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EMBY SERVER TRANSCODING ON LIVE PLAYBACK TV

This allows you to see ratings in lists if desired. The 3-dot menu above lists has been enhanced to allow new fields to be displayed. New User Profile Options to Control Remembering Track Selectionsįor both audio and subtitles, you can now control whether or not track selections are remembered, as well as clear your remembered tracks anytime you wish. When you filter by genres, tags, studios and other criteria, you can now select multiple. Lists now have the same multi-select management features that you’ve already grown accustomed to in poster views. If you don’t use Emby Guide Data, you can still configure these logos manually using the image editor. This way our apps can choose the most appropriate logo based on your chosen color scheme in the user interface. Using Emby Guide Data, the server now downloads multiple logos per channel in different colors. To give you an example of the improvement, on a guide with 4000 channels, the guide data refresh has gone from roughly 2.5 hours to 45 minutes. But if you’re using xmltv guide data, you can expect major, dramatic improvements in the neighborhood of about 70% faster.

EMBY SERVER TRANSCODING ON LIVE PLAYBACK TV

The live tv guide refresh process for all live tv should be slightly improved (5-10% faster). Improved Performance of Live TV Guide Refresh You can even group your channel display into Tags if desired. Automatic importing of groups in m3u tuners is also supported. Use the above editor to add tags to channels, and now you’ll see a new Tags tab in your Live TV section. Support for Live TV Channel Groups (via Tags) Just click on a channel to edit the options. This is a new WMC-inspired channel management screen that will allow you to quickly disable channels you don’t want, drag and drop re-order, edit channel names, channel numbers, and map channels to guide data. If you prefer the old Next Up section, you can use your Emby user home screen settings to add it back as a configuration section. Hopefully this is not a controversial one, but our out of box behavior is now a Netflix-style Continue Watching list, with everything together. The popular AutoBoxSets plugin is now a built-in feature.Ĭheck out the new options in the server transcoding menu! If you have a server machine powerful enough, you can now enjoy tone mapping when transcoding. Improved Database and User Interface PerformanceĪll Emby apps should feel snappier than ever thanks to a plethora of new improvements in your Emby server database.Ĭollections have now been reworked to be based on the set tag in your nfo files (if you use nfo). This was mentioned above, but if your audio files are tagged with composer values, then you’ll now see a new Composers tab in your music library.

The Folders tab is now an actual folder view and will work properly as such.

Library metadata options for artists now working again (and still working for albums).

Support multiple musicbrainz id’s tagged on songs and albums.

Preserve original order of tagged genres, artists, album artists, tags, etc.

You’ll need to use your music library options to indicate your music folder structure if you’d like to use local artwork. If you enable these options you’ll need to have an artist album track folder structure, otherwise you’ll likely end up seeing nfo files and images in unexpected places. This will be the only feature of a music library that will require a predictable folder structure.

Local metadata for albums will still be supported, and local metadata for artists will be back as well.

Albums are now fully tag driven and are no longer tied to folders.

Any folder structure now accepted, no matter how clean or dirty.

This solves a lot of our previous music-related shortcomings, specifically: We apologize if this causes any inconvenience. This 4.6 release will rescan your music library. The complete release notes with screenshots are finished this page find, this is the same text without pictures: The program is with that comparable with Plex Media Server. Clients are available for the aforementioned operating systems, but content can also be viewed on, for example, iOS, Android, various media players and Google TV. Until version 3.6 it was open source, but is that no longer. This media server for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, macOS and various nas devices can index and serve content to clients on the same machine, within the local network or over the Internet. Version 4.6 of Emby Server has been released.

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If its on the Disk, too, you must stop the docker engine, execute the mover and recheck through "Compute", after the mover has finished its work. It shows if your data is located only on the SSD or on SSD and Disk. If you are changing the path of multiple containers, do this every time after you stopped the container, before changing the path!ģ.) This works only if appdata is already located on your SSD which happens only if you used the cache modes "prefer" or "only":Ĥ.) To be sure that your Plex files are only on your SSD, you must open "Shares" and Press "Compute" for your appdata share. Usually you set your Plex docker paths as follows:Īnd this path for your AppData Config Path (which contains the thumbnails, frequently updated database file, etc):īut instead, you should use this as your Config Path:īy that you bypass unraid's overhead (SHFS) and write directly to the cache disk.ġ.) Create a backup of your appdata folder! You use this tweak on your own risk!Ģ.) Before changing a path to Direct Disk Access you need to stop the container and wait for at least 1 minute or even better, execute this command to be sure that all data is written from the RAM to the drives: (I placed this post here because it should not be about the dockers but things around it and Unraid, please move it if you find a better place for it!) Thanks for a really great forum with so many help-full people Looking forward to getting some input from the power users! 👍 and updating this post with new things! Speed up the UI? have anyone tried to move the DB to RAM? and did it help? What other things or tips do you have to speed things up? Use direct /cache/ path: Big thanks to sharing this! (If you have space then adding Appdata/Docker.img really makes a difference!) Link from Reddit - I guess it would just be a matter of copying to /temp? (If you already have your Appdata on M.2 then might not be big difference).Moving transcoding to RAM (Update better guide for doing this)ĭB optimize over time (Mostly Plex not Emby) - people with large collection run this even if the DB is not corrupt? And afterwards should load much faster? Structure of media in each folder/optimize files for transcoding? HW encoding using Unraid Nvidia plugin + GPU So I would really like to collect all the tweaks and "Hack" done by others to increase performance of large Media servers doing transcodingįirst just to get the "normal" recommendation listed:Īppdata on cache drive (Fast as possible - SSD/M2) Thanks to the path substitution technology, clients can be allowed direct access to the server, which facilitates direct playback, without additional resource usage to transcode content.Unraid is great and I am like many others using my Unraid server for Plex (And of course other things) It is a UPnP media server that allows data sharing over the network, without requiring advanced configuration. Media Browser Server allows media file sharing and streaming between multiple devices and platforms.

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From the dashboard, you can easily change the server configuration, create and manage users, add media to the library and delete existing files, download and attach subtitles, artwork and metadata information to the media folders, extract chapter images and many more. Media Browser Server features a web-based interface that requires any modern web browser to run. Moreover, it takes care of the file transfers and the transcoding process, ensuring compatibility with the target device without requiring prior conversion. The server offers a secure and comfortable way to organize and manage your multimedia library, as well as keep an eye on the initiated connections.

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And thanks to the available mobile apps for devices running on iOS, Android, Windows Phone or Windows 8, you can pick up exactly where you left off, regardless of your location. With its help, you can stream multimedia content to a compatible device that has a dedicated client installed, such as Emby Theater, Media Browser Classic or XBMC (now known as Kodi), which require an API key in order to initiate the connection.įurthermore, the developers provide media clients or plugins for Roku, Samsung Smart TVs and MediaPortal, allowing fast access to the media library.

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Previously known as Media Browser Server, Emby Server facilitates the communication and data transfer between your PC and DLNA-compliant devices in your network, enabling you to enjoy videos, music and photos on any platform.

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Announcing Emby Server 4.0

At long last we're pleased to announce Emby Server 4.0. This new release will begin rolling out over the next 24 hours, so please be patient. This has been our longest release period ever, and going forward we intend to get back to a more frequent release schedule. This release is packed with improved performance, updates to existing features, as well as several brand new features.   Important Upgrade Information After installing the update, the server will begin a database upgrade operation. If you attempt to open the web app during this time, you'll be given a friendly message informing you about this. This operation could take a little time, so please be patient with it.   After this is complete, any plugins you may have installed will require updates, so please check the status of this on your server dashboard. If any plugins are updated, remember that Emby Server will need to be restarted. After all updates have been applied, we recommend that you run a library scan. The first scan following the update could take longer than usual, so please be patient.   With that out of the way, let's go over the highlights of this release.   No Telemetry or Anonymous Usage Reporting   If you're wondering why the anonymous usage reporting setting has been removed, it's because not only have we removed the setting, but we've removed the function altogether. We know our audience pretty well thanks to this community, and because of that we've decided we no longed need any data reporting.   New Emby Live TV Guide Data   As previously announced, Live TV Guide Data is Now Included with Emby Premiere, if you're in the USA, Canada, or the UK. 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 new data 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 Levels of Performance   A database re-structuring brings your Emby Server and apps to new levels of performance that were previously not possible. Screens will load faster, videos will start quicker, and more. This will also manifest itself in other areas, such as improved library scan performance, and faster live tv guide refreshes. Please Note: The first scan after the update may take quite a while depending on your library contents and exactly what features you have enabled. Please be patient as subsequent scans will be much faster.   New and Improved Hardware Acceleration   This has been rebuilt from the ground up and is better than ever. We now have sophisticated hardware detection that runs on server startup to determine what your system can support. This allows us to provide you with an "easy mode" setting:     And if you enable advanced control, you'll be able to see what was detected:     Our hardware transcoding has been rewritten to take better advantage of each of the major GPU platforms, whether it be QuickSync, Nvidia, DXVA, VAAPI, MediaCodec, or others. This will allow hardware transcoding performance to perform better than ever.   Best of all, you can now monitor this on the server dashboard. The green bar indicates the current playback position while the orange bar designates the range that has been transcoded so far.     Important: Hardware acceleration has been truly a major effort for us, and because of this, it will now require Emby Premiere on all platforms except for Nvidia Shield and Western Digital.   Transcoding Throttling is Back   This feature has returned after a two year hiatus and is better than ever. What is transcoding throttling? Sometimes your server can transcode content much quicker than you're actually watching it. When the transcoding process gets a big enough lead on your watching position, we can slow it down on the fly in order to reduce the load on your server. Then as you're watching, if we need to speed it back up, we can do that too.   And best of all, your server dashboard will show you when transcoding is being throttled:   Emby Server Now Available for Android and Nvidia Shield   Stay tuned for separate announcements.   Improved Search   Search is now faster and now supports fuzzy search! This means you don't need to type your searches perfectly in order to see the matches you're looking for. For example, if you accidentally enter "Bad Breaking", instead of "Breaking Bad", you'll still be able to see Breaking Bad in the results.   Multi-Resolution TV Shows   Without requiring any changes to your file names, we now support having multiple versions of episodes. This doesn't require any special setup and you'll now see the friendly version selection on the episode screen:     Revamped Grouping Into Collections   This has now been moved from a server setting to directly onto the Movies list screen where it can be easily toggled.     Expanded Filtering   You can now filter on more fields such as container, video codec, audio codec, subtitle codec, and more. This filters are also remembered !   Expanded User Library Access   User library access can now be controlled for sub-folders, providing you with even greater flexibility than before.   Other Improvements * Update to .NET Core 2.2 * Update to Sqlite 3.26.0 * Improve library scan performance * Improve performance of live tv guide refresh * Improve subtitle delivery performance * Support Brotli http compression * Display video size on detail screens in Media Info * Significantly reduce dlna related network traffic * Add More Like This On Live TV section * Add tabbed layouts for music videos and home videos * Add network browsing to directory picker for Linux, Android and MacOS. * Change new indicators for programs to match guide data * Rework mobile context menus * Rework tv tabs to be consistent with Emby Theater * Downloaded subtitles are now saved using the two-character language code * Improve transcoding of low bit rate hevc * Add Moviedb season image provider * Show favorite people * Support tvg-chno with m3u tuners * Support tvg-shift with m3u tuners * Allow a library to be named "backdrops", a previously reserved name * Improve server dashboard display with blue radiance theme * Improve mobile server dashboard with bottom navigation * Added live tv channels to search feature * Improve layout of live tv channels tab under live tv * Add audio books content type * Use es-MX with MovieDb when Spanish language is selected along with Mexico as the country * Improve metadata with absolute episode ordering * Cloud sync upload improvements * Support launching android server on device startup * Add container, video codec, audio codec, and subtitle codec filters * Improve multi-resolution naming recognition * Improve automatic refreshing in the web app * Improve resiliency with iptv streams * Improve Windows sleep prevention while server is being used * Improve Chromecast volume control * Improve xmltv parsing of European characters * Support multiple images with xmltv * Use transcode=none profile for HD Homerun when appropriate * Support splitting musicbrainz id's on both slashes and semi-colons * Make alpha pickers dynamic based on content * Improve identify feature * Improve manual refreshing when replacing existing images * Improve database cleanup procedures of removed content * Improve automatic refreshing of recordings * Restore user permission to change password and profile image * Prevent syncing of in-progress recordings * Improve authentication failure logging for Fail2ban support * Add API to find item by provider id * Update new user defaults to not allow deleting media * Make news notifications configurable * Reduce size of Windows and MacOS installers by 30 MB * Support user subtitle download permissions * Defer collage image generation until images are needed * Move AudioDb and Omdb to pre-installed plugins * Move fanart.tv to pre-installed plugin * Move MusicBrainz to pre-installed plugin * Move MovieDb metadata provider to pre-installed plugin * Move nfo saver to pre-installed plugin * Move tvdb to pre-installed plugin * Support per-library resume settings Bug Fixes * Fix issue of changing password in Firefox when Firefox password manager is used * Fix repeated Visual Studio C++ install prompts when VS2017 is already present * Fix favorite artists page showing empty list * Fix search by accent characters * Fix web access by ipv6 ip address * Fix More Like This for artists always showing same content * Fix xmltv programs not being marked as new when they are also a Premiere * Fix recording image file names for shows containing a period in the name * Workaround .net core crashes on network availability changes * Fix collection and playlist separation per library * Fix hardware transcoding options being reverted to defaults * Fix cloud sync upload throttle not being applied * Fix xmltv failures with SMB paths * Fix audio books getting immediately marked as watched * Fix intermittent crash associated with log file rotation * Fix windows task scheduler entries not getting cleaned up * Fix typo in Exynos spelling * Fix remote URL showing with remote access disabled * Various DLNA bug fixes http://dlvr.it/QwgNpv

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Emby Server 3.2.5 Released

A new release is currently rolling out. Here are the highlights.   Lock Screen Control with Chrome for Android   Check out the previous announcement: https://emby.media/community/index.php?/blog/1/entry-354-enjoy-chrome-lock-screen-control-with-the-emby-web-app/     New Volume Swipe Control   Just swipe vertically during video playback and you can quickly and easily adjust volume.     Bug Fixes * Update xmltv xml parsing to handle empty credits node * Add fixes for running the server under Turkish locale settings * Fix tv series alphabet picker * Fix direct stream of flv * Fix chromecast mirror feature * Fix live tv channel sorting with favorite option * Fix empty guide rows when mapping multiple tuner channels to the same epg channel Other Improvements * Improve series recording images * Update to sqlite 3.17.0 * Clean related files when deleting items * Add automatic direct play to transcoding switching on video failures * Preserve manual recording overrides * Respect locked fields during media probe * Add setting to prefer embedded titles vs titles in file names * Add volume swipe control to video player http://dlvr.it/NVGtCv

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Emby Server 3.2.60 Released

A new release is rolling out. Here are the highlights.   Important Information for Windows Users   If you're currently running Emby Server 3.2.36, you'll need to install this update manually. To do this, simply shutdown Emby Server and run the installer from the website on top of your existing installation. If you're not sure what version you're currently running, then we also suggest updating this way.   Improved Multi-Version Support   If you have multiple versions of a video, now you can choose which one you'd like to play prior to playback.     Learn more about multi-version support in our video naming guide.   Support Track Selection Prior to Playback   Now you can select audio and subtitles prior to playback.   Bug Fixes * Resolve issues with windows uninstaller * Fix server update scheduled task progress reporting * Fix server dashboard occasionally not being scrollable * Fix initial audio stream selection in certain direct play situations * Fix windows network browsing * Fix windows sleep prevention * Clean up LoaderException from log file under Linux and MacOS * Fix music transcoding for iOS   Other Improvements * Allow specification of m3u stream limit * Support configurable subtitle download location * Add resiliency for customized transcode temp folder that is unreachable * Improve resiliency to moving server program data folder * Support m3u tuner stream sharing * Make music landing screen configurable * Improve metadata saving error handling * Improve web app playback error handling * Add fixes for m3u stream sharing feature * Improve image processing performance * Improve xml tv .gz file support * Support external subtitles with .strm files * Add setting to auto-run web app when server starts * Improve support for moviedb urls in nfo metadata * Add HLS attributes for Apple TV refresh rate switching * Delete 0-byte recording files after recording failures * Adjust rules for sample files * Improve live tv playback performance with external live tv services * Improve tvdb lookup by imdb id * Show favorite collections and playlists * Improve in browser support for ASS/SSA subtitles * Support play start index * Improve live tv recording images * Improve live tv stream re-use feature * Reduce dlna chatter * Update save metadata as hidden file setting to be windows-only * Update realtime monitor for MacOS * Improve direct play of active live tv recordings * Improve LG Dlna direct playImprove automatic home screen refreshing * Improve xmltv .gz support * Support de-interlacing with vaapi * Support provider id's contained in xmltv data * Speed up dlna server disposal http://dlvr.it/Q7LPGg

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Emby for Xbox One Updated with Improved Playback

Emby for Xbox One has been updated with improved video playback. Here are the highlights: * Direct play more video formats, including hevc on supported models. * Reduced server transcoding decreases the load on your Emby Server machine * Pause, rewind and fast-forward live tv * Faster video start time   * Reduced server transcoding decreases the load on your Emby Server machine http://dlvr.it/Pz6Kqh

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Emby Server 3.2.32 Released

A new release of Emby Server is currently rolling out. Here are the highlights.   Built for iOS 11   HEVC is now supported in iOS 11 Safari. A new release of the iOS app is also on the way to support this.   Reports Feature   This is now moved to a plugin to allow for independent updating as well as facilitating community contributions.   Important Information   After installing this release, almost every plugin will need to be updated. Your patience is appreciated while the plugin updates are being applied.   Bug Fixes * Fix ffmpeg not closing in web app when changing quality or audio track * Fix and improve image upload drag and drop * Fix 3-dot menu for guests not working * Fix artifacts during seeking with transcoding Other Changes * Support netflix keyboard shortcuts during video playback * Improve performance of Live TV Guide scheduled task * Update plugin loading for .net core * Adjust omdb metadata requests * Improve image orientation performance * Support .tif image extension * Rework epg storage * Fix podcast audio playback in web app * Support .vtt external subtitles * Improve .cr2 image support * Begin to restore swagger support * Odroid XU4 Hardware encoder support * Fix support for .tbn image files * Allow plugins to inject menus into server dashboard * Support hardware decoding with OMX * Add more control over deinterlacing when transcoding * Improve report playback stop when user closes browser during playback * Allow movie extras to be added to collections and playlists * Support new format of set node in movie nfo http://dlvr.it/PpqKLY

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Emby Server 3.2.28 Released

A new release is currently rolling out. Here are the highlights.   Bug Fixes * Fix m4a audio playback in Chrome * Don't crop whitespace from jpg images * Resolve null reference in library scan * Ensure custom css is loaded last * Fix automatic switch to transcoding when the web app fails to parse ass/ssa subtitles Other Improvements * Add user max bitrate per stream setting * Support hardware acceleration with image extraction * Update hardware decoding support for live tv recording conversion process * Expand on hardware decoding settings * Automatic fallback from GPU transcoding to CPU * Support double tap shortcut to fast forward or rewind video playback * Update offline downloading error handling * Improve next performance * Move auto-organize to plugin * Remove idle dlna devices from server dashboard http://dlvr.it/PgRCZB

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Emby Server 3.2.13 Released

A new release of Emby Server is currently rolling out. Here are the highlights.   New! Design Your Home Screen Just click the gear icon right on the home screen of the app.     Start Recording During Live TV Playback It's easy! Just click the recording button directly inside the video player.     Improved Playback   The web app now supports level 51 H264 in all browsers. In addition, it will be more aggressive in it's attempts to direct play and can automatically switch to transcoding when needed, all on the fly.   Bug Fixes * Fix trancoding failures of dvr-ms container * Ignore 0-byte image files * Resolve change password failure   Other Improvements * Improve error handling of HDHomerun live stream failures * Improve performance of live tv suggestions * Improve performance of live tv channel list * Add fixes for HLS seeking * Update subtitle embedding * Direct play level 51 h264 in more browsers * Improve auto-organize error handling * Improve live tv start time in web app * Update remuxing support for dvb subtitles * Improve next up performance * Update h264 nvenc support * Update streaming api's for new Roku app * Support multiple country nodes in nfo * Improve tvdb lookup by imdb id * Rework live tv tuner setup and discovery * Autoloop m3u's * Update audio sync during transcoding * Increase dlna default profile max bitrate * Update video sync when transcoding live tv http://dlvr.it/P0g2rJ

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Emby Server 3.1: Faster and Lighter than Ever Before

A new release of Emby Server is currently rolling out. This new release has a lot of important bug fixes, as well as new features. It's also much faster than ever before and we think you're going to enjoy that. Let's go over the highlights.   New Levels of Performance   This release of Emby Server is faster than you've ever seen it. All areas will be improved including the following: * Faster browsing performance in all apps * Faster library scans * Faster scheduled tasks * For those running the Kodi sync plugin, the sync process will be faster as well * Faster playback start time IPv6 now Supported on All Operating Systems   On Linux, this will require the mono 4.6 run time, which our Linux packages now ship with. This also requires that IPv6 be supported by the host operating system (Unraid for example does not support IPv6).   Subtitle Encoding Improvements   Several issues have been resolved related to subtitle encoding and display of special characters.   Separate Latest Media By Library   On the web app home screen, you'll now see separate rows of latest media for each library. On touch devices these rows can be swiped horizontally. This puts more content right at your fingertips.     Refreshed Detail Screen   It's now more consistent with our other apps, and makes better use of screen real estate.     More Live TV Seeking Support   Seeking Live TV is now supported in the web app in mobile Edge and Safari for Mac. This now brings the roster of supported browsers to: * Chrome * Firefox * Opera * Edge on all Windows 10 devices * All other Chromium based browsers (like Vivaldi). * Safari on Mac Better Recording Schedule Images   The recording schedule screens will now make better use of images, making your DVR more fun than ever before.     New Recording Options   You now have the option to preserve original video when recording.     Recording Post-Processing   You now have the ability to run a post-processing application after completing a recording.     Redesigned Series Recording Management   The same great features, but now they look better than ever before.     Xml TV Movie Prefix Support   If your xml tv data applies prefixes to your movies, you can now specify this on the xml tv setup screen. This will allow Emby to better handle the prefix in relation to displaying the content and searching for internet metadata.   Other Improvements * New web app design for movies and tv by genre * Update tv guide presentation * Automatically adjust scheduled recordings to program changes * Reduce resource consumption used by device discovery * Remove audio channel count from web app transcoding conditions * Improve image & subtitle extraction * Update to 3.15.2 * Update dlna music views * Improve m3u channel name parsing * Add guide auto-refresh * Display series images on episode detail screen when episodes have no images * Improve consistency of web app detail screen with Emby Theater * Improve automatic network switching from mobile web app * Move book support into Emby core * Support resuming audio books * Add per-library series pooling setting * Shorten episode display numbers * Improve Dlna Play To device detection Bug Fixes * Resolve vaapi mpeg4 transcoding failure * Remove condition preventing video stream copy with Apple TV * Resolve display issue on dlna profile screen * Resolve music brainz provider issue causing the library scan to get stuck in certain situations http://dlvr.it/N4PQZq