Is it possible to use plugins from Kodi and Plex with Emby server?

[Mirdog 0]

Hi,

 

I´m using both Kodi and Plex to follow some TV-series but are limited as a user when it comes to Xbox 360 as extender. Emby does this ok but it lacks a lot of channel plugins. Is it possible to use kodi and plex plugins with Emby?

[Vidman 589]

No

[Mirdog 0]

Is it possible to use Kodi or Plex server together with Emby to send video to Xbox 360?

[Vidman 589]

emby has a plugin for kodi, but I think you shouldnt need anything beside embys DLNA function to send video to xbox 360

[Mirdog 0]

As i understand it, the plugin for kodi is to use emby as server together with a kodi skin without the channel plugin from kodi? The part with using dlna seems correct but will it actually work? Il be using two servers simultaniously?

Edited December 8, 2015 by Mirdog

[Vidman 589]

Can't answer that for your situation....you can only send content available to emby server obviously ...have you looked into playon ?to see if they have the streaming channels you're after, emby has a playon plugin

Edited December 8, 2015 by Vidman

[Mirdog 0]

Ok, thank you @@Vidman. I will try and also have a look at playon. At least they have some of the channels i use. 

Edited December 9, 2015 by Mirdog

[Sven 136]

@@Mirdog Can you also tell us what channel plugins you are missing? So we can work on that...

[Mirdog 0]

Im missing the Swedish channels like, SVTPlay, TV4Play, Cmore, ViaPlay.

[Sven 136]

Im missing the Swedish channels like, SVTPlay, TV4Play, Cmore, ViaPlay.

 

Do they have API's available? Do you need an account for those channels?

Do you need to live in Sweden for that? Can other people test it then?

[Mirdog 0]

Im not familiar with API, However, all channels are on the webb, on android and IOS as apps, and on Plex and Kodi. You dont need an account but you need to live in Sweden.

Edited December 9, 2015 by Mirdog

[Mirdog 0]

I installed Emby server and theater yesterday and found SVTPlay in the channel catalog. I had both Kodi and Emby server running and Emby server found my Kodi profile as "device". However I could not find my Kodi video library "channel library, video add-on in Emby theater. I will search for a tutorial if no one has a link as referens how to reach channel library through dlna.    

Edited December 9, 2015 by Mirdog

[popeen 0]

Do they have API's available? Do you need an account for those channels?

Do you need to live in Sweden for that? Can other people test it then?

 

CMore and ViaPlay requires premium accounts and I know that at least CMore is using encrypted streams and Silverlight so I would guess thats prety much a dead end.

 

TV4 and SVT on the other hand are probably possible. They don't have any official APIs as far as I know but there is an unofficial one at http://pirateplay.se/api/manual.html that works fine and is open source under GPL.

 

You never need an account for SVT streams, TV4 needs an account for premium videos but not others. Some (most probably) videos can only be seen inside Sweden and some can be seen all over the world.

 

Here are a couple of videos that should work outside Sweden

http://www.svtplay.se/video/5191336/rapport/rapport-08-12-19-30 (can be seen until 15 dec)

http://www.tv4play.se/program/nyheterna?video_id=3231609 (can be seen for more then 100 days from now)

 

Also if you are interested you might want to have a look at this, it is the source for the Swedish channels on the Retrospect addon for Kodi

https://bitbucket.org/basrieter/xbmc-online-tv-nightly/src/2958de261447/net.rieter.xot.channel.se/?at=nightly

Edited December 9, 2015 by popeen

[ebr 14930]

TV4 and SVT on the other hand are probably possible. They don't have any official APIs as far as I know but there is an unofficial one at http://pirateplay.se/api/manual.html that works fine and is open source under GPL.

 

Judging from the domain, I think we want to steer clear of that...

[popeen 0]

Judging from the domain, I think we want to steer clear of that...

 

Yeah, I sort of get that. But it is not what it look like. On the frontpage it sais this (I have translated to english)

 

The name of the page implies that it is something, if not illegal at least shady. That is not the case. The name was chosen only as a travesty on the infamous The Pirate Bay-projects name. Privatkopiering (private copying) is since a long time subsidized and legal in Sweden. To share a work you do not have the copyright to - for example something you used pirateplay to download - is on the other hand, illegal for now. To archive them for personal use is legal.

 

 

 

Still it is probably better to look at how Retrospect did it since you would otherwise have to rely on a third party API that may or may not decide to close down tomorrow making the plugin unusable. I had a quick look at it after writing the comment earlier and is seems that getting the streams from SVT at least is as easy as adding ?output=json after the url and then you can get an m3u8 file from there. In this file there are a couple of other m3u8 files for different quality, putting one of those in a strm file for Emby works fine. For example

 

http://www.svtplay.se/video/5191336/rapport/rapport-08-12-19-30

becomes

http://www.svtplay.se/video/5191336/rapport/rapport-08-12-19-30?output=json

and eventually you end up with this file that plays fine in Emby.

http://svtplay14n-f.akamaihd.net/i/world/open/20151208/1368602-260A/1368602-260A-RAPPORT1930-PLAY.dif_,988,240,348,456,636,1680,2796,.mp4.csmil/index_6_av.m3u8?null=&hdntl=

 

 

Update:

Found an m3u8 for TV4 as well,

For the link posted above it would go like this

 

First the normal link

http://www.tv4play.se/program/nyheterna?video_id=3231609

Putting the video_id into a link like this gives some xml

https://prima.tv4play.se/api/web/asset/3231609/play?protocol=hls

In the xml you will find this m3u8

http://tv4play-i.akamaihd.net/i/mp4root/2015-12-09/nyheterna0800-48926321_3231609_,T6MP43,T6MP48,T6MP415,T6MP425,_.mp4.csmil/master.m3u8

Edited December 9, 2015 by popeen