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I've been using it for about 3 months and my beefs are pretty small. The transcoding CPU hit seems a bit higher than Plex. Avoid using the built in library functions in Kodi, I had them bound to a remote button and hit them by accident which trashed the local Kodi DB. Rebuilding was just a matter of resetting in the plugin but my library is huge so it took like 40 minutes to import again. There was a weird problem with NFO files that was causing watched tags to reset and I had to dive into the forums to find it. Not a big deal really but when I went to set things up for a friend a few months later the same bug persisted. Stuff I like - centrally managed library with watch tags! So wonderful having watch status be completely platform agnostic without buggy bullshit like Trakt. The app quality on the FireTV is alright, no real issues so far but it could use a bit more polish. The server management features are excellent, way beyond Plex in terms of breadth and customization. Their lifetime pass thing is cheaper than Plex too, I might do it soon just because I love the darned project so much.
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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? Emby does the same thing as Plex. It maintains your library outside of Kodi using the same scanners (tmdb, etc). It also has a Kodi plugin that will pull the info from the Emby server directly instead of attempting to scan for itself and having to maintain a separate DB. Kodi wants to have its own library separate from Plex/Emby and the plugin basically acts as a middle man between them. This is useful because you can keep using Kodi on some clients and use the Emby apps on other platforms but everything will retain the same watched tags and etc. The metadata stuff is editable through the web but you can ignore it if you want.
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I use a skin called Arctic Zephyr on Kodi which has that sort of thing built in. It has a spotlight feature, recently added, play random and so on. It's really nice and I use it all the time for movies. What problems are you having with syncing? Are you using the Kodi plugin? quote:I would love something like this as well. I currently have Kodi running on a FireTV which is accessing an external hard drive connected to a Time Capsule, which is hooked up to our FIOS router. Phew, terrible setup I know. Well I have a QNAP NAS coming in this week, so I'm hoping to setup everything a bit more proper this time around, but I don't really know where to begin. There are several guides online for HTPC websites to do this sort of thing. It's hard to do a catch all since the programs run under several different platforms. Some platforms have a package manager that makes it easy, I'm sure QNAP has one. Depending on what kind of setup you want the configuration guides would be really lengthy.
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Cool, if you can't figure it out post a log on here or the Emby forums. I did find this from today, let me know if that does anything.
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Are they working an Emby app for the Xbox One? My buddy got called up overseas and left me his. I wanted to use it upstairs and maybe stream the occasional hockey game and movie from my library. The Plex app is still "in preview" apparently and I can't find an Emby app at all, just some old chat on a forum thread about it.
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Dec 4, 2015 15:16
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Thanks for that link, I forgot that you can just use the web player for now as a workaround. I guess I'll just do that.
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Dec 4, 2015 17:42
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Aeka 2.0 posted:The Emby Theater client changes refresh based on content and has MadVR baked in for resolution and chroma upscaling. Also passes dolby D and DTS out. Do people not know about Emby Theater and use the dumb web player? I don't know what the point of Kodi is now other than a skin. Customization, preference and enthusiast features. I actually use both Android Emby apps and Kodi, they are great for different reasons. The plugin for Kodi is excellent too.
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Dec 22, 2015 15:29
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Is it permissions or it just isn't finding anything? I usually do Movie (Year)\Movie (year).ext and Emby seems to grab everything without issues.
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spincube posted:I'm somewhat annoyed that there's now a stupid unskippable I stopped using Emby awhile ago but uh seriously? They put an unskippable intro into every video stream now? That seems totally insane. Are you sure this isn't specific to one of the apps or something? I must be blind but I'm not seeing it in their general forum. Edit: at least they removed the version specific crap from the Lifetime sub now. The Gunslinger fucked around with this message at 21:00 on Feb 9, 2017 |
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Feb 9, 2017 20:56
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HEY BUY EMBY PREMIERE
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Holy poo poo that's really lame, I can't believe they're doing pre-roll ads in peoples loving pirated video. Oh well I stopped using it awhile ago once the PlexKodiConnect addon was developed from theirs.
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