Emby for Roku Updated With New Improvements

A new version of the Emby for Roku app has been released with a number of enhancements mostly around better playback and error recovery.

Included in this release is:

* Video Playback Correction Option
* Select Video Quality During Playback
* Repeat All in Video Player
* Crew added to Detail Display
* Genre Aspect Ratio fixed
* Refresh Metadata From Detail Screen
* Exit Menu Enhancements
* Fix Collection Display
* General Video Playback Improvements (more direct play)
* Ensure Transcodes are Stopped on Server when Exiting App via Home Button
* Properly Display Album/Artist
* Properly Display Additional Parts
* Support Secondary Audio
* Other various bug fixes

The update is available on your Roku TV or device now. Enjoy! http://dlvr.it/Qtdnzj

Exciting Additions Coming Soon in Emby Server 3.6

Hi Team,

As many of you know, we are currently working hard on getting Emby Server 3.6 released. We would like to take this opportunity to give you some advance information on some of the changes that are coming.

New Levels of Performance
Emby Server, as well as all Emby apps will perform faster than ever. The server can now easily scale to massive libraries, and the faster speed and reduced loading times will probably be the first thing you’ll notice after upgrading to 3.6.

Live TV Guide Data Now Included with Premiere
Emby will be gradually switching from Schedules Direct to Gracenote for Live TV guide data. What does this mean? This means if you’re in the USA, Canada or UK, you’ll no longer need to setup an account with another website nor pay someone else for this data. You’ll simply enter your zip code into Emby, select your channel lineup, and we’ll handle retrieving your guide data.

We believe this will provide a better experience for Emby users with fewer setup steps. The data from Gracenote is also quite a bit richer, and we will be looking at how we can take advantage of that to bring new Live TV features to Emby. Going forward, Live TV will require Emby Premiere in the web app, where previously this was not the case.

How to Migrate From Schedules Direct
If you are setting up the server fresh, then you should use our new Emby guide provider, which will be the default. If you are already using Schedules Direct, then you can continue to use it through the remainder of your Schedules Direct subscription. Schedules Direct has pledged to continue to honor your subscriptions, and we thank them for that.

New and Improved Hardware Acceleration
We have revamped hardware acceleration on all supported platforms for Emby Server. This includes Windows, Linux, Android, NAS devices, and MacOS. We’ve added some sophisticated hardware detection that allows us to know exactly what your hardware supports, and with this information we can fine tune the transcoding processes to get the most out of your hardware.

This has truly been a massive effort and will continue to be a massive effort going forward into the future. For this reason, hardware acceleration will now require Emby Premiere on most platforms. On some platforms such as Nvidia Shield and certain NAS devices, it will be included freely out of the box.

A Long List of Improvements and Bug Fixes
Stay tuned for the announcement of Emby Server 3.6. It is packed with new features, bug fixes, improvements to existing features, and more. http://dlvr.it/QsgMn8

Android TV Updated with New Guide and Grid Views

A new update to the Android TV app will be released soon with a new fresh look and “smooth scrolling” capability in the live TV guide as well as new vertically scrolling grid views.

A Fresh, Smooth Guide

 

The live TV guide has received a make-over and now has smooth scrolling through both channels and time instead of the old “paging” implementation.

Going Vertical

 

You spoke and we listened. The grid views in the app now default to a vertically scrolling presentation. This allows you to navigate large collections more quickly and is in line with the designs on all the other platforms. If, however, you really prefer the previous horizontal scrolling presentation in this app, you can switch back to that in any of the views you wish by selecting the “Settings” icon (cog wheel) on the toolbar and selecting that option. It will be remembered for that particular view from that point forward.

In addition, we’ve now made the direct letter jump bar visible at all times (instead of behind a button) for easy access and made it behave more like you would expect in that it moves you to the first item for that letter within the content instead of restricting the content to only items after that letter.

Improved Performance for European live TV Streams

This release also should make some of those problematic live TV streams that previously may have required you to select the MPV player option play correctly within the default player simplifying your playback experience. There should be no reason to select MPV as the player anymore but we have left the option there for now if you wish to enable it (this option may be removed in the future).

Other Improvements

In addition to the major items above, this release also includes the following fixes and improvements:

* Improve playback error handling
* Fix shuffle play of external audio playlists
* Don’t loop theme song playback
* Scroll default tab into view upon library entry
* Improve some default images

* Fix external playlists not showing
* Add option to not allow video stream copy for live TV
* Properly remove items from “Play Next” when manually marked watched
* Add 240Kb/s bitrate option

* Ensure “Continue Watching” obeys server-side settings

* Fix playing music artists

* Fix people search against beta server
* Fix album sort by year

* Option for focus rectangle
* Default to higher bitrate on local LAN on all devices

* Improve app response when can’t validate Premiere do to outage
* Audible feedback for trying to seek past live time
* Add container to media details
* Update translations
* Make small “Up Next” panel the default (up arrow expands to larger one)
* Implement new WoL method
* Direct play items from Play Next
* Refresh home screen on library change
* Fix Premiere not recognized immediately
* Fix diacritics in device name causing login failure
* Add favorite episodes row to Favorites view in TV library
* Allow favorite filter in “All” movies and series views
* Use thumbs for latest TV
* Sort favorites by name http://dlvr.it/QpVkK4