Playback progress reports - EventName

[Luke 37007]

When sending progress events (just progress, not start/stop), please attach an EventName property to indicate why you're reporting progress. 

 

If you recall, apps should report progress automatically every 10 seconds, as well immediately following any manual user action. As of today, the possible values for EventName are:

• TimeUpdate (this is the default if omitted)
• Pause
• Unpause
• VolumeChange
• RepeatModeChange
• AudioTrackChange
• SubtitleTrackChange
• PlaylistItemMove
• PlaylistItemRemove
• PlaylistItemAdd
• QualityChange

This is documented here:

https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Emby/wiki/Playback-Check-ins

 

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[Luke 37007]

And yes, in hindsight, EventName is not the best property, but the javascript-based apps have been passing this data around for a long time, it's just until now that the server has been ignoring it.

 

So i chose to stick with EventName since they're already attaching it to the progress object and therefore won't need to have updates pushed out. Thanks.

[TeamB 2352]

what about skip

[Luke 37007]

For now that can be TimeUpdate. We can always add that later if there's a reason.

[Luke 37007]

If you're wondering, what this will do is it will allow plugins to listen for these events, and it will allow remote control UI's to be lighter on their feet and only react to what actually changed. Currently now they have to refresh the whole interface on every progress update.