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.
It is no longer a single program. It encompasses a large suite of applications all communicating with a central server that manages your library. No longer locked inside Windows Media Center, Emby can now bring your entire media library to not only all of the computers on your network, but also many of your portable devices.
Whether it's the Roku in the living room, or your tablet on the back porch, Emby will bring your media right to you.
Your Media on Any Device:
- Emby Server automatically converts and streams your personal media on the fly to play on any device.
Easy Access:
- Emby Connect makes it easy to enjoy your personal media while away from home. Just sign in and play.
Live TV:
- Stream Live TV to any device, manage your DVR, and enjoy your library of recordings.
Mobile Sync:
- Sync your personal media to smart phones and tablets for easy offline access. Automatically sync new content as you add it.
Beautiful Displays:
- Emby organizes your content into easy and elegant presentations. Your personal media will never look the same.
Manage Your Media:
- Easy web-based tools help you edit metadata and images, search for subtitles, and more.
Manage Your Home:
- Easily control content access for your children. Monitor and remote control their sessions as you need to.
Parental Controls:
- Specify parental restrictions for your children, create access schedules, time limits, and more.
Easy DLNA:
- Emby automatically detects Dlna devices on your network so that you can easily send content, remote control, and more.
Chromecast:
- Send videos, music, photos, and Live TV to Chromecast with ease.
Cloud Sync:
- Sync your personal media to the cloud for easy backup, archiving, and converting. Store your content in multiple resolutions to enable direct streaming from any device.
Features only available in Emby Premiere:
- Offine Media
- Emby DVR
- Free Apps - Enjoy full access to Emby for Android, Fire TV, iOS, Xbox One and PS4.
- Cover Art
- Cinema Mode
- Cloud Sync
- Emby Theater
- Automatically Convert Recordings
- Folder Sync
- Backup and Restore
- Podcasts
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Release Notes:
- Use DXVA2 decoding on Windows when AMF is selected
- Add automatic fallback from gpu to cpu with sync transcoding
- Add blue radiance theme option
- Support media playback to Roku app without requiring the Roku app to be running (requires Roku app update)
- Add Appears On section to artist detail screen
- Incorporate original title into search
- Improve library browsing performance
- Improve performance of search requests
Other Improvements:
- Update to .NET Core 2.1.2
- Update to ffmpeg 4.0.1
- Update to SkiaSharp 1.60
- Update to sqlite 3.24.0
- Support Emby Server for Western Digital NAS
- Mono-based releases now require mono 5.4+ to run
- Improve live tv recording process from m3u
- Improve tvdb series queries
- Improve musicbrainz artist queries
- Add playlists to search results
- Add convert option to replace original files
- Rework devices display
- Update albums per artist to be based on album artist only
- Update more from albums to be based on album artist only
- Add force_idr for NVENC
- Improve M3U stream loop support
- Rework hover menus
- Virtualize persisted metadata paths
- Update collection visibility per user
- Update default audio track selection
- Update date in recording file names
- Restore features of Google Drive and Dropbox plugins
- Improve support for resuming and seeking podcasts
- Adjust keyframe interval for Roku transcoding
- Improve audio and subtitle track switching support for live tv plugins
- Linux & Mac: Ensure all folders beginning with a dot are ignored
- Localize notification texts
- Increase max time allowed for image extractions from video files
- Restore swagger parameters
- Restore swagger authentication
- Update Denon dlna profile to transcode high res flac files
- Disable older ssl protocols
- Update naming for next up sync jobs
- Bug Fixes
- Fix season level shuffling support
- Fix click destination on photo albums in search results
- Fix sporadic issue of not being able to start live tv
- Fix dlna server availability in mono releases
- Fix xmltv support in mono releases
- Fix Romanian text encoding
- Fix Thai text encoding
- Fix playlist queries
- Fix issues parsing season folders with years, e.g. Season 2011
- Fix issue when attempting to sign into local server using Emby Connect credentials
- Fix m2ts files not showing up in DLNA
- Fix subtitle resizing on window resize in firefox
- Fix erroneous Emby Connect invitation error messages
- Fix recognition of episode numbers greater than 365
- Fix pagination when using library grouping features
- Fix play all from here with large lists
- Fix playback issues with .strm audio
- Fix saving of image fetcher settings for new libraries
- Fix theme songs not stopping
- Fix convert feature re-converting when not necessary
- Fix dlna photo support for Samsung smart TV's
- Improve hauppauge error handling
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Requirements:
- Windows 7 SP1 or newer
- .NET Framework 4.6.2
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Homepage
Download Setup
http://embydata.com/downloads/server/release8/setup.exe
Download 32-bit Portable
Download 64-bit Portable
Other Download Options (Linux, Roku, FireTV, etc.)