A few initial questions before I choose Emby.

[elsmandino 4]

Hello.

 

I have heard nothing but good things about Emby and I would be grateful for clarification as to a few specific issues before I consider whether it might work for me:

 

1. At the moment, I have a central server that is running Openmediavault, TVHeadend and MYSQL.  All my client's run Kodi and are synced by the MYSQL database.

 

What is the advantage of swapping a MYSQL database for Emby and using the Kodi-Emby addon instead?

 

2. I am just about to move my server from an x86 system to an Odroid HC2 (which is going to be running the system off a 32GB SD Card).  I assume that this is not going to be any issue, in terms of resources?

 

3. Can Emby add videos to the TV and Movie Libraries without scraping them from the internet first?  The reason I ask is that I record a lot of TV and a lot of this does not get scraped by Kodi's scrapers and therefore never appears in the library.

[mastrmind11 722]

Hello.

 

I have heard nothing but good things about Emby and I would be grateful for clarification as to a few specific issues before I consider whether it might work for me:

 

1. At the moment, I have a central server that is running Openmediavault, TVHeadend and MYSQL.  All my client's run Kodi and are synced by the MYSQL database.

 

What is the advantage of swapping a MYSQL database for Emby and using the Kodi-Emby addon instead?

 

2. I am just about to move my server from an x86 system to an Odroid HC2 (which is going to be running the system off a 32GB SD Card).  I assume that this is not going to be any issue, in terms of resources?

 

3. Can Emby add videos to the TV and Movie Libraries without scraping them from the internet first?  The reason I ask is that I record a lot of TV and a lot of this does not get scraped by Kodi's scrapers and therefore never appears in the library.

#1 you don't have to keep the kodi db version in sync, so less individual clients to manage.

#2 depends on whether you have to do any transcoding

#3 if you set the library type to mixed content, it won't scrape.

[elsmandino 4]

Great - thanks for confirming that.

 

I don't need to do any transcoding, so it does sound like Emby is going to be perfect for me.

 

On the last point - so, if I set the content to mixed (so no scraping takes place) and there are no existing NFO files, the file with show up in the library with its current file name e.g. "Only Fools and Horses-S4E1-Happy Returns"?

[Luke 42078]

No for #3 that is not correct. Mixed content does support internet metadata.

 

Pick the right content type for your library, and then disable the metadata providers if that's what you prefer.

[elsmandino 4]

Thank you - Emby sounds like that absolutely perfect solution for me.  In fact, it is a bit overwhelming in terms of what it can offer.

 

I have also noted mention of a TVHeadend plug-in - how, in practice, does this work (i.e. how is it actually implemented into Emby)?

[Luke 42078]

It allows Emby to import live tv channels from your TVHeadend server.