How to fix this: Have a check box, when you add your Movies (or TV Shows, etc), that asks, do you currently have Artwork (Posters, Banners, Fanart, etc). And Emby is by-passing my local files, and I've noticed that lots of the Artwork I have for Movies is now Animated, and previously, I haven't downloaded any Animated Posters (as I was on Kodi 15.2 which doesn't support that feature). So whats the point of having all these local files, if Emby is going to by-pass them and go to these URL's to download the files. NFO files regarding Posters, Banners, etc. I read this might be caused by a setting in the Emby Server that add's image URL's to the.

Using SMB shares from the FreeNAS server into Kodi (before trying Emby), took about 1-2 hours. NFO and artwork in the folders (tagged and have been working in Kodi for several years now, using the MediaElch program to download all the images and create the. I thought this was strange as all my Movies (and TV, Music, and Music Videos) all have. Setting up the initial scan of my Movies into the Emby server took over 13 hours to complete. Kodi version 16.1 on a Shield TV with the easy install of Emby worked (almost too easy).ġ. Installed the Emby Server Jail in FreeNAS, had some issues at first with my shares, but got them sorted and now Emby Server can see all my data, and everything seems to work.

So I setup a new Server (48TB FreeNas server, over 3000 Movies and 700 TV Series, 4k Music Videos, and a huge Music library), which is working great.ĭecided to give Emby a go, as I've read about some of its features that Plex lacks (mostly any Skin should work in Kodi with Emby), among other things (pause and resume in another room, etc).

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