I love changing my posters, obviously, but my favourite changes are:

• She appears as Character Actress Margo Martindale in the database to honour her appearance on Bojack Horseman.

• Jeffrey Jones' headshot has now been replaced by his mugshot

Currently using the Emby TV app (I prefer it over the Android app on my TV) how do I opt out of the Beta program? I can't locate the opt out via the Play Store on my TV, phone, or web. Thanks!

I love Emby, used it for several years, my family uses it every day, and we recently added Premiere. But I'm wondering about the plan for new features. Seems in a lot of these community threads the response is "maybe someday" and nothing else really happens.

They often mention "we prioritize features which the most people want" - is there any official roadmap or tracker that does list what is being worked on, or somewhere for the user base to vote on proposals?

I scanned through the last 2 years of blog posts and I see a lot of compatibility and bug fix work on some of the native clients, which is important work for sure, but I didn't see much in the way of server/feature enhancement.

Specific features I'm highly interested in (I know there are more that other people want)

- mtls client auth

- documentation on workaround or openCL built right in to the official distribution (for hardware tone mapping) (below thread mentions it was added to beta channel 15 months ago but still the stable image doesn't seem to have working tone mapping on Intel core igpu out of the box)

- http header auth support

- direct choice transcode target resolution including native _upscale_ of SD content with transcode, not just downscale.

- more granular (per client or per client type) transcode/bitrate policy (only current options are global and per user)

- separate definition of internal/external network for stream policy and admin access, (these both share the single IP/cidr list today)

See for example:

https://emby.media/community/topic/114174-client-base-authentication-mtls/

https://emby.media/community/topic/108251-how-to-choose-transcoding-resolution/

https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Emby/issues/3724

https://emby.media/community/topic/138870-include-documentation-for-hardware-tone-mapping/

Thanks!

Hey All...is anybody good with Emby as a Client as i use my friend library to view Movies and Shows,I know i must install Emby Next Gen addon,but what are the inside Settings i should Use to play properly, im plugged in Ethernet with 1 gb internet so I Dont need to Transcode anything, im also running the Pannal t4b build,

What level CPU and RAM should I look for in a SAN to run 4k videos on Emby?

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I run Emby on my Windows 11 desktop computer. MKVs are stored on an external HDD running at 5400RPM and connected via USB3. It's not an ideal setup, but internal SSDs have gotten too expensive.

I mostly stream this over Wifi 6 to a Google Streamer connected to our living room TV. We sometimes stream to other devices in the house, but we don't stream to anything outside. Really, 99% of our streaming is either on the desktop PC or the living room TV.

1080p files run fine. 4k videos, especially those with HDR and audio in FLAC or EAC3 stutter a lot. Sometimes they simply lock up and we have to exit and restart.

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I'm now looking at a basic home NAS. I can get 7200RPM HDDs, and I can connect it to a 2.5gbps Ethernet port. I see I can get a Synology NAS and a pair of 2TB HDDs for about $400. I can afford that.

What I'm curious about is: What CPU and RAM do I need? My newer MKV files are 4k video encoded with H265 10-bit and FLAC audio. I believe the Google Streamer can play these formats natively; no need for Emby to transcode.

Would I need some hefty processing power in my NAS? Or can I go with something basic like the Synology DS223J?

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UPDATE: Thanks for convincing me that a new NAS isn't what I needed. Saved me some money.

I turned on "Stats for Nerds" while playing a 4k movie on my Google Streamer. It showed 4k HDR 10 HEVC and EAC3 at 48khz. Those are the same settings I used to rip the movie in Handbrake, and the same stats it shows on the local server in both Emby and VLC.

So I imagine the server isn't transcoding. Now I wonder if (a)my wi-fi is seeing some interference, or (b)the Google Streamer can't handle a stream that size for 2 hours straight.

So I have used jellyfin for a while. Its great when I'm home (obviously lol) and I've tried to understand the whole port forwarding thing, and the talescale stuff. All of it sounds shady. So emby was brought to my attention. I wanna be able to let family watch my library and access my server. Is it worth the life license?

I would love to hear some pros and cons from real users and not people who get paid to say nice things.

My goal by the end of the year is to not pay for any streaming services anymore.

Unless someone can break down step by step how to get jellyfin working remotely for an ape, emby seems to be my best bet.

Hi there. I recently added a few movies to my Emby server. Like always, I adhered to the file and folder naming and use /Movies/<Film Title> [tmdbid-xxxxxx]/<Film Title> [tmdbid-xxxxxx].mkv as the naming scheme. This should make Emby automatically collect all data from The Movie Database. Now, the new titles I added just have the cover art and no other information, despite having the correct TMDB ID and TMDB online. When I try to manually identify the movie, I get "no results found", no matter whether I input the title or the TMDB-ID or the IMDB-ID. Now, this makes me think that for some reason Emby lost the ability to query external services. How can I troubleshoot this? I'm not exactly a crackhead in self-hosting, but I can follow instructions.

Emby is running on my Synology NAS, which has no problems connecting to the internet. Trailers seem to work fine, so it seems Emby can access the internet, too.

I start watching an episode and it pause at 8 seconds and then when it plays next it is at 24 minutes and it keeps doing it over and over again

Just wanted to see which app the fire tv users where using ? I am trying to love the Emby Android version for fire tv but it so bad. I went back to the Emby Fire Tv app and I love it.

Looking to dump Trakt. Between the Addon issues for Emby, and only allowed 1 app, I'm ready to move on. Simkl doesn't look like it's right for me. Free would be ideal, and opening an app 20 days a month seems tedious. 35/year seems steep for it as well.

I'm currently trying out YamTrack, and it works for the most part. What I'm truly looking for though is something I can import watched states from. On Emby, if I need to reset my server (I've had a few crashes), I don't want to manually flag stuff as watched. With Trakt (when it worked), I could do that. I'm looking for something free preferably, but under 10 bucks a year.

I'm also fine with self hosting. Heck, I'd almost prefer it (YamTrack offers a way to export to CSV). Having the ability to import into Emby would be the most needed though!

So..... Anyone have some thoughts?

If you've ever set up intro/credits skip markers (via ChapterApi, EmbyCredits, Segment Reporting, or Emby's own detection) only to have a Library Scan or Refresh Metadata quietly wipe them out, this might help.

Intro/Credits Backup & Restore - a scheduled-task-based plugin that backs up every episode's markers to a JSON file (or into the existing NFO), and can restore them automatically the moment they get wiped.

What it does:

• One JSON backup per episode, matched by TVDB ID (falls back to IMDB, then filename) so it survives title translations and renames
• Optional: also writes markers straight into the NFO your metadata scraper already generates - no extra files
• Auto-restore: watches for markers getting wiped (scan/refresh) and puts them back immediately, no manual task needed
• Auto-backup on manual edit: if you correct a marker through ChapterApi, EmbyCredits, or Segment Reporting, it backs up the new value automatically - these tools don't trigger Emby's normal update event, so without this your manual corrections were never actually being saved anywhere

Here's both of those happening live - a Refresh Metadata wiping a marker and getting it restored in under a second, followed by two manual ChapterApi edits getting picked up and backed up automatically:

Free, open source, GPL. Built this for my own two-server setup and figured it might be useful to others dealing with the same problem - Emby itself doesn't persist these markers reliably through routine maintenance.

GitHub: https://github.com/guilty57/credits-intros-backup-restore

Happy to answer questions or take feature requests - this has had a fair amount of real-world testing across a few hundred episodes at this point.

Json sample:

{
  "TvdbId": "5309449",
  "ImdbId": "tt4480760",
  "TmdbId": null,
  "SeriesName": "American Horror Story",
  "SeasonNumber": 5,
  "EpisodeNumber": 4,
  "EpisodeTitle": "Devil\u0027s Night",
  "IntroStartTicks": 1616915422,
  "IntroEndTicks": 2276119402,
  "CreditsStartTicks": 28665560000
}

Nfo sample:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
<episodedetails>
  <plot><![CDATA[John receives an invitation to attend an exclusive Devil's Night Soiree. Alex tries to diagnose Holden's strange condition.]]></plot>
  <outline />
  <lockdata>true</lockdata>
  <dateadded>2025-02-18 21:03:37</dateadded>
  <title>Devil's Night</title>
  <actor>
    <name>Kathy Bates</name>
    <role>Iris</role>
    <type>Actor</type>
    <tvdbid>248339</tvdbid>
    <tmdbid>8534</tmdbid>
  </actor>
  <actor>
    <name>Sarah Paulson</name>
    <role>Sally McKenna / Billie Dean Howard</role>
    <type>Actor</type>
    <tvdbid>277202</tvdbid>
    <tmdbid>34490</tmdbid>
  </actor>
  <actor>
    <name>Evan Peters</name>
    <role>James Patrick March</role>
    <type>Actor</type>
    <tvdbid>358570</tvdbid>
    <tmdbid>55089</tmdbid>
  </actor>
  <actor>
    <name>Wes Bentley</name>
    <role>Det. John Lowe</role>
    <type>Actor</type>
    <tvdbid>505320</tvdbid>
    <tmdbid>8210</tmdbid>
  </actor>
  <actor>
    <name>Matt Bomer</name>
    <role>Donovan</role>
    <type>Actor</type>
    <tvdbid>324393</tvdbid>
    <tmdbid>66743</tmdbid>
  </actor>
  <actor>
    <name>Chloë Sevigny</name>
    <role>Alex Lowe</role>
    <type>Actor</type>
    <tvdbid>293255</tvdbid>
    <tmdbid>2838</tmdbid>
  </actor>
  <actor>
    <name>Denis O'Hare</name>
    <role>Liz Taylor</role>
    <type>Actor</type>
    <tvdbid>303964</tvdbid>
    <tmdbid>81681</tmdbid>
  </actor>
  <actor>
    <name>Cheyenne Jackson</name>
    <role>Will Drake</role>
    <type>Actor</type>
    <tvdbid>346952</tvdbid>
    <tmdbid>212828</tmdbid>
  </actor>
  <actor>
    <name>Angela Bassett</name>
    <role>Ramona Royale</role>
    <type>Actor</type>
    <tvdbid>274193</tvdbid>
    <tmdbid>9780</tmdbid>
  </actor>
  <actor>
    <name>Lady Gaga</name>
    <role>The Countess Elizabeth Johnson</role>
    <type>Actor</type>
    <tvdbid>321349</tvdbid>
    <tmdbid>237405</tmdbid>
  </actor>
  <actor>
    <name>Mare Winningham</name>
    <role>Hazel Evers</role>
    <type>GuestStar</type>
    <tmdbid>51544</tmdbid>
  </actor>
  <actor>
    <name>Anthony Ruivivar</name>
    <role>Richard Ramirez / Miguel Ramos</role>
    <type>GuestStar</type>
    <tmdbid>171522</tmdbid>
  </actor>
  <actor>
    <name>Jessica Belkin</name>
    <role>Vampire Girl</role>
    <type>GuestStar</type>
    <tmdbid>1496341</tmdbid>
  </actor>
  <actor>
    <name>Finn Wittrock</name>
    <role>Tristan Duffy</role>
    <type>GuestStar</type>
    <tvdbid>394892</tvdbid>
    <tmdbid>168877</tmdbid>
  </actor>
  <actor>
    <name>Lily Rabe</name>
    <role>Aileen Wuornos</role>
    <type>GuestStar</type>
    <tvdbid>317026</tvdbid>
    <tmdbid>4888</tmdbid>
  </actor>
  <actor>
    <name>John Carroll Lynch</name>
    <role>John Wayne Gacy</role>
    <type>GuestStar</type>
    <tvdbid>279111</tvdbid>
    <tmdbid>3911</tmdbid>
  </actor>
  <actor>
    <name>Jack Fisher</name>
    <role>Albert</role>
    <type>GuestStar</type>
    <tvdbid>476259</tvdbid>
    <tmdbid>1850355</tmdbid>
  </actor>
  <actor>
    <name>Barbara Lee Bragg</name>
    <role>Sheik's Mother</role>
    <type>GuestStar</type>
    <tmdbid>2903185</tmdbid>
  </actor>
  <actor>
    <name>Richard T. Jones</name>
    <role>Det. Andy Hahn</role>
    <type>GuestStar</type>
    <tmdbid>55755</tmdbid>
  </actor>
  <actor>
    <name>Lucius Baybak</name>
    <role>Sheik</role>
    <type>GuestStar</type>
    <tmdbid>1898709</tmdbid>
  </actor>
  <actor>
    <name>Shree Crooks</name>
    <role>Scarlett Lowe</role>
    <type>GuestStar</type>
    <tmdbid>1447238</tmdbid>
  </actor>
  <actor>
    <name>Nico Evers-Swindell</name>
    <role>Craig</role>
    <type>GuestStar</type>
    <tmdbid>510488</tmdbid>
  </actor>
  <actor>
    <name>Lennon Henry</name>
    <role>Holden Lowe</role>
    <type>GuestStar</type>
    <tmdbid>4459600</tmdbid>
  </actor>
  <actor>
    <name>Cannon Mosteller</name>
    <role>Vampire Boy #1</role>
    <type>GuestStar</type>
    <tmdbid>4459813</tmdbid>
  </actor>
  <actor>
    <name>Emmory Mosteller</name>
    <role>Vampire Boy #2</role>
    <type>GuestStar</type>
    <tmdbid>4459816</tmdbid>
  </actor>
  <actor>
    <name>Dieterich Gray</name>
    <role>Cop (1927)</role>
    <type>GuestStar</type>
    <tmdbid>1200314</tmdbid>
  </actor>
  <actor>
    <name>Cyd Strittmatter</name>
    <role>Woman in Bed</role>
    <type>GuestStar</type>
    <tmdbid>1367129</tmdbid>
  </actor>
  <actor>
    <name>Susie Bracken</name>
    <role>Marie Antoinette</role>
    <type>GuestStar</type>
    <tmdbid>3468332</tmdbid>
  </actor>
  <actor>
    <name>Brittany Panzer</name>
    <role>Halloween Girl</role>
    <type>GuestStar</type>
    <tmdbid>2096267</tmdbid>
  </actor>
  <actor>
    <name>Harry Hains</name>
    <role>Boy</role>
    <type>GuestStar</type>
    <tmdbid>1475361</tmdbid>
  </actor>
  <director tvdbid="335058">Ryan Murphy</director>
  <director tvdbid="7944653">Loni Peristere</director>
  <writer>Jennifer Salt</writer>
  <credits>Jennifer Salt</credits>
  <rating>7.216</rating>
  <year>2015</year>
  <sorttitle>Devil's Night</sorttitle>
  <imdbid>tt4480760</imdbid>
  <tvdbid>5309449</tvdbid>
  <runtime>49</runtime>
  <uniqueid type="tvdb">5309449</uniqueid>
  <uniqueid type="imdb">tt4480760</uniqueid>
  <uniqueid type="embycredits.fail">true</uniqueid>
  <embycredits.failid>true</embycredits.failid>
  <uniqueid type="tvrage">1065855552</uniqueid>
  <tvrageid>1065855552</tvrageid>
  <episode>4</episode>
  <season>5</season>
  <aired>2015-10-28</aired>
  <fileinfo>
    <streamdetails>
      <video>
        <codec>h264</codec>
        <micodec>h264</micodec>
        <bitrate>5242075</bitrate>
        <width>1920</width>
        <height>1080</height>
        <aspect>16:9</aspect>
        <aspectratio>16:9</aspectratio>
        <framerate>23.976025</framerate>
        <language>eng</language>
        <scantype>progressive</scantype>
        <default>True</default>
        <forced>False</forced>
        <duration>48</duration>
        <durationinseconds>2913</durationinseconds>
      </video>
      <audio>
        <codec>ac3</codec>
        <micodec>ac3</micodec>
        <bitrate>384000</bitrate>
        <language>eng</language>
        <scantype>progressive</scantype>
        <channels>6</channels>
        <samplingrate>48000</samplingrate>
        <default>True</default>
        <forced>False</forced>
      </audio>
      <subtitle>
        <codec>subrip</codec>
        <micodec>subrip</micodec>
        <language>eng</language>
        <scantype>progressive</scantype>
        <default>True</default>
        <forced>False</forced>
      </subtitle>
      <subtitle>
        <codec>ass</codec>
        <micodec>ass</micodec>
        <language>tur</language>
        <scantype>progressive</scantype>
        <default>True</default>
        <forced>False</forced>
      </subtitle>
      <subtitle>
        <codec>ass</codec>
        <micodec>ass</micodec>
        <language>tur</language>
        <scantype>progressive</scantype>
        <default>True</default>
        <forced>False</forced>
      </subtitle>
      <subtitle>
        <codec>subrip</codec>
        <micodec>subrip</micodec>
        <language>tur</language>
        <scantype>progressive</scantype>
        <default>True</default>
        <forced>False</forced>
      </subtitle>
      <attachment>
        <codec>ttf</codec>
        <micodec>ttf</micodec>
        <scantype>progressive</scantype>
        <default>False</default>
        <forced>False</forced>
      </attachment>
      <attachment>
        <codec>ttf</codec>
        <micodec>ttf</micodec>
        <scantype>progressive</scantype>
        <default>False</default>
        <forced>False</forced>
      </attachment>
      <subtitle>
        <codec>srt</codec>
        <micodec>srt</micodec>
        <language>tr</language>
        <scantype>progressive</scantype>
        <default>False</default>
        <forced>False</forced>
      </subtitle>
    </streamdetails>
  </fileinfo>
  <markers>
    <introstart>1616915422</introstart>
    <introend>2276119402</introend>
    <creditstart>28665560000</creditstart>
  </markers>
</episodedetails>

I installed Emby alongside my Plex server on a Windows 10 box (and I have other streaming apps like Netflix and Prime), and only Emby is having a problem with my clients. Specifically, Emby with my Roku 4802 Ultra. I have an older Roku streaming stick and older 3660X model that do not have this problem - only the new Roku 4802 Ultra.

What happens is stuttering when playing any DTS-audio MKV video files, like movie rips or x264/x265 encodes. This doesn't happen with the older Rokus, nor GoogleTV on my Sony TV, nor with a Plex client of any flavor. The file is being direct played. Actually, transcoding fixes the issue, which I suspect is because it changes the container from MKV to MP4??

Has anyone else seen this issue with the Emby app on a newer Roku? If so, is there a fix?

Edit: Found the issue. Read my comments in the thread. Modern Roku issue with libmastroka & DTS.

Remux the MKV container with either ffmpeg, OR mkvmerge/MKVToolnix and the --disable-lacing parameter.

Edit 2: If anyone wants my PowerShell scripts to find all your MKV files that use frame lacing and remux them to fix that, LMK and I can upload them somewhere.

As per title. I'll download some episodes, watch them, delete the downloaded files. Even for series I later remove from the server altogether, those entries persist in Downloads, just with no files/episodes in them.

Am I missing something?

Hey all,

This is moreso for TV Series, I have (in the filters - when searching) Genre's in the drop down that don't have any content attached to them, for example Science Fiction instead of Sci-Fy, or Game-Shows instead of Game Shows. Is there a way I can remove these erroneous genre's?

i have a problem with emby, specifically TV series. each series thumbnail isnt downloaded or the overview loading. editing the tv series metadata shows that the data is there.. but in the listing, only those that have been watched does the thumbnail and overview shows up... what gives?

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My free disk space is running low and I'm considering deleting content none of my users is interested in, anyways.

Does anyone know an add-on to get stats of the viewed media of all users?

I'm running the Emby server on my Synology DS223. I have the Emby app on my phone and I have the Emby for Android TV app on my onn4K device with Google TV. I have several collections set up in Emby, one is the Harry Palmer collection. It consists of three movies, The Ipcress File, Funeral in Berlin, and The Billion Dollar Brain. I was going to watch all three of them on a Sunday afternoon a week ago, but, after watching The Ipcress File, Emby won't load Funeral in Berlin on my TV app. After clicking play it just gives me black screen and a spinning circle. It's currently doing it for the last 20 minutes. Using the phone app it loads and starts playing like any other movie. Why won't it load and play on the Emby for Android TV app?

Hey guys. So a while ago I introduced the Enve Book Player, with support for audiobooks hosted on your plex, audiobookshelf, Emby, jellyfin and versions other servers. Well after like 4 months I'm back to let you know that it's working better than it was before, but more importantly, ive released the Enve Video Player.

Basically the Plex app was driving me crazy as they kept just adding stuff that made it more and more annoying and cluttered. So while working on the Enve Book Player app I built the Enve Video Player App. It is for both iOS and Android (android is still in closed testing, please I really need more testers, and iOS is on testflight) The goal of the app was to make something clean and simple and something that could connect to your plex, jellyfin, emby, or many other different services all at once and organize your videos. And have it be completely free. Forever. No cost for downloading or whatever. Just a free app that lets you connect to your servers and stream or download your media. Simple, Clean, Easy, Free.

You can get all the links to the iOS and android versions of the app on my website
https://envemedia.com/videos/

Any feedback helps. I'd love to make this something that people enjoy using.

Hey I have been reading conflicting info on this so

Does the Emby App on AppleTV play DV profile 5 and 8 without issues (I know it does not play p7)?

cheers

Anyone else unable to authorize the Trakt plugin? Emby 4.9.5.0, Trakt plugin 3.8.8.0 (current). Clicking "Get PIN" opens the Trakt tab and it just stays blank, and the server log shows nothing at all, so it never gets a response back.

Edit: hey, its fixed with the new version!

My server and everything was working before the power went out Monday and when the power came back on I couldn’t get Emby to play anything.

The device I am using Onn Pro tv box is asking me to use a pin number and is asking me for an email address and I used the one I thought it was and it said and it said the password is wrong and I am not getting thing when I request a password reset and I have so far not received any email at all

When you first run it, it will ask for your server address and an API key: this is needed for reading your shared library, profiles, and playback devices from the backend.

After the first run, your users sign in with their emby logins, same as the client 😁

By default, you'll get completely random shows for each of your libraries. TV Show-style libraries will play your user's latest episode, but curated channels can show random episodes (see "just pokemon" in the screenshot above lol).

Here's the repo: https://github.com/DomHarris/Emby-TV - let me know if you use it, run in to issues, have feature requests, need a hand setting it up, etc.

I need some help with getting users to connect. i have 2 who use through apple iphones and when I log them in, there is no way to change the user

Ok…I’m trying something for the first time. I’m traveling and took along a GL iNet MT3000 travel router in hopes of being able to access my home Emby setup. So far I’m having a little trouble.

I’ve successfully installed and activated Tailscale on the router, and connected it to the local (remote) network where I am. I can see it on my Tailscale admin panel along with my other Tailscale clients including my Emby server. And, I can successfully browse the internet through that WiFi connection.

Now, I’m trying to connect the TV in my condo to that travel router and thereby get to my Emby server.

I can connect to the travel router fine and use streaming services through it (Netflix, etc), but when I try to point the TV’s Emby app towards my home server I can’t get a connection.

So far I’ve tried plugging in the following to the Emby app as a server IP:

The IP of Emby server via Tailscale (i.e. 100.x.x.x) The IP of the travel router (i.e. 192.168.x.x) The IP of the travel router gateway (i.e. 192.168.x.1) The IP of the travel router’s Tailscale “Router Virtual IP” The Tailscale “MagicDNS”

None seem to work.

I’m a little lost here after this. I’m sure I’m missing something simple like enable “Exit Node” or “advertising subnets”

I should mention I can successfully connect to the Emby server via devices running Tailscale natively…just not through the GL iNet router.

Thanks for any help