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Hi @Lukewe are talking hours most of the time. A day tops. I just want to play the local library on NAS - nothing else really bothers me Perfect, I will give it a try & go for a month of Premiere and if everything works, I'll upgrade. Thanks a lot for clearing this out for me!

See? You're already made multiple updates before I could get around to checking! This is what I meant -- incredible rate of response! Okay, I downloaded your link for v5.35.3, but it shows as v5.31.3 in Emby. CPU spikes to about 15-20% when flushing and redrawing the cache, otherwise it runs at barely 1% on an Intel i7 6th generation under Windows 10. Memory Usage remains steady at 340MB out of 32GB at 85% capacity. The 1080i mislabel is solved for me, but now I'm getting no Resolution icon at all on 1080p episodes, despite the Preview showing all icons:

Hey there guys, I've proposed this in some thread already, but I think it would be very handy to sort media of artists into different groups, as musicbrainz does for example. For instance, implement the option to enable sorting artist's music into, e.g., "Albums", "Singles", "Live albums", "Compilations", etc. I have no idea if this is quickly done or rather takes a lot of work, but it would be very cool to have imho. Currently, media of bands like AC/DC or Michael Jackson, so artists making music since some decades, have 50+ albums/singles/etc. cluttering the artist view, making it very hard to find a specific item of that artist. If we would have the option to have this sorted out into different groups, it'd make the artist view more cleaned up. Cheers boys and girls! Have a great day (or night) ahead!

-= PLEASE UP VOTE & PROMOTE THIS REQUEST IF YOU WOULD LIKE THIS FEATURE =- DO THIS BY CLICKING THE "LIKE" BUTTON ON THIS POST REQUEST: Properly pool multiple M3u IPTV sources, so when adding more than one with the exact same M3u emby treats them as one source with however many "Concurrent Streams" you set for each. https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/63725-multiple-iptv-tuners-double-channels/?p=636718 https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/59607-duplicate-channels-one-tuner/?p=607031 https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/57420-multiple-identical-m3u-tuners-without-duplicate-channels/?p=560949 Basically once M3u #1 has used all 5 of its tuners, I then need to start using the login info that is within M3u #2... once those 5 tuners are used (now all 10 tuners), then emby issues "no tuners available". This is how emby treats HDhomeruns today, so it can't be to difficult. @@snodrog742 @@manolodf @@robrhedrick @@cayars

Since we can now detect end credits, or manually add them in other cases, it would be nice to see this, rather than an automatic percentage/time remaining, trigger the "next episode" popup and decide whether an episode is resumable or not. Even better if it could expand to movies for the latter point.

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.

I was updating meta data for some of my soundtracks today in Emby and thought it might be interesting if provided a link between the soundtrack and the movie where if you were looking at one you could quickly click to go to the other. I don't know if the current structure would facilitate this seeing as even the metadata for people is separated when it comes to music and movies/series: Its not really a priority item or anything just thought it would be something that could be neat for people that typically keep both the album and the movie (and it might raise the awareness for users of the system that the content is available, say if they just watched interstellar and said "Wow I liked that music quite a bit", oh look the movie soundtrack is already in here).

I would like to suggest that if emby can't find artwork for a music album, that it should look for the primary image of the album artist (if available) rather than the album artist backdrops. The album artist primary image is almost always in 1:1 making it a much cleaner choice than the usually landscape backdrop. Here is an example where emby picks the backdrop although the primary image would be a better choice: I searched the forum and could not find a similar request, but I could have missed it.

It did, thank you!

Understandable. And I think the tradeoff of not having to refresh the shows to get updates is worth it. The lag is really not that bad, just slightly more noticeable over the 5.25.2 version.

No worries, Luke. Was just a hope that I had. Their player plain sucks but it will handle DV Profile 7.6 and Dolby Atmos. So I just enable external players for those movies or shows and then turn it off for 1080p or lower rez stuff. The strange thing is the SL'd emby app (AndroidTV I believe as Android will just freeze) will transcode DV 7.6 to HDR, but it will also transcode Lossless Atmos down to AC3 5.1 on the same titles. I could certainly live with HDR but not losing Lossless Atmos at the same time. No clue why that is... Ah well. Thanks anyway!

Hi, the way they are designed, not at the moment. They are attached to media in the same way genres are, so once the media is gone, so too are the categories. Playlists will show up empty though, in case that helps.

Hi. Brief hiccups should be fine. It just depends on how long your disconnects are. Also keep in mind some devices like Roku and Fire TV require an internet connection to run any app, so that requirement isn't coming from Emby.

Yes we are looking into it. Thanks.

Do you have examples? But yes there is a issue on TVDB per episode cast but thought there was a patch to correct the issue as TVDB v4 api screwed the way Emby was getting this info. And their issue tracker pretty much went radio silent on the open issue. characters missing from /series/{id}/episodes/{season-type}/{lang} · Issue #326 · thetvdb/v4-api

i use that api endpoint with that parameters "{server_root}/emby/Users/{user_id}/Items?IncludeItemTypes=Playlist%2CBoxSet&Recursive=true&SortBy=SortName&ListItemIds={item_id}&Limit={limit} Important is IncludeItemTypes=Playlist%2CBoxSet and ListItemIds={item_id} That gives all boxsets that item belongs to. But ListItemIds parameter is not mentioned anywhere (or at least i cant find it). Also IncludeItemTypes=Playlist%2CBoxSet is not known that there can be that Playlist%2CBoxSet. But anyway now is working...

I notice there is no option for choosing external player on specific videos. Once you set the external player, all videos will opened in that player, but sometimes I only want a few videos to be played by external player. So I would say add a button, which opens the video in external player, on the movie/video page is a good idea.

@Luke I found a solution is to simply clear the livetv folder. It was full of leftover config.

I'm pretty sure that under copyright law it isn't allowed for teachers to just show any piece of media without paying a for a license or usage. It's a slippery slope and this implementation is so wildly specific I'm pretty sure there are a 100 things that could better be done then add this feature. To the bottom of the backlog please.

A remux even if you exclude subtitles should not take that much time. Remux is a copy but will fix a lot problems in media files.

But it currently point to the files specifically as I have no issues with my HEVC/H265 files. Can only guess something has happened to your file headers but am no expert on this. Just can tell from your logs the ffprobe is have issue with them.

Looks like ffprobe is choking on the files so Emby will not get media info to be able to play. transcode log first post no media info ie no streams/format server log Emby.Server.MediaEncoding.Unified.Ffmpeg.FfRunException: ffprobe failed - streams and format are both null: -i 2025-08-12 11:33:16.328 Error App: Error in ffprobe *** Error Report *** Version: 4.8.11.0 Command line: C:\Users\administrator.KOTI\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\system\EmbyServer.dll Operating system: Microsoft Windows 10.0.20348 Framework: .NET 6.0.36 OS/Process: x64/x64 Runtime: C:/Users/administrator.KOTI/AppData/Roaming/Emby-Server/system/System.Private.CoreLib.dll Processor count: 8 Data path: C:\Users\administrator.KOTI\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\programdata Application path: C:\Users\administrator.KOTI\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\system Emby.Server.MediaEncoding.Unified.Ffmpeg.FfRunException: Emby.Server.MediaEncoding.Unified.Ffmpeg.FfRunException: ffprobe failed - streams and format are both null: -i file:"\\192.168.10.12\Media\Elokuvat\The Thomas Crown Affair\The Thomas Crown Affair.mkv" -threads 0 -v info -print_format json -show_streams -show_chapters -show_format -show_data ffprobe version 5.1-emby_2023_06_25 Copyright (c) 2007-2022 the FFmpeg developers and softworkz for Emby LLC built with gcc 12.2.0 (Rev10, Built by MSYS2 project) [dvdsub @ 0000016e45a3be80] [IMGUTILS @ 00000064f0dff5b0] Picture size 0x0 is invalid [matroska,webm @ 0000016e45a25e80] Failed to open codec in avformat_find_stream_info [dvdsub @ 0000016e45a3dac0] [IMGUTILS @ 00000064f0dff5b0] Picture size 0x0 is invalid [matroska,webm @ 0000016e45a25e80] Failed to open codec in avformat_find_stream_info [dvdsub @ 0000016e45a3e6c0] [IMGUTILS @ 00000064f0dff5b0] Picture size 0x0 is invalid [matroska,webm @ 0000016e45a25e80] Failed to open codec in avformat_find_stream_info [dvdsub @ 0000016e45a3f2c0] [IMGUTILS @ 00000064f0dff5b0] Picture size 0x0 is invalid [matroska,webm @ 0000016e45a25e80] Failed to open codec in avformat_find_stream_info [dvdsub @ 0000016e45a3ff40] [IMGUTILS @ 00000064f0dff5b0] Picture size 0x0 is invalid [matroska,webm @ 0000016e45a25e80] Failed to open codec in avformat_find_stream_info Input #0, matroska,webm, from 'file:\\192.168.10.12\Media\Elokuvat\The Thomas Crown Affair\The Thomas Crown Affair.mkv': Metadata: title : The Thomas Crown Affair encoder : libmakemkv v1.18.1 (1.3.10/1.5.2) win(x64-release) creation_time : 2025-07-19T13:10:52.000000Z Duration: 01:53:17.17, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 4792 kb/s Stream #0:0(eng): Video: hevc (Main 10), yuv420p10le(tv), 1920x812, SAR 1:1 DAR 480:203, Level 120, 23.98 fps, 23.98 tbr, 1k tbn Metadata: BPS-eng : 4250383 DURATION-eng : 01:53:17.165375000 NUMBER_OF_FRAMES-eng: 162969 NUMBER_OF_BYTES-eng: 3611319857 Stream #0:1(eng): Audio: aac (LC), 48000 Hz, 5.1, fltp, Start-Time 0.020s (default) Metadata: title : Surround 5.1 BPS-eng : 500980 DURATION-eng : 01:53:17.162666666 NUMBER_OF_FRAMES-eng: 318617 NUMBER_OF_BYTES-eng: 425655303 Stream #0:2(fin): Subtitle: dvd_subtitle (default) Metadata: BPS-eng : 7996 DURATION-eng : 01:47:21.048888888 NUMBER_OF_FRAMES-eng: 1059 NUMBER_OF_BYTES-eng: 6437835 Stream #0:3(eng): Subtitle: dvd_subtitle Metadata: BPS-eng : 9577 DURATION-eng : 01:52:06.501755555 NUMBER_OF_FRAMES-eng: 1482 NUMBER_OF_BYTES-eng: 8052579 Stream #0:4(dan): Subtitle: dvd_subtitle Metadata: BPS-eng : 7921 DURATION-eng : 01:47:21.048888888 NUMBER_OF_FRAMES-eng: 1057 NUMBER_OF_BYTES-eng: 6378180 Stream #0:5(nob): Subtitle: dvd_subtitle Metadata: BPS-eng : 7222 DURATION-eng : 01:47:21.048888888 NUMBER_OF_FRAMES-eng: 1059 NUMBER_OF_BYTES-eng: 5815172 Stream #0:6(swe): Subtitle: dvd_subtitle Metadata: BPS-eng : 7649 DURATION-eng : 01:47:22.050177777 NUMBER_OF_FRAMES-eng: 1060 NUMBER_OF_BYTES-eng: 6160174 [dvdsub @ 0000016e45cfd940] [IMGUTILS @ 00000064f0dff7f0] Picture size 0x0 is invalid Could not open codec for input stream 2 { at Emby.Server.MediaEncoding.Probing.MediaProbeManager.GetMediaInfoInternal(String inputPath, String primaryPath, MediaProtocol protocol, String userAgent, Boolean extractChapters, String probeSizeArgument, Boolean isAudio, Boolean hasMixedProtocols, CancellationToken cancellationToken) at Emby.Providers.MediaInfo.FFProbeVideoInfo.ProbeVideo[T](MetadataResult`1 metadataResult, MetadataRefreshOptions options, LibraryOptions libraryOptions, CancellationToken cancellationToken) at Emby.Providers.Manager.MetadataService`2.RunCustomProvider(ICustomMetadataProvider`1 provider, MetadataResult`1 itemResult, String logName, MetadataRefreshOptions options, LibraryOptions libraryOptions, RefreshResult refreshResult, CancellationToken cancellationToken) Source: Emby.Server.MediaEncoding TargetSite: Void MoveNext() So to me this would suggest something wrong with file header information. Have you tried just remuxing the file with MKVTOOLNIX?

AI doesn't care about time.

I'm doing it very differently than most people here. I use plugin "Vantage Point". It gives you the ability to setup a folder, and content that is put into this folder is randomly chosen and played before a movie or a show. You can chose it yourself. It works perfectly. If you have a trailer-collection in a separate folder, this is the perfect way to do it and get fully randomness. But here comes the next point: I found after more than 2 years that my audience actually doesn't like trailers. It's basically a little bit like market research. They don't like them at all. I was also surprised. But when observing my own habits when watching stuff, i am skipping them too. Doesn't matter if its chosen random, or if an algorithm choses it. My users are looking for ways to turn them off. So before jumping enthusiastically into this, i would maybe make first a test with your users if they actually want it. Next, I found out that little "Intros", also delivered by Vantage point, are functioning way better and people are not skipping them but enjoying them. I'll give you three examples in the attachements: I wrote an FFMPEG-script which is doing all the stuff, fade in-fade-out, text-scrolling by its own, automatical counter in the corner and so on. From those "Intros" i made only one in a tenth gets skipped. example_2.mp4 example_3.mp4 example_1.mp4

No. If you have premier the server and premier app's needs to phone home via internet to verify License. But without premier and only using the free app's ( Browser, Ruko, smart tv or Apple TV ) it might work for you. Check this for further guidance Emby Premiere Feature Matrix | Emby Documentation

Yeah it is available via remote. That was my next idea if I could not run the app in debug mode. Will message you via PM. Thanks

Of course, you're right. I completely forgot to expose the external paths to docker. Thank you very much!

The naming conventions allow for some pretty cool mechanics. I'd advise to ALWAYS follow that structure. My personal preference is: "Folder/Showname (year)/Showname (year) - s01e01 - Episodename.mkv". This way you can ALWAYS tell which show, which season and which episode purely by filename. I agree. I've done this a couple of times as well with themoviedb and thetvdb when they suddenly deviated from their own standard. Fortunately the admins are pretty susceptible to valid arguments so that issue was fixed in no-time.

It doesn't make sense either it should shoot up to the values it did for me as we are talking megabytes for a normal collection under normal use and nothing in the code that would make it possible. So 20GB should take a very long time to reach if there was a memory leak in the plugin. Anyway, i wanted to make sure and closed every small possible loose "valve". I don't want to be the cause of such problems!

I have the same version - so maybe just a wrong display as not updated in the code As long as it works for me the version is not interesting lol

The "problem" is that I shut down the server automatically during the night. He is now up and running again but only uses 400MB of RAM as nothing is yet really running on it Normally I should get a warning if such many RAM is used but I never had this so I don't know if this warning works I'll keep an eye on it during the day

But it does not show the sync folder as the log shows where the conversion is happening.

The numbers and names were the same for most or similar. There were few mismatched ones. I ended up manually adding all the channels.

I'm getting burnt out on manually editing my subtitles lol. I think its great that sometimes a video contains subtitles for all languages, however.. I personally think it would be neat if i could tell emby to hide all subtitle tracks except for the selected language's'. this would make it easier to make the library look cleaner.

Hi, yes this idea has come up before. It's possible for the future. Thanks.

I guess it depends where. On IOS, clicking that shows no sync folder path?

Right now it needs to have at least one piece of media that the user has access to. To be honest it would be better if we just didn't expose the option to add people to collections.

It's an open database - make an account and you can add the missing episodes yourself and correct the errors you've noted. I've done both of these, and also added missing series from scratch. Paul

New bug, but this may not be Emby For Kodi (Next Gen). Setup: Kodi 21.2 on Nvidia Shield Pro, Emby Server 4.8.11 on QNAP NAS, Embuary Skin, Emby for Kodi (Next Gen) 12.1.2, Emby for Kodi Next Gen Video Helper 10.1.2 Since upgrading to version 12.1.2 my Nvidia Shield Pro has started complaining about lack of space. I did some checking and it seems that the Embury Helper is creating temporary files (see attached image) which is filling up the internal hard drive. As far as I know it wasn't doing this before version 12.1.2. Despite these files being labeled as JPEGs, they are video files, specifically the ones that I was watching last night. Deleting them from the temp directory doesn't seem to break anything, but of course I can't watch more than a few episodes without the drive filling up again. I assume they are supposed to be cleared automatically, but something seems to be stopping that from happening. Any ideas?

This has been added for 4.9.1.17 as a user preference for each library:

HI, yes this is on our to do list. Thanks.

Hello, Has there been any progress on keeping the volume persistent when reopening the app? It's the only reason I'm sticking to using theater along with a few friends as we really don't like having our ears blown out after launching the app every time....

Emby for Samsung has been released in about 20 new countries. If you’ve been waiting on it please check the App Store and see if it’s available now. Thanks !

Search in the settings? That takes away all the fun...

Emby for Apple TV 2.0.0 has been released. Here are the highlights: Support animated images on music album and playlist detail screens Improve Live TV progress display Photo slideshow bug fixes Improve remote/seeking behavior Support subtitle offset Improve live tv guide scrolling Restore scan library files context menu option View the full article

Aufzeichnung 2025-04-01 110551.mp4 Example in Emby (first static, video on hover) not implemented here

FR: Adding a keybind to increase or decrease playback speed on supported players (preferably web). suggested keybind(like in twitch player): < - decrease speed > - increase speed youtube use same keys, but requires (shift + <) (shift + >)

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

Or is there any way to open the folder of video/file in explorer on description page if I already amount the drive to my WIN 10 PC? That can save the problem as well.

It's a nice idea, yes.