How do I disable trailers in the Android/Fire TV Emby app?

[rcsnoopdog 17]

Hi, I have Emby set up at home so that 2 trailers play before every movie. On my server (Windows), this option is visible under Playback settings.

However, on the Android/Fire TV version of Emby (Firestick 4K), I cannot find any setting to disable or change the “Play trailers before movies” feature.

I need to know:

• Does the Android/Fire TV Emby app support disabling trailers?

• If so, where is the setting located?

• If not, is this feature server‑side only and the Fire TV app simply follows whatever the server is configured to do?

Right now, trailers always play before movies on the Firestick, and I want to turn them off.

Thanks.

[visproduction 375]

I thought the trailer pre-play preference was set by admin on the server and then all users get the trailers in all the same way.  I have not seen an user individual preference setting.  So,  I think the answer is, as admin, change the trailer preference to 0 and no one will get trailers.  If the same trailers appear all the time, I think that is because you only have a couple of trailer media files in trailers subdirectories for media or it could be that you only have a couple of trailers in the preview directory assigned with the admin controls.  Add more trailers media files to stop only the two same trailers appearing.

Edited August 14 by visproduction

[GrimReaper 5201]

41 minutes ago, rcsnoopdog said:

• Does the Android/Fire TV Emby app support disabling trailers?

• If so, where is the setting located?

Settings>Playback tab, untick "Enable Cinema Intros". 

[rcsnoopdog 17]

3 minutes ago, visproduction said:

I thought the trailer pre-play preference was set by admin on the server and then all users get the trailers in all the same way.  I have not seen an user individual preference setting.  So,  I think the answer is, as admin, change the trailer preference to 0 and no one will get trailers.  If the same trailers appear all the time, I think that is because you only have a couple of trailer media files in trailers subdirectories for media or it could be that you only have a couple of trailers in the preview directory assigned with the admin controls.  Add more trailers media files to stop only the two same trailers appearing.

Yes but I want trailers & so do some other users, but some can't stand them being there & having to go next & move straight over to the movie - also I now have a user who is foreign & she has all movies filtered to her language but seeing trailers for movies she can't watch is rather annoying for her & also I would say another problem for her & me as admin is there is no way to filter tv shows by subtitle only the episodes so I have a separate folder for her & if I know a whole tv show has her subtitles the whole way through I add that tv show to her folder & add that folder to the original tv show folder so everyone else who can speak English can see it  

[rcsnoopdog 17]

16 minutes ago, GrimReaper said:

Settings>Playback tab, untick "Enable Cinema Intros". 

Thank you GrimReaper - I never seen that 

Another problem for my foreign User & me as admin is there is no way to filter tv shows by subtitle only the episodes so I have a separate folder for her & if I know a whole tv show has her subtitles the whole way through I add that tv show to her folder & add that folder to the original tv show folder so everyone else who can speak English can see

Is there a way around this I don't know about or should I mark this as solved an open another post 

Edited August 14 by rcsnoopdog

[ebr 16937]

25 minutes ago, rcsnoopdog said:

Thank you GrimReaper - I never seen that 

Another problem for my foreign User & me as admin is there is no way to filter tv shows by subtitle only the episodes so I have a separate folder for her & if I know a whole tv show has her subtitles the whole way through I add that tv show to her folder & add that folder to the original tv show folder so everyone else who can speak English can see

Is there a way around this I don't know about or should I mark this as solved an open another post 

The user can search for subtitles at the time of playback if they aren't there.

[rcsnoopdog 17]

4 minutes ago, ebr said:

29 minutes ago, rcsnoopdog said:

Thank you GrimReaper - I never seen that 

Another problem for my foreign User & me as admin is there is no way to filter tv shows by subtitle only the episodes so I have a separate folder for her & if I know a whole tv show has her subtitles the whole way through I add that tv show to her folder & add that folder to the original tv show folder so everyone else who can speak English can see

Is there a way around this I don't know about or should I mark this as solved an open another post 

The user can search for subtitles at the time of playback if they aren't there.

Thanks for the reply. Just to confirm - is there currently no way to filter TV shows by subtitle language at the series level?

Right now I can only filter episodes, which doesn’t help when trying to identify full shows that contain Ukrainian subtitles throughout.

I’m using a workaround where I place Ukrainian‑subtitle shows into a separate folder for my foreign user. I just want to know if Emby officially supports subtitle filtering for TV shows, or if this is a limitation of the current system.

Thanks.

 

[GrimReaper 5201]

7 minutes ago, rcsnoopdog said:

Just to confirm - is there currently no way to filter TV shows by subtitle language at the series level?

Right now I can only filter episodes, which doesn’t help when trying to identify full shows that contain Ukrainian subtitles throughout.

TV Shows are collection of items (episodes) and have no media properties per-se (like movies & episodes do) so you can't filter them by any media (video/audio/subtitle stream) property.

The best you could do is get a visual indicator on poster (with EmbyIcons plugin) which can show an icon on the poster if all nested episodes have certain language subs. 

Edited August 14 by GrimReaper

[rcsnoopdog 17]

4 minutes ago, GrimReaper said:

TV Shows are collection of items (episodes) per-se and have no media properties (like movies & episodes do) so you can't filter them by any media (video/audio/subtitle stream) property.

The best you could do is get a visual indicator on poster (with EmbyIcons plugin) which can show an icon on the poster if all nested episodes have certain language subs. 

You seem to know everything GrimReaper & a cool name to boot - on the plugin it says 

Plugins built by Emby community members are a great way to enhance your Emby experience with additional features and benefits. Before installing, please be aware of the effects they may have on your Emby Server, such as longer library scans, additional background processing and decreased system stability.

Please click OK to confirm you've read the above and wish to proceed with the plug-in installation 

Is it really intensive as my set up is Windows 11 PC with an i5‑9400F, 16GB RAM, and about 30TB of storage across multiple 2.7–3.6TB hard drives, all plugged into four USB SATA docks — three dual‑bay docks and one single‑bay dock — merged together into one big DrivePool (L:).

[GrimReaper 5201]

LOL not everything, but I'm somewhat familiar.  Thanks, btw.

As with any other plugin: it is impossible to test behavior under every conceivable setup so YMMV, but said plugin generally shouldn't have noticeable impact on your server as it only overlays/enhances posters with desired icons. Anyway, you can read through the plugin thread and decide for yourself whether to proceed with installation:

 

[rcsnoopdog 17]

42 minutes ago, GrimReaper said:

LOL not everything, but I'm somewhat familiar.  Thanks, btw.

As with any other plugin: it is impossible to test behavior under every conceivable setup so YMMV, but said plugin generally shouldn't have noticeable impact on your server as it only overlays/enhances posters with desired icons. Anyway, you can read through the plugin thread and decide for yourself whether to proceed with installation:

 

Have you used this plug - in as I thought it would just be happening in preview and would not do anything until i hit save - will these sub language images come off my posters again as I do not like this 

[rcsnoopdog 17]

1 hour ago, GrimReaper said:

LOL not everything, but I'm somewhat familiar.  Thanks, btw.

As with any other plugin: it is impossible to test behavior under every conceivable setup so YMMV, but said plugin generally shouldn't have noticeable impact on your server as it only overlays/enhances posters with desired icons. Anyway, you can read through the plugin thread and decide for yourself whether to proceed with installation:

 

Sorry for bothering you - figured out that they do come off, just I am from Northern Ireland & so are my users mostly & having nearly ever poster covered in union jacks is a no go , any way to just have it just show an icon for a specific language 

[GrimReaper 5201]

30 minutes ago, rcsnoopdog said:

any way to just have it just show an icon for a specific language 

You can put any image you like and name it appropriately, it doesn't have to be a flag. Personally, I'm using material icon Closed Captions (CC), but as said, you can literally use any image you fancy. 

[GrimReaper 5201]

37 minutes ago, rcsnoopdog said:

Have you used this plug - in as I thought it would just be happening in preview and would not do anything until i hit save - will these sub language images come off my posters again as I do not like this 

You can clear cache and all posters will be redrawn without icons. 

[visproduction 375]

2 hours ago, rcsnoopdog said:

Yes but I want trailers & so do some other users, but some can't stand them being there & having to go next & move straight over to the movie - also I now have a user who is foreign & she has all movies filtered to her language but seeing trailers for movies she can't watch is rather annoying for her & also I would say another problem for her & me as admin is there is no way to filter tv shows by subtitle only the episodes so I have a separate folder for her & if I know a whole tv show has her subtitles the whole way through I add that tv show to her folder & add that folder to the original tv show folder so everyone else who can speak English can see it  

 I have around 75% of media content with actual custom trailers files and I've noticed that trailers match the genre and release date of whatever main content a user chooses.  If I choose a foreign film to watch then the trailer previews will be mostly foreign.  I think having many actual trailer content helps get the experience closer to what you mentioned. Of course, it's a lot of work to find so many trailers of decent quality especially difficult when many sites protect even trailer downloads.  There are some sites that do not.  Even the production owner of trailer content is often fine with whomever grabs a copy.  It is promoting their media.

[rcsnoopdog 17]

32 minutes ago, visproduction said:

 I have around 75% of media content with actual custom trailers files and I've noticed that trailers match the genre and release date of whatever main content a user chooses.  If I choose a foreign film to watch then the trailer previews will be mostly foreign.  I think having many actual trailer content helps get the experience closer to what you mentioned. Of course, it's a lot of work to find so many trailers of decent quality especially difficult when many sites protect even trailer downloads.  There are some sites that do not.  Even the production owner of trailer content is often fine with whomever grabs a copy.  It is promoting their media.

I am not talking about a foreign film if i were there would be no need for subtitles 

[visproduction 375]

I wasn't clear.  That was just an example.  If you have a lot of trailer copies in every media / trailers subdirectory, then the user choice of media gets trailers that are similar.  For your user who has whatever foreign preference might then get trailers that match their preferences. I know that is not what you asked to do, but I just wanted to mention that having a lot of actually trailers results in more targeted trailer choices.   It's not an answer of how to turn trailers off, per user. You are also asking about a language trailer preference, which is a different issue.  If you don't like my answer above, just ignore it.

[rcsnoopdog 17]

8 minutes ago, visproduction said:

I wasn't clear.  That was just an example.  If you have a lot of trailer copies in every media / trailers subdirectory, then the user choice of media gets trailers that are similar.  For your user who has whatever foreign preference might then get trailers that match their preferences. I know that is not what you asked to do, but I just wanted to mention that having a lot of actually trailers results in more targeted trailer choices.   It's not an answer of how to turn trailers off, per user. You are also asking about a language trailer preference, which is a different issue.  If you don't like my answer above, just ignore it.

I know man - I hear you but been using EMBY for a very long time & already new this, sorry if i was flippant, its for a family of Ukrainians I have been helping out & I have spent all day since 10am working to get an old ps3 & Wii up & running for them and my patience is completely gone, this on a firestick was also something else i wanted to give them but don't matter as GrimReaper sorted it with removing the trailers altogether with unchecking intros - there collection of movies & tv shows got rather small when I filtered just the ones with Ukrainian subs but still plenty just did not want to tease with movies they cant really watch, they are young girls aged 5 & 6 , anyways with this - the ps3 & wii considering they have never even played or heard of a game console there minds should be considerable blown, I would imagine they wont even stick on emby , anyways my mind is completely melted because of it all & may have come across in my message  - sorry    

[visproduction 375]

Aha...  The only other thing I can mention that might help is that you do have control over which libraries each user can see.  If you limit the children only to libraries of family and children type of media, then when they login that should be all they see. Their adult parent can login with their user name and see other libraries.  I am not sure if trailers would also sort correctly in for kids with limited access to only their libraries.  Then the subtitles is whole other issue. It is tricky.

Hope that helps.

[no6mis 2]

The trailer feature urgently needs to be revised, particularly when it comes to parental controls and child profiles.

There absolutely needs to be an option for administrators to completely disable trailers for specific user profiles, without having to disable them globally for everyone.

Currently, Emby does not appear to reliably ensure that trailers respect the parental restrictions configured for a user.

For example, the following trailer was played in a child's profile restricted to content suitable for ages 6 and up (FSK 6 under the German age-rating system):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDW5hvFB7mY

This is completely unacceptable!

What's the point of configuring parental controls if children can still be exposed to inappropriate content through automatically played trailers?

At a minimum, Emby needs to provide:

• A server-side option to disable trailers entirely on a per-user basis.
• Proper enforcement of parental restrictions for any trailers that are played.
• A fail-safe mechanism that prevents trailers from playing in restricted profiles when their age appropriateness cannot be reliably determined.

Disabling Cinema Intros manually on individual devices or disabling trailers globally is not an adequate solution.

Parental controls must apply to all content, including trailers, without exceptions.

I strongly urge the Emby team to treat this as a priority, as it is a child safety issue rather than merely a missing convenience feature.

[Luke 43389]

30 minutes ago, no6mis said:

The trailer feature urgently needs to be revised, particularly when it comes to parental controls and child profiles.

There absolutely needs to be an option for administrators to completely disable trailers for specific user profiles, without having to disable them globally for everyone.

Currently, Emby does not appear to reliably ensure that trailers respect the parental restrictions configured for a user.

For example, the following trailer was played in a child's profile restricted to content suitable for ages 6 and up (FSK 6 under the German age-rating system):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDW5hvFB7mY

This is completely unacceptable!

What's the point of configuring parental controls if children can still be exposed to inappropriate content through automatically played trailers?

At a minimum, Emby needs to provide:

• A server-side option to disable trailers entirely on a per-user basis.
• Proper enforcement of parental restrictions for any trailers that are played.
• A fail-safe mechanism that prevents trailers from playing in restricted profiles when their age appropriateness cannot be reliably determined.

Disabling Cinema Intros manually on individual devices or disabling trailers globally is not an adequate solution.

Parental controls must apply to all content, including trailers, without exceptions.

I strongly urge the Emby team to treat this as a priority, as it is a child safety issue rather than merely a missing convenience feature.

HI, did you enable the parental control option on cinema intros ?

[Jmackay82 77]

Details for correctly setting up the trailers is here
Cinema Intros | Emby Documentation

[no6mis 2]

4 minutes ago, Luke said:

HI, did you enable the parental control option on cinema intros ?

Yes.

[Luke 43389]

OK please find a trailer that played that you think should not have played. Then search for it and locate that trailer in your web interface. Does it have a rating assigned ?What is it?

[no6mis 2]

3 minutes ago, Luke said:

OK please find a trailer that played that you think should not have played. Then search for it and locate that trailer in your web interface. Does it have a rating assigned ?What is it?

I located the trailer in the Emby web interface, and it is indeed assigned an FSK 0 rating (suitable for all ages in Germany). However, this rating is clearly incorrect for the trailer that was actually played.

It appears that the scraper matched the YouTube video's title to Disney's animated movie "The Little Mermaid (1989)" (https://www.imdb.com/de/title/tt0097757/) and incorrectly applied its FSK 0 rating to the trailer for "The Little Mermaid (2024)" (https://www.imdb.com/de/title/tt27722894/), which is actually a horror movie.

For what it's worth, the original 1989 Disney movie is also present in my Emby library, in case that is relevant to how the scraper identifies and matches trailers.

This is exactly the problem I'm concerned about.

I cannot rely on the scraper always identifying the correct movie and assigning the appropriate age rating. Even a single incorrect match can expose children to completely inappropriate content, despite the parental restrictions configured for their profiles.

This is why we absolutely need a server-side option to completely disable trailers for individual user profiles, regardless of their assigned ratings.

Improving the scraper's accuracy is certainly important, but it does not solve the underlying issue. No automated metadata matching system can guarantee 100% accuracy, and parental controls should never depend entirely on that assumption.

For child profiles, parents must have the ability to disable trailers altogether. This should be a basic parental control setting, consistently enforced across all Emby clients.