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Unless I'm being a bit blind (highly possible!), I'd love a way to hide a couple of the top green navigation items without hacking it in myself. For example, in Movies I don't want the 'Trailers' item to appear for any profile and for TV I don't need the 'Upcoming' nav link. Obviously not a major issue but thought it would be a nice thing to have, perhaps allowing them to be re-ordered like the home page items but again just a nice extra,

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.

After spending some time visiting family over the Thanksgiving holidays and a bit of discussing on what we've been watching it became very clear that everyone who has access to my Emby server chooses not to use it over other services like Netflix, Disney+, Amazon, etc. Even though they have free access to to my server with every possible movie/show imaginable they would rather use multiple other paid services. When I asked them why, they all said "It is too hard to find things to watch on Emby". I probed a bit more and they said unless it is newly added or something I've already in progress it is impossible to find new things to watch. The difference being that all the other services promote content discovery on the home screen. I would agree with their comments as I too struggle with finding content and I'm the one who curated it. For anything not currently on the home screen, it can taking drilling down multiple levels just to see the synopsis of a show/movie. I know how the filters and sorting work but it seems like the average user (my family) isn't using them. Is content discovery a priority on the roadmap for Emby?

Tried it today with the Emby server in my Synology NAS. Unfortunately it did not work as expected. 1. The codepage is not unicode by default, so path or filename with Chinese characters were not supported. - Adding "chcp 65001" at the beginning of libstrm.bat solved it. 2. Synology is Linux system that uses slash "/" as path separator instead of "\" in Windows - Using notepad++ can replace all the occurrences in a single operation. 3. The actual problem: After creating the new lib with all strm files, and setting it to be Chinese-variant wouldn't give expected metadata. - Haven't figured out the reason yet. I guess it is because the Emby server has stricter requirement for .strm files on the naming rules (pathname and filename). - Emby players can play the movies without problem in both browser and Emby apps. - Btw, If I created Chinese-variant lib with actual mkv folder, the metadata/artworks are produced correctly, although they have the same naming scheme as the .strm variant. Thoughts: 1. I am thinking to create a language-variant lib based on the actual mkv files, then move over the metadata/artworks to the folder generated by libstrm.bat, leaving the original actual mkv files for another language-variant lib. 2. Will try to craft a Linux shell script based on the same idea of libstrm.bat, assuming the linux version is not available yet. 3. Will refactor my media lib pathnames/filenames naming scheme, to keep Emby server happy with the .strm-based lib. In any case, @Happy2Play's idea definitely works. Kudos to the smart solution that probably should be adopted by Emby server for a plugin development. The idea is not only useful for language-variant libs, but also applicable to cross-referenced libs, since media libs are not always a tree structure, and tags/labels are not as convenient. Cheers!

If you haven't done so already try checking your spam folder for the delivered key or any responses from support. My experience has always been that keys are delivered fairly quickly and response from support never took more than a couple of days maximum.

DV on LG only works in MP4. Can you make sure that you have all these user options enabled, and that this setting is enabled in Transcoding settings on the server

Disregard again. I installed the official docker instead of the Binhex one, and it's working now.

Hi, nothing about your library or users are stored on our servers.

As a member of the relatively small minority, I'd be interested to know how you know this.

Sadly, this is my primary concern as well. We have been waiting a LONG time for 'smart views' and the fact that recent posts suggest it is still in 'planning' stage is really disappointing as the target (4.9) started back in May I believe (some ~6 months ago). I do feel the best solution for this functionality is to actually provide an API to do it - rather than implement a 'replacement' for community driven projects such as smart playlists and top picks for example. If the 'tools' were available to easily build 'channels' from existing content, then we could probably leave the actual 'creation' to external tools - as we have those today. I hope this is what emby are doing - rather than a 'smart' but limited set of views with no way to interface with them outside the core code...

strm files work with all apps as far as I am aware.

Hi, this already happens on server startup. It could mean that the server is being denied access to delete the files.

Yep, had multiple tabs open working on a few different things and must have mixed up the thread I posted to. Normally, would figure this out quickly when looking at the other tab I thought I answered but suffered a re-occurring blue screen issue causing me to lose the notes I had for a few tabs. Sorry about that, Carlo

Hi, we are looking into this. Thanks.

As of 12/14/2024 the issue has corrected itself. I've restarted the server, all devices, installed all updates and it started working correctly after 10 hours.

Hi Carlo, Yes, I'm sure. In another "well known media center", I recorded one episode of this show on september 14 of this year and the media center named it "24 60 (2008) - 2024-09-14 02 35 00 - 24 60.ts" as it should be. As you can see, this name reflects that the serie first started on 2008 but that this episode was a new and original one. Name of the show: 24/60 I cannot include a screenshot of the EPG since it seems the show has taken a break for the holidays as of now. The channel number is 11.1 and the name of the station is "ICI Radio-Canada Télé". The country is Canada and my postal code is G1M 2K7. The incorrect info is that, whatever the episode, it is always named "24 60 2008-09-29" while adding an incremental number at the end of the file if I record more episodes without deleting the old one. The URL of the show is https://ici.radio-canada.ca/rdi/24-60/site?tz=EST but please note that the channel name and broadcasting time on that site don't match those I gave you because what I record is a rebroadcast on another channel. Thanks for the support even though this seems to be a "very specific issue"...

No as items are limited to one language, but can be done this way.

We can support gpus for Plex so I would assume we could do the same for Emby. I'll reach out here again when we are ready to curate and we can talk more details. Any guidance you guys could provide when we get to that point would be awesome. Thanks guys!!

4 months since the last message, so figured it's due another check. We are getting close to a year of 4.9 being available as a beta release now (4.9.0.0 was made available on Feb. 3) with no signs of this feature. Any further update on this or a potential timeline?

Or for example photos that were proposed in an overview page. Being on meta info screen, jumping to folder where the photo resides makes totally sense. I dont know which overview should be considered: library or file browser. I think every item in Emby belongs to a library, right? So I guess jumping to related library instead of file browser ("Folders") makes more sense. Small but helpful feature request!

This change was implimented to make library scans quicker, which it does.. No need to scrape future bullcrap that you don't have and may never have! I think it was the way to go. What I think could be done is add a "missing episodes" to the shedule so we can run it overnight and don't get the spinning wheel when we enter that menu..

Yep all jokes aside I think this is the way. ABS is in another league for audiobooks and there are other services that do a lot better in there respected areas (music/photos etc.).

Hi, we're looking into this. Thanks for reporting.

Hi, when you say works with the web browser, what do you mean by that?

Is this not what I said above ? Emby knows what's on your server - so I'm not understanding why you cannot simply compare what's on an external 'Trending list' to what you have available on your server. This is EXACTLY what MDB script does and exactly what the Trakt plugin has done for years. The issue is we just can't present this information in a Home Page view - you have to go digging for it. Having 'collections' as a front row certainly brings it closer - but I want the ability to present the collection itself on the home page. So as an example - The MDB list 'Chrstmas Movies' has 876 movies on it (!) - link I now compare that list to what I have on my own Emby Server - I have 18 of them - thus I now create a new collection with the 18 that I have - I don't care about the others, as I cannot play them... The real issue is this collection is buried in 'collections' - which may take several clicks to get to. During the holiday peroid - it would be great to simply show this as a home screen 'row' entitled 'Christmas Movies' ..

Same with all but one user for me. They all have new 4K DV/HDR TVs but stay at what auto is because "it's easiest, don't know any better,. must be whats best and/or what their connection can handle). My GPU is glowing red hot from all the transcoding that their setup could handle with ease. Youtubes auto detection can go %¤#% it self (Yes i hate it that much!), if i remove the plugin i have to keep it at 4K it will go from 4K and steadily down to the lowest quality possible in increments after a while. It's always been like that no matter the device i play on or the connection used.