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-Emby Server uses ffmpeg for transcoding, which by default has
-lame support disabled due to licensing issues. To enable mp3
-audio when transcoding, you must reinstall multimedia/ffmpeg
-from ports with the lame support option enabled.
+Emby Server uses FFmpeg for transcoding and ImageMagick for
+generating thumbnails. The default ports/pkg builds of FFmpeg
+and ImageMagick on FreeBSD have a number of options which
+could be SET/UNSET to improve your Emby Server experience.
+
+It is recommended to recompile the multimedia/ffmpeg package
+from ports with the following options ENABLED (SET):
+ - ASS (required for subtitle rendering)
+ - LAME (required for mp3 audio transcoding, disabled by default due to mp3 licensing restrictions)
+ - OPUS (required for opus audio codec support)
+ - X265 (required for H.265 video codec support
+
+It is recommended to recompile the graphics/ImageMagick package
+from ports with the following options DISABLED (UNSET):
+ - 16BIT_PIXEL (to increase thumbnail generation performance)
If you had mediabrowser installed before the project was
renamed to emby-server, you may want to rename the user and