Netflix / Prime Integration

[MBSki 1104]

28 minutes ago, roaku said:

Please stop replying to me about this.

As I already said, this is a public forum. If you don't want people to respond, then leave the forum.

[roaku 836]

I highly recommend TV Show & Movie Tracker for anyone looking to manage their Trakt viewing activity on Android.

[barat 27]

IMO Plex is doing something great ... almost  It proves, that one can start playing on external service just from other app.

What I would love to see is, that I can add a STUB file which will actually open AppleTV, Google etc and play the movie. This way I can store my DVDs/BluRays locally, but have 4K/HDR/DV versions as purchased copies on those services. I accept to manually create STUB files (just as i "make a safety copy" of my discs). I want to keep Emby as a place where my "purchased" movies reside. Just like "personal Movies Anywhere" (which is not available in my country).

For streaming aggregation maybe I'll start to use Plex - who knows, but for "my own media" I want to continue with Emby.

[MBSki 1104]

1 hour ago, barat said:

IMO Plex is doing something great ... almost  It proves, that one can start playing on external service just from other app.

What I would love to see is, that I can add a STUB file which will actually open AppleTV, Google etc and play the movie. This way I can store my DVDs/BluRays locally, but have 4K/HDR/DV versions as purchased copies on those services. I accept to manually create STUB files (just as i "make a safety copy" of my discs). I want to keep Emby as a place where my "purchased" movies reside. Just like "personal Movies Anywhere" (which is not available in my country).

For streaming aggregation maybe I'll start to use Plex - who knows, but for "my own media" I want to continue with Emby.

Agree. Plex has acknowledged that not every platform supports deeplinking. Xbox and Roku are the 2 I know of and it seems that Plex is trying to get that changed. Whether they'll be successful or not remains to be seen. 

@ebr If deeplinking IS supported on some platforms, would it be possible to test what @baratmentioned above? Linking to the actual service app using a STUB file? 

[rbjtech 4999]

15 minutes ago, mbarylski said:

@ebr If deeplinking IS supported on some platforms, would it be possible to test what @baratmentioned above? Linking to the actual service app using a STUB file? 

Not gonna happen without an Authenticated API... with all the commission/commercial/data collection trimmings - nobody is gonna provide that for free. 

[barat 27]

47 minutes ago, rbjtech said:

Not gonna happen without an Authenticated API... with all the commission/commercial/data collection trimmings - nobody is gonna provide that for free. 

It could be achieved in other way like stub which activates Siri/Google assistant command (Play X on Y), or for example for Itunes you can create any link which - if clicked - will open a player with a movie: https://linkmaker.itunes.apple.com/en-us/language

For example this will play Dune on any device which has AppleTV installed  https://tv.apple.com/movie/dune/umc.cmc.2l7qj9p33t3jww1roxi8cgiw5?itsct=tv_box_link&itscg=30200

 

[MBSki 1104]

2 hours ago, rbjtech said:

Not gonna happen without an Authenticated API... with all the commission/commercial/data collection trimmings - nobody is gonna provide that for free. 

Any idea if JustWatch requires payment for using their API? I wonder if that would be an option.

[Tremas 166]

FWIW, it sounds like Plex is having some problems with their new "discovery" feature implementation..

 

[MBSki 1104]

16 minutes ago, Tremas said:

FWIW, it sounds like Plex is having some problems with their new "discovery" feature implementation..

 

Yes of course they are. I think that's pretty standard when they release a new feature. 

[crusher11 977]

Why do people still pretend Plex and Emby are the same type of product?

[sydlexius 268]

1 minute ago, crusher11 said:

Why do people still pretend Plex and Emby are the same type of product?

Probably because their features and audience have more in common, and don't diverge in enough ways to get people to think they are categorically different.

[MBSki 1104]

@ebr @Luke Is it possible for Emby to use the JustWatch API without a subscription fee?

[BillOatman 575]

12 hours ago, crusher11 said:

Why do people still pretend Plex and Emby are the same type of product?

I would ask what makes you think they are not the same type of product?

[Carlo 4552]

1 hour ago, BillOatman said:

I would ask what makes you think they are not the same type of product?

Plex is more similar than you might initially think to a Netflix/Hulu service than to Emby.  Let me share what I'd consider the fundamental difference between the two as clear as possible:

One is ultimately controlled by the admin of the system who makes every choice as to what content will or will not be available to his "clients" and their apps. Absolutely no content is made available in any form that he/she didn't intentionally setup or configure.

The other is controlled by Big Brother who allows you the option to add to their service your own content and make it available to other clients of theirs you know. You have some control over the content you provide to their service but ultimately your content may not be shown to others the same way you see it.

[crusher11 977]

12 hours ago, BillOatman said:

I would ask what makes you think they are not the same type of product?

Plex is a streaming service and ad delivery mechanism that happens to allow you to also store your media on it.

Emby is a home media server.

[BillOatman 575]

11 hours ago, crusher11 said:

Plex is a streaming service and ad delivery mechanism that happens to allow you to also store your media on it.

Emby is a home media server.

I see where you are coming from now, thanks.

[xnappo 1608]

Old topic, but I really think Emby should add this as an option.  It is a major pain point for people right now tracking between different services and this will bring users.  

I actually wrote a hack to do this using a combination of Sonarr and Emby - but it is NVidia Shield and Kodi dependent, and as I said - a hack

https://github.com/xnappo/VirtualEpisodes

I wrote this well before Plex had a similar solution.  Been using it for two years and it is a family pleaser.

Edited October 20, 2022 by xnappo

[Neminem 887]

I would hope this will be an opt. in, if it ever happens.

I left Plex fore this reason years ago.

As it was forced on my users of my server.

Plex always wanted to be the man in the middle, hence i turned to Emby.

My server, my media and my users.

Not Big Brothers.

[Carlo 4552]

Emby would never force you to use something like this as we do not and never will force content on you or your system.

Matter of fact I'd think it would need to be turned on and/or the admin would need to supply the data.  Something like this could be used so many different ways (ie show everything, only movies, only shows, only media you don't have, only select shows, only movies showing the first 15 days, etc) that the only way it would fit is by having the admin control the content which of course could be NO CONTENT.

I'm sure it would be controllable on a user-by-user basis as well to make sure children couldn't access content somehow as a "backdoor".

Carlo

[serverebps01 12]

[Shade1982 2]

On 7/20/2024 at 9:58 PM, ebps01 said:

What exactly are we looking at here? Because that kinda looks like what we're looking for?

[seanbuff 1148]

20 hours ago, Shade1982 said:

What exactly are we looking at here? Because that kinda looks like what we're looking for?

Looks like a mock-up done by this user, especially seeing how misaligned that Netflix icon is.

[all4dom 89]

Is this at all possible on all streaming devices because I would think this could be done at least on emby theater on a pc. Just at least having a shortcut in emby to launch the app.

[xnappo 1608]

1 hour ago, all4dom said:

Is this at all possible on all streaming devices because I would think this could be done at least on emby theater on a pc. Just at least having a shortcut in emby to launch the app.

It is totally possible even with Android.  Again I already do it using a combination of Sonarr, Kodi and Emby.  They just have to put in the hooks!

I don't deep-link to the shows, but just launch the app.  That is still pretty nice though as it isn't that bad to complete the navigation to NextUp in whatever app.  In screenshot below, if I click the next 'For All Mankind' for instance, it launches Apple TV.

[EDIT] Just realized this is a different, similarly named thread.  I talked about this a bit more here:

 

Edited August 8, 2024 by xnappo

[Chillout 102]

I think Stremio allows aggregating streaming content in one place to some extent (Netflix, Prime). 

Long-term (5 years out) whatever media software can master having all the streaming services (IPTV, Netflix, hulu,etc) under one platform will end up the winner.    The days of people storing personal media on dozens of hard drives seem to be coming to an end and replaced with online services that offer unlimited content.