Disappointed with emby

[gonavy63 0]

So I've been looking for a solid replacement for Plex and I thought emby was it. I've never been able to get connected outside my home after a year and a half. Now I try to use it in my bedroom and I have to get the premium service. WTF?  The little quirks with Plex are nothing compared to emby forcing a subscription. I'm done and my recommendations for friends are going to be Plex or Kodi. 

[Luke 42080]

HI, we're sorry to hear about this. What makes you think Emby is forcing a premium service?

[gonavy63 0]

Well if it won't let me play anything without a subscription I would say it is an accurate statement. No worries I just used Plex with no issues.

 

Edited May 25, 2024 by gonavy63

[darkassassin07 652]

6 minutes ago, gonavy63 said:

I've never been able to get connected outside my home after a year and a half. Now I try to use it in my bedroom and I have to get the premium service. WTF?

Looking at your post history, it seems your remote access troubles are due to CGNAT, which you've said you haven't looked into solving yet. Have you had a chance to look at/try tailscale or other alternatives?

 

Plex gets around this issue by routing all of your traffic through their public servers giving them ultimate control over all that data, and the ability to sell your information to advertisers/partners; this is how they subsidized such a service alongside plex pass revenue.

 

Emby rightfully refuses to violate your privacy like this, so setting up network routes falls on the user. Most of us find this to be a fair trade, and tbh is a great starting point to learn about network setup.

 

 

The need for premium depends on which apps and features you are trying to use, and can be determined here: https://emby.media/support/articles/Premiere-Feature-Matrix.html

Most of the installable apps for example (android/fire tvs, xbox/playstation, etc) require premier, but browser playback does not.

[Luke 42080]

8 hours ago, gonavy63 said:

Well if it won't let me play anything without a subscription I would say it is an accurate statement. No worries I just used Plex with no issues.

 

Hi, but don’t you want a personal media server and not one that puts your information into the cloud? We work very hard on Emby and thank you for your support.

[pwhodges 2012]

20 hours ago, gonavy63 said:

Well if it won't let me play anything without a subscription 

It will; but you have to make the conditions right (deal with cgNAT in your case).

Paul

[Luke 42080]

@gonavy63have you looked at a VPN or TailScale to get around the CGNat?

[visproduction 315]

GN,

Getting Emby to the TV with a license and the correct Emby app, is easiest and should work.

You can also try Emby Web and cast to the TV.  To make the TV casting available, you can start the Kobi TV app and just leave it on any page.  That usually makes the TV available from casting inside Emby.  Otherwise, typical TV setups lock out casting or they use some other 3rd party paid casting program that usually has audio delays and quality buffering issues. 

Alternatively, you could connect a workstation or notebook with an HTMI cable directly to the TV.  Then turn on multiple screens on your workstation or notebook. [Windows key P].  You can let the audio go through the HDMI cable to the TV or grab the audio from the computer analog audio out to headphones or aux out and pipe the audio through whatever stereo / surround system you might have.  Analog out will only give you Stereo. HDMI audio could technically give you surround sound, but you would need an AV amp to decode it and send it to the speakers.  In order to get the HDMI audio surround into your AV amp, you would need to split the HDMI from a computer into two outs, one to the AV amp for audio and another to the TV for video.

Hope that helps.

Edited May 28, 2024 by visproduction

[Luke 42080]

@gonavy63?

[gonavy63 0]

I ended up selecting the option to playback with separate player and downloaded VLC. Works great.