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You can get some here. Television content rating system - Wikipedia Motion picture content rating system - Wikipedia

+1 to ReplayGain support, or possibly add a gain adjustment option (in metadata?) so individual songs can be adjusted manually. I agree with the other users that mixed music playlists require physically adjusting the volume on the actual player, sometimes from song to song. If I am away from the player, I sometimes can either not hear the music or get blasted. I use Emby to stream music at work all day with mixed playlists, and the volume changes can get quite frustrating. ReplayGain (if it works anything like AACgain) is an automatic profile that would eliminate the need for manual adjustment. If (as other users have suggested) it is already implemented into some aspects of Emby, why can it NOT be more widely applied? From the dates on some of these posts, it seems like it has been discussed (and accepted by Emby moderators as "a good idea") for more than 8 years, but seems not to have been implemented yet. I find these forums helpful & interesting, but I have seem many good suggestions encouraged, but not acted on. I find that somewhat discouraging.

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

At present HDHomeRun (network cable) is recommended, and Hauppauge (PCIe or USB) is also supported - but for that WinTV must be installed, and (I think) running. The next beta (that's to say, after the release of 4.9) is expected to contain a complete rewrite of the TV code, which will support widely used standards. Paul

I'm not sure if this was requested already so here goes. Recently I've been adding trailers to media and this works pretty well. When starting a movie however it's not really clear that a trailer is being displayed at the time (unless the trailer itself begins stating it's a trailer in the sense of traditional trailer "Coming this May!", of course). I'd like to see if we can make it more clear to viewers that a trailer is being played at the current moment by (for example) adding the logo/icon/banner of the source of the trailer somewhere. For example: Using the box art: Using the logo: This is just a suggestion of course. Maybe also adding the "Trailer for X" text would make it clearer a trailer is currently playing and not the main media.

I've been gathering various collections of things which I'd like to integrate into my media shuffle. Right now, cinema intros allow codec and trailers to be played, but since we are starting a new beta cycle, maybe we can work this in? What I'd like is to be able to add special collection folders, and choose a random number of episodes/movies that should play before each intro category is played. An example use case would be for classic commercials, or for those old WWII newsreels... Let's say you had a small library of classic TV commercials. You don't want a commercial to play all the time (most of us try to avoid commercials) but it might be fun to throw the random "Flintstones Winston Cigarette" commercial in between a shuffle of TV episodes. Same with any other content that people want to collect. Maybe make the interface offer an option to create a custom path, name it whatever ("Commercials"), with options to select how often a random file is selected to play... Something like "Play Random Every X to X Plays", and allow selection for TV Content and/or Movie Content. This way you could have it happen for TV episodes, movies or both. If you were to specify "Play Random Every 1 to 1 Plays", a file would be chosen every episode/movie... If you selected "Play Random Every 5 to 25 Plays", it would play a file no sooner than 5 episodes/movies, but at least every 25th episode/movie... If that makes sense...? People could use this to sprinkle whatever content they would like into their media shuffle... not just pre-roll videos. Multiple collections could be configured with separate locations... Commercials, Newsreels, Featurettes, Cartoons, Trailers, whatever a user could dream up. I think this would make the server a lot more flexible, hopefully without much complication to code since the foundation is already there.... Thanks!

If online checker shows port open then is should work. But since you changes Router/Network connections have you verified MS did not change your Network type to Public instead of Private with the new connection?

I would say maybe migrating HDD or maybe a failed drive or if playing with user permissions and you don't want someone to log in with a permission they are not supposed to have. I can think of a few uses but the feature most want is a scheduled downtime and for clients to remember this downtime if they can't log in. Clients need to be able to remember if there was a downtime.

In those three months of this thread I don't see a single description of a specific occurrence with supporting logs and details of your relevant settings (there are several for subtitles, for instance) so that the devs can find the cause. You don't even say what type of subtitles are involved (srt, ass, vobsub, pgs) or whether they are embedded or in separate files. This kind of information is necessary because you can't assume that everybody else has the same issues - I don't for one (and I use subtitles 100%, of nearly all kinds). Paul

A really great plugin. Thank you very much. Where can I get the parental rating icons? Best regards, Helix

Ok this can be ignored, I setup debug logging (shouhld have thought of that first!) and found that there was a faulty nfo file for an episode which caused the plugin to quit. Deleted all the nfo files, forced metadata update for the series, and now it seems to be working!

Thanks, working now.

Is there any plan to have a banner for future maintenance? If my server is down it's usually because it's rebooting.. this msg won't get to users? Thx

This NAILS it PERFECTLY on soooooooooooooo many things that should of taken precedence and haven't. I see a lot of catering to a particular dev instead of the users especially the paying users.

Yeah, that would likely be something that should be added. I usually don't have any specials in my collection so have missed that it could be a problem. I will look into adding it in next release!

This is not the correct application that the Devs were suggesting you try. That particular app is no longer under active development. Search for "Emb" in the app store (without the 'Y'), you will see two results. Install the other one and see how it compares.

Time for another sneak peak at what i'm working on now. Trying to make aspect ratios easier. It will automatically show the most common aspect ratio (for example 40x17 gets turned into 2:40 as it's what it's more common known as). The calculator will help people find out what a specific aspect ratio will be converted into as the nearest common one. This should help with not having to have hundeds of aspect ratios to keep track of. Don't know if people want it but i thought it would be neat.

Debian 12 has the older version of drivers. You will need either Ubuntu 25.04 or Debian 13 https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=intel-media-va-driver-non-free https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/intel-media-driver-non-free

For future readers, if the new Emby Theater hasn't been released yet, you can fix the screen locking bug by manually allowing Emby Theater Flatpak to "talk" to "org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver" session bus.

Thank you for reporting this, i will look into it asap. Please provide me with a screen shot of the video properties of one of the videos that it displays 1080i for. Edit: I found the problems and fixed them. I had by mistake changed the rating.imdb.png (jpg) to rating.score.png. Also i have been trying to make a fallback for the resolution and failed to look at if the video was interlaced. I have removed the fallback so it's back to normal. Try this version and please report back if everything is fixed. EmbyIcons.dll

OK this has not yet been added to the collection screen but it's on the to do list. Thanks.

Will do. I'll be back when I get a chance to try it. Didn't think of that.

So far, it's still looking like the same results between the ISO and DVD folder. After about 20 minutes or so (give or take roughly 5 minutes) the playback fails, and reports "No compatible streams are currently available. Please try again later or contact your system administrator for details." This happens at the same exact spot, regardless of ISO or DVD folder. The timing just varies per movie. Attempting to resume from the point of failure just shows a loading screen until it times out with the same message.

In some ways mine it is a non-issue or at least a niche use-case. I mean it could be the case that a user with low hd space sits down to watch lotr extended edition and hits this issue. Obviously transcoding will take up space. Normally i always Direct Play, so i don't notice. I was naive on this point. I am concerned about performance issues moving the temp folder to an external drive (I'll see how it goes). Anyone running an emby server probably has a bit more technical knowledge than the average. But this issue is sporadic, it's very easy to not realise what's causing the stuttering issue, as closing and restarting a film temporarily fixes it. Not everyone is monitoring their HD space in real-time. Not everyone would expect the transcoding to continue on when a film is paused. In some ways it's like old YouTube which would buffer all the content if you left it. I still think that the disk cleanup should be more aggressive. I guess this ticket can be resolved. As long as it's here for other people to stumble across when they get the same issue.

New version is up (v5.30.1) Added: 1. PNG - Jpeg passthrough. This option will slightly increase drawing performance as the plugin will no longer have to convert the posters Emby get from like IMDb. Auto - Let it passthrough as it sees fit (recommended) Jpeg - Convert everything to jpeg - Fast but not as fast as auto. PNG - Convert everything to PNG - This is the slowest option but with slightly better quality. I would appreciate it if people give some feedback on if i should just delete the last two and let it run on auto all the time. I love options but sometimes they might be a little too much. 2. Troubleshooter. This tool will help show why some icons might not show on TV show posters. Changed: 1. Various small stuff under the hood. Download here or on Github - EmbyIcons. EmbyIcons.dll

I would just change the naming of the shows that aren't being recognised properly to ensure that they are recognised - but of course, as these are your torrent directories (as per your other thread), you can't - another reason why using them directly in Emby isn't a good idea. Paul

Hello, first thing: I really like that emby generally supports the composer tag. The implementation seems a little bit bare bones IMO and should be expanded. It should be possible to edit the composer tag with the metadata editor. This would also allow adding composers to music videos which is not the case at the moment. Emby should read out a tag containing the Musicbrainz ID of a composer so the romantic composer "Peter Cornelius" is not mixed up with the Schlager singer of the same name. How about "musicbrainz_composerid"? It should be possible to set an "album composer" so a complete recording of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos is not treated the same way as some Christmas CD containing a two minutes chorale setting by him. Reading out tags named "albumcomposer" and "musicbrainz_albumcomposerid" would make sense. Thanks for reading.

It’s been so long, and they still haven’t done anything—no simple way to disable it until a proper solution is found. This "feature" is frustrating and unnecessary, and it’s upsetting not being able to change it. I feel betrayed by my own server. It’s incredibly frustrating, embarrassing, and just plain stupid!

Yes we need more option to customize the UI of Emby.

There is now a SportsDb plugin in the Emby plugin catalog. It works with the TV content type and file naming based on the recommended file names on the SportsDb event pages. In other words, click on an event and at the bottom you will see suggested file names. I believe the entire file name gets sent to SportsDb for the lookup, which means you'll need to strictly follow these conventions or it will be unlikely to match. Enjoy.

I've been dying to know if this has garnered enough interest to be worked on. I found Emby (MediaBrowser 3 at the time) and its bookshelf plugin while I was searching for something that was like Plex for comics. Plex doesn't do this (and probably never will), Kodi doesn't have what I'm looking for either, and ComicRack seems to be dead at the moment. Unfortunately the bookshelf plugin doesn't work the way I had hoped. I was dissappointed to see it only offer a download to the file to which I can open it to the program of my choosing. Even browsing through the books I only had the option of going through folder-like directories and couldn't browse by author like the people section in the other media types. I would love for it to be fully integrated into Emby where I can open and read a comic right on my phone and tablet or even my web browser as I could with my movies and tv shows. Also, I hope to god somone is working on the "Games launching in android" feature you mentioned on your up-for-grabs blog post. That would be awesome!

Emby Server 4.9.1.8+ will now have a book reader in the web app for the following formats: PDF EPUB MOBI FB2 CBZ CBR Please try it out once available and report your experience in the Testing Area of the community: Thanks !

i also don't have any problem with the limits being in place. But the lack of transparency is a problem for all users. You can see right here in this thread a new user is unclear whether its worth putting the time and effort into building an emby server as they already have an alternative that is working. This has to be hurting your new user sales! And then as an existing user - i have no idea how many devices i am allowed as i have been here a while and picked up some additional licences that were offered in the past. I am very confident i am well inside the limits but i don't what what the limit is or even what my rough current device count is. Given the consistent complaints over this for a long time its surprising you havent done anything to improve it, even for new users which will benefit yourselves