Emby for Android TV

Emby Media

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About this app

Bringing all of your personal media together into one place has never been easier! Emby unites your personal videos, music, and photos and streams them to all your devices.

This app is free and will function for browsing your collection. For library playback, you need to either unlock the app with a small in-app purchase or have an active Emby Premiere subscription. The very first time you install the app, it will function for playback for a two week trial period. After this period expires, the in-app purchase or Emby Premiere subscription will be required. The trial will never convert to a paid subscription automatically.
You will have to purchase one of the options in the app. Some other features, such as Live TV are only available with Premiere.


Get the free Emby Server at http://emby.media (required as part of your Emby install).



• Automatically converts your media on-the-fly to play on any device.
• Organizes your media into an elegant display with artwork, rich metadata and related content.
• Easily share your media with friends and family.
• Rich parental control and management features allow you to easily control access for your entire family.
• Stream your cloud-synced media (with installed cloud sync providers)
• Watch Live TV and manage your DVR (with installed live tv provider and Emby Premiere)



Energize your collection with Emby and take your media to the next level.


** all images used under license from Gracenote **

Ratings and reviews

Worked great for about a year, then stopped playing the last several minutes of TV episodes. Audio keeps playing, but the picture freezes and it won't seek forward. Tried restarting the app, rebooting the box, clearing cache, etc. I paid for this app and now it doesn't even work. Will be switching to Jellyfin if this remains unfixed.

A lot of bugs. For example this is the only app that messes with Bluetooth whenever it's run, my TV doesn't recognize connected Bluetooth headphones, the start/pause button on my headset doesn't work. Guess what, if I exit the app, then everything is working properly. One more, If I stop a movie and there's another recently played movie then it will disappear, ok, you can restart the app and both movies will appear in the recently played movies section. And they want me to pay for Emby Premium?

I'm wanting a DLNA server for an Android TV box to serve videos to my LAN. I do not want it accessing the web at all. So I found the IP address of the TV box, entered that, went to go to the next step and it sat there doing nothing. I let it sit there quite a while, doing nothing, not moving onwards towards setting up a media server.

What's new

Improve HEVC playback