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You don't have Emby writing nfo files so do you have nfo files with your media? As it could be locked and Emby is only reading them. If you do have nfo files with media can you post one that has issues.

@jelumJust for your info, you can extend provider ids in emby to be as many as are coded. Here is my plugin that does just that. I'll supply links incase you are interested. https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/120013-custom-external-links-provider-ids/ latest dll here: https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/120013-custom-external-links-provider-ids/&do=findComment&comment=1300870

Has there every been any plans for an Emby OS? Something similar to Kodibuntu or OpenElec. I think a lot of people would switch over from XBMC to Emby client if there was just an image you could install on your computer without having to worry about building the underlying OS first. And I would much rather run Emby as a stand alone OS rather than on top of XBMC, on top of linux. I think it would be great to plan a lightweight super efficient linux-emby build. Something that would boot directly into emby, and rely on emby server. Thoughts?

OK this is a use case that we are looking into improving for all users without having to enable any missing episode option, so stay tuned.

You can bulk find and replace in files with ultraedit https://www.ultraedit.com/support/tutorials-power-tips/ultraedit-linux/tar/ You can also do it with notepad++ via wine in linux https://superuser.com/questions/1003790/how-to-find-and-replace-lines-in-multiple-files-using-notepad/1003801#1003801

Thanks Guys... you were spot on - I created a user for my sister last Saturday evening on the Synology so that she can upload files on the NAS, and for some strange reason, it put her as the owner of my Emby folder that contains all the configurations, yet there is no write permissions assigned. I don't ever recall doing this in any of the prompts upon creation of the user on the NAS, so it is quite unusual, and wondering how that even occured as I have created other user accounts in the past. After seeing your quick and swift replies, I went into the "Docker" folder which is one of my main shares on the NAS, that I created to house all the folders for the apps running under Container Manager (aka Docker), selected 'Properties' on the Emby folder, and noticed my sisters user name was set as the "Owner", changing it back to my username did not help... it kept reverting back to her name for some odd reason. So, what I did was... give her full read/write access to the Emby folder, then it started almost immediately and worked perfectly... went back into properties, and change her as the owner of the folder back to me, and then took away the permission. It is working well... thank you so much to Luke, Happy2Play and Neminem - I can't believe how quickly you guys replied and assisted me with this issue... everything is back to usual!! If any of you guys have any light to shed as to why suddenly this happened with the folder changing ownership randomly after creating a new user on the Synology NAS, please share so that we can avoid this in the future... but at least I know that the solution and quick fix helped heaps!!

Nevermind. As I was creating a new user, I found the Allow Sharing option under the user definition.

Thank you. I just now upgraded to 4.8.10.0 - in a bit of a roundabout way, since it does not yet appear in the Synology Package Center. I could not find the first option: "Allow sharing personal content..." anywhere in settings. Where do I find it? However, (even without that setting) when I created a new playlist after upgrading, I found the "manage collaboration" option in the dropdown menu, as you had shown.

I would generally just suggest locking specific fields only. I think if we were just developing Emby now we'd probably only have field locking to keep things simpler.

Not that I know of. Within Emby I believe you only option is the Bulky plugin to mass change the metadata. Or if you use another metadata tool like TMM to mass edit all metadata or even a txt editor change the <lockdata>true</lockdata> to <lockdata>false</lockdata> then Emby should see the files as no longer locked and refresh metadata or just search for missing should work also then relock afterwards. It should only download anything that is missing that Emby uses assuming you are only searching for missing. As for images it will be per your settings but everything local take priority. Still probably need to see a nfo file as I will assume people are not written with all the proper providerid data.

"Default" should do, as that's what it seems to be in most cases... Paul

You can alway filter per library to check for locked metadata. Use to be able to see in Metadata Manager but that was removed so I think filtering is your only options. And you will see at the bottom of item metadata.

To a point specific examples are needed along with enabled metadata provider order on the library.

Refresh metadata next to scan library files from the ... 3 dot menu popup on the library thumbnail, the selection box has two options, replace metadata or search for missing metadata. You can do either. The 'missing' option should be all you need. I cannot show a screenshot because I'm reply with my phone from my workplace.

Hi, there's a demo plugin in the Emby SDK which also includes an example for a multi-select dropdown: https://dev.emby.media/home/sdk/plugins/sample_ui_demo.html sw

All so what unRaid version are you using ? Prober Arc support is in beta testing for 7.0.0 Version 7.0.0-beta.3 2024-10-04 | Unraid Docs

Yes it would appear the video stream can not be decoded. Error while decoding stream #0:0: Operation not permitted I guess one question would be do you get the same results if switch the decoder order? >>>>>> Hardware Decoders for mpeg2video [X] VAAPI DG2 Arc A380 [1] - MPEG-2 [X] QuickSync DG2 Arc A380 [1] - MPEG-2 Devs may need to see a server startup log showing hardware detection and the hardware-detection log.

The list is not hardcoded - it is generated automatically based on existence in DB. And this is the reason for the d00zah's issue. I plan to add a generated multi-select list to filter what providers to use for the merge. Will check your code, thanks!

I'll prepare the version to choose what provider to take into account during the merge. This is the only way I see to "fix the issue". If no one is selected - it will take all possible, otherwise - it will take the chosen.

Sorry just saw all these messages. For me typing "update" in my Emby console did not work. root@emby:~# update -bash: update: command not found The only thing that works for me is typing what I've mentioned above: bash -c "$(wget -qLO - https://github.com/tteck/Proxmox/raw/main/ct/emby.sh)" So whenever you see something like this in your Emby server management: Just run the code I've mentioned and you should get everything up to date without losing all your settings.

It look like you have permissions issues. 2024/10/06 21:35:22 stdout [s6-finish] sending all processes the KILL signal and exiting. 2024/10/06 21:35:19 stdout [s6-finish] sending all processes the TERM signal. 2024/10/06 21:35:19 stdout [s6-finish] waiting for services. 2024/10/06 21:35:19 stdout [cont-finish.d] done. 2024/10/06 21:35:19 stdout [cont-finish.d] executing container finish scripts... 2024/10/06 21:35:19 stdout 2024/10/06 21:35:19 stdout 2024/10/06 21:35:19 stdout TargetSite: 2024/10/06 21:35:19 stdout Source: 2024/10/06 21:35:19 stdout InnerException: System.IO.IOException: Permission denied 2024/10/06 21:35:19 stdout at Emby.Server.Implementations.Logging.SimpleLogManager.ReloadLogger(LogSeverity severity, CancellationToken cancellationToken) 2024/10/06 21:35:19 stdout at Emby.Server.Implementations.Logging.FileLogger..ctor(String path) 2024/10/06 21:35:19 stdout at System.IO.Directory.CreateDirectory(String path) 2024/10/06 21:35:19 stdout at System.IO.FileSystem.CreateDirectory(String fullPath) 2024/10/06 21:35:19 stdout TargetSite: Void CreateDirectory(System.String) 2024/10/06 21:35:19 stdout Source: System.Private.CoreLib 2024/10/06 21:35:19 stdout InnerException: System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path '/config/logs' is denied. 2024/10/06 21:35:19 stdout TargetSite: Void ThrowIfExceptional(Boolean) 2024/10/06 21:35:19 stdout Source: System.Private.CoreLib 2024/10/06 21:35:19 stdout at EmbyServer.Program.Main(String[] args) 2024/10/06 21:35:19 stdout at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.Wait() 2024/10/06 21:35:19 stdout at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.Wait(Int32 millisecondsTimeout, CancellationToken cancellationToken) 2024/10/06 21:35:19 stdout at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.ThrowIfExceptional(Boolean includeTaskCanceledExceptions) 2024/10/06 21:35:19 stdout --- End of inner exception stack trace --- 2024/10/06 21:35:19 stdout at Emby.Server.Implementations.Logging.SimpleLogManager.ReloadLogger(LogSeverity severity, CancellationToken cancellationToken) 2024/10/06 21:35:19 stdout at Emby.Server.Implementations.Logging.FileLogger..ctor(String path) 2024/10/06 21:35:19 stdout at System.IO.Directory.CreateDirectory(String path) 2024/10/06 21:35:19 stdout at System.IO.FileSystem.CreateDirectory(String fullPath) 2024/10/06 21:35:19 stdout --- End of inner exception stack trace --- 2024/10/06 21:35:19 stdout ---> System.IO.IOException: Permission denied 2024/10/06 21:35:19 stdout ---> System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path '/config/logs' is denied. 2024/10/06 21:35:19 stdout System.AggregateException: System.AggregateException: One or more errors occurred. (Access to the path '/config/logs' is denied.) 2024/10/06 21:35:19 stdout UnhandledException

Only devices that utilize Premiere features count against Premiere devices limit (meaning that not every device connected to your server counts - you can theoretically have 100 devices connected and not utilize a single slot, depending on features used). Certain apps allow for App Unlock for Full playback in which case they don't count against device limit for that feature alone (but they do for any other Premiere feature). You can check what is considered Premiere feature in the linked matrix. Emby Premiere Feature Matrix Devices are tracked for about a week after which they'll automatically drop off the list. Is there a limit to Emby Premiere?

No worries. The layouts generally try and match the web app and other platform clients so that there is a consistent user experience. If the web app changes then we'll follow its layout. @Luke, there's an incorrect casing in the pt-BR translation

Thank you for the explanation! I hope it’s possible in the future this standard tvOS layout template for playing as well. Meanwhile, consider on the Movies section readjust the spaces: text on the left and artwork on the right, for a cleaner view on Apple TV. P.S.: There’s something else I noticed… on Music, the Playlists created has the L on capital letter on the name, written “PLaylists” (different from the other names pattern). I tried to rename, but it keeps showing on the Music area and on the main page the native name.

If not a Premiere user, you should look at manual backups of the Emby programdata folder. Configuration Backup | how-to-backup-manually Or a bare minimum of the database in the /programdata/data folder.

There is a scheduled task for that: I also posted a plugin that fixes actor cards with an explanation, in reply to your comment here https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/131921-removing-people-with-no-content-associated/page/3/#comment-1391582

The missing table "ListItems" isn't created by the plugin and unfortunately i don't know anything about the inner working of the database, but as your database seems to be broken anyway, you could make a backup of your database and try to create the missing table: Ps. Beside your database problem, playlist selection in my plugin seems also to be broken

working well

Thank you!

Yes, essentially that's what it does. I've had more than a dozen people watching live TV using only 1 or 2 tuners on Sunday, watching NFL games. Carlo

Hi, Perhaps the best method would be to remove the number from the filename, so Emby can identify them correctly. You would then manually edit each movie to edit the sort title entry, then lock it after the edit. Something to keep in mind is that the title or sort title field is character based and not number based which means the sort order would be similar to 1, 11, 111, 1111, 2., etc Careful use of the sort title knowing this would still allow you to achieve this however, Perhaps a better method would be to get everything scanned in properly, then setup a playlist using the order you want them to appear in. You could then see the movies normally in the movie view or see them ordered as you want using the playlist view. Carlo

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I agree your points are all valid as well. Certain device/platforms have more functionality that allows Emby to pick a resolution/bandwidth used to stream that works better than on other devices. There also seems to be two different schools of thought on bandwidth use: 1. Make the most use of bandwidth available which would favor direct play when available or using the highest transcode resolution/bandwidth it can. 2. Conserve bandwidth (especially for the server) to make the best use of limited bandwidth available. Many of the "problem" clients seem to fall into #2 when the admin would prefer it defaulted to #1 when using the client auto setting. What might help a lot would be a new config setting on the network settings page, used for remote users. "Remote Client Bandwidth Optimization. It could have a dropdown with 2 choices as above, or maybe a 3rd that's somewhere between the two choices using a reasonable upper bitrate limit in the 8Mb range. This would allow the admin to setup the server for remote users that would make the most use of resources available to the server. The Emby client would then use this global setting if auto were active, to choose the res/bitrate fitting the criteria. Now instead of defaulting to use a "conservative" amount of bandwidth as it seems to do, causing extra transcoding that wasn't needed, it could default to using a higher amount of bandwidth giving the user a better-quality stream as well as often skipping the need to transcode in the first place saving server resources for better use. At present, there are multiple settings and environmental condition that affect the client choice but typically the decision seems to be too conservative for many systems. Having this new global setting would allow the server to start the decision process with a low, medium or high bitrate default choose that wouldn't be lowered unless the bandwidth check determines there isn't enough bandwidth to support the global setting, at which point the client would pick the best quality resolution/bitrate for transcoding. Just a thought, but I think this could be easily implemented and give the admin far more control and guidance on the remote client's default use of resources available to it. Carlo

Yep, I just came back here to say that, after double checking everything, I looked at the app name You are 100% right. I stupidly installed the wrong version. All working now, and thanks very much for such a quick response.

Did a proof-of-concept using my VirutalEpisodes hack and the native Emby Android app. This is using Tasker to monitor what is being played to launch Netflix (in this case). Details on the hack: https://github.com/xnappo/VirtualEpisodes Ideally would like to remove Tasker, Sonarr and scripts from the equation and do this directly with the Emby apps and using a server plugin to add/monitor the 'virtual' episodes.

1. Message is seen on all Emby clients when starting media playback (Android, Windows, browser, Firestick). 2. 7.2 is not (yet) available for NAS. 3. Updates have to be done 'manually' so server is shutdown and restarted during the upgrade. 4. Performed about 10+ updates like this But: restarting the Emby server using the Server Dashboard on the gui solved the problem! Prevents me from fiddling around and installing the old version or restoring Emby from backup! Thanks!!

A connection to Emby will be just that, only Emby, nothing more. So long as you configure the Emby user(s) allowed to access remotely to have no rights to change anything, there is no great risk. That is not to deny that bad things can happen; but that is not limited to Emby - just using email or browsing unknown sites is probably a greater risk! Some additional security can be gained by setting up a secure link (SSL/HTTPS) or a VPN - but for most people the effort involved will not be worth it. Paul

I think the best is to make it as an option of the view:

Personally I think allowing anyone into my servers remotely is much too high a risk to happen. I allow nothing to access my computers from anywhere outside my home. I also think storage and the boxes themselves are priced low enough so everyone can have one of their own. But I am in the minority here and I have never heard of anyone having real security issues from only allowing Emby to be accessed remotely as long as reasonable precautions are taken. Also no remote users should have the rights to change anything on the computer. I do not recommend allowing anything other than local access but, with reasonable precautions, you should be OK.

Should be soon.

Hi, yes we can look at adding this. Thanks.

Thank you!

Need to go over library settings, but if there is existing metadata Emby will always read it even if option is disabled. So we would need to see the nfo file for Jumanji if you write nfo files. But can say I cannot have Emby create any collections with library option disabled and movie metadata not containing the Required <set> node to create a collection in 4.8 or 4.9.

Hi, this is resolved in the next update to Emby for Apple TV. Thanks.

I think I found the issue. It seems that the recommended NGINX reverse proxy from this forum is the cause of my problems. I used the basic reverse proxy provided by Swizzin, and it works much better for the Windows app, at least. There are no weird/unwanted stop on the client as long as I don't pause my media for too long. However, if I pause for an extended period and then come back, the issue still occurs. But at least now it's usable. I just need to restart the stream after a long break, and I can watch my media without interruption.

Hi @SamES To be 100% sure I just ran a library scan and the issue with Codec Intros stalling is still present. I have done several tests a summary is as below: 1) Only the LG App is affected, browser and Windows client on my HTPC play all Coded Intros with no issue. 2) With the LG App only Codec Intros with Dolby TrueHD audio fail, Dolby Digital and DTS play fine. 5 and 7 channel Dolby TrueHD both fail. 3) LG App always hangs at 10 seconds into playing the Codec Intro, tested with Dolby TrueHD intros of 11, 20 and 25 seconds duration. 4) LG App fails if there is only one or if several different Codec Intros in the TrueHD folder on the server. Windows client and Browser will pick at random which intro is played if several intros in the folder. LG App still fails if only one intro in the folder and a fresh scan completed. 4) Hang is 100% reproducible

The attached version 2.0.0 should fix your issues: MediaPortal.2.0.0.0.zip @LukePlease update the plugin catalog with the above version. The changes are in my repo: https://github.com/puenktchen/MediaPortalTVPlugin/commit/e51dcbe81cbb5b31ca5186978af96ce559bc4107

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

Hi Luke, I know it's been some time, but using the browser is just not as good as using an App, the browser expects interactivity, therefore, the controller is visible and when it does time out the screen minimises, I've enabled hand control but then this introduces a dot in the middle of the screen. Basically, it's not as an immersive experience as other Apps, I know probably not a big market ATM to spend time and resources on but just a reminder it would be nice to have a dedicated App :) Cheers, Bob

it's a neat idea. we'd probably have to rely on a community member to get such a project started though