Embuary - THE Emby Skin - new Look (2k & 4k)

[arming84 0]

I downloaded the one from the first Page yesterday . 

[Teddyknuddel 136]

Unfortunately, I can no longer edit the first post. So it's better to look through the whole thread.

[arming84 0]

Thanks - that version works. I own a 77" OLED TV with shield 2019 and in my opinion the fonts/icons/etc of the 4K version are very small. Therefore I will use the 2K-Version.

 I will also try this on a WIN10 HTPC.

[Teddyknuddel 136]

43 minutes ago, arming84 said:

 I will also try this on a WIN10 HTPC

But there is no Dolby Vision possible.

[Touz604 11]

Has anyone been able to install this on an OSMC Vero V? When I try to install the 2k one, I get the following error:

general>: CAddonInstaller: installing from zip '/media/USB STICK/skin.embuary2k-matrix.teddyknuddel.zip'
2024-09-03 00:09:22.444 T:2822    debug <general>: ZipManager: not a zip file!
2024-09-03 00:09:22.444 T:2822    error <general>: GetDirectory - Error getting zip://%2fmedia%2fUSB%20STICK%2fskin.embuary2k-matrix.teddyknuddel.zip/

[Touz604 11]

50 minutes ago, Touz604 said:

Has anyone been able to install this on an OSMC Vero V? When I try to install the 2k one, I get the following error:

general>: CAddonInstaller: installing from zip '/media/USB STICK/skin.embuary2k-matrix.teddyknuddel.zip'
2024-09-03 00:09:22.444 T:2822    debug <general>: ZipManager: not a zip file!
2024-09-03 00:09:22.444 T:2822    error <general>: GetDirectory - Error getting zip://%2fmedia%2fUSB%20STICK%2fskin.embuary2k-matrix.teddyknuddel.zip/

Well it seems that the issue was a corrupted USB key!

Edited September 3, 2024 by Touz604

[Teddyknuddel 136]

@Touz604 all others can be installed. This is probably due to your player.

[Audiomixer 374]

On 8/19/2024 at 7:32 AM, Audiomixer said:

On three shields i could never get that direct file play to work correctly. @FrostByteand i spent considerable time comparing our systems to trouble shoot and it was a no go. If you do manage to figure it out, i would be very curious to learn your solution,

I finally figured it out! I set max smb protocol to smb3 and min to smb2 on my synology nas (they already were but i wanted to verify it).  But what did the trick were the switches Enable Opportunistic Locking and Enable SMB durable handles. After enabling these, now everything plays. Finally!

I just tried this on shield number two and it too is playing files now.

@FrostByte @rbjtech

[FrostByte 5392]

2 hours ago, Audiomixer said:

I finally figured it out! I set max smb protocol to smb3 and min to smb2 on my synology nas (they already were but i wanted to verify it).  But what did the trick were the switches Enable Opportunistic Locking and Enable SMB durable handles. After enabling these, now everything plays. Finally!

I just tried this on shield number two and it too is playing files now.

@FrostByte @rbjtech

Well...dang...  Congrats.  I don't have those on anymore, I guess since you were having problems with large files the better client caching did the trick?

https://kb.synology.com/en-br/DSM/help/SMBService/smbservice_smb_settings?version=7

I had those checked a long time ago, but I think I read something somewhere that made me turn them off.

Edited September 5, 2024 by FrostByte

[FrostByte 5392]

So, yours looks like this now?

[Teddyknuddel 136]

7 hours ago, Audiomixer said:

I finally figured it out! I set max smb protocol to smb3 and min to smb2 on my synology nas (they already were but i wanted to verify it).  But what did the trick were the switches Enable Opportunistic Locking and Enable SMB durable handles. After enabling these, now everything plays. Finally!

I just tried this on shield number two and it too is playing files now.

@FrostByte @rbjtech

How sad - you finally get it to work, and then the only app that supports the direct path is to be terminated.

[rbjtech 5282]

10 hours ago, Audiomixer said:

I finally figured it out! I set max smb protocol to smb3 and min to smb2 on my synology nas (they already were but i wanted to verify it).  But what did the trick were the switches Enable Opportunistic Locking and Enable SMB durable handles. After enabling these, now everything plays. Finally!

I just tried this on shield number two and it too is playing files now.

@FrostByte @rbjtech

Interesting.   I thought oplocks were always 'on' with SMB2+   Maybe that's a Windows rule as opposed to a protocol rule - and Synology have given you the choice.

Oplocks are pretty essential for a high speed data cache - which makes perfect sense for a 4k remux stream.     

I've no idea what 'durable handles' is though - need to look that one up !

[FrostByte 5392]

I tried those two settings on my NAS, and it caused a 30+ second delay in the start of all media.  Tried turning on/off several times and it was the same every time.  30+ second delay.

For movies it wasn't bad, but when playing a music playlist that is a long time to wait between songs.

[Audiomixer 374]

4 hours ago, FrostByte said:

I tried those two settings on my NAS, and it caused a 30+ second delay in the start of all media.  Tried turning on/off several times and it was the same every time.  30+ second delay.

For movies it wasn't bad, but when playing a music playlist that is a long time to wait between songs.

30 sec delay? Mine is about 17 sec for a 4k remux to start.

14 hours ago, FrostByte said:

Well...dang...  Congrats.  I don't have those on anymore, I guess since you were having problems with large files the better client caching did the trick?

https://kb.synology.com/en-br/DSM/help/SMBService/smbservice_smb_settings?version=7

I had those checked a long time ago, but I think I read something somewhere that made me turn them off.

That was the synology kb i used to play with the settings. Joy!

14 hours ago, FrostByte said:

So, yours looks like this now?

Yup that is what i have now.

8 hours ago, Teddyknuddel said:

How sad - you finally get it to work, and then the only app that supports the direct path is to be terminated.

Ja, but it is still the better app experience.

6 hours ago, rbjtech said:

Interesting.   I thought oplocks were always 'on' with SMB2+   Maybe that's a Windows rule as opposed to a protocol rule - and Synology have given you the choice.

Oplocks are pretty essential for a high speed data cache - which makes perfect sense for a 4k remux stream.     

I've no idea what 'durable handles' is though - need to look that one up !

My mouth dropped open when my remux files actually played.

[rbjtech 5282]

3 hours ago, Audiomixer said:

30 sec delay? Mine is about 17 sec for a 4k remux to start.

 wow - mine start in about 1-2 seconds ... 

[Teddyknuddel 136]

4 hours ago, Audiomixer said:

Ja, but it is still the better app experience.

It can't be right that we paying users are deprived of what we want.

If McDonalds decides to sell its hamburgers with jam instead of ketchup, just because someone in the boardroom thinks it tastes better that way, and 20 other department heads figure out that they'll save a lot of money that way, it still won't help, because millions of customers will still want their ketchup and refuse to buy these hamburgers.

[softworkz 5065]

54 minutes ago, Teddyknuddel said:

If McDonalds decides to sell its hamburgers with jam instead of ketchup,

Isn't ketchup precisely the same as "tomato jam"?

[Audiomixer 374]

2 hours ago, Teddyknuddel said:

It can't be right that we paying users are deprived of what we want.

If McDonalds decides to sell its hamburgers with jam instead of ketchup, just because someone in the boardroom thinks it tastes better that way, and 20 other department heads figure out that they'll save a lot of money that way, it still won't help, because millions of customers will still want their ketchup and refuse to buy these hamburgers.

You sure like the analogy. I don’t see how mcdonalds fits this scenario the way you present. To add direct file play back should not be that big a deal as other apps (kodi, vlc, etc) do it and passes google muster. Personally, i think it makes the app most versatile allowing for many connection options. Yeah i know, this has been beat to death and management has said NO. Its the reason i use kodi these days. Kodinerds with plex plugin and regular kodi with emby plug in. I like to experiment. The way the standard app is going isn’t to my liking as its UI is rather clunky. It works in that it does playback ok however. The ATV app is pretty solid and if any lesson is to be learned by management is that if they are indeed going to sunset ATV app, at least incorporate its functionality into the standard app including direct play.

[Audiomixer 374]

3 hours ago, rbjtech said:

 wow - mine start in about 1-2 seconds ... 

I disabled durable handles and it all still works but file playback starts at about 9 seconds now so that is an improvement.

[FrostByte 5392]

I had to turn them both off.  I think it helped a little to turn off durable handles, but it still took too long.  It starts instantly now again with them both off.

[rbjtech 5282]

11 hours ago, Audiomixer said:

 The ATV app is pretty solid and if any lesson is to be learned by management is that if they are indeed going to sunset ATV app, at least incorporate its functionality into the standard app including direct play.

Agree 100% - the day my primary clients (ATV) no longer work effeciently with 4K remuxes, is the day I say goodbye to using Emby - it's that simple for me.

[Teddyknuddel 136]

12 hours ago, Audiomixer said:

You sure like the analogy. I don’t see how mcdonalds fits this scenario the way you present. To add direct file play back should not be that big a deal as other apps (kodi, vlc, etc) do it and passes google muster. Personally, i think it makes the app most versatile allowing for many connection options. Yeah i know, this has been beat to death and management has said NO. Its the reason i use kodi these days. Kodinerds with plex plugin and regular kodi with emby plug in. I like to experiment. The way the standard app is going isn’t to my liking as its UI is rather clunky. It works in that it does playback ok however. The ATV app is pretty solid and if any lesson is to be learned by management is that if they are indeed going to sunset ATV app, at least incorporate its functionality into the standard app including direct play.

 

1 hour ago, rbjtech said:

Agree 100% - the day my primary clients (ATV) no longer work effeciently with 4K remuxes, is the day I say goodbye to using Emby - it's that simple for me.

My guess is that Emby management is more focused on enabling users to have their own streaming service. This may work well in countries where fibre optic has as much upload speed as download speed, but like me, with a 50Mbit/s upload you could only offer absolutely low-quality material (but I know people who offer the same service anyway). Personally, I only provide my local network in the house, nothing outside, just for me and my wife. I also don't need to watch movies, tvshows, outside when I'm out and about, I can upload the little bit of music I listen to from my collection to my mobile phone.

It's incomprehensible how you can do without a function like Directplay, which improves the quality of the whole package many times over. Please don't tell us that http would be perfectly adequate. That is not the case. Since I have finally been able to use the direct path under the ATV, I have had absolutely zero playback problems, apart from that one soundtrack.

[FrostByte 5392]

Since ATV is in maintenance mode of sorts, maybe @ebr might be willing to create an updated sideload only version with direct path access enabled for all versions of Android.

[CBers 7450]

15 minutes ago, FrostByte said:

Since ATV is in maintenance mode of sorts, maybe @ebr might be willing to create an updated sideload only version with direct path access enabled for all versions of Android.

I'd give it a whirl, although I never found file access to work very well for me.
 

[Audiomixer 374]

13 hours ago, FrostByte said:

I had to turn them both off.  I think it helped a little to turn off durable handles, but it still took too long.  It starts instantly now again with them both off.

On mine if both are off then it doesn’t work at all.