Benz2411 1 Posted January 13 Posted January 13 Hello! I recently upgraded to to 4.9.3.0 for the setting auto remove quality for users however I get unexpected behavior with it. I tested it with two different clients AppleTV and Roku and only the apple TV seems to respect this setting. I verified both were set to auto for the remote streaming quality. I've also noticed that the Samsung App (Tizen) doesn't seem to respect it either however i don't currently have access to a samsung tv to verify if its set to auto. Are there only certain platforms currently supporting this feature and if so which ones? Thanks! 1
Abobader 3463 Posted January 13 Posted January 13 Hello Benz2411, ** This is an auto reply ** Please wait for someone from staff support or our members to reply to you. It's recommended to provide more info, as it explain in this thread: Thank you. Emby Team
Happy2Play 9780 Posted January 13 Posted January 13 Not sure if clients have been updated to support the new server feature. But you may have to list client version numbers.
shadezero 2 Posted January 13 Posted January 13 Confirmed this behavior on Emby for LG 1.0.49. Works fine in browser.
ebr 16169 Posted January 13 Posted January 13 Your Roku app should have updated last night - supporting this feature. 1
seanbuff 1313 Posted January 21 Posted January 21 On 13/01/2026 at 13:17, Luke said: Hi, yes Emby apps require updating for this feature. @Lukehas support for this been added to the standard Android app? I'm not seeing anything related in the release notes. Thanks.
Luke 42077 Posted January 22 Posted January 22 8 hours ago, seanbuff said: @Lukehas support for this been added to the standard Android app? I'm not seeing anything related in the release notes. Thanks. Hi, yes in the recent builds. 1
seanbuff 1313 Posted January 23 Posted January 23 @Lukecan you also push an update to the iOS app please? That app is notorious for defaulting back to 1mbps on remote cell connections. Thanks. 1
Seger 123 Posted January 23 Posted January 23 @Luke I have another question that goes in the other direction. The “Auto” setting is no longer available on FireTV. At least not when the movie or series is being played. AndroidTv 2.1.29a. I have two Fire TVs from my brother that access my server. Both are Fire TV 4K Max and both are in the same household. The performance is the same. One watches a movie at my place and the transmission runs via Direct Play. The other requests transcoding and gets it (that's okay, my server can do that, all transcoding settings are set for the same user). I didn't want to set the transcoding setting for this user, i.e., 1, 2, 4, or 6 MB/s. I wanted to set it globally to “Auto,” but unfortunately that doesn't work either. If it's not specified via the server, it's set to “auto” if nothing is entered. Then it doesn't make sense to set ‘default’ to “auto” and be able to set it. Do you know anything about my case? Thank you very much! Seger
ebr 16169 Posted January 23 Posted January 23 2 hours ago, Seger said: At least not when the movie or series is being played. AndroidTv Hi. During playback you only see relevant choices for that item. You would set "Auto" in the main app playback settings.
Seger 123 Posted January 23 Posted January 23 5 hours ago, ebr said: Hi. During playback you only see relevant choices for that item. You would set "Auto" in the main app playback settings. But it used to be different, right? I remember seeing “Auto” in the menu. And who decides what's relevant? The FireTV or source file has 3000 kbps, for example, and the client requests transcoding. I go to 4000 kbps in the player and the client requests direct play because the file is also smaller. I think there's a bug there. Another FireTV in the same household with the same source file immediately requests direct play.
ebr 16169 Posted January 24 Posted January 24 18 hours ago, Seger said: But it used to be different, right? No, not in that app. 18 hours ago, Seger said: And who decides what's relevant? The properties of the media in question. 18 hours ago, Seger said: Another FireTV in the same household with the same source file immediately requests direct play Perhaps the settings are different or the conditions. We'd have to look at an example to know. You can also try searching for our standard android app (Just "Emby" on Amazon and "Emby for Android on Google) on the same device's app store and see how that compares. Thanks.
cochize1 55 Posted February 5 Posted February 5 On 13/01/2026 at 03:17, Luke said: Hi, yes Emby apps require updating for this feature. The last Samsung app update is from 2023 so for now this feature will be useless in that case for some time and there is no other way than to ask a user not to set the Samsung tv to auto but some reasonable higher value , am I right?
Luke 42077 Posted February 5 Posted February 5 That or you could ask them to install the latest version via USB. 1
cochize1 55 Posted February 5 Posted February 5 Correct me if I'm wrong, this was implemented in this version? 2.1.7 (08/21/2025) Support new 4.9 server features Since I am seeing my user is using 2.2.8 and I set remote quality to 10 Mbps on the server for him. Am I missing something?
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