horstepipe Posted October 22, 2016 Share Posted October 22, 2016 Hey I know Emby Server doesn't support saving watched states and resume points for strm files, so I'm wondering if Emby for Kodi could send that information to server when stopping/finishing a file. I'm using strm files which point to gdrive with the Kodi GDrive addon, the strm files itself are scraped and provided by Emby server. Would there be a possibility to accomplish that? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelblue05 Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 Yes I've been working on something like that. However, this will only work if the url inside the strm is the one being played. Meaning, if it's another indirect link that ends up playing something else, this won't work, because it's impossible for the add-on to know this is the strm file playing. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horstepipe Posted October 23, 2016 Author Share Posted October 23, 2016 (edited) Yes I've been working on something like that. However, this will only work if the url inside the strm is the one being played. Meaning, if it's another indirect link that ends up playing something else, this won't work, because it's impossible for the add-on to know this is the strm file playing. thanks so guess this wouldn't work with strm files which url inside points to a gdrive file... Edited October 23, 2016 by horstepipe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelblue05 Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 What is inside the strm? Another plugin path or is it the url to be played? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horstepipe Posted October 29, 2016 Author Share Posted October 29, 2016 What is inside the strm? Another plugin path or is it the url to be played? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Sorry, forgot to answer. Unfortunately it's another plugin path: plugin://plugin.video.gdrive/?mode=video&username=..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelblue05 Posted October 29, 2016 Share Posted October 29, 2016 I'll try to think of something. Maybe automatically listen to the next played item and assume it is the correct file for the strm. The only thing is that it's not really possible to know if playback failed, so maybe we'll need to add a timeout? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horstepipe Posted October 29, 2016 Author Share Posted October 29, 2016 I'll try to think of something. Maybe automatically listen to the next played item and assume it is the correct file for the strm. The only thing is that it's not really possible to know if playback failed, so maybe we'll need to add a timeout? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk sounds good, but the timeout needs to be high enough, because at first Emby - opening stream pops up, then gdrive - opening stream pops up, so that takes a while until the video starts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maximilianh75 Posted November 3, 2016 Share Posted November 3, 2016 (edited) If you could send back info to emby server maybe you can resolve the problem of codec and bitrate Strm files not read that kind of data from server, meaby if u can return that solves part of the problem who limits web browser to direct play strm files Edited November 3, 2016 by maximilianh75 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horstepipe Posted November 12, 2016 Author Share Posted November 12, 2016 I'll try to think of something. Maybe automatically listen to the next played item and assume it is the correct file for the strm. The only thing is that it's not really possible to know if playback failed, so maybe we'll need to add a timeout? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk are you working on a workaround or did you give up? :-) Regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelblue05 Posted November 12, 2016 Share Posted November 12, 2016 I've just been busy. We are currently trying to fix any database lock issue we can find. The next step is playback so I'll make sure it's added then. Thanks for your patience Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horstepipe Posted November 12, 2016 Author Share Posted November 12, 2016 I've just been busy. We are currently trying to fix any database lock issue we can find. The next step is playback so I'll make sure it's added then. Thanks for your patience Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk nice, thanks! I was already wondering what that "database locked fix" means, never had this error. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelblue05 Posted November 12, 2016 Share Posted November 12, 2016 Yeah, it's not a widespread issue. It just prevents the addon from operating normally when it does happen. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horstepipe Posted November 13, 2016 Author Share Posted November 13, 2016 (edited) another question about strm files in Kodi: When I start e.g. an episode (which is stored as strm in Emby database) kodi switches from recognizing it as the episode it is to simply the file name. So Kodi doesn't know that it is currently playing that episode, which causes in the loss of media information in OSD and the proper operation of the "nextup service notification" addon. Is this a Kodi or Emby for Kodi related problem? Edited November 13, 2016 by horstepipe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelblue05 Posted November 13, 2016 Share Posted November 13, 2016 (edited) I don't think it's an Emby for Kodi issue, but maybe something can be done about it. Which Kodi version are you using? Edited November 13, 2016 by Angelblue05 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horstepipe Posted November 13, 2016 Author Share Posted November 13, 2016 I don't think it's an Emby for Kodi issue, but maybe something can be done about it. Which Kodi version are you using? I'm using Kodi 16.1. Do you think the behavior is different on Krypton? Thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelblue05 Posted November 14, 2016 Share Posted November 14, 2016 Maybe. But there's still a few things to update for Krypton. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horstepipe Posted November 14, 2016 Author Share Posted November 14, 2016 Maybe. But there's still a few things to update for Krypton. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk okay I hope you'll find a solution. I'll be here for testing if you need someone :-) Best regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelblue05 Posted November 14, 2016 Share Posted November 14, 2016 Heh, well I'll check it out. But honestly, it might simply be the fact that Once the plugin path is read inside the strm, it loses it's association to the database entry. TBD. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horstepipe Posted November 18, 2016 Author Share Posted November 18, 2016 (edited) Heh, well I'll check it out. But honestly, it might simply be the fact that Once the plugin path is read inside the strm, it loses it's association to the database entry. TBD. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk yeah it looks like that, what a pity. Same behavior on Kodi 17 btw. This is also responsible that the watched state is not being updated. At least not in Emby, in Kodi the movies are being marked as watched, but in Emby Web GUI not...really strange. I guess that's because Kodi doesn't really know what it is playing, a sync to Emby doesn't get triggered. But why is the watched state stored correctly in Kodi? Edited November 18, 2016 by horstepipe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelblue05 Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 (edited) No, it's because when Kodi marks it as watched, it doesn't associate it with a database entry. Because of that, the addon is unable to know which emby id to associate to, and simply doesn't trigger anything server side. Might be able to workaround the problem, but as I already said, you'll have to wait a bit Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Edited November 18, 2016 by Angelblue05 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horstepipe Posted November 18, 2016 Author Share Posted November 18, 2016 No, it's because when Kodi marks it as watched, it doesn't associate it with a database entry. Because of that, the addon is unable to know which emby id to associate to, and simply doesn't trigger anything server side. Might be able to workaround the problem, but as I already said, you'll have to wait a bit Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk no problem, didn't want to rush you, just sharing my observations :-) I really appreciate your support! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horstepipe Posted November 27, 2016 Author Share Posted November 27, 2016 No, it's because when Kodi marks it as watched, it doesn't associate it with a database entry. Because of that, the addon is unable to know which emby id to associate to, and simply doesn't trigger anything server side. Might be able to workaround the problem, but as I already said, you'll have to wait a bit Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk hey, could you make any progress regarding this, yet? :-) Best regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelblue05 Posted November 28, 2016 Share Posted November 28, 2016 I have no time to work on the addon as of late. Everything else with more demand is also being delayed right now. Thanks for understanding. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Posted November 28, 2016 Share Posted November 28, 2016 However it still has a lot of great things so enjoy those in the meantime 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horstepipe Posted December 10, 2016 Author Share Posted December 10, 2016 No, it's because when Kodi marks it as watched, it doesn't associate it with a database entry. Because of that, the addon is unable to know which emby id to associate to, and simply doesn't trigger anything server side. Might be able to workaround the problem, but as I already said, you'll have to wait a bit Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Hey Just curious, Could you already make some progress regarding this? :-) Best regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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