Completed - BETA AVAILABLE! Common LDAP solutions to test against:​Open LDAP​ (Open Source) [use this] ApacheDS OpenDJ 389 Directory Server Microsoft Active Directory SSL is NOT actually needed, but Emby team insisted on it anyways: Simply offering a toggle option for auth to send plaintext or encrypted passwords would work just fine. It is ironic to claim the need to be overly security conscious of user passwords, while lagging behind on basic SSL. If SAML is implemented, a SAML request/response can just be signed by an x509 and it is just as secure as TLS using SSL. SSL does not need to be natively supported, as it is perfectly possible to run it through an SSL reverse proxy tunnel and have the same effect. SSL Feature Request: https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/33983-ssl-integrationsupport/&do=findComment&comment=322526As of now username and password is encrypted client-side as security as SSL is not natively implemented. Emby team has said this impedes the adoption of both SSO and LDAP. Please see our SSL request topic; like, comment, and endorse it to show how many people would enjoy/gain from this basic security. Ways to satisfy this FR: Direct LDAP connector SAML2 connector General SSO functionality (SSO Header, etc) Allowing user header auth NGINX auth support RADIUS Authentication Other features that are inherently possible if this is implemented: Self service passwords Ability for users to invite users/guests Expiring Accounts (after duration/trigger) Unified credentials for many services Corporate level authentication security User groups Mass User management Update 1: I encourage others to work on this but I am currently seeing what I can do to develop a solution to this myself. If you have experience in this LDAP/SSO/SAML2/SSL/.NET contact myself, @@Luke, @@ebr or the Emby team to let them know, any help is greatly appreciated! By everyone! Update 2: I know there is always the question of "well how many users actually want/will use this", so I compiled a list of some of the other threads/sites where people request this (to apparently no effectiveness in motivating the team). Update 3 (18 MONTH UPDATE): This request has now hit 18 months in age, NO progress made thus far whatsoever. ( ) Update 4: This FR is now the 4th most liked post ON THE ENTIRE FORUM and the 3rd most liked FR ON THE ENTIRE FORUM (ever), the 1st most liked active FR ON THE ENTIRE FORUM and over 4000 views. Counting endorsements besides those on this thread show over 115 direct requests/endorsements for this basic functionality. Lets get this moving guys, this is getting to be a bit much. Almost 2 years waiting on this now. Source Update 5 (9/20/2017): This feature request is now the MOST DESIRED REQUEST EVER MADE TO EMBY, sadly, that has not merited any progress at all. The staff has been working on things they believe Emby users want or may want, but it is clear what people want. We can only hope now our wishes are respected instead of being told what we want and having our requests dismissed. Source Update 6 [2 year update] (10/17/2017): Two years and not a single bit of progress has been made. TWO YEARS!!! To say this is disappointing is an understatement. The entire reason I went from Plex to Emby was because of local user management. THIS IS THE ONLY REASON, so naturally I wanted to have complete control over my users, but after TWO YEARS, still nothing. Update 7 (3/6/2018): DEVELOPMENT HAS STARTED!!! Check Luke's recent comments, if you want to test it out, download the latest beta and install/configure the LDAP plugin to test and give feedback!!! Update 8 (4/6/2018): Development on the LDAP connector has completed from what I gather, not sure if this is only a beta or a primary release; SSO is still a plan for the future but has not been touched. Progress made by other users (looks to be nearly, if not fully complete): https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Emby/pull/1885 https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Emby/pull/2139 Exploits shown by other users against Emby (emphasizing the need for a centralized authentication solution): https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/12335-unauthenticated-access-over-the-internet-to-logs-folder/ https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/20376-all-folders-visible-to-all-users-after-upgrade/ Related FR that could be helpful: https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/46635-support-for-logging-users-in-though-url-scheme/?hl=user Any of these could be interesting to have compatibility with: http://lemonldap-ng.org/welcome/ https://github.com/Jasig/cas http://passportjs.org/ https://www.nginx.com/resources/admin-guide/restricting-access-auth-request/ LDAP/SSO/SAML Requests (~180 endorsements) [>12,000 views] > 95 endorsements on this post ~ 30 endorsementshttps://github.com/MediaBrowser/Emby/issues/1146 > 35 endorsementshttps://www.bountysource.com/issues/24943821-authenticate-users-using-ldap > 14 endorsements​https://feathub.com/tidusjar/Ombi/+122 > 4 endorsementshttps://www.reddit.com/r/emby/comments/5o44wd/creating_deleting_updating_users_with_the_api/ Interview, in article comments user said lack of LDAP STOPPED him from using Emby (Emby is actually losing customers due to the lack of this NECESSARY basic functionality):https://www.linux.com/news/software/multimedia/856128-exclusive-interview-emby-founder-luke-pulverenti Duplicate, user had no progress on first 2 posts (no one from Emby actually tracked this or even replied to him):http://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/861-mb3-and-active-directory/ http://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/867-mb3-and-active-directory/ Auth announcement, user 'Drashna' in comments requested LDAP/ADhttp://emby.media/community/index.php?/blog/1/entry-177-manage-your-home-with-emby-users/ Various similar requestshttps://github.com/MediaBrowser/Emby/issues/2494 https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Emby/issues/2493 https://forum.yunohost.org/t/integration-emby/912 http://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/13081-active-directory-integration/ http://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/11200-media-browser-3-server-ldap-active-directory/ External SQL auth request:http://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/27986-emby-and-shared-mysql-database/ http://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/23509-authenticate-users-via-external-mysql-database/ http://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/12001-external-login-to-mysql/ #ADFS #SSO #LDAP #ActiveDirectory #MSAD #SAML #SAML2.0 #SAML1.1 #PingFederate #OKTA #LemonLDAP #JASIG #authentication #auth #TLS #SSL #Usergroup #usertemplate #header #authheader #headerauth #security #hardening #authhardening #authenticationheader #externalauth #centralauth #centralizedauth #centralizeddb #exploit #authexploit #security #loginhardening #authenticationhardening #accesscontrol #.NET #SelfService #RADIUS

Is there plans on the roadmap for OpenID. I have searched but not found any indication this is in development. With many admins taking up SSO through Authelia or Authentik to enhance security it would be great for Emby to support it. One of the easier open standards is OpenID which the aforementioned support. Users could continue to use LDAP if they wish while others can use the arguably better SSO experience.

This is a kudos post to the Emby Team, I wanted to know how much I appreciate the work you are doing, and the Emby Server product I am very happy to see you have not gone down the path that Plex chose, and making everything online only with advertisements and other features locked behind a paywall. I have been using Emby for almost 9 years, I think I have been Emby Premiere for almost as long as well. Over the past few years the stability of Emby has been second to none, I can't think of a single issue that I have encountered after updating. My system is used daily by 5 or more people with Android Tablets, Fire Sticks, & Roku and there have been no problems. In my opinion Emby is the best media server and most stable, before setting up Emby in 2015 I had used Plex for years, I am very happy I made the switch back then, I can't imagine the pain I would be in now if I was still trying to use Plex. I am already an Emby Premiere member, but if there is a way to contribute more, please let me know? Some statistics: Emby Server running since Nov 2015 Disk Space: 110TB Movies: 1993 TV Series: 695 TV Episodes: 48,383 Duane

Emby will discard the article when sorting (so producing the order you expect), but display it in it's normal place. Of course, the OS won't sort the folders/files as you want - just Emby. Your problem is that if you juggle the words in the name, then the metadata providers are liable not to recognise them as you expect (this is not fundamentally an Emby problem). tl/dr - Don't reformat show/movie names, and Emby will do what you want. Paul

works fine, on my library Thanks

Don't have the client so I have no idea as every client has a different default as would appear the client is set to 80Mbps for playback quality. But honestly think that high of bitrates across the internet will be hit and miss for most home connections.

Note if you do not want to rename everything you can use the community plugin also.

Must be an insane bitrate to try and direct play remotely as the client looks to be set at 80Mbps. Info App: Bitrate exceeds DirectPlay limit: media bitrate: 93353055, max bitrate: 79664570 TranscodeReasons=DirectPlayError,ContainerBitrateExceedsLimit,DirectPlayError But directplayerrors are almost impossible to figure out as the player just doesn't link something with the file. Not positive if disabling transcoding contributes to the error or not. Info App: User policy for {USER}. EnablePlaybackRemuxing: False EnableVideoPlaybackTranscoding: False EnableAudioPlaybackTranscoding: True

You actually shouldn't disable transcoding for troubleshooting as it can make it just that much harder to actually troubleshoot. But never mind that, those sessions are attempting to transcode due to that user having bandwidth limit, either client- or server-side imposed. If not set by server admin, advise user to check in-app quality setting.

Use a browser?

Did you make sure to add the variables, NVIDIA_VISIBLE_DEVICES = (your GPU. should be same as plex) NVIDIA_DRIVER_CAPABILITIES = yes and also in advanced extra parameters add, --runtime=nvidia

Wow that is very specific and nothing like plex but it worked and is actually forcing me to organize my media like I want. I should have tried that solution sooner haha. Thank you GrimReaper and Luke!

Hi, what makes you think this? I guess it's natural to assume that when you move the mouse in another player, the screen stays normal, therefore when it happens in Emby it must be an Emby issue. As a developer. it sounds more to me like a firefox defect that is created when combining certain features together. Like for example, the blur effect that we frequently use. Anyway, we'll keep an eye on this, and if it's still an issue by the time it hits the beta channel then we'll figure out some kind of workaround. Thanks.

Hi, we'll look at improving this. Thanks for the feedback.

As an example, when I search for Halloween press Enter, then click Movies, the ordering is not by Release Year. Could it be?

Relevance is subjective, though.

Sadly no.

Yes, there is an 'Auto' option that already does this. You will find it in your users playback options.

Got it. Thanks guys !

Nope, you can't select individual fields to show (or not) in AndroidTV app, it's either "Show Label" with predetermined values/layout under posters or not show them, in which case line on top of the screen will contain some additional information. You can't, as said above, you can only show some more information if you opt out/deselect "Show Labels" in library threre-dots menu @Neminemmentioned above. Download Standard/Universal Android app from your store (or sideload from here), you'll have same options as in Web app.

Resolved. Opened System Settings > Privacy & Security - scroll to the bottom of the page and click 'Allow'.

Any plans to expand the skip into detection system. Having the same issues as others mentioned, skip into shows far into the episode. I would have assumed the system would account for the average intro time for that series and if audio is significantly further into the watch percentage then disregard skip. It would be nice for people with higher powered systems to have an option to enable video processing, but I assume that system doesn't exist. I've only just discovered the Chapter API plugin which is excellent manual solution. It shows all chapters including intro ones and allows for manually deleting, creating and playing chapters. More impressively, you can find episodes that have missing or wonky intros and fix them in bulk. Sometimes the show changes the intro mid season etc. You can filter and find these, manually correct one and export the chromaprint file. Then import the file and select all or specific episodes for which will use the new source for detections. I have VLC using a few plugins to enable millisecond timing and jump back/forward to any custom value. While you don't have to use video playback software, you do need to get within a second or better in accuracy for generating the chromaprint file. There's more you can do but it's still a manual process and would be nice if the automated system was expanded.

@fillidillI sent a note to the Emby plugin forum, asking if my assumptions about "Refresh Guide" are correct. Vic

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Any update on when this will be fixed?

Hello it would be nice to have a Manual Subtitle Offset. So that I can tap the Offset time at myself. Right now, in the Android App I only can press -50ms or +50ms. If I want key in - 2 Minutes, its long way to do it. It would be easier if i can type - 2 Minutes and all is done and not press -50ms till i have reach it. Regards Firefox

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 ?

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. I always wanted to have this feature! This is something that was offered by Flickr. It would use the coordinates where the picture was taken stored in the EXIF and display the picture in the world map. I think that this was a bit specific in the past because we needed to have a GPS module tied to the camera but now every smartphone does this out of the box (without even asking your permission). Here is an example from Flickr where each point is a picture that you can display when clicking on the point:

The subtitles on the android app are showing a rectangle in place of the musical note. It works fine through the browser. Please see attached picture for an example.

Guess ppl need to preencode in h265 if they really want it. I already do using Tdarr. So if h265 is the solution they so desperately need, the real question is why don't they pre-transcode there media ?

It is the exact solution that every major streaming provider uses. Again, you are making an assumption that this process would solve your problem. There is discussion on this already in this thread.

Hi. You are making a large assumption that this feature will solve your bandwidth problem. There is a discussion earlier in this thread on why on the fly transcoding is not necessarily going to do that for you. In your case, it would likely be much more effective for you to use the conversion features of Emby server to create "roaming friendly" versions of your content if that is a common case for you.

No it isn't. There is. The whole principle of security would fall apart when the identity server wouldn't be able to ensure the identity of the SP, which is done by validation of dns name and cert.

You mean like the Smart Playlist Plugin? Would that come with more sorting options for collections? Right now, we only have sort title and release date. We can't even choose between ASC and DESC. Additionally, it would be nice to be able to sort them manually, maybe per drag & drop or a metadata setting. I know. And I used many of these for some time. But aside from some downsides coming from the plugins itself, they all share the same flaw. You mentioned it already. They're all create additional libraries and are making duplicates of the items. It produces more fragmentation and can be just confusing for users. For this reason, I don't use the Trailers Plugin either. Also for the reason, that it still can't show trailers in my language, even after all that time. And to date I didn't know of any plugin, that can bring content of collections on the frontpage or make a real dynamic frontpage with fresh content at every visit. I guess I'd just like to have a native solution which gives you more freedom over how the content is presented. Right now it's just the libraries basically, but almost no presentation of content you can browse through. Even the recommendations page is just showing you the same every time, based on the latest things you watched. It adds one row every time you watch a movie, basically putting the "more like that" row from the movie details page onto the recommendation page.

Glad to hear that. But what does "smart view" mean exactly? Just a smart collection as well as smart playlists? Or is this really meant like a customizable Frontend-View like custom pages or frontend rows? Because that's something that is long overdue in my opinion. The only content you can find on the front page is the stuff that was recently added and the stuff you're currently watching. No recommendations, no dynamic content! But having Smart Collections, that doesn't have to be manually updated every time, would be a nice start. I'm currently in the process of writing a script that will automatically create and maintain my collections based on IMDB tags, which I import with another script. So it would be nice to have Smart Collections, so I'd had one script less^^ But the problem persists, that even with a nice bunch of collections, you have to go to the collections library and browse them. That's almost never happen. They have to be used as content for the front page in a way, that you see something new every time you visit it.

I've actually been playing with this - adding those 'rows' as dynamic emby Channels. Proof of concept is working ok - but nowhere near ready for any sort of release. @ebr - This has been 'in the works' for years now - I know you cannot give a date, but is this something that will make it 'this year' or is it still into next year or beyond ? Basically, I don't want to put a lot of effort into a Plugin that will get replaced in the Core ... ? Thanks.

I was thinking of giving Emby a chance, but Jellyfin seems to be better, Emby looks like Plex every time, he doesn't see the need for users, Emby Connect is not a solution, it complicates it.

Fair point if you are looking only at desktop playback users. However, in my case 0% of my users playback in browser - by far most are on set top boxes, then maybe some plays on mobile. I’d imagine the majority of playbacks across all Emby users are not in browser on desktop, but that’s just my guess.

Hi there, you enabled MovieDb metadata for episodes. You can try turning this off as it will result in longer library scans. You've also enabled subtitle downloading, which is certainly fine, but everything comes with a cost so you just have to be aware of that when you turn them on. Apart from that I would just be patient and allow it to finish.

Try removing the statistics plugin and also turning off subtitle downloading.

Hi there, you could try uninstalling the nfo plugin, if you don't use nfo files. Then the I/O checks for these files will be eliminated.