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Come on, Emby team—why is two-factor authentication (2FA) still not implemented? This is a must-have feature, not a luxury. In 2025, it's shocking that a media server platform like Emby still doesn’t support basic security tools like 2FA. Your users have been asking for this for over seven years, and yet there’s been no serious progress or clear communication about it. Security should be a priority, not an afterthought—especially for systems that many of us expose to the public internet. Please take this seriously and let the community know when we can expect 2FA support.

For those on the beta server, once you've updated to 4.9.0.51, and gotten the trailer plugin update, with the following days after that you'll start to more trailers and higher quality trailers. It is all youtube now. Please note, Emby apps are going to require compatibility updates, so i wouldn't switch to beta solely for this just yet. But if you already happen to run the beta, then please leave feedback in the testing area of the community. Thanks.

For those on the beta server, once you've updated to 4.9.0.51, and gotten the trailer plugin update, with the following days after that you'll start to more trailers and higher quality trailers. It is all youtube now. Please note, Emby apps are going to require compatibility updates, so i wouldn't switch to beta solely for this just yet. But if you already happen to run the beta, then please leave feedback in the testing area of the community. Thanks.

A few months ago I converted all my h264 files to h265 and included that conversion as part of my ingestion pipeline. I did some initial testing with bit rates/quality settings and found for me that I could target an h265 bitrate that was 1/2 of the h264 bitrate and couldn't really tell a difference outside of a few select scenarios that I came across when spot checking certain things - like a nature documentary scene that was full of a swarm of bugs had some pretty bad blockiness, but I'm not really surprised for that scene that was the result. It does seem that for animations a slightly higher bitrate would be better but my automation has no way to know what kind of content it is, it's a very basic blanket take the bitrate divide by 2, I should probably add some bounds checks to make sure the bitrate isn't too low as a result though. File sizes are roughly 50-65% the original file size with little to no discernible difference in quality to me outside specific scenarios. You'll have to do some of your own testing and see the results.

Not sure I follow as that option has been there for years to show or hide.

Going from h265 to AV1 is not a big saving for equivalent quality; the quality loss in re-encoding will likely nullify the slight gain in compactness of the AV1 encoding. Going from h264 is easier to defend, though there will still be some quality loss however many bits you give the result. Paul

Hello, I know this topic must have been discussed thousands of time, but I cannot find a solution to fix it. I have some old video (mov format) created with an old iphone. video is in portrait format. In Emby web app, video is perfect. In VLC also. But on my Samsung app on my tizen smart TV, the video is rotated by 90°. So it fit very well my 16:9 TV, but it's difficult to watch without a stiff neck. I'm pretty sure there is something to modify with the video metadata, but can't find why ? And it's ok on emby webapp, so it's only a tizen problem, or is it a video problem ? Thanks.

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Deleting from all other views works. When you delete the album from the folder view the album is also removed from the album view. From what I have seen the only thing that does not work is deleting an album from the album view.

This build works for me. Thanks for the update.

Мой провайдер предоставил белый ip адрес.

I changed my router (the bb in my area has been down for two days) so I used mobile hotspot. The ip hadn’t changed in the settings.

Thanks.

I'm not specifying anything in my command, but looks like it's Main level 120 based on the info I can see. I tried using a 10bit format as well (which I think is level 123) but I didn't notice any difference with file size or the time to re-encode so I stuck with 8bit. $FFMPEG -loglevel error -stats -hwaccel cuda -i "$INPUT" -c:v hevc_nvenc -preset:v medium -b:v ${BITRATE} -c:a copy -c:s copy "$OUTPUTHEVC"

It was implemented some time ago. Click on the three lines in the playlist view. In the mobile app it is labled "Sort By"

Hi, Feature Request: Delegated User Management for Parents / Family Managers Hi Emby team, First, thank you for your incredible work — Emby continues to be a fantastic platform! I’d like to suggest a feature that would allow non-admin users (such as parents) to manage their children’s profiles, without requiring full administrative privileges. This would be a huge help for shared server scenarios, especially where multiple families use the same server. Goal Enable a trusted user (e.g., a parent) to: Create and manage restricted child user profiles. Set content restrictions (ratings, libraries, playback controls). View history and activity of those specific users. Without having access to server-wide settings or other user accounts. 🛠 Suggested Implementation Ideas 1. User Ownership Hierarchy Introduce a relationship in the user model: { "id": "user_kid1", "username": "Kid1", "ownerId": "user_parent123" } A new optional ownerId field links users to their creator/manager. Parent users can only view/edit profiles they created or own. Access is scoped to their “child” users only. 2. Scoped User Management Permissions Introduce new non-admin permissions: CanCreateChildUsers: true/false CanManageOwnedUsers: true/false CanViewPlaybackHistory: true/false (scoped only to owned users) A “Family Manager” user could be granted these permissions without access to global admin functions. 3. User Groups or Households Add support for a household/family group model: A parent user creates a “household” or group. All child profiles under that group are manageable by the group owner. Keeps accounts cleanly separated from other users or families on the same server. 4. Scoped Library Visibility Allow content/library visibility to be scoped to the parent: Parent manages what their children can access. Server admin can assign a base library pool to each parent or household. Security Notes Ensure child accounts cannot elevate permissions. Parent users should not see unrelated user activity or server-wide logs. Admin retains full control but delegates basic responsibilities safely. Real-World Use Case Multi-family Emby servers: each parent manages their own kids. Admins don’t need to micromanage every child account. Schools or community setups with per-group supervision. Would love to hear your thoughts on feasibility — and if this could be opened up for community development (plugin, PR, etc.), I’d be happy to contribute ideas or testing. Thanks again for the great work!

Hi, there's already an open request for this or something functionally equivalent. Please join in and contribute to the existing discussion at:

It really depends on the target bitrate. At ultra low bitrates sub 1 Mbit/sec, then I believe AV1 clearly has an advantage on bitrate vs quality vs h265/hevc - but above this for 'normal' bitrates - then I would agree - h265 > AV1 is probably going to lose you quality for no real filesize change. Agree again h264 > AV1 is likely worth it. I chose the h264 > h265 path (fairly recently actually, in the last year or so) as AV1 doesn't appear to be getting as much attention / market as it should - adoptions seems very slow - thus in my eyes, it's probably risky doing a h265>AV1 incremental upgrade at this time.

As mentioned above if episodes will inherit from Series unless they contain their own Parental Rating. If that is the case, then you have to customize each episode's PA as Cutom PA will not override existing episode data from Series level. This script has been mentioned in other topics for this issue.

Thank you, with service plugin 12.0.0 movies syncing again with kodi 22. I had the same problem like spec119.

Hi Luke, my apologies, this error was self inflicted. Android put the app into deep sleep which disabled it as emby was noted at the highest battery consuming app on my phone. After making my post I discovered this and wasn't able to undo it. Fwiw, app version is 3.4.62

You're likely using client that doesn't support PGSSUBs and your server is likely underpowered for burning-in graphical subs (which is CPU-heavy process). You could mitigate that by using text-based subs instead (like .srt). For additional details, you could provide server and/or ffmpeg logs (if written). how to report a media playback issue

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I will share an update on this in this thread when I have one.

This was added a long time ago.

Yes.

Hello! The trailers doesn't seemed to be updating, all the current trailers stops at movies from 2024. How can I update it? I saw in an other post that triggering the "Refresh Internet Channels" task might help, but it doesn't. Thanks

Manage which restrictions?! This is only for managing "parental ratings." That's all. So, if the admin adds restrictions for the main user to view contents rated TV-14, when this user creates a profile, they can only manage parental ratings below TV-14.

Hi. Keep in mind that we are supposed to be a personal media server for a single household. What you are suggesting has quite a few complications in that it requires administrative ability on the part of a user that probably doesn't have that ability defined in your server. We very well may implement some sort of "sub-user" type system but there are a lot of considerations that go along with that. Until then, for most people, the new system can work and feel very much like sub-users with the caveat that the administrator does still need to administer all users of his server. Thanks.

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