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Emby is a home media server. You install it on a computer, it indexes all of your movies, tv shows, pictures, music, and then serves it to you. Ways to peruse your media include: Web interface You can browse your stuff via a nicely-designed web interface and stream it right to your browser whether you're on your home LAN or visiting your parents house.  TV Shows Poster View Android and iOS App AFAICT, without having an iOS device on hand, these two apps are identical.  Suggesting some movies Kodi plugin This is the big one for me and the reason I started using Emby. The Emby plugin for Kodi takes over your Kodi database. Kodi works the exact same way it always has, except that the shows, movies, and music all come from Emby. This means you don't use a MySQL database to share watched and in-progress state between your various Kodi-running devices...that is all managed by Emby. Additionally, this means you can watch stuff in the browser or on one of the apps and that watched state is automatically reflected in Kodi. You don't need to use any special skin in Kodi, you just install the plugin and that's it. Metadata management The Emby web server allows you to edit metadata for your files in a waaay better manner than you can with Kodi. You just click through to the right media and edit the fields. You can also select and manage the various artwork like posters, fanart, etc. Some tips kri kri posted:This should go in the OP too: Also read this lol huge post. Thermopyle fucked around with this message at 18:31 on Jan 28, 2016 |
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BoyBlunder posted:I guess I'm still a bit confused about the Kodi integration. The way Plex works for me, is that it just works. I don't do ANY editing of media, it just picks it up from whatever database it pulls from. I'm assuming this is useful for people editing their 4K anime MKVs and such? I'm a bit confused by this question! I assume when you say "editing of media" you mean "editing of metadata"? Kodi integration doesn't have anything to do with metadata editing. Emby's Kodi intergration means that Kodi operates just like it always has. Prior to this week, I always just used what Kodi generated as metadata when it imported a new file. Every once in a blue moon, Kodi would get something wrong...like I don't know...misidentify Octopussy as Dark City...or whatever. That happened very, very rarely. When I converted to Emby this week, I imported 1100 movies and 280 TV shows, and so far I've found like 5 things that Emby mis-identified. Easy to fix, though. Metadata management really comes in to its own for these spergy people who want to pick every poster, and which fanart, and add every single cast memer, and the crew, and blah blah blah.
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Dec 2, 2015 16:11
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Horn posted:Is there a particular version of Kodi that is supported by the Emby addon? I tried the latest stable 15.2 and I'm just getting a generic version not supported error. I've tried searching around to see what I should be running but I haven't found anything concrete. Should work with 15.2.
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Dec 6, 2015 20:59
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Does anyone have anything to say about the Roku Emby app? My dad is going to put a TV in his shop and I'm thinking about telling him to get one of those TCL tvs with Roku built-in as that seems like the easiest route to get him streaming from me. However, if it's difficult to use or whatever I'll tell him to go a different route.
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Jan 25, 2016 01:18
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The transcoding isn't an issue.
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Jan 25, 2016 14:11
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Falco posted:Ok, so I may be missing something, but as a Kodi add on, can Emby function as just a database and not add a bunch of extra categories to Kodi? I love the idea of it running as a database in the background, but was not a fan of all of the extra categories it added to our Kodi install. What do you mean by "categories"?
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Apr 5, 2016 14:46
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Horse Clocks posted:Are there any lightweight skins that use the extra emby categories? There's lots of Kodi skins that have Next Up widgets. They don't directly tap into Emby's next up data, but I imagine the results will be the same...but I haven't compared the two to check for sure. As far as lightweight...thats kind of subjective and vague. I use Titan (with its Next Up widget) and you can configure it to be pretty minimal and lightweight I suppose.
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Apr 6, 2016 14:53
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Electronico6 posted:.(even if it has the tendency to delete itself whenever it updates) Yeah, what the gently caress is up with this. This just happened to me last night again.
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Apr 6, 2016 15:46
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A post in the Kodi thread reminded me of something I wanted to put in this thread:Thermopyle posted:Yes, Emby's database performance got better by leaps and bounds this month. It used to to take like 10 or 30 seconds to open some pages on the web ui (running on an i5/SSD/12GB RAM) and now it's nearly instantaneous. Just in case that matters to anyone...
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Dec 27, 2016 16:49
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It's been my experience that the Emby clients have always been not great...this is just another reason to avoid them. The reason I use Emby server is because it's better at managing and editing metadata than Plex, and it was the first with pretty much seamless integration with Kodi...and since you can use Kodi on Android it doesn't really matter how crap Emby clients are.
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