Emby is offering
Emby Premiere Lifetime Subscription for
$99.
Thanks to Community Member
SilentCartSniper for sharing this deal.
- Note: The license is for single household use and carries a 25 device limit. The terms of service can be found here. Emby is a Personal Media Server platform.
Product Features - Offline Media
- Download your media to your smart phones and tablets for easy offline playback. Supported on Android, iOS and Windows.
- Emby DVR
- Schedule individual recordings, series recordings, and more with Emby DVR.
- Free Apps
- Enjoy full access to Emby for Android, Fire TV, iOS, Xbox One and PS4.
- Cover Art
- The Cover Art plugin creates fun covers and other treatments for your media images. Choose from over 30 different styles of treatments and overlays for 3D, subtitles, audio, and more.
- Cinema Mode
- Cinema Mode gives you the true cinema experience with trailers and custom intros before the feature.
- Cloud Sync
- Sync your media to the cloud for easy backup, archiving, and converting. Store your content in multiple resolutions to enable direct streaming from any device.
- Emby Theater
- The latest and greatest Emby app for your TV. Runs on Windows, Xbox One, PS4, Chrome, Firefox, and Microsoft Edge.
- Automatically Convert Content
- Convert your content into streaming friendly formats on a schedule or when they are added.
- Folder Sync
- Sync your media to folders and external hard drives for easy backup, archiving, and converting. Store your content in multiple resolutions to enable direct streaming from any device.
- Backup and Restore
- Backup and restore your server configuration with ease, or migrate to a new environment in a snap.
- Podcasts
- All your favorite video and audio podcasts in the PodCasts channel.
- Smart Home
- Use your Amazon Echo or Google Home device to control your Emby apps by voice.
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This would be translate that they could find any reason to disable/close your account if they see you're 2 diff IP addresses.
Don't believe me? ask Netflix.
Such a garbage company.
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Add one of the Kodi addons for Plex/Emby/JF. There are 2 options here - addon which is separate, or one which integrates into Kodi and lets you sync your library - the latter allows you to use any Kodi skin which looks a lot nicer.
Once you do this, you also don't need Plex/Emby premiere. And you can use Jellyfin too of course. It takes a little more setup but nothing an average user can't do.
Using Kodi will direct play everything, no transcoding ever - which is the #1 complaint, much faster playback, much more format support, and its all free.
If you're talking about it's usage of Exoplayer internally on android, Emby supports use of other (external) players so you can use VLC, mpv, kodi, etc.
You can't direct play something if the hardware can't deal with it, I don't care what player you are running. Emby will direct play damn near everything if your hardware supports it. Hell, my CCwGTV devices were about $15 each after Netflix credits and direct play everything in my library - .264/.265/AV1/OPUS/certain 7.1 codecs/etc.. Those are obviously running android, and I'm fine with the default internal exoplayer.
If you're talking about it's usage of Exoplayer internally on android, Emby supports use of other (external) players so you can use VLC, mpv, kodi, etc.
You can't direct play something if the hardware can't deal with it, I don't care what player you are running. Emby will direct play damn near everything if your hardware supports it. Hell, my CCwGTV devices were about $15 each after Netflix credits and direct play everything in my library - .264/.265/AV1/OPUS/certain 7.1 codecs/etc.. Those are obviously running android, and I'm fine with the default internal exoplayer.
If you've used any of these, a standard complaint is transcoding. this simply doesn't happen when using Kodi.
It really doesn't prevent you from using the native client, you can setup Kodi+addon, compare both and decide.
If you've used any of these, a standard complaint is transcoding. this simply doesn't happen when using Kodi.
It really doesn't prevent you from using the native client, you can setup Kodi+addon, compare both and decide.
Besides that, Emby supports external players, so even on android, you can use whatever player you want, kodi included.
Much like with any technology purchase, you have to plan out your hardware and software in tandem, so they meet your particular needs. Get hardware that supports what you want to do, and then find the software, whether it be Emby, Plex, Jellyfin, or Kodi, that does things the way you want.
Kodi can be a great choice but it's management model is quite different than Emb/Plex/Jellyfin unless you are strictly using it with an add-on.
Besides that, Emby supports external players, so even on android, you can use whatever player you want, kodi included.
Much like with any technology purchase, you have to plan out your hardware and software in tandem, so they meet your particular needs. Get hardware that supports what you want to do, and then find the software, whether it be Emby, Plex, Jellyfin, or Kodi, that does things the way you want.
Kodi can be a great choice but it's management model is quite different than Emb/Plex/Jellyfin unless you are strictly using it with an add-on.
1) It's available on many more platforms than android and uses a different default player on each
2) You can use external media players even if you only have an android device and don't like it for whatever reason.
Seems odd to me though, Emby shines on android for us and many people, and I don't even bother to use a shield at home. Emby is on our NAS PC and the CCwGTVs have no problem direct playing stuff for us.
I'm not sure what you mean by adding an external player isn't seamless. There is no obvious button, but Emby staff have repeatedly mentioned why there isn't an obvious public toggle. It's available though, and would only confuse most users if exposed more, as the vast majority aren't going to use an external player perhaps ever.
As it is, you can click on a button to have Emby automatically attempt error correction. That's about as advanced as most average Joe users can handle.
Additionally, Emby Theater for Windows has an external player built in.
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