Software Update: Emby Server 3.1.2

Version 3.1 of Emby Server was released a few days ago and in the meantime there are already two maintenance releases passed by that fix some minor errors. This open source media server for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, OS X and various NAS devices can index and serve content to clients on the same machine, within the local network or over the Internet. Clients are available for the aforementioned operating systems, among others, but content can also be viewed on iOS, Android, Windows Phone and Google TV, for example. The program is thus comparable with Plex Media Server. The most important improvements in version 3.1 are listed for you below:

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