How have I managed to avoid Emby for so long?

[Wintersdark 12]

I've run a "cord cut" home theater setup for about a decade, with 3 TV's and (as time progresses) ever more mobile devices.  I've run a variety of software over that time, but primarily XBMC/Kodi based and for most of that with a MySQL backend.

 

This has worked pretty well for me, so I never saw a lot of point in trying other things.  I gave Plex a go, and while I appreciated it's transcoding for my mobile devices (because streaming high bit rate BluRay encodes over a data plan is a terrible thing), it didn't play nice with Kodi and Plex's front end is vastly inferior.  

 

I assumed that Emby would be much the same.  I was wrong.

 

While Emby's front end is much nicer than Plex, I still prefer Kodi on my TV's.  But with my media library (just shy of 20tb) low power devices accessing the MySQL library on my server were very slow.  The Emby for Kodi addon is blindingly fast, and seamless.  It's wonderful.  

 

Being able to have the wired TV's pulling natively from my server, and the mobile devices pulling transcoded streams so the kids can watch cartoons in the car without ravaging my data cap is pure magic.

 

 

 

Anyways, to wrap this up: A sincere thank you to the developers, and the users who've contributed to making Emby the incredibly awesome software it is.

[Luke 42078]

@@Wintersdark thanks for the kind words. Welcome !

[MrWebsmith 598]

great post, thanks for sharing and welcome

[CBers 7450]

Being able to have the wired TV's pulling natively from my server, and the mobile devices pulling transcoded streams so the kids can watch cartoons in the car without ravaging my data cap is pure magic.

 

Don't forget that you can sync items to your tablets and phones, which would save even more of your data !!

[Wintersdark 12]

Don't forget that you can sync items to your tablets and phones, which would save even more of your data !!

Yeah, that's always been an option, but requires forethought and planning - something I tend to lack

 

 

Edit: Can you sync a transcoded version?  As things stand, I rarely move media onto mobile devices because my media is huge (all multi-gb files) and we've got limited storage on said devices as we never really use local device storage for anything.  However, being able to sync a transcoded version would allow us to more easily put, say, a whole series of cartoons onto a tablet at a lower resolution would let us take a lot more with us.

 

I *could* use handbrake and manually do it, but that's suddenly too much work =)

Edited February 2, 2017 by Wintersdark

[Jdiesel 1431]

Yeah, that's always been an option, but requires forethought and planning - something I tend to lack

 

 

Edit: Can you sync a transcoded version?  As things stand, I rarely move media onto mobile devices because my media is huge (all multi-gb files) and we've got limited storage on said devices as we never really use local device storage for anything.  However, being able to sync a transcoded version would allow us to more easily put, say, a whole series of cartoons onto a tablet at a lower resolution would let us take a lot more with us.

 

I *could* use handbrake and manually do it, but that's suddenly too much work =)

Yes you can definitely do this. When Syncing to a device you can pick between Original, High, Medium, Low and Custom bitrates. Works great.

[Wintersdark 12]

Yes you can definitely do this. When Syncing to a device you can pick between Original, High, Medium, Low and Custom bitrates. Works great.

 

Oh, that's just bloody fantastic.  Thanks!