Hi all,

I've been building Zerk Play, a client for Emby (and now Jellyfin) that runs on Windows and Android TV / Google TV.

Zerk Play 2 is a full rewrite, and this is the first build I'm sharing publicly. It's a beta, so expect some rough edges, and please tell me about anything that breaks.

The goal was simple: when I open the app, I want to find something to watch, not scroll through a library grid. If the thing I want isn't on the server yet, I want to request it from the same screen instead of switching to another app.

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Discovery first

Home is built from your watch history, not just "Latest added":

• Because you watched… suggestions based on what you actually finished
• What are you in the mood for? theme rows like Coming of age, Against all odds, Whodunits and Heists & cons, each showing how many titles you already have
• Picked for you, plus rows built from your taste (Because you like Action · Comedy)
• Top 10 trending, with a big-number row like the streaming services have

📷 Because you watched · Mood rows

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Every title has tags from TMDB keywords (Heist, Hitman, Based on a true story…). Open a tag to see everything that matches, starting with what's already in your library. Each details page also has More like this, and trailers play in the background while you read.

📷 Tags and More like this

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There's also a Discover tab (trending, popular, coming soon), a Calendar of upcoming releases, and Collections built from TMDB, even if your server doesn't group them.

📷 Discover

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Requests built in (Jellyseerr / Overseerr)

Connect Jellyseerr or Overseerr, and titles you don't have show up right next to the ones you do:

• A Request badge on anything not in your library, in every row: Home, Discover, search, More like this
• One Request page: pick the seasons, watch the trailer, done
• Search shows your library first, then a Not in your library row you can request from
• Requested and Awaiting release badges, so you can see what's on the way

📷 Not in your library · Coming soon

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Playback

• Windows: mpv (libmpv, gpu-next on D3D11) with real HDR output. It can switch Windows HDR on for HDR videos and back off afterwards. Audio passthrough to your receiver (TrueHD, DTS-HD MA, EAC3…).
• Android TV: a native Media3 player with an FFmpeg audio decoder, plus passthrough settings for your TV, soundbar or receiver.
• Versions: if a movie has several files (1080p, 2160p Dolby Vision…), you can pick one and the app remembers your choice.
• Skip intro, manually or automatically.
• Subtitles: a Smart mode (your language, or forced subtitles for foreign dialogue), size and style options, and a delay setting.
• TMDB metadata in your language (titles, descriptions, logos, artwork) without touching your server's libraries.

📷 Settings

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Live TV

Add your own Xtream Codes IPTV account to get a proper TV guide: channel groups, an EPG timeline and what's on now. Live TV sits next to your movie library in the same app.

📷 Live TV guide

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Made for the couch

The whole UI is built for D-pad / remote / keyboard first. That works on Windows too: plug in a gamepad or use the arrow keys, and the mouse cursor hides itself until you move it again. The mouse still works everywhere, with hover and wheel scrolling.

Setting up on a TV is painless: scan a QR code with your phone and fill in the server, TMDB key and Jellyseerr details there instead of typing with a remote.

The app updates itself: when a new release is out, it offers to download and install it.

Getting started

1. Download the Windows installer or the Android TV APK.
2. On first start, choose Emby or Jellyfin and sign in.
3. (Optional) Add a free TMDB API key for metadata in your language, tags and collections.
4. (Optional) Add your Jellyseerr / Overseerr / Seerr address and API key for requests.

Good to know

• The *seerr address has to be reachable from the device running Zerk Play. Don't use localhost unless *seerr runs on that same machine.
• The APK isn't on the Play Store: install it with Send Files to TV or adb.
• Tested on Windows 10 and 11, a Chromecast with Google TV, and the Chromecast with Google TV 4K. Other Android TV boxes should work; reports are welcome.

Source code, all screenshots and releases: https://github.com/florinp93/Zerk-Play-2.0

Hi,

Would the UGREEN NAS DXP2800GT work well with emby? or you use another

Hey everyone, I wanted to share an open-source project that is a massive deal for anyone running an Emby server with a heavy library of 4K UHD Blu-ray remuxes. [1]

As many of you know, playing back Profile 7 FEL (Full Enhancement Layer) Dolby Vision on PC clients usually means your client strips the enhancement layer, falls back to basic HDR10, or triggers a massive server transcode. If you want true TV-led Dolby Vision, you’ve typically been locked into buying specific certified hardware like the Nvidia Shield Pro or the Ugoos AM6B+.

A developer named CroqueMr (u/Croque_Mr) has broken through this limitation by building native Dolby Vision support directly into an x86 LibreELEC/Kodi build, including proper Profile 7 FEL reconstruction. You can easily use this alongside your server via the Emby for Kodi or EmbyCon add-ons.

No Transcoding, No Stripped Layers, True TV-Led Output

This project doesn't take shortcuts or just do simple on-the-fly compatibility changes to trick your TV. The FEL is completely processed, reconstructed, and output in a native TV-Led RGB8 tunnel using an open-source Dolby Vision processing engine called CB1 0.3 on a LibreELEC 13 / Kodi 22 RC1 stack. No external player or proprietary Dolby SDK is required.

Because x86 PC hardware has significantly more processing headroom than standard ARM-based Android boxes, the build features a "Dolby Vision Master Reference" mode. It processes playback in full precision with high-end filtering to achieve a bit-perfect Dolby Vision picture—arguably cleaner than the hardware circuits found on commercial certified streaming boxes.

Flawless FEL Playback on Budget Hardware (Intel N100)

A major concern with software-based FEL reconstruction on a PC is the hardware requirement. However, the performance optimization for budget setups is incredibly impressive:

• Intel N100 Mini PCs: The dev confirmed that a cheap Intel N100 box handles a 4K Profile 7 FEL remux perfectly with zero dropped frames.
• Performance Headroom: In bench testing, the N100 successfully processed a heavy FEL remux at 40fps, showing plenty of performance headroom over standard 24fps film files. It can even push Dolby Vision up to 60fps using native TV-led tunneling.
• Limitations: Running dense, visible Kodi menus or executing heavy custom tone-mapping conversions over a 60fps video can push the N100 to its limits, but for standard movie playback, it handles it smoothly.

Current Features & Profiles (Beta 5):

• Profiles Supported: Full native playback for DV Profiles 5, 7 MEL, 7 FEL (with full EL reconstruction), 8.1, 8.2, 8.4, and 10. (Profiles 9 and 20 are unsupported).
• AMD HDMI 3D: Full MVC Blu-ray ISO decoding and HDMI frame packing on compatible displays, alongside 1080p half-SBS modes.
• Rendering Choices: Easily cycle through modes during playback by pressing O, including Dolby Vision Standard, Master Reference, and Adaptive HDR Mapping.
• Conversions: Built-in Dolby Vision-to-HDR10 conversion, as well as experimental AI-assisted HDR10-to-DV conversion using real-time scene analysis and LightGBM.
• Hardware Support: Out-of-the-box support for Intel iGPUs (8th gen and newer, N-series, Core Ultra) and AMD iGPUs (Ryzen 2000G up to AI 300). Dedicated AMD Radeon and Nvidia GeForce GPUs are supported but currently experimental.

What's coming next?

The roadmap includes a licensing rebuild to clean up the code, further AMD performance improvements, full HDR10+ support, and Dolby Vision-to-HDR10+ metadata reinterpretation, alongside wider compatibility for older Intel graphics and more Nvidia setups.

If you are tired of client limitations forcing HDR10 fallbacks on your high-end 4K backups, this project opens up x86 PCs as incredibly powerful, uncompromised media clients.

Project links

• Main development thread:  https://forum.libreelec.tv/thread/30362-dolby-vision-w-fel-3d-for-pc-amd-intel-nvidia/
• GitHub (Source Code & Releases): https://github.com/CroqueMr/libreelec-x86-DV/
• Original Reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/libreeLEC/comments/1wq20eu/wip_native_dolby_vision_support_on_x86_intel_cpu/

Full credit to u/Croque_Mr for the incredible development work, and to the community members helping test and refine it. If you want to check out the technical code behind the engine or look through the compatible hardware lists, everything is well-documented in the links above!

Has anyone had this issue with Roku and Emby... Play a video and it random will reverse back a few seconds and play.. Been happening for several months. Does not happen with Google TV devices or FireStick; just Roku.

It seems the writing is on the wall with plex, so I’m planning on leaving. I have a large amount of collections and custom posters in plex. Is it possible to import or sync that data with Emby? I found a few articles on importing your watch history, but that’s not as important to me.

I downloaded Emby and tried to signup. I enter email, password and user id but I get back "There was an error in processing request. Please try again later"

Any idea what I need to do

Plex released a fix looks like 3 days ago

• [iOS] Ready for iPhone Duo: it gets the iPad layout and rotates freely when unfolded, and keeps clear of the side status bar when folded.

Please lets give Foldables some love

Plex user here considering jumping ship and have been checking Emby out this evening, but there's one layout quirk that might end up annoying me too much to make the leap. I've noticed in Emby that the only way to navigate through seasons of a TV show is to scroll left and right along the list as in the screenshot above (I'm not even counting the default "show all episodes of all seasons together" as an option here...), and in shows like American Dad which is currently on season 22, it gets very annoying and cumbersome very quickly.

In Plex (see second screenshot), I have a nice grid view set up, so I can see all seasons on one page which I find much better, easier to navigate and nicer to look at. I've scoured the settings and can't see anything relating to this, and am beginning to think it's just not possible (which I find really odd). Am I missing any settings, or is there a plugin/theme or any other way to change the layout?

I've tried removing one copy of whatever I've favourited, but this removes both of them. It seems to happy with most of the media I add. However, there are exceptions and I haven't been able to figure out what that exception is.

Any ideas?

I want to recreate the Adult Swim of my childhood, complete with commercials playing between episodes. Is there an addon which would support this?

recently set up emby, big fan. so far only testing locally. the app on my android phone connects to the server, plays media, and casts media to my chromecast ultra 4k (not android tv) just fine.

on my ipad, the app won't even play without some sort of purchase. emby via safari on the ipad connects and plays media just fine. but on the ios emby app and ios safari, clicking the cast button doesn't bring up my chromecasts at all. the ios plex app and plex via ios safari see and cast to chromecast just fine.

am i missing something here? is ios supposed to support chromecast? is that some sort of paid feature?

EDIT: just to be clear - my question is why does the chromecast button on ios emby app and ios safari emby not show local chromecasts when other ios apps and ios safari web apps do? is casting to chromecasts a paid feature? it doesn't show up on the emby feature list on their website.

I recently added a new user to my server and before they ever streamed anything their home page was populated with continue watching and the server showed watched content.

See my Jellywatch screen shots to show that the user has never been active but already has watched items. 🤔

I have multiple 3rd Gen 4K boxes in use at my house and ONLY experience this issue with the (current) Emby client...

There doesn't seem to be any sort of pattern to it, it will just dump you back on the Home screen with no warning when trying to navigate the app. It could be attempting to play content, backing out of a Library, entering a Library... doesn't matter. I force-quit the app, restart, and carry on... but there's definitely something off with this client.

Another issue that I was encountering that I believe I've cleared up is turning on the ATV and attempting to launch Emby would result in just a gray screen 50-75% of the time. I -always- force-quit all apps before shutting down the ATV and this was (again) the only app I was having this issue with. I disabled Background App Refresh and it hasn't occurred since.

Is the TVOS app due for some updates?

I have an emby server on my PC, I've tried to get subtitles on some videos but nothing comes up, I have the open subtitle app but it never finds anything

I've been working on a modernised re-build of the original Android TV app,rebuilt in Kotlin using Jetpack Compose for TV. This isnt a start from scratch app with stuff no one needs, its purely an upgrade of what was a good functioning app that was not visually appealing.

Why did I decide to start this project?

The above image, 4 years ago I asked for a simple sort filter, sort episodes unwatched by the amount left to watch, didnt think it was a big ask but here we are... "if you want something done right, do it yourself" so I did.

The core of the project.

I used the base version ideaology but designed this version around modern design principles, aspects i've loved from Kodi skins like Artic Zephyr (full screen artwork showcases, widget ideas etc), and pure functionality, artwork focus, quality of live improvements, features people actually want. Everything the current app functionally does, this app does as well, the one thing ive currently omitted is the delete function, to me it makes zero sense delting content from the app.

A few of the most noticeable features include:

• Mdblist api integration: add an api key in settings, pick the extra rating sources and you now have a full display of ratings (something thats been asked about 10000 times on the emby forums).
• Sort TV by unwatched count
• Actual customisations: change the up next style, pick between 2 completely unique action/button themes, hide card info in enhanced homescreen for a better artwork presentation, adjust spotlight counts, auto rotation etc.
• Imdb trailers: no more slow loading youtube trailers, click watch trailer and the inbuilt exo player starts the trailer right away. Auto will play imdb first > youtube as a fallback.
• A completely new user friendly settings menu: grouped into sections with a detailed explenation of what each setting actually does including a few previews for some settings like the up next preview styles.
• Continue watching: now uses episode stills for tv shows (a lot of people make and use title-cards and they can now be better presented on the home screen, plus the cards are informative information wise.
• Quick change between seasons: When viewing a season theres a simple left right action button in the "hero" section that switches seasons on the fly.
• Live TV Glow up: Modern, clean, improved and simple. I don't even use Live TV but know this is a huge pain point for many users visually. Functionally it still works the same way, it just doesnt look ugly now.

Performance on my shield pro is the same/better in some aspects vs the original app, however I have optomised the design around 4k resolution, if you have a shield and use the ATV optomiser tool and set the Display Scaling to 4k you get completely crisp non blurry artwork.

I'm aware that if I do actually release this, I'd need to change the logo etc, this is currently something that only i use personally. If anything I'm just looking for some early feedback on whats been a big passion project, I'm a graphic designer, web devoper, marketing manager by trade and I absolutely loathe ugly designs especially when it comes to media servers, we curate amazing artwork for media I want that shown off.

Trying to switch over from Plex but I am hitting a wall. You'll have to excuse me cause I'm not the most tech-savvy but trying to figure things out.

Right now, I'm trying to set up an account for my friend and I can access the server directly with my Remote (WAN) access URL. It leads to a page where they log in with their Emby Connect user, and it loads my library.

But how come when I try to go to Emby Connect via https://emby.media/connect.html, log in with their account, it doesn't show my server/library at all? And when I try to add my server using the IP address, it doesn't work and says Unable to reach server.

I'm not quite sure what I'm doing wrong here. When I was first trying to set this up, I swear I saw my server listed in Emby Connect (before doing any of the port forwarding stuff) but now it doesn't show up there at all.

This is only for my friend to access so I'm not trying to do anything overly complicated in terms of set up and access. With Plex I was able to update port forwarding to make it work but I'm not sure why Emby seems more tricky to do so.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance for reading (and patience for me being new to this).

Title.

The path for the main folder for shows is F:\TV, which has only folders, no files.

Emby server (4.10.1.0 running on Windows Server 2019) thinks that folder is a show, labeled in the interface as 'TV!TV!TV!', IMDB Id tt25605188, TheMovieDB 64369, TheTVDB Id 247960, which come up as 'TV Animal Farm.'

I do not collect or watch Korean media, so I can't figure this at all, but I also can't delete it.

How do I fix this?

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A friend has an HDHomeRun and I wanted it for Live TV in my own Plex. Plex only shares Live TV inside a Plex Home, so I'd been running a socat relay on his server and iptables DNAT rules on mine. It worked until the tuner's DHCP address changed, and I never knew who was using it.

So I built Yagi: a small proxy that sits in front of an HDHomeRun and rewrites its API. A remote media server just adds host:port like any other tuner, with no DNAT or relay on their side. You choose who can use it and how many tuners each viewer gets (and keep some free for your own TVs). It finds the tuner again by DeviceID if its address changes, and there's a web UI that shows who's watching what.

It works over Tailscale, any VPN, or the same LAN. MIT licensed, a single Go binary, and a Docker image for amd64 and arm64.

https://github.com/johnschult/yagi

It's early. I've only tried it with Plex and one FLEX 4K. There's no TLS and no passwords, only an address allowlist, so keep it on Tailscale or a VPN and off the open internet. I built it with a lot of help from an AI coding assistant (Claude Code). Feedback and issues are welcome, especially from Jellyfin and Emby users.

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Most of my movies are having 5.1 channel audio. Maybe because of that, there is no sound when playing them on my TV.

The only way to fix is to do "Playback Correction" 3 times. Yes, 3 times over and over.

Whatever that do, can I have it on by default for my TV?

I had to do that every single time and it is annoying.

Spent way too long fixing mismatches on my library, so here's what actually made Emby match things right the first time. Maybe it saves someone a weekend.

Movies: one folder per movie, named Movie Name (Year). Same for the file inside. The year does most of the work.

If a movie still matches wrong, put the ID in the folder name: Movie Name (Year) [tmdbid=12345]. Emby trusts that over its own guess.

TV: Show Name/Season 01/Show Name - S01E01.mkv. Specials go in Season 00, not a folder called Extras.

Multiple versions of one movie: same folder, add a label after a dash, like Movie (2010) - 1080p.mkv and Movie (2010) - 4K.mkv. Emby groups them into one item.

Subtitles: same base name as the video plus the language, like Movie (2010).en.srt. Add .forced for forced subs. If the base name doesn't match exactly, Emby won't pick it up.

After renaming, do a full library scan, not just a refresh, or the old matches can stick.

Full disclosure, I'm a dev and I built a Mac/iPad app that does this renaming, which is how I learned all of the above the hard way. Not here to sell anything. If anyone on a Mac or iPad wants to try it on their Emby library and tell me where it gets the naming wrong, I have a few free codes. Just DM me.

I have been using Emby for the last few upgrades and seem to have lost control of my Collections. There are really too many titles to go through and clean up manually so I was hoping to point my TinyMediaManager at it and clean it up that way.

Problem is, the location of the data has changed at some point and my TMM doesn't point to the right folder(s). I Googled it and have a few choices but I can't tell what is based on the pre-4.?whatever version that changed it. I have about 3 different folders in my system that seem to have collection info but I don't know what is safe to delete as old/deprecated and what carries the current info.

Any help on this?

Hey..I have about 125 folders of boxers from the 30s to the 90s.

Each one of the folders is labeled with the boxers name, as in "Muhammad Ali".

Inside those folders are individual files of his fights.

Emby will scan the folder, make little snapshots of the individual files, but, not download / Scrape his photo for the folder cover.

Will i have to do it manually as in finding the photo myself, renaming it to "poster.jpg" or is there a way to get Emby to do this for me.

Thanks