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I couldn't find a report specifically for this issue so here goes. When a user visits https://app.emby.media/ for the first time, loading can take up to 44 seconds and I've seen it take up to almost 60 seconds at times. This causes users who have either reset their history (i.e. are logged out) or want to use emby for the first time to be confused; the page only shows a logo with a black background and nothing else. No spinners or loaders or anything. I've had users come to me multiple times asking if my server was online. They gave up on loading after about 20 seconds and just assumed the server or Emby itself was unreachable. I would like to either suggest: 1. removed the load from the current serviceworker(s) and just load the assets directly via http(s), preferable http2 due to it being able to handle loading multiple files asynchronously 2. adding a spinner/loader and "please wait" text to the Emby splash screen to indicate something is going on on the background The actual source of the incredible long wait is mainly due to many files being loaded one by one like so: Eventually taking up about 45 seconds on each (first) visit to load a whopping 990 files: This also makes adding new devices kind of frustrating because you'll never know if the server is offline, the browser is loading assets or your current connections is just slow.

The media encoding level. &TranscodeReasons=VideoLevelNotSupported,DirectPlayError Client reports &h264-level=51 While your Media is "Level":52

100%. Use a drive pooling solution and your life will get WAY easier.

Would also like this, tho the different platforms might make this difficult. The easiest way via web would be to attach an AudioContext Analyser to the audio's AudioContext object, but I'm not sure how that would work with other platforms because I don't know if the audio is processed by JS on those.

No, doesn't matter. It's just that all participants will see the others' GH accounts, of course. No. It will always go through Xwayland. This won't change until the Wayland developers will change their position regarding programmatic window positioning and sizing (which is not possible on Wayland).

This is on the to do list, so yes this will be possible eventually.

StableBit DrivePool?

Watching Eye is a plugin designed to give you granular control over your server's streaming environment. It's the perfect tool for managing user watch time, monitoring server performance, and ensuring a smooth viewing experience for everyone. Key Features: Watch Time Limiter: Set daily, weekly, monthly, and even yearly watch time limits for specific users. Create global watch time rules that apply to all users, with the option to exclude certain individuals. Establish specific time windows during which users are allowed to watch content, perfect for parental controls. Transcode Notifications and Blocking: Receive instant notifications when a user's stream starts transcoding, helping you identify potential playback issues. Proactively block transcodes based on video resolution or container format to conserve server resources. Customize notification messages to inform users why their video is transcoding and suggest solutions. Playback Control and Monitoring: Automatically stop streams that have been paused for an extended period,. Keep a detailed log of transcoding events and when users reach their watch time limits. Download on Githuib - WatchingEye.

Be able to create playlist based on a certain criteria, like genre and or year, in order to create a dynamic playlist that it refreshes automatically when new content is added. This way you can for example, create a tv comedy playlist from the 90's, or a new sci-fi Movies playlist. Some other criteria for rules could be the rating, watched/unwantched, score, tags, language, audio codec, etc The possibilities could be endless

Hi, I created the subtitle plugin for SubSource (https://subsource.net). Please install it and let me know if there is a problem with it. Source code: https://github.com/nRafinia/Emby.Subtitle.SubSource Binary: https://github.com/nRafinia/Emby.Subtitle.SubSource/releases/latest Emby.Subtitle.SubSource.dll

Hallo zusammen. Ist es möglich, das man einen Pin eingegen kann für FSK- oder FSK 18 Inhalte? Ich habe einen Benutzer für meine Kids, wo die FSK-18 und FSK-16 Inhalte gesperrt sind, aber falls mein eigener Benutzer aktiv ist und die Kinder zufällig schauen? Ich würde mir wünschen das man einen Pin eingeben muss wenn FSK-16 und FSK-18 Filme ausgewählt würden. Egal welcher Benutzer. Geht das in Emby? LG Micha

I noticed when watching something on the Nvidia Shield that if I pause the media, the frozen movie stays on the screen indefinitely. I wish some sort of screensaver would come on after being pause for X many minutes to reduce any sort of image burn-in.

Finaly I find how change permision of file chown emby EmbyIcons.dll chgrp emby EmbyIcons.dll

It would be great if i could set the server to delete certain shows after a user has watched it. I happen to watch "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" and "The Colbert Report", everyday, and with "News"ish type shows, there is no need to keep the episodes around. So i would like to set MB to auto delete those 2 shows, 3 days after one user has watched it.

Latest iOS beta doesn’t fix the issue unfortunately

If you create a topic about this in the linux section I'm sure you'll get lots of interesting responses. It's not really a ugreen-specific question.

Yes @TDriverdid. You will find more info here:

Thanks , disabling PIP is better and it shows up scaling active. I don’t notice a difference in shows but when there is writing in the show etc the AI enhanced really sharpened the writing up

I do not know how it works on other devices but, on my Shield, a simple press of "Home" takes me out of the app with one keypress. I also would like some way for the "back" button to take me straight out but there is a lot of added functionality that kind of requires the back button behave as it does. I have a universal remote that does macros and I have mapped on of the easy to reach buttons to three back presses but I find I almost never use it as the home button is both easier and faster.

I would also like to join in the request... Emby Server 4.9.1.31 for RS819 - Optimized searching (proposal) Searching on weaker machines is unnecessarily time-consuming because Emby searches everything on the server in the libraries by default. However, I never need everything. It would be great if there was an option to filter what I want to search for. Or even better, when I'm in a specific section of the library, it would ONLY search there, i.e., in Movies (search only for movies), in the TV Live section (search only for TV/radio channels).

Here the same condition.

+ 1 for default language per library at minimum for sure. Having separate libraries with different languages is what I've always done. Anime is in Japanese, and all other movies I tend to watch are in English. Setting an anime library to Japanese audio with English subtitles, and a movies library to English audio would be absolutely beneficial. I think this is the main thing that keeps me on Plex, sadly, since unfortunately the anime I have is dual audio.

Thanks I updated to the latest version of the Google version in the store yesterday, it was a little ropey yesterday when I first loaded it but seems to have fixed itself over night. seems much better than when I last tested this version so I will keep using it for now, will let you know if I get issues with new beta server updates

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2025 here, +1 to this. It'd be nice to customize the Navigation Items for each library, especially since most of the users on my server are not using the web app.

Very interesting! Yes, I can understand exactly these type of scenarios. (You sound like me, just with different methods, that's all.) I think Emby is great for music (otherwise I wouldn’t be using it) but curating custom Album collections is not as easy as it should be. Playlists are fine for Songs, but don't really work well for Albums. I’ve also tried the Bulky plugin, but struggled with it for Albums and also tried the Smart Playlists 2.0 plugin, but again I could never get it to work for Album collections. Hence the misappropriating of Genres to get something halfway workable for the time being. I’m hopeful that something like ROONALBUMTAG plus Smart Playlists/Collections will lead to a simple solution: Custom tag relevant Albums in Mp3tag (or similar program of choice). It would need to be multi-field like Genres is now. Emby reads these tags and assigns to Albums (not the underlying Songs). The tags can then be used in Emby, as is. The tags can then also be used dynamically by Smart Collections (for Albums) to create many other possible Album combinations. As Luke says, this is coming, so hopefully sooner rather than later! There's always plenty of music to listen to in the meantime...

I love music visualizations. I was thinking that a unique way to integrate visualizations in Emby would be to encode the audio with the video output of a visualizer like Milkdrop or ProjectM. The mux can then be streamed to clients as video (if the client has enabled music visualizations). Wouldn't that be cool? Sure, you sacrifice a little quality in the transcode but it would still be acceptable and by offloading the visualization to the server, even underpowered clients could potentially support visualizations that would be impossible given their hardware.

Fixed Cause: Permissions on the Emby cache subfolders (/config/cache/fanart-movies, /config/cache/tmdb-movies2, /config/cache/omdb, /config/cache/tvdb-movies, etc.) were inconsistent. Some folders/files were owned by bin:bin with restrictive permissions, which prevented the container from writing new thumbnails and caused repeated “Access denied” exceptions. Fix: Ensured all cache subfolders were owned by root and fully writable: docker exec -it EmbyServer sh -c 'chown -R 0:0 /config/cache && chmod -R 777 /config/cache' Restarted the Emby container. Tested poster search — thumbnails now display correctly and no “Access denied” errors occur.

Yes, works here with resolution and refresh rate switching turned off in the app.

Yeah thanks, I found it in store finally hope you’ll find it soon in yours.

That fixed the problem, thank you very much!

Right, I see the same. The reason is probably that the items do not have a known runtime up.front. The runtime gets known though on first playback. I hope we will be able to use that (media-source level) runtime to determine that it actually makes sense to save the playback position (when it's not an infinite/live stream). @Luke?

Hi, just a quick follow-up Any news about adding Nicaragua as well? My mom still needs to reinstall Emby every month with USB, so it would really help us a lot. I saw that Kuwait was already added (that’s amazing, congrats to them )

It didn't happen last night.

Sorry about that, should be fixed in this one. WatchingEye.dll

Great work @softworkz! One more question: is it just me or is it normal that partially watched content is not regarded as such? It does not remember where I stopped watching and the file is always marked as completely watched when I stop playback (even if I set content to movies for example).

I'd love that too

You will get access to a private GitHub repository where communication is done at test releases are available for download. It's more than just bug testing. If you're closely familiar with the X-Window system (X11), you can also contribute knowledge and ideas, but the app code is not open source.

It's the connection timeout, not a timeout for the actual download, but in the next update it is increased to 30s.

You need to go to Emby's library settings and run a metadata update with the option to replace existing images. This will force the program to automatically download the missing artwork.

I just installed Kodi on windows OS, I restart severally the issue collections rescanning each time is not noticed, I think for LE something is not right

This would be great. 300GB are really not very much to handle really and there is folks in other jurisdictions who can easily take over.

Hi How is this configured? It doesn't have any configuration Does this follow the rules placed in each library setup? It is made by the standard common library of Emby. What do you mean? I only need one language downloaded, does this send hash data to match subtitles? No, this site doesn't have the hash match for subtitles. Emby in the background downloads subtitles that you set in the library. On the movie page, you can select any language you want.

Please add HUNTR/X to the whitelist https://musicbrainz.org/artist/dc7fd424-6ba4-45cc-b407-7716c7bb3605 Thank you!

You two go get a room, and leave us rest bitching about 5+ years of waiting for functional IP TV in emby. I think there has been enough bitching for the moment. Feel free to resume later, but for now I think, the message has been received. Let me share some gossip instead... You have no idea what an important role the WebStreams plugin is playing in the context of TVnext. Initially, it was meant to be integrated in TVnext, but hardly anybody was able to follow or visualize and imagine what I was talking about exactly, so for me, this had become... The Hardest Sell We've all learnt that there's nothing worse you can do than (actually or seemingly) taking away an existing feature in a new/updated version of a software application. And yet there was exactly one such kind of removal that was inevitable in the making of TVnext, which is - simply said - about dropped support for VOD streams as (fake) TV channels. The below conversation is fictional but roughly resembles the average of the kind of conversations that I had with many people at that time - not just internally, but also with external people and with some of our beta participants as well: Feature Removal? softworkz: "Please be prepared that VOD streams are not supported and not handled by TVnext. TVnext is about live TV streams and also supports non-TV live streams but not playback of static files that are just disguised as live streams" other: "What? You cannot do that! Users expect that to work, all other apps are doing it like that, you must not take this feature away!" softworkz: "Yes, I'm fully aware about how people are reacting when they feel that a feature is taken away from them. That's why I have the following great plan:" other: (already stopped listening) softworkz: "The plan is to replace the lacking VOD playback feature with something that is so much better and nicer and unique and even unprecedented, that nobody will ever be missing it." other: "No - people expect this to work like everywhere else." softworkz: "What do you mean - what exactly are people expecting? That the first episode of series XYZ, season 1 is on channel 1456153 and the second on 1456154 while the first episode of the next season is on channel 1623214?" other: "Yea, that's how it works everywhere." softworkz: "But we are Emby - our mission is to present media content in the best possible way, enriched with all kinds of metadata - who would want to access series content via non-memorable, 6- to 10-digit channel ids without any other metadata than a short description and a single image - if at all? We can present this in a much better way!" other: "Nah, people will freak out when they cannot do like that anymore, this won't be accepted" softworkz: "But how can that be? This is so clearly inferior to everything else. This doesn't even allow having saved playback positions, neither any kind of 'watched' indications etc. There are no series and season entries for grouping - in sum: you get almost none of the features that Emby provides normally." other: "All others are doing it the same way; people are used to it and expecting it to work like that." softworkz: "Why should people prefer Emby then, when it doesn't do better than any of the other apps? And I still can't imagine how anybody would be seriously using it that way: How do you navigate a TV guide when it has 10k, 20k, or even more channel rows? And all of those rows (unless actual live tv) having a single 'program' that is repeating 24/7? When you want to play an episode or film, you search for a TV channel of that name? And when you have 50k TV channels due to that, how can you find an actual TV channel when you get so many search hits? And how is channel management supposed to work? When you want to bring a certain channel from the end to the middle, or from the middle to the start or end? You hold down your finger on the mouse button for several minutes when drag-drop sorting? For every single channel that you want to move?" other: "Sure it's not ideal, but that's how it has always worked, and people want that!" softworkz: "Yes, but..." other: "No, this must continue working!" softworkz: "But the WebStreams concept is so cool - nobody else has that! I'm sure, people will love it. Anyway, TVnext cannot handle VOD - it's impossible unless we drop so many essential features that it's not even worth proceeding." other: "Hmm, well, err, but no...etc etc." softworkz: (sigh) WebStreams Plugin After all those discussions, I had realized that I couldn't get that idea sold as such. The sole promise of providing something better in the end wasn't sufficiently convincing. Yet, there wasn't an alternative to dropping VOD from live tv either. At the same time, this had grown and become a really hot topic, putting the project on the edge, even though it had been explicitly documented and discussed early that this split between live and vod streams will need to happen. The only way out that I had seen at this time was to turn the sole promise of "providing something so much better that nobody would ever complain about lacking VOD channels" into a reality - outside of TVnext, independent of TVnext and delivered even before TVnext. That's how the WebStreams plugin came to life. Some got convinced quickly, for others it still took a while, but as of now, I don't think that there's any remaining doubt that the WebStreams plugin is the way to go for handling VOD content in Emby - even though it's been a long way...

the point is they cared and so found a way

Thanks for the answer. It's very sad (. But somehow it turns out that Samsung allowed the screensaver for the Plex service because the screensaver is available and works on the app for their TVs.

Hi, there is currently no way to do it for specific content, only for users.

+1 Big issue if you have an OLED screen too.