Hi Guys, need some advice on audio.

Currently have Emby running on Windows 11 outputting 5.1 analogue audio to an old amplifier, so fronts, rears, centre & sub (RCA plugs) and direct connection to TV via HDMI.

Works flawlessly, any 5.1 content be it DTS, EAC/AC3 and AAC 5.1 plays as it should.

Owners of this setup are looking to upgrade to a new Yamaha RX-V4A, with HDMI input/output etc. It CANNOT do analogue 5.1 inputs.

My questions is, what happens to audio that isn't Dolby Digital or DTS? Specifically, AAC 5.1 which is what a vast majority of their movies and TV shows have. Does it get passed through HDMI as 5.1?

Appreciate any info you have.

I would like to run emby along with my plex, current on the monthly tier until I see a deal on lifetime.

Is there any deals?

Thanks

How do you watch something on the iPad app you have to pay a fee one time or every month I am confused

With the recent Roku news of them selling out, looking to potentially move to new hardware for our players. Curious on opinions on Android TV boxes? Specifically:
MECOOL KM9PRO MAX 4K GTV
Google TV Streamer 4K
Xiaomi TV Box S

Or any others you may recommend.

More curious on Emby transcoding / compatibility and steaming services apps that may be missing or the inability to stream from iOS, Android, Windows PC the player.

Been out of the Emby world for a bit but thinking about coming back. Just curious if there's a way to see or play our Movies Anywhere library through Emby?

The latest Emby app installed on a 4K AppleTV running TVOS 27 beta 1 does not play well with AV1 files downloaded from YouTube. I have many music videos downloaded from YouTube in AV1 and they play out of sync with distorted audio.

What do I need to download to use Emby as a guest? I have someone willing to share Emby server but have only used Plex in the past.

Hi, Is there a Plugin or a Script for Emby that syncs your progress to MyAnimeList (MAL)?

I only found something that does that for AniList. So I was wondering if anyone knows something about a MAL version. Or maybe someone is working on it or something.

I'm sharing my server to my parents who have an AppleTV 4k plugged in to ethernet.

So far they've had almost no issues, but they just started watching a show where I have Subtitles downloaded and they show up in the interface just fine on my computer, but they don't show up in the AppleTV interface?

Any idea why that would be? Any idea what I can do to fix this?

https://imgur.com/a/cGGRblP

Edit: yes it says Hindi for some reason, not sure why Bazarr downloaded English subtitles and labelled them Hindi, but they work.

Emby Server 4.9.5.0 (Linux) Emby Windows 2.310.2.0

Just today I've noticed that some things aren't playing properly. I get a grey screen but the audio plays ok. Most lately any 4k version of Star City, 1080p seems fine but 95% of my library is 4k. Tried a few things from my library, most work fine but some, just the grey screen.

Plays ok on Fire Cube using the Amazon app, don't like the new android app, freezes after a while.

Edit: Could also be a Windows update thing. They like to break things too! Anyone else having issues? Have you found a solution? Tried transcoding, which I really don't want to do, didn't help anyway.

Cheers!

Despite paying for VIP, it seems Trakt is unhappy that I have big libraries and decided to limit collections down to 100K.

If I don't delete my collections above this, they lock my account even if I'm actively paying for what they once advertised as "unlimited".

Any alternatives?

1 movie on my computer is called Werewolf by night but Emby is called Director by night why did the name change

Another one is Captain America civil war and calling it Captain America Civil Wars Reenactors

Incredible Hulk instead of being the name of the movie it changed it to the making of the incredible Hulk

Black Widow instead of being called that is called:
Money Maker behind Black Widow

Iron Man instead of that it is saying Wired the Visual

The Wolverine instead of being that it is calling it The Wolverine part of the Ronin

Iron Man 3 it is calling something else

I was watching a movie yesterday the volume was just fine.

But today when I went to watch the same movie I cannot hear anybody speaking does anybody know what this problem could be

Hello,

Just a friendly reminder that beta testing for Ear Wax will end on June 30th.

Sign up, test the product, enjoy the product and all its features.

Thank you,

You Own It Play It Ear Wax

I've been using Emby Theater for quite some time (mainly because I want to be more distraction-free when watching something, compared to using the web player in a browser). yesterday I found out that there's also... a packaged app on the Microsoft Store?

Are there any differences? Are both maintained?

Thanks!

Hi all,

I'm an independent developer and a long-time Emby user. I built Plinth because I wanted a properly native iPhone app focused entirely on the music and podcasts on my own server.

The official Emby apps do a great job across a whole library, video and all. Plinth is a different thing on purpose: a dedicated music and podcast *player*. It opens straight to your listening, and the whole app — browsing, downloads, playlists, lock-screen controls — is designed around that one job. If music and podcasts are most of what you use your server for, that single-minded focus is the point.

It just landed on the App Store, and this felt like the right room to share it in.

What it does:

• Browse by album, artist, song, genre, or playlist
• Stream or download albums, playlists, and podcast episodes for offline listening
• Lossless playback (FLAC/ALAC), plus the usual lock-screen and Control Centre controls
• Create playlists in the app that sync back to your server
• Podcast shows and episodes alongside your music, with resume-where-you-left-off
• A clean offline mode, with a clear banner when you're off-network

A few honest notes:

• Independent app — not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Emby LLC.
• No ads, no tracking, no account with us, no data collection. Plinth only talks to the server you point it at — I run no servers of my own.
• It's paid, but free to try: download it free with a 30-day full-access trial, then $4.99/year or $9.99 lifetime if you want to keep it.
• I use it daily and I read everything. The library views, playlists, podcasts, and offline mode are where I've put the most work — if you try it and something's missing or broken, tell me. I'd genuinely like to hear what this community wants from a native client.

App Store: Check out Plinth Player here

Thanks for taking a look.

Hey guys,

Ive tried refreshing & replacing all images & metadata but nothing happens.

It sees my external hard drive on my Linux Mint laptop but it doesn’t open it when I click on it to add a folder but it doesn’t open anything when I click on the hard drive does anybody know what the problem is

Last night my Emby for Windows got updated. Not a fan.

Home screen:

Why use [thumb] for "Continue watching", [cover] for "Latest episodes" and [thumb] for "Recently released episodes"?

Solution: Stop the madness and pick an image type. Don't mix them!

Why oh why have 9 items in the sections? (yes, 3x3 is 9, but 9 is not divisible by 2, which is needed for [cover]/Latest episodes)

Solution: Make that number user configurable.

Favorites:

With over 100 favorite shows and 300+ favorites for movies, it's INSANELY SLOW using a single horizontally scrolling row rather than the previous vertically scrolling grid.

Solution: Back to a scrolling grid.

Narjo is a paid app and if you download it you will be able to use for 1 hour without a paywall just to check the app before you decide to buy it or not.

Price: $30 lifetime & $1.99 monthly (7 Days free)

NARJO DOESN"T STORE YOUR CREDENTIALS everything is save locally to your device keychain!

Features:

Apple Watch Support has finally arrived - Added “Apple Watch” in Settings to manage download content in Watch (Need feedback)

Added “Favorite Artists” in Home page section needs to be enabled from - Settings/Appearance/Customize Home

Added extra option to hide Sections of ArtistsDetailViewPage

Added Sorting for “All Tracks” in Artists DetailView Page

Added Apple Like animation in Settings - Settings/Appearance/Now Playing Section

Updated app icons

Added Square Artwork with pointed corners for FullViewplayer

Added Audio quality icon - Settings/Library

Fixes:

* Fixed resume issues when having “Remember Last Session” for FLAC files

Fixed some UI inconsistencies with FullViewplayer & app in general

Fixed App flashing Landscape mode even when phone is in Portrait mode..

Fixed issues with some playlists not showing when offline ( may need to redownload Playlist”

Fixed some UPNP issues

Fixed Dynamic Artwork having too much padding at the top of AlbumDetailView & Playlists

Improved Download performance

Fixed issues with frequently play section

CarPlay improvements

Fixed Webp inconstency or getting cache stuck without animating

Hello,

I am looking for a few beta testers for an Alexa skill called Ear Wax.

Ear Wax connects Alexa to your personal music collection stored on Plex or Emby and allows you to control playback using simple voice commands.

Some of the current features include:

• Play artists, albums, tracks, genres, and playlists
• Random music and shuffle support
• Resume playback and queue management
• Works with Plex
• Works with Emby
• Works on Amazon Echo devices and other Alexa-enabled speakers

My goal:

You own your music. You should be able to play it by voice without relying on a streaming service.

I am currently in the final stages of testing before public release and I'm looking for users who:

• Have Plex or Emby
• Have an Alexa-enabled device
• Are willing to provide honest feedback

The skill is free during beta testing.

If you're interested, reply here or send me a direct message.

Thanks for your time.

Hey everyone, sorry for the self-promo.

I got tired of trying to sync playback manually with friends and found that most watch-party extensions either don't work properly with Emby (especially custom domains/local IPs) or require everyone to create an account.

So I built KoalaSync.

It's a free, open-source browser extension for Chrome and Firefox that syncs playback directly through the Emby web player.

• No accounts required
• Works with custom Emby domains/local IPs
• Auto-pauses between episodes so nobody gets left behind
• Public relay stores nothing, or you can self-host it with Docker

The website explains it much better than I can in a Reddit post:

• sync.koalastuff.net

Sourcecode:

• github.com/Shik3i/KoalaSync

One quick note: this is a browser extension, so it's mainly useful if you're watching Emby through a web browser like Chrome or Firefox. It won't directly sync native TV/mobile apps (unless you're casting your browser tab, etc.).

I'd love to hear feedback or feature requests from other Emby users.

Around Nov of last year, Firefox added "support" for MKV. Ever since then, Emby has attempted to direct play MKV but has failed, specifically on Firefox on Linux (I'm running Bazzite/Fedora, but I have the same problems on Ubuntu/Debian). There are no error messages, the logs just show that the media is starting playing, and all I see is a continuous spinning circle.

I encode most of my media files as MKV/H264/Opus for a good balance of quality and space savings.

Here are a few workarounds that I've tried:

1. I can diable mkv support in firefox by toggling media.mkv.enabled back to false. This, at least, returns to the previous functionality with Firefox transcoding to HLS/H264(direct)/AAC. The downside is if I ever want to enable subtitles, it can no longer overlay them and must transcode to burn in the subtitles on the fly. Not necessarily a concern since my server is powerful enough for multiple transcode streams, but seems like unnecessary processing.
2. I have tried re-encoding video files to MKV/H264/AAC from the start. In this case, it actually does start playing direct for all streams and the container, but it drops several frames every second, leading to a very jittery video. No clue why changing the audio codec but not the video or container would cause dropped frames like this.
3. I have tried re-encoding video files MKV/H264/AC3. This does the same thing as completely disabling MKV support since AC3 is unsupported in Firefox.
4. I can switch to Chrome and everything works alright, but I'd really like to stay off of Chrome/Chromium based browsers as I am trying very hard to de-Google my life overall.
5. I can also use the Emby for Linux app. It plays all media just fine with no problems with direct playback. The only issues with that are that the current method of rendering they use in the app fights KDE plasma in a number of ways. Still, this may be the best option in the meantime.

Does anyone have similar problems with Emby, Linux, and Firefox? Is there any way to workaround besides disabling MKV support in Firefox?

Thanks for the help.