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The wait is over! We are excited to announce public availability of the new Emby Linux app beta program. Why a Native Linux App? While Emby’s web app works well across platforms, there are limits to what a browser-based player can achieve, especially when it comes to modern video and audio playback. The Linux app was created to go beyond those limits. At the core of this decision is one simple goal: BEST IN CLASS VIDEO PLAYBACK. Browsers continue to improve, but they inevitably lag behind native applications when it comes to advanced video technologies, hardware acceleration, and reliable fullscreen playback. Emby users expect smooth, high-quality playback — and delivering that consistently requires a native application. Benefits Over the Web Player The new Linux app provides several advantages over watching through a browser: More reliable video playback with fewer browser-related limitations Better performance and lower system overhead Improved full screen behavior across Linux desktop environments Direct integration with native video playback technologies A cleaner, distraction free viewing experience By separating video playback from the browser entirely, the app is able to take full advantage of the system and deliver a smoother experience. Designed for Linux Desktops The Emby Linux app is built to feel at home on Linux. It works across major Linux environments . The result is a modern Emby experience that’s faster, more consistent, and purpose built for Linux users. Available Now The new Emby Linux Beta app is now available and we are waiting for your feedback! Want to get started right away? Head on over to the beta instructions page for more! Please provide feedback in this forum: Linux Beta View the full article

Hi, we have submitted the update to LG and now we're just waiting for it to go through the review process. Thanks.

I cannot see this getting re-enabled anytime soon. There are too many laws to follow here in the UK, we have to not only prove you are 18 but have a back trace that tokens and Oath verifications were used and with everything off as default and enabled only by the user. For a free service it just isn't viable, and if i host somewhere outside the jurisdiction, English laws still implement me as the host (so still prosecutable), so its not going to happen soon, besides I don't have the skillset to put this toolchain together even if it were paid. And the paid option even if its only to pay the verification fee of an online age verifier system opens up a whole new can of worms, because then i am reselling other peoples copyrighted data, ie posters and overviews/synopsis (the rest is ok legally).... Its a legal nightmare which regardless of anyone's opinion on here, that i am not willing to risk for myself and my family. Having the data and providing publicly it is two different things. It is a real shame because this worked well for a few years and was probably the best there was for some of that time.

New version up (v1.4.0.0) on yocksers/EmbyCredits github. Added: Notifications via Emby Webhooks. Email, PushOver, Discord and so on. Changed: Added a few more keywords as default. Fixed: Small bug with windows pathing for automatic detection. Bug where in rare cases extra items were put into the queue.

This is fun but really need to spam that button. This is using Edge browser. Ragnarok Normal - Personal - Microsoft Edge 2026-01-06 13-13-58.mp4

Dear Luke and Softworkz, First of all, Happy New Year, Wishing you a joyful and prosperous New Year filled with love, laughter, and unforgettable moments! Many thanx for your (@Softworkz) response to my question. Yesterday, I gave my 'own eyes' the choice to look at the different brands at a local Mediamarkt store, comparing Q-LED, MiniLED and OLED of LG, Samsung, Sony, etc., but focusing on an OS used by these brands in a store is 'not done'.... they simply cannot help you on these (technical) matters.... The argument you are using is of course very important: the graphical power of the internal CPU/GPU of these TV's is somewhat limited, although the latest generation of TV's is also using the latest generation of CPU's.... My strategy will be, that I'm going to buy a 65" Samsung high-end S95F series AND stay with my NUC/Win11 and compare these with each other .... of course, I'll report my findings here in this forum. Anyhow, many thanks for your responses, I'll report my findings as soon as I've compared them! Grtz. Peter

This x 1,000! @ebryour point about prioritization of resources is of course correct, but there are very few users here who understand why Emby dev team isn't prioritizing basic usability issues in video and music, before spending time on nice-but-tangential functionality. A rock-solid, secure, smoothly-functioning platform is going to attract a lot more new, paying users than adding and polishing quirky, non-critical functions like photo galleries and ebook reading.

I’ve been saying this for years. Is a media server not a book library or even a photo library. They’re clearly spread too thin to be adding all these features that will be forgotten. Why would anyone use Emby for photos when immich and other alternatives exist? They need to refocus on Movies, Shows and Music, some client apps don’t even work properly when playing media

It would be great to have Emby as a music provider for Music Assistant: https://music-assistant.io/ I'm forced to use Jellyfin as a provider for now: https://github.com/orgs/music-assistant/discussions/583 It probably wouldn't take too much effort to adapt the existing Jellyfin provider to the Emby API: https://github.com/music-assistant/server/tree/dev/music_assistant/server/providers/jellyfin

@@Luke stated in a previous post (https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/49933-replaygain-music-support/) adding support for this could easily be done for at least the theater client seeing as the player used already supports replaygain. I'm making this feature request in hopes that this support is added, as I have no dev experience myself

My proposal is a setting in the Emby client apps to set custom proxy headers like e.g. in Immich, Conduit or Embywatch. Currently you need to open a ton of paths like /emby/web/* or /emby/Items/* to be able to use an Emby app from the outside of LAN via Reverse Proxy with an authentication layer in front of Emby. Pangolin/Traefik Reverse Proxy is used in this example: You would set up the custom proxy header "P-Access-Token: xxx" and "P-Access-Token-Id: yyy" inside the Emby app and it can connect successfully to your Emby Server behind the Reverse Proxy with all the bells and whistles like 2FA, Passkeys etc since the Request Headers tell the Proxy: "Hey, I'm a trusted app because of your set up Headers for the resource requested but not able to use your Pangolin Login Prompt like a Browser".

Thank you for answer. I thought I did miss something, no problem, just edited the metadata myself.

sorry - that was your question ! how to get it to update the composite image need to look into it

It was set too low, perhaps. Not sure who changed it (maybe one of my kids). I bumped it back up so it'll do direct play and let you know if I continue to have problems.

I'll try it tomorrow

Hi, currently there is no way to do that. I would say your best bet is to make two copies of the same file.

New version up (v1.5.8.0) on yocksers/WatchingEye github. Added: Concurrent number of transcodes limit.

You want to use the Primary image as the backdrop? I believe you need to delete the backdrops for the series. So that no backdrops exist at all for that series. The server then has to fallback to other images to show as backdrops. Then when going to the episode details view the fallback image is shown from your primary image as backdrop for that episode since the series lacks the backdrop. I believe that is how it presently works. No backdrop showing. This is okay. The series must have no backdrop. Then on the details view for that episode of that series the primary image is now shown as the backdrop. NOTE: You MUST be using TV mode to enable this.

What is your Movie library setting for Collections? As Collections are metadata driven if the metadata does not have the <set> node to create the collection Emby can't group them. Does the media show correctly in the Collections tab/library?

danke , hätte ich dort nicht vermutet

Have you checked your User-Display setting? Haben Sie Ihre Benutzeranzeige-Einstellungen überprüft?

It is random and don't know how many clicks or how fast you have to click but it is reproduceable. Clicking F5 or the browser refresh button a lot and fast as @Neminemvideos shows. Only tested 4.9.4.1 in Edge.

Okay then, so I guess it's better to just keep it as a simple "advanced" toggle

Hi Okay, and when do you think this update will be available on the LG app store?

same on my Ipad Mini 5. gen. It isn't that unsharp there - but still almost unreadable. I can't zoom in more there via buttons, either.

unfortunately I can't zoom more in as soon as the page fills the screen. If I press "zoom in" via the UI button nothing happens anymore.

@Peter Nent Since Emby have let pass the opportunity of integrating WMC into the regular apps and since it appears to be quite difficult to bring an app into the Tizen store, I would rather consider Tizen as a dead end right now. Also, we would probably have to disable some of the visual effects due the the graphics of the TV hardware not being powerful enough for all of them.. I don't know much about the LG side, but the performance issue would very likely apply there as well. All in all, I would rather stick with the NUC or a powerful(!) Android TV device like Nvidia Shield.

@Encho First of all - what's not right is "depending on ffmpeg build". We are using the same ffmpeg build for almost 3 years now. There have been only three minimal patches since then, none of them being about tone mapping. This also explains the remainder of your findings: While we've been ahead of the competition like 3-4 years ago - we are clearly behind right now. As a consequence of a number of unfortunate decisions, there have been focus changes, including myself, and we fell behind. In the area of tone mapping - especially open-source implementations thereof - there have been substantial advances during the past years. Our FFmpeg is from 2023, which means that our tone mapping capabilities are reflecting what has been possible and available at that point - that's the simple truth. BT.2390 hasn't been implemented everywhere, so we could only offer it for selection where available. This: ...is one of the things which doesn't make any sense. What needs to be understood beforehand is why so many different tone mapping implementations exist: Because video processing operations can become quite expensive easily - which is why you always try to do it in the most efficient way that is available to save resources for processing more streams in parallel or other things. Video processing requires memory and compute power and the latter should always have direct access to the former. Means: system memory for CPU-based processing or GPU memory for GPU processing. What you want to avoid by all means here - as long as possible - is changing from one to the other in a single transcoding pipeline, because memory transfer (which is then about uncompressed frames) is expensive. That's why you don't want anything like a "Clear separation of decode vs tone-mapping paths" but rather the opposite: When you are running on an Nvidia GPU, you want to use Nvidia CUDA based tone mapping, when doing sw transcoding, you do sw tone mapping - plus there a vendor-independent subsystems like OpenCL or Vulkan, where other tone mapping implementations might be available and which you might prefer in certain cases. The bottom line is: there are many different implementations and all have different options and capabilities. Meanwhile, these have become more consistent than in 2023 and that's the reason for the discrepancies you are seeing. Now for the individual points: Actually, depending on which hardware path or whether sw. No, that's always the same. No. This doesn't affect how server transcoding is done. Though, what makes a change of course, is when the client is direct playing without server transcoding, then it's the client settings which are controlling tone mapping. No. It doesn't remove anything. It always offers what is available - only. When you install the Diagnostics Plugin, you get a "User Sessions" view on the Server Dashboard, which shows exactly and graphically what's happening: No idea what that means. No doubt, even though users often consider it "too dark".

I understand that. It would obviously be pointless, dealing with a non-working setup for several years. But you also said This sounded to me as you might possibly like to give it another try with the fix, that's why I mentioned you.

Hi, we have submitted the update to LG and now we're just waiting for it to go through the review process. Thanks.

I think the fallback to image Density Detection as the primary method will provide a good work around. My initial scan with that option enabled failed. But I think that was due to the new image consistency and temporal consistency options that were added. I'll fine tune (or disable) those settings and post back later with my results.

@DarWunMight be noise in the picture or something. Only guess i have as i don't know precisely how Tesseract works. There might be some better training data for it out there that works better that you can add/replace in it.

Thanks! I figured that was the case. What is strange to me is that OCR recognition works with that font for 100 episodes in the series. But for some reason on a handful it is returning gibberish on frames that would have been identical in the other episodes where OCR was successful. Also, other OCR methods I used have no issue with the images. It surprises me that Tesseract does. Fringe case I guess. Everything else has been working well on my testing.

@DarWun It seems the tesseract doesn't like the fonts used in that show. I threw the pictures you posted directly into it and it just gave a bunch of gibberish. You can test it your self by going to http://ip-of-tesseract:8884 or what ever you configured the port to. There you can give it single images to work with.

@SamES

I'm new to Emby and trying to get commercial skipping as good as Plex did. Still trying to work out some of the glitches, but I wanted a way to see what the EDL file was saying (in a more readable format) so I wrote a small Autoit script (viewEDL) that displays the times that commercials were flagged. Makes it easier to see what's going on! Here's a zip that contains the AU3 source and the EXE if you don't have Autoit installed. viewEDL.zip

HI, yes we are hoping to have this resolved soon. Thanks.

Feature Request: Have User Groups and all settings applied at the Group Level That way you can just assign users to the appropriate Group and all settings will be inheritated.

And as far as I'm concerned Emby should of stayed just video and music. PLENTY of great E-book readers / organizers. Should also add backup on Jellyfin works straight out of the gate. No having the permissions issues one can with Emby.

New beta for those who dare! Been working on this for a while between other projects. Added favorite counter. This will display how many people have added a movie or TV show as favorite. Please note: Because of limitations with browser caches you might have to CTRL-SHIFT-F5 before it refreshes after having added a favorite. Users logging after the favorite was added should see it no problem as the images are freshly sent to them. For custom user icons the icon uses the name heart.png (or jpg). WARNING!! WARNING!! WARNING!! This is a beta and bugs might have sneaked in some where. EmbyIcons.dll

HI @Protected Yes, on every file, tested around 5. Yes, I see the UI (buttons) at the top. This is indeed an older device - iPhone SE 2nd generation. Thanks for looking into this! BR

Major achievements? Honestly, I’m struggling to find any. From a user perspective, 2025 has mostly felt like a year of dodging critical bugs while the features nobody asked for continued to underwhelm. What I’d like to see for 2026 is for the dev team to actually enroll in a Security 101 course. It’s becoming a bit pathetic how often fundamental security best practices are ignored or treated as "low priority" while the community is left to find and document the holes ourselves. For instance, we’re still dealing with: Unauthenticated Access to Private Data: We are literally on page 6 of a thread where anyone can access library images just by knowing an ID. No token, no login, no problem. The response time on fixing basic privacy leaks is glacial. Unauthenticated access to images by itemid Permissions Bypasses: Having "Critical Security Vulnerability" in a thread title regarding Live TV permission bypasses should usually warrant an immediate emergency patch, but here we are. Critical Security Vulnerability: Live TV Permission Bypass PIN Bypasses: The fact that a simple "Home" button press can bypass security PINs is a masterclass in "Security by Wishful Thinking." Security Issue: Using home button makes PIN bypass possible And then there is the "Universal" Android app. It’s truly a "major achievement" to spend years trying to replace the perfectly functional Android TV app with a bloated, stuttering "one size fits none" mobile port. It fails miserably at providing a smooth 10-foot experience, yet the devs seem hell-bent on sunsetting the one version that actually works for TV users. If the goal for 2025 was to prove that a paid product can have slower security responses and worse UI regressions than its free competitors, then mission accomplished. Ultimately, for 2026, the devs need to start concentrating on legitimate bugs and community concerns instead of @Luketreating this like his own personal pet project. This is a paid product with a community of users, not a private sandbox where critical security and usability issues can be hand-waved away just because they don't fit a specific internal vision. Fix the foundation before adding more "achievements" to the pile.

@ebryou've always been thoughtful and clear and communicating here in good faith, so please take these comments in the same spirit. I have seen lots of changes and improvements in Emby over the past few years that are much less basic - and I suspect require more coding effort - than a couple of the oft-requested issues re: music libraries that have been reported here repeatedly: 1. Lack of a persistent play queue and play state, which is maddening when one's listening session and/or one's location in a play queue just... disappears. 2. No way to queue and play a single disc in a multi-disc album - start at track 1 of disc 2, for example, and Emby won't stop playing the whole darned box set until the end, nor can users add a single disc when building a playlist to save. 3. Clicking 'shuffle' on a playlist generates and starts a play queue fine, but it starts somewhere in the middle, not at the beginning. These are fundamental usability issues, and they just can't be that hard to address. More challenging - and/or less important - but requested for literally years and years: - Replay gain/volume leveling - Thumbs down or 'exclude' option for songs/albums, to help build smart playlists - Generating new 'cover' image for a playlist that isn't four identical tiles of a single album cover. I only numbered the first items because they are so utterly basic to usability. When you're prioritizing, please please please why not just sit down, prove all the doubters wrong, and fix them. Then there wouldn't be such widespread feeling here that music functionality isn't a priority for Emby devs.

@thunderclapit is transcoding due to your quality setting. Maybe you still have the quality set too high and need to lower it even further?

Problem is still here , please rollback to previous version so we can use TV app.

has to be smart playlists for me. they are rocking my world right now...... oh hang on, they never got delivered

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.

Awesome stuff! Looks incredibly good! Sadly hard to implement in the docker version. Would love for the devs to implement an easy way to customize the UI.

This project only purpose was to show the devs that it's not forbidden that an awesome project "under the hood" like Emby can also look stunning. In visual terms default Emby is by far not in pole anymore (if it was at all at one point). CSS is cool, but who the hell uses the WebClient for watching content? It would be awesome when the CSS work from people like@fillidillwith his CSS theme would also be beneficial for all of the clients. But this will likely never happen.

It's a matter of principle. I don't do subscriptions. If they offered a lifetime option like Emby, I'd have done it in a heartbeat. Oh good lord, that's tedious!