squirrellydw 9 Posted February 21, 2016 Posted February 21, 2016 (edited) So first off WOW, Emby is great. I have been a long time Plex Pass user and I love Plex and never had any issues with it. The problem is they don't support Live TV natively so I thought I would try Emby and blown away with it. You might have a new Premier member soon. Anyhow a few questions. 1. I have my media (Movies and TV Shows) setup and TV Show are great but the Movies not all the data downloaded, almost like it just stopped. I tried rescanning but still nothing, any idea? 2. When clicking on TV shows and Movies instead of it going to "Suggestions" how do you select it to show them all automatically? 3. I run Emby off my unRAID server, and I have my Mac Mini hooked up to my TV. Is there an Emby program I can run on the Mac Mini instead of using the Browser? 4. When browsing my Movies can I increase how many show up on a page, for example Show All? Thanks for any help. Really liking it so far Edited February 21, 2016 by squirrellydw
Deathsquirrel 745 Posted February 21, 2016 Posted February 21, 2016 Probably one of two things, your organization/naming is preventing identification or there is already metadata saved in the folder and emby can't process it. Post a screenshot of the folder containing a problem movie that show the contents of that folder including the movie file name. Not currently configurable. Check out the custom css forum, perhaps it can be done that way. No though eventually I would expect Emby Theater to get ported. During its beta it's Windows-only. Not currently configurable. Check out the custom css forum, it can definitely be done that way. 1
jasonmcroy 316 Posted February 21, 2016 Posted February 21, 2016 Actually, on #3, can you use Kodi with the Emby plugin on a Mac?
Deathsquirrel 745 Posted February 21, 2016 Posted February 21, 2016 Actually, on #3, can you use Kodi with the Emby plugin on a Mac? Probably, yeah. I tend to forget kodi.
squirrellydw 9 Posted February 22, 2016 Author Posted February 22, 2016 I will check this out when I get home. Another question, I was using Plex, still am for somethings for now. 5. Can Emby read the metadata from my files like Plex does? 6. I noticed when I looked at some folders I now have a bunch of NFO and JPG files. What are the NFO files used for? Can these be put in a separate folder?
squirrellydw 9 Posted February 22, 2016 Author Posted February 22, 2016 Probably one of two things, your organization/naming is preventing identification or there is already metadata saved in the folder and emby can't process it. Post a screenshot of the folder containing a problem movie that show the contents of that folder including the movie file name. Not currently configurable. Check out the custom css forum, perhaps it can be done that way. No though eventually I would expect Emby Theater to get ported. During its beta it's Windows-only. Not currently configurable. Check out the custom css forum, it can definitely be done that way. Thank you, I think the problem with number one was a permissions issue.
ebr 16169 Posted February 22, 2016 Posted February 22, 2016 6. I noticed when I looked at some folders I now have a bunch of NFO and JPG files. What are the NFO files used for? Can these be put in a separate folder? There is an option to not save them with the media but we recommend you DO save them with the media. Otherwise, any time you re-install the server or move the media all the data has to be re-acquired and re-built. There is also an option to save them as hidden files. I would suggest using that instead.
squirrellydw 9 Posted February 22, 2016 Author Posted February 22, 2016 thanks I will go with the hidden feature. So on average how much space does this take up? Since I have been using Plex for so long I think that it's all kept in the metadata of the files so I never really gave that a thought?
ebr 16169 Posted February 22, 2016 Posted February 22, 2016 It depends but compared to the media itself, it is usually pretty negligible.
Deathsquirrel 745 Posted February 22, 2016 Posted February 22, 2016 It mostly comes down to the size of the picture files. For example, the metadata and images for Spectre run me about 4MB. You might choose to download a different number of backdrops or skip over thumb and disc images and get a different number...but it won't be much.
Luke 42077 Posted February 24, 2016 Posted February 24, 2016 delete from the emby web interface? did you grant your user the ability to delete media?
squirrellydw 9 Posted February 24, 2016 Author Posted February 24, 2016 (edited) OK I gave my self access to delete but still no option to delete the file Edited February 24, 2016 by squirrellydw
Luke 42077 Posted February 24, 2016 Posted February 24, 2016 Once you do that, the delete functions are all over the interface underneath the various 3-dot menus.
Luke 42077 Posted February 24, 2016 Posted February 24, 2016 can you show a screenshot of what you see?
Luke 42077 Posted February 24, 2016 Posted February 24, 2016 and try the dot menu on the detail screen
squirrellydw 9 Posted February 24, 2016 Author Posted February 24, 2016 and try the dot menu on the detail screen that was it, thanks
squirrellydw 9 Posted February 24, 2016 Author Posted February 24, 2016 downloaded the emby app for IOS but it won't connect, I can see the server but I can't connect to it. Any idea? I have not paid for anything yet, just checking it out.
Luke 42077 Posted February 24, 2016 Posted February 24, 2016 Is your emby server running? how did you try to login, using the emby connect feature, or manually directly to your server?
squirrellydw 9 Posted February 25, 2016 Author Posted February 25, 2016 Yes and I have tried both still not working
Luke 42077 Posted February 25, 2016 Posted February 25, 2016 try doing a manual connection and entering the server ip address on your own.
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