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Yes certainly.

I refresh every 30 days. Anyway I fixed the example I provided, so you can ignore that. It does seem like it was due to changes from TVDB for that series, but my NFOs were still in the KB range just larger than expected. If this does stem from an issue with the plugin earlier this year that I'm remembering, and my memory could be incorrect here since none of the plugin notes mention that specifically, but I highly suspect if you clean up any of these excessively large NFOs and then delete/rename library.db so it gets recreated, then start to recreate your libraries it may be fully resolved.

@sa2000Hey, so I found a 100MB file that is seemingly having the same issue, but it can actually open in notepad++ easily.... its the Title and the originalTitle lines. They're duplicated over and over and over...and over.. I'll attach that one since it should be easier to debug a smaller/more usable file. This would make sense on the large db file now....since it is reading the title of the show/movie and putting it into the db table for search records. Paw Patrol S01E39-E40.zip

And I would add that after that emby will be able to recognise if a file is a 3d video based on metadata and/or filename, I would still want to have a button to cycle through the various mode. I have a 3D TV. Sometimes I want to watch 3D movie in 3D sometimes in 2D. Also, I would add a user preference to choose the starting mode for 3d content, if 2d or 3d (then the user would use the button to cycle to the right mode in case)

Thank you for looking into this, I really appreciative.

Hello, Is it possible that in a version of emby a "ping pong" is performed in websocket to maintain a connection via a reverse proxy? Let me explain. Apart from reverse proxies such as caddy or traefik (for those I know) there is no real timeout for websockets. For reverse proxies like haproxy or nginx, the timeout is defined either by default or by the user. In the case of haproxy or nginx, if someone pauses a video that lasts more than an hour (a movie, for example), the websocket timeout will occur before the end of the movie. Or if, when playing an episode of a series lasting 40 minutes, the viewer pauses the video for 20 minutes, the connection will be closed before the end of the episode. Having the client send a message and the server reply every X seconds/minutes would eliminate the problem and prevent the connection from staying open for 1 hour for no reason, as in the nginx configuration. Also, I saw a message saying that if a connection was closed unexpectedly, for resource reasons, there was no attempt to reconnect. Why not set up a number of reconnection attempts? For example, the client tries to reconnect 3 times, and if none of the attempts work, the connection is aborted. This would, I think, allow better websockets management and avoid connections being open for hours. Or even when changing networks (LTE->wifi or wifi->LTE), this would make it easier to re-establish the connection than quitting the application and reopening it. To avoid sending just a "ping" and a "pong", useful information can be sent through websockets when the client supports them, such as the position of the video playback (which is currently sent via http), because a request via websocket is faster than an http request and sends, with the same information in the body, less data than an http request.

In the web interface, going to a library sets the web page <title> to the name of the library, but everywhere else the title is just set to "Emby". Could we have it so that the title is set to the name of the movie or episode on their respective pages?

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

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, this should be performing much better now. Thanks.

Hi, this should be performing much better now. Thanks.

Man, this is superdope!

Will be in the next release.

@mickle026is making a new one and has done some awesome work. I have heard (can not confirm) that the Emby Developers are also working on a solution as we speak.

Glad you got it working Also, just to re-iterate: right above your red arrow, it literally says "no trailing slash" along with a url example

No it is in the usersdata table of the library.db. But should be able to extract userdata from a backup.

I guess this is relevant. 3D Video Naming | Emby Documentation

Emby completely manages my NFOs.

Fun fact.... I have Paw Patrol on my server and almost all of those are 2 episode files... every single one is over 100MB now too. So that "2 episode" theory seems to be getting stronger

sending you an upload link by PM

@sa2000This is the second report of an NFO being huge causing issues, and both instances seems to be related to a double episode. I don't have any double HIMYM episodes to directly compare against but I did find a few of my own double episode NFOs that have the same information repeated in them, luckily they are still very small. I'm not sure if there's an issue with the metadata plugins that may be causing this, I do recall an issue earlier this year where that might have been happening. Might be something to keep an eye out for, I know that I will be looking out for this for the episodes I've identified in my own library. Attaching an example NFO from my library. EDIT: In my case it looks like there's something odd that happened with the double episodes, I noticed this happen with another show. May be what ended up causing that NFO to balloon but I think I can fix it on my end in this case. Hey Arnold! - S05E41-E42 - The Journal.nfo

Thank you, I hope so too

Okay I see an error in the transcode log now, this is why it's not using hardware acceleration for the encode. And this cannot process fast enough on SW encoder, only around 0.6x. Can you try disabling the experimental HEVC transcoding and see if that makes a difference?

Hi. Neither of those things are "broken". They both are now more faithfully following the data. Only if that's how it is in your metadata Only if you specifically are viewing by folder. We understand you don't like these changes but they are not bugs nor broken. We are monitoring feedback and will adjust accordingly. Thanks!

Okay - You are correct. Thanks for the help. It is hard to explain but in case someone else has this trouble... Here is the view I was familiar with. Allows you to select a season and mark that season as watched. Here is the new view I was getting with a drop down for each season and no way to right click or "option button" a season in the web app. But Luke is correct - go to settings / display / preferred TV show display and change that to "Always Show Season Folders". Thanks as always Luke!

Nvm bro just renewed the api key and got it back working

Will look at it tomorrow.

Thanks. I have added this example to the issue that is with the development team I see it shows playback got to the end. There is no indication of that in the log other than it started at 07:39 at offset of 29 min 33 seconds

Ok. i shall do that. let you know abut results. I only want to mention that i do manually scan quite offen because i do changes in library regullary, and it never crashed while triggered manualy.Anyway i take your advise and do suggested changes. thank U.

Update, ended up being nothing to do with Emby at all! As part of further trouble shooting (read trying to find anything for my kids to watch on TV), I noticed no video streaming was working at all. Somehow the TV had local and internet access, but video was being blocked for some reason. This led me to the router. Restarted the router and everything is working again. Random! Long live the Android TV app!

FFS The posts are all describing the same thing: the WebSocket drops during playback, even when the user is still watching. Controls disappear after ~60 seconds because the socket hit a hard network timeout, not because the user is inactive. Your repeated claim of "lowering a little" isn't helping anyone resolve the bigger issue. Playback itself doesn’t generate WebSocket activity, so the connection dies no matter what. That’s why people are asking for keepalives or auto-reconnect. The reports they’re showing a real 60-second forced timeout that Emby currently enforces is the problem. Wanna fix it? Set keepalive to 30-45 seconds.

I'm not talking about the live t v.Guide luke.I'm talking about the channels that I create with my t v, and i'm trying to make icons for them when they're added to the tv guide

Not really, because almost all those iptv providers (i hope you know which kind i mean) use the same streaming backends and there are only a few of them being that popular. For example Flussonic. I don't know.

Enjoy. But most people in this board already have this journey behind them. Emby development time is slower, but it is steady. JF has phases with basically zero development. There's being work done when folks feel like it would help the reputation of their github-profile, and then it's being put aside for years. They still haven't finished the DB-rewrite for example which creates a plethora of problems in other sections of this whole software-package. And they cannot fix it because they struggle with the complexity of it. After all those years they did not even manage to remove the traces of Emby from the code, because it's simply too much. I would call Emby "stable" and "constantly maintained", whereas i certainly wouldn't call JF that way. In the end you have to choose what's more important to you.

If the only change is modifying the keepalive interval and the actual keepalive mechanism already exists, it seems like a simple enough change. Should we expect it to roll out in the apps anytime soon?

Please keep us posted on what you do. Thanks.

fair enough, i have room for two GPUs in my system and I'm trying to juggle three things: 1. video transcoding for Emby and so on 2. a Windows VM that needs 3d video acceleration to run Windows specific apps like SolidWorks 3. a Games on Whales instance that lets me play games over the local network to computers that do not have enough power to run games locally (or cannot due to being a Mac or something) right now Windows VMs cannot share a GPU with the host, it needs it's own. virtio-gpu driver support is still being worked on. that leaves my most GPU intensive task and least GPU intensive task sharing a GPU. Right now I have an Intel Arc A310 and a Nvidia Quadro K6000, with the latter likely being the one i replace with a Nvidia 3060 or something equivalent. I could problably find an Intel Arc B580 to replace it and give Windows the arc A310...

I have a similar issue. My Internet channels are set for midnight. The plugin says last refresh was at 6 yesterday morning. I have just done a restart of Emby and now it is refreshing

Hi, you need to change the User agents setting and put this: IPTVSmartersPro

With Steam Machines coming in the new year, this might finally be a good replacement for Nvidia Shields as a set-top device. Emby available within Steam would be ideal, but a Linux version that works and works from Game mode would be extremely desirable.

Should be coming soonish, see latest comments in

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There should be away to add hoilday custom themes easy other then CSS as it does not work with all clients mainly wepapp/browsers only and thats useless in my opinion cause no one uses there browsers anymore with smart tvs and all. any help on how to do this would be super! I am running ubuntu desktop & using docker compose to run emby.

It works just like screensaver logic. The timer is continually reset as long as there is activity such that it only "expires" after the set period of no activity. A long file transfer still works because the file system reports as the file is transferring (because the target is continually changing). The whole point is to just scan when the overall operation (however many files) is complete.

Yes, the delay is by design because if we reacted "instantly" then a series of scans would be triggered for each file as it came in (actually, maybe even as it is still downloading). The system needs to wait for a period of no activity to know that the file operations have actually finished.

You shouldn't have to trigger a scan for an entire library. The API also has an option to update a specific path unless this has changed recently.

That's the idea.

That looks nice !

One thing the streaming community hasn't done well is really create tools that allow us to simulate live TV well. I think the biggest reason that binging on Netflix (and Emby) is so popular is because you push a button and go. I'd like to see Emby create a "To Watch List" that basically allows you to sort shows into a specific order. When you watch that list, it will only play the most recent episode of each show in the list that premier inside that week. Lets pretend I made a DC TV Watch list, it would only play this weeks episode of Arrow, Flash, Legends, Supergirl and Gotham one after another. If an episode didn't premier that week, it gets skipped. Additionally, I'd like to see this system *ALSO* allow us to insert bumpers similar to Cartoon Network or Toonami. In the here and now, it would only insert bumpers between the series, but it would be nice if in the future, a system that allows some method for choosing the appropriate points between each act of an episode where bumpers could also be inserted. Bumpers would be a community thing to create, but inside the "to watch list", you'd choose what bumpers (if any) are used. Bumpers could even be surrounded by previews. Finally, another thought: while Emby already can pull Movie Trailers, it might be another cool future project if we could pull previews of related series not in the "To Watch List" and/or perhaps ones that aren't on your server that are similar to what you are watching. There's a lot of ideas in this post to digest and several should be their own project as part of this concept. Thoughts

Yes this is something we'd like to do in a future update. thanks !