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Aug 2, 2024, 11:41:12 PM8/2/24

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I cannot find it in a search within Emby, nor did it show up in newly added movies, yet I am sure other movies have. Of course it shows up in a regular search of the computer, from Windows itself. I think in settings there was something like SCAN LIBRARY, which I did, and that concludes in a microsecond and made no difference.

I have no idea if I am doing what you want, but see attached. It did not help. I am doing the Library Scanning inside the Library section of the menu. I only have one library. Also see the log screen. Does not seem to be creating a new log file since I started doing all this - last entry is from early this AM. Sorry I am not doing something correctly. Mike

Perhaps do a Library scan immediately after READING one of those files from your mapped drive. That would ensure that the NAS is 100% ready. If the file explorer can read the file (and I mean open the file with a program, not just look at it), then Emby should be able to read it too.

Sorry, I had to be at work and just got back to this. I do not use a QNAP or NAS - it is just on a large hard drive on my computer. I can go into File Explorer, open the folder it is in and the file and play it from my computer. It is like some of the new things are there, but EMBY is not responding to them.

Thank you. We had a cable come loose 2 days ago to that drive, and when we just hooked it back up, Windows renamed it to G Drive. I renamed it correctly back to E drive (in Windows), which is my preference for its letter number, (and the EMBY Library was correct all along) and now all is well. The video I was missing is now present and plays well.

Yes you did. Going to Enby and getting away from the QNAP / NAS situation was a huge improvement - much simpler, more robust and we can control it ourselves. There is a learning curve and this was a good lesson in not being careless - always having drives named correctly, where located, and nothing left to chance. Regards, Mike

I have a RaspberryPi headless NAS server running Samba that I use as my movie storage. For now I watch movies from NAS on external monitor connected to my laptop. I would like to cut the laptop and watch movies directly on TV using only TV remote control.

MORE Information: My RaspberryPi with attached HDD is located in the basement (HDD noise + lack of space) and connected to the Wi-Fi router via RJ-45 Ethernet cable. So I cannot make a RaspberryPi --- HDMI cable --- TV connection.

1) install a dlna server on your raspberry pi, and get a smart TV which can play from a dlna source. I don't know if these will play the srt subtitles though. This page gives details on how to set up minidlna

Emby Server turned out a joy to configure and use; I really enjoy the customization, presentation and UI on the Emby server. The problem is that when accessing my movie library through the Emby share, I am presented with the same UI and info as the native Infuse share. No actor screenshots, no detailed info on the media type, nothing even remotely resembling the wealth of info presented on the Emby server for each movie.

My spinning circle when starting up is close to 10 seconds on the non 4k Apple TV, but only 2-3 seconds for 4k Apple TV. That is indeed a little slow. But, direct play is so much better than transcoding and the player does work better in Infuse.

I use an older PC with a 3TB external HD attached (USB 2.0). I prefer using the external HD because I store all the movie files on this drive. If I ever want to go on vacation I can unplug the external HD and take my whole mvoie collection with me and it fits in a back pack.

Open iTunes and under the File Menu go to Home Sharing and turn home sharing ON. You will need to sign in with the same Apple ID that you use on other devices. (Any device using this Apple ID and on this network will see the shared library)

Next under the ADVANCED tab click the [Change] button to change the default location for the iTunes Library to be located on the external HD. (If you choose to use an internal drive then set that as your location) Also check [Keep iTunes Media Folder Organized] and Copy files to iTunes Media Folder when adding to library] This makes organizing easy. In my example my external HD is set as the F Drive.

Now that you have your rip setting set, subtitles settings set, and your destination set you rip the movie. Depending on the speed of your optic drive this can take some time. Once handbrake is done you should now have a [Name of your movie].m4v now sitting in your iTunes Media Folder. For my example I am using Friday The 13th.

*HINT: If you need to make a small correction instead of reopening the movie in Sublr you can edit some meta data in iTunes by right clicking on the moving and selecting [Get Info] from the sub menu. Make changes and save.

You can take a lot of home movies and little videos and handbrake them into the mv4 format and open them in Sublr and edit the information manually. I use custom Genres for this very thing. (One is funny videos, another is skate videos, and another is home movies) I then save them and put them in the collection. Then when people come over with just an apple TV remote or my iPhone I can show everything from Ghost In The Shell to The Search for Animal Chin or humorous iPhone videos we shot with just the push of a button.

"Videos purchased from iTunes (and most other similar online stores such as Amazon) have Digital Rights Management (DRM) to implement restrictions on usage. Unfortunately, that means that third-party applications such as Plex are not legally allowed to play that content. :

For each genre in the data set, how many genres are the movies in that genre in, on average. For example, a Action movie is in 1.3 genres and the average Adventure movie is in 2.9 genres, so an Action movie is a better defined genre.

I definitively recommend using a server type chassis with a backplane. DO NOT try to string along many drives using individual SATA data cables to a motherboard. I've had my Norcotek RPC-24 bay server chassis for about 8 years or so. Just last week one individual port doesn't light up a drive. Not the worst situation since I only use 16 drives, so I have some room to spare. It is also MUCH easier to work on a server chassis that's sitting on a table. I was going to install mine in my data closet in it's own small rack but then I told myself the first time I ever had trouble and needed to work on it I would go crazy. So I just bought one of those indestructible poly tables and put the server right on that. It came with it's own fans, which were adequate enough, may I say too adequate. I replaced all the internal fans with Noctua Industrial models and I can barely hear the server at all. I would NEVER want to go back to a standard/regular computer case if I was building a system with a lot of drives. Never, ever. To spruce things up and time for a change I was just looking to replace my server chassis with another model. They are all from China unfortunately and since everything is going smaller, faster, it gets harder and harder to obtain server chassis. I suspect eventually as a few years go by they will be even harder to get. My first unraid box used the istarUSA 5bay boxes that slid into a large tower. I had to deal with all the power lines and SATA cables. It was a nightmare. When you use a server chassis each entire backplane ( 5 drives ) uses one molex power line, you do not need to power each drive individually. Anyway if you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask. I've been using unraid since it first came out and had about 10 iterations of servers.