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It's a DV 7.6 Profile - your TV/Device may not play DV 7 from a file/stream source - only via HDMI. I suspect the files that play are either DV5 or DV8 ? btw - you can convert the DV7 to DV8 easily with tools online.

@zzsx644 - Please ignore all other instructions for a moment and update your Nvidia drivers as described here: https://emby.media/support/articles/Hardware-Acceleration-on-Linux.html?q=nvidia#required-setup-steps There has been a bump in Nvidia driver version requirements after server 4.7 versions. Please go to the Nivida website and install the latest drivers from there.

Hi, is there any update on this? I thoroughly enjoy Emby and have been a happy paying customer for a while but this is still quite frustrating as it requires the user to go into the Android app settings, hit force close, and then open the app and find the media that the user was playing, again.

Can you provide metadata details for one that does play properly?

Appreciate you jumping in here @softworkz!

Edit: There is a plugin version available now, please see ACdb thread. Emby MDBList Collection Creator URL: https://github.com/jonjonsson/Emby-MDBList-Collection-Creator This tool allows you to convert lists from MDBList.com into collections within your Emby media server. MDBList aggregates content lists from various platforms including Trakt and IMDB. Features List Conversion: Transform MDBList lists into Emby collections Metadata Refresh: Keep ratings up-to-date for newly released content Collection Images: Upload local or remote images for collections posters Seasonal Collections: Specify when a collections should be visible Collection Ordering: Show your collections in order of which one was update Backup & Restore: Additional utilities to backup and restore watch history and favorites Prerequisites: To use this script, you need: Python installed on your system "Requests" Python package (install with `pip install requests`) Admin privileges on your Emby server A user account on [MDBList](https://mdblist.com/) The script has been tested with Emby Version 4.8.8.0 and later, but other recent versions should also be compatible Please check out the GitHub Link for more detailed information

Emby Party is a solution for watching videos with multiple friends through your Emby web client. It requires no additional dependencies - only a device running Emby (presumably with good enough hardware for serving all the attendees, especially if you're transcoding) and at least one web browser. It consists in two halves: A server plugin and a web client module. They must be used together! Each half expects the other to be present. This is an experimental open source project. Feel free to fork and contribute pull requests and issues (my availability for fixing issues on my own may vary wildly and may be low in the near future). The source code and all known issues can be found in the github repository. Any information there should be considered the most up to date. Currently testing in Emby 4.8.10, Windows and Debian Bookworm (Linux), Firefox, Chrome and Edge. Features Hassle-free hosting: Doesn't matter who creates the party. Whoever initiates playback while in a party transparently becomes the party host, and host is reassigned if they leave. No need to recreate the party for someone else to host something later. The hosts controls the party video and video position. Video access permission check: Will only play a video if all party members have access to it, and will prevent new party members who don't have access to the current video (if any). Accurate synchronization of video player positions when the host seeks or changes videos using a multi-part protocol that leverages remote control commands under the hood. Accurate catch-up seek commands issued for guests when they fall behind or are otherwise offset from the host. Efficient transition between videos in a playback queue that accounts for slightly offset attendee positions and allows each attendee to start loading the next video while others finish the previous one. Late joiner support: Brings late joiners immediately into the video at the correct position. Joiners already watching a video will automatically start hosting that video if the party was idle. Host can change audio and subtitle streams for all attendees (guests can change it back for themselves if they want). Distributed pause/unpause requests - all users can pause and unpause. Return to video button for guests to return to the video being watched by the host if they closed it for some reason. Guests are automatically returned to the correct video if they open the wrong one or under certain other circumstances. Keep alive: Plugin keeps party member sessions and websockets open as needed and disconnects party members who time out. Support for multiple sessions/devices per user account. Just don't duplicate browser tabs! Support for remote control: Party members can control other Emby clients and those clients will benefit from party synchronization. (Caveats: Working, but not thoroughly tested yet. Due to the lack of client-side support, remote controlled clients are capable of issuing pause/unpause commands that break synchronization. I recommend being careful about pausing/unpausing in a device being remote controlled by a party member.) Cool resizable sidebar with list of party attendees and log of chat and events. The sidebar has docked (squeezes the video aside) and undocked (overlaps the video) modes and uses your Emby profile picture. Dark and light mode supported. Visual indicators for synchronization states of party members when synchronizing with host (icons). Visual indicator when receiving seek commands from the server (your name flashes orange). Host remedies for synchronization issues: Guests who are not responding can be sent another playback command by the host or kicked from the party after 20 seconds have passed. Emoji support in chat using :shortnames: or emoticons. Markdown styles support in chat, including spoilers and preformatted text. Preserves chat focus and selectively blocks keyboard shortcuts or UI interactables when chatting or syncing in order to prevent control mistakes/command spam. Chat bridge endpoint: External applications can connect to `ws://localhost:8196/bridge` to exchange chat (and some events) with the party sidebar. I threw together a module for my self-hosted Discord bot that shows how to use it. Remote control chain resilience for party attendees only: Prevents you from creating a loop of remote control targets. If you do this in vanilla Emby your clients will nuke the server with requests. Automatic skip to next video for videos stalled at the end because the last segment isn't decoding. This is also for party attendees only. Installation To install the server plugin, download it or build it in Visual Studio, then copy it normally to your Emby server's plugins folder and restart the server. Currently the plugin doesn't modify any Emby files (yet?), so you'll have to manually edit one of the web client's existing modules and import the Emby Party module there. Head on over to system/dashboard-ui/modules/appheader/appheader.js and locate the end of the render function, which in Emby 4.8.10 is in position 21877. Insert this code there: , Emby.importModule("./modules/embyparty/partyheader.js").then(function(PartyHeader) { return (new PartyHeader()).show(skinHeaderElement.querySelector(".headerRight")); }); Save, clear your browser cache and refresh. If the party button appears in the top right corner, you're good to go! I'm sure someone will tell me a better way to do this soon enough. I don't know if there's a commonly accepted way and haven't really put any thought into it yet. Whole bunch of disclaimers Use at your own risk! If something breaks that you don't want broken, revert the steps above to remove the plugin from your server installation. Emby Party was iteratively developed and tested with several friends over several weeks, but it was developed to suit our own needs. It was not (yet) tested alongside features we don't use, including, but not limited to, Emby Connect, Emby Premiere, Live TV, the audio player, conversions, cinema previews, most other plugins, etc. Currently no mobile styles. Not tested on mobile. We've been in active development until now. There are vaguely known issues that are hard to reproduce and instability can be caused by video decoding failures, networking issues, browser crashes, browser extensions, lack of hardware resources, forgetting your browser won't play until you click the window unless you've given Emby autoplay permissions.. New and exciting bugs should also appear as we get more people using it. Thanks in advance for helping test, report or fix this stuff! Otherwise, check back for updates, I guess? Please keep comments and suggestions in this thread. Issues should be reported only on github so they're all in the same place. You may notice a whole lot of things in the source code that make you think, wow, it sure would be nice if this was in the Emby settings. I agree! If you would like to implement a plugin settings page, please submit it as a pull request on github! I'm so horribly far behind schedule with this project, and my free time is far in the negative right now. There may be better ways to do some of the things Emby Party does that I am simply not aware of at this time (one of the reasons I'm keeping these instructions outside the repository for the moment) or were simply not considered because the feature grew organically. Pull requests please! Also recommended If you're feeling adventurous, consider improving your watch party's subtitle experience with these (much harder to apply) client-side fixes we worked out in tandem: Temporary workaround for subtitles coming in too early when resuming a video with transcoding (Important for this whole thing if you watch videos with subtitles) Web client ignoring AudioStreamIndex and SubtitleStreamIndex (Required for party host to guest stream index sync if you use that) Fixing mismatch between subtitle canvas and video aspect ratio breaking ass subtitles Fixed in vanilla as of 4.9.*! Playing plaintext subtitles through Subtitles Octopus by faking subtitle type Support mkvs with embedded fonts (requires the associated plugin) Fixed in vanilla as of 4.9.*! These may become obsolete over time if things are fixed or integrated into the main software. Don't forget to clear your cache and refresh after making changes to the client.

I tried to find the instructions I previously followed but didn't find it, but I remember it was on the makemkv forums, and I thought I kept a small script to do the conversion but I can't find that either so I guess not. It's a good skill to have, to know how to convert it if needed, but agreed it's not that simple if you're not tech savvy.

did an update to the EMBY BETA and the time difference for the videos has been fixed on ROKU.....nice!!!!!

Sorry I'm not familiar with using handbrake for that, I want to say no but I'm not sure.

Thanks. I'm not that tech savvy, so I am not familiar with some of the terms you used, but I will Google some converters and try and find something easy. PS I have Handbrake, which I havent used much. Would that work?

This is an SDR 4k file since it's bt709 and not bt2020. It looks like the playback info is just indicating what it does support. With regards to your other posts yes it looks like you'll need to convert your 7.6 to 8.1, you can use dovi_tool for free to do that and it wouldn't take that long for a 4GB file - it runs locally on your computer, not online. I couldn't find any reference for what specific DV profiles your TV supported but it was a really quick search. I also don't recall off hand if dovi_tool provides a super easy way to do the conversion like in a menu system, I followed some instructions at one point which basically involved pulling some metadata out and recombining it in a different way. There might be some wrapper that's been made available to do it easily. Unfortunately the commands aren't in my bash history anymore. It took a long time to run because it was a large remux but it did work. My Shield can play any DV profile so to me it doesn't matter if it's 7.6 or 8.1 but I think 8.1 is more widely compatible across devices. https://github.com/quietvoid/dovi_tool EDIT: May be other methods too, this is just the tool I found when I was first curious about converting from 7.6 to 8.1. I also found the text I sent someone about it, I did it back in August and it looks like the file size also got a little smaller as a result so that's an added bonus.

Not to continue harping on this issue, but devs ( @Luke)please consider the emby Music user experience in total when looking at issues like the one in this this topic. Putting my product management cap on, let's look at this common workflow expected by the user: 1. User wants to listen to music every weekday on his way to work/school 2. User makes a playlist for this purpose 3. User is on his way to work and before leaving the garage, goes to start the playlist on his iPhone/Android emby App. User must remember to disable wifi at this point as a workaround to avoid the issue on this thread. If he forgets, he has a bad experience in step 5. 4. User must navigate to the playlist to start the music: 4a. User has enabled a playlists row on the home screen, so he must scroll to find the one he wants by title (row is sorted by title and no options to change sort). There may be dozens or hundreds of playlists to scroll through. There is also no way to pin/save a specific playlist to the home screen (future smart view?) Multpile FRs 4b. User opens the music section - playlist does not appear in Recently Played (even though he played it yesterday) because playlists are not consider a "played" item. FR below. There is also no recently played row available on the home screen. 4c. User opens playlists from music section for directly from home screen. Needs to sort or filter then scroll to find the one he wants (an there may be dozens or hundreds). Multiple clicks plus scrolling. 4d. User clicks search directly from the home screen, types a query, navigates to "playlist" tab and selects (multiple clicks plus text entry) 4e. User clicks "favorites" from the front page and then scrolls down to favorite playlists (why can't favorite playlists be more prominent or an option for the home screen? Why do favorite rows go in order of shows, episodes, movies, collections, playlists artists, albums, songs, people? Is this the most desired order for a mobile user?) 5. User starts playback, and drives out of his garage... by the time the first song ends he is out of wifi range and needs to restart the playlist if he did not switch networks as a workaround - per this thread This is to illustrate there are multiple points of friction that degrade the experience even if you are an seasoned emby user. There are multiple points of friction through the most common music workflows in emby (not to mention audio books), which is why users often accuse the devs of not using/dogfooding these features. Furthermore, I believe this is why you see regular FR activity related to a stand-alone music app. In my opinion, most users "feel" that Plex solved these problems by creating PlexAmp, though what they really did (stand-alone app or not) is identify the most common customer workflows for mobile/auto (music) and reduce friction as much as possible. The 10' TV experience is going to be Movies and TV with some Music, and the mobile experience is going to be mostly Music with some Movies and TV.

The version used is 7 years old, and is incredibly outdated at this point. There have been numerous security fixes along with performance enhancements over the last 7 years.

Not sure if this will help as that extension cause issues over here also.

This worked, I think that it was the container tabs extension, as I tried them all one by one and now it works with that one disabled. Thank you for your help.

Yup, I am working with @Amything to enable you to deploy this as a docker container instead of running it as a standalone script, it should be available soon under `ghcr.io/jonjonsson/emby-mdblist-collection-creator:latest` (Assuming there's no problems with the code I just submitted)

@muizRight click , and translate. Note I use Edge

I did manage to mitigate some of the problem by enabling connections between radarr/sonarr and emby, having it trigger a library scan when those applications add new content. I had never needed this before when RTM worked. It solves most of my issues, unless I am manually adding content outside of the *arrs.

@ZLuckyTraveler@neoKushan (on Github) added Docker image to the repository. More info in the Readme https://github.com/jonjonsson/Emby-MDBList-Collection-Creator/blob/main/README.md Commit info https://github.com/jonjonsson/Emby-MDBList-Collection-Creator/pull/6#issuecomment-2464859572 @rbjtechKinda agree with you that it's complicating things But there is clearly some demand for it and easy enough to ignore if you don't want to use it.

Looks fixed

Added several new movies yesterday throughout the day, every one of them instantly picked up by real time monitoring, on both libraries. This morning at 06:00, added a new movie. Two hours later, RTM failed to pick it up, on either library. A manual scan on each library and the movie was added. Back to square one I guess.

Thankfully, my issue with the transcoding seems to have finally been resolved in the 4.9.0.31 beta. I can't speak for your issue, of course, but you might want to try the new beta.

Thankfully, this issue appears to have finally been resolved in the 4.9.0.31 beta. I'll need to test it a bit more, of course, but so far so good, thanks so much @Luke.

Much faster. Don't experience the lag at all. Through WiiM mini. The emby server is listed on opening, but accessing the music library is delayed. Thanks.

Hi, it's on my list for review. Thanks.

The overlap for subtitles is by design. Media directors can force multiple titles to be on the screen, at once by overlapping times. The next subtitle will appear below it. Perhaps this is what the director wanted to have with their subtitle timing.

The adding the albums to collections works great! Thanks for the idea!

Thanks for all the ideas, I will certainly give this a whirl!

@feerlessleadr @Tremas Attached is the new code that includes the Library Editor, the Metadata Editor, and the Playlist Editor. Remember, to bring these tools up you must press the control key while clicking the green Update the EPG button. In addition, if you reinstall the PseudoTV source then a new Tools button will appear that can be used to access these tools. Also attached are three short videos where I tried to explain in a few words what these code modules do. Let me know if you have any problems. Vic 4-PlaylistEditorPart2.mp4 1-LibraryExplorer.mp4 2-MetadataEditor.mp4 3-PlaylistEditorPart1.mp4 PseudoTV.zip PseudoTV.dll

OK we have a new windows and xbox app set to launch imminently, so stay tuned !

HI, yes we are watching that closely. Thanks.

It's trouble ticket #244957 Assigned to: Shaoliyan Swami

or fix the source of the problem - badly constructed subtitles .. use subtitle edit - it's free...

sorry forget it. thought its because of the sideloaded app but the issue was on docker. but mouse still not useable

Yes but you need to ask the users to do this. It's poor that you have to call the user and say "Emby Auto doesn't work properly, so ignore that and set it to Max... "

More than you ever wanted to know about host synchronization This applies when initiating playback or when the party host's video player is not where it should be. We use three pieces of data to estimate party attendee positions: Position reported by the client in the latest non-bogus TimeUpdate event The amount of time that has passed since the latest position report The ping When a new update arrives, if the host is too far from estimate we assume that user has seeked to a different position (or the client was delayed for some reason, which is functionally the same because we want to keep everyone in the same position regardless). During synchronization, we track attendee states. I'm going to simplify things here and just say we mainly care about whether each guest is still moving to/loading the new position or has reported that they're ready to continue. We also use custom General Commands to report to every client: If synchronization has started, if each guest is ready to continue, and if synchronization has ended (so they can do UI things). So the overall sequence of events is something like this: Announce synchronization, pause the host and set it to "ready to continue". Set every guest to "loading the new position". Tell every guest to seek/play. For each guest, once they've reported progress/playback, change them to (and announce) "ready to continue". Tell the guest to pause as well. When the last guest is ready, instead of pausing it, we tell everyone else to unpause and announce end of synchronizartion. In practice, events can arrive in any order. Things are also complicated by playback queue video changes. A lot of work was put into making those happen reasonably smoothly; it's even possible for party guests to all arrive at the next video before the host due to estimation inaccuracies and/or the host having slow hardware. Emby Party should hopefully be resilient to attendees being in different videos at the same time around the times videos are changed. Guest catch-up Much simpler. We estimate the guest's intended video position much the same way I described above, but instead of comparing it with itself in the previous iteration, we compare it with the host's. If it's too far off, we send a seek command to the guest and increase the margin of accuracy for that guest (currently by 1 second at a time). This is meant to keep the viewing experience more comfortable if the guest just has crap network acccess, by sacrificing some synchronization in exchange for reducing the amount of seeks. Currently the maximum accuracy tolerance is 7 seconds, so if the guest can't stay within 7 seconds of the host they'll just seek all the time. It resets every video.

Firefox 132 released and it includes the fixes. Warning.... I think the stable release has "media.wmf.hevc.enabled" set to 2. Make sure you have "media.wmf.hevc.enabled" set to 1 and "media.wmf.media-engine.enabled" to 2. The result... Emby direct plays HEVC. The screenshot is from Firefox 132 stable which just released.

Not for transcoding it’s only used for conversion

As a contributor to SportsDB, I think this would be beneficial.

OK we'll need to add date modified to that. Thanks.

Hi, Since sports videos are not easy in every system, I have been working on various tools over the last few months. This should help you all too: [Tool] - NFO Zip package generator Forum: https://www.thesportsdb.com/forum_topic.php?t=5973 Direct Link: https://tsdb.sem-one.de/ (will not always stay on this domain!) For Support, use Discort: Discord - TheDataDB And if there is a lot of demand, I will write you a scraper for Emby. I started where I left off 10 years ago, not much has happened since my first scraper in 2014. I hope to have now achieved more change for the next few years. Our Kodi scraper can also download artwork etc: https://www.thesportsdb.com/forum_topic.php?t=5971

What's this worth? 50$ per version, 2$ a month? Plugin built into emby, with schedule task to recreate the collections. On schedule it will pull list data from API, delete existing collection if exists and recreate and then log activity so you can see the history from admin ui. Not sure what the other person is doing with pulling posters etc as the items will use whatever poster they have. Im sure I could have it so the collection could have a custom image/schedule but this adds complexity and time = $$$ and this currently meets the needs of what someone else was looking for.

I just completely nuked my Plex installs, deleted my account, and officially gave Plex the f-off email. They refused to clear my account of any personal information along with past history unless I deleted it (and I have to wait 30 days before they actually purge and they refused to do it immediately), on top of this they wouldn't agree to allowing me to use my license on a new account if I ever came back. Bridge officially burned. Bumping this thread again and cheering you guys on to get some form of PMM over here!

For now. Collection creation based on a set of lists from TMDB, TVDB, MDBList with IMDB/Trakt being worked on (via a conf.yaml file) . It will cache data in redis and compare items on refresh, it will cache emby ids mapped to the relevant imdb id / tmdb id for example to speed up creation. It will pull posters in from 'theposterdb'. It will record if any missing ids are found so that we can track / do something with it in future.

A fill/fit stretch screen option per app that sticks. Instead of Horizontal/vertical zoom like in the fires tick app. Just a fill/fit screen option, but once it's set it stays set for every film until changed again. Plex had this feature that stuck, and I miss it greatly as I hate the black bars top and bottom and at the moment I have to horizontal zoom/stretch for every film it's so annoying.

It's unlikely. This thread has been open for like 7 years, with no update except "It's possible for the future."

Welcome to the WMC UI Public Beta! Thanks for your interest in the WMC UI and for being part of this! Your help and feedback is important and essential for getting this to perfection and ironing out all those things that one alone can't find and identify as everybody has different setup and different ways of using Emby. There are two places for interaction and communication: GitHub: Issue-Tracking and Releases WMC UI Forums (here) Issues Issues are used for tracking work that needs to be done Please create a new for every problem you see, no matter which kind - can be errors, unexpected behavior, visual glitches, etc. Please check first, whether an entry already exists for the same problem If you think an existing entry is the same, but the situation is slightly different, you can add a message to the existing issue or create a new one, we'll then find out whether it's different or same WMC UI Forums We’re using the forums as a place for general communication like: Publishing announcements about when updates are published Asking questions about the WMC UI Sharing ideas and suggestions Please always start a new topic for a new subject and let's try to avoid endless conversations which are "about everything" Platform Availability The WMC UI Beta is currently available in the following forms: Web Browser & Installable Web App Emby Theater WMC (Windows) Emby WMC (Android) Web Browser & Installable Web App Web Browser There's an http and an https URL available: http://wmc.emby.media/ https://wmc.emby.media/ Emby Theater WMC (Windows) ClickOnce Installation (auto-updating) Win 64bit: https://softworkz.github.io/etwmc/setup/x64/ Portable Installs These are useful to test or compare specific versions or in case of issues with ClickOnce installation. They can be found in the Releases section: https://github.com/EmbySupport/Emby.WMC.UI/releases Just unzip and run. Emby WMC (Android) The app version can be installed in parallel to the regular Emby Android App and the ATV app. Please side-load the app by using the matching APK. The APKs can be found in the Releases section: https://github.com/EmbySupport/Emby.WMC.UI/releases NOTE The Android app is limited by date, so that it is working within 10 days after release. We'll try to always have a new release ready before the previous one expires.

Hi All, Just want to check in regarding the PlayOn Plugin. Firstly I want to say sorry for not picking this up sooner other things in my life have taken my time away from this. I have been doing some digging with the newest version of PlayOn Server and it appears that PlayOn have removed the mobile site at some point (guessing because the whole thing was based on Flash which is now dead) The Emby PlayOn Plugin uses that to get the info it needs to display anything. It also appears Playon have removed the ability to stream without recording first which the Emby plugin wouldn't be able to support anyway even if there was some API to hook in to which it appears after port scanning there isn't. So I'm going to be taking the plugin down as soon as I can. The plugin has a 30 day trial on it which is built in as part of Emby's plugin stuff so there should have never been a need to purchase until that was up and I'm sorry to the people that have purchased and not got it working, I did try for few people to get it working and some were successful and some weren't, I personally when was using this when first developed had no issues I think everyone's setup was slightly different.

This IMHO should be removed from the catalog. It just doesn't work and causes confusion. Right now it's a dead plugin.