morbificagent 0 Posted February 13, 2020 Share Posted February 13, 2020 (edited) Hi there, actually im trying to get emby running well in my new home. The problem is that there isnt a good internet connection and my emby server is running in a data center. Result: with nice mbit settings it hangs every few seconds, with bad mbit settings it looks... how it looks (not useable). So i am searching for a way to "precache" the videos. For example i tried using Kodi, editing the advancedsettings.xml for cache the whole video and such things. But nothing worked really good. So i was looking for the emby versions which can do an download/sync of the files... -> Android and iOS only.... hm... ok, only these. Now i am trying the iOS App, connected an old iphone via hdmi to my tv, throwed it behind the screen and started the emby app. -> Great, i can go to the emby webinterface now, select "download this film to: iPhone behind TV"... and it is downloading the video... check... worked. Arriving at home and falling into the couch... open emby on my main-phone, select the "iPhone behind tv" (with the downloaded film on it) as player and pressing PLAY... It now has two possibilities of playing. The online-file with the bad connection and the offline file. And it selects the online file :-( Wouldnt it be much greater if the app would say "hey i have an offline file for that...." So it looks like i havent a solution again. Yes of course i could get a long long hdmi cable for selecting the offline file right on the "iPhone behind the TV" but..... noooooo. Long hdmi cables arent a solution ;-) Does anyone has an idea how to "precache" a file using the emby apps itself or 3rd party apps? Edited February 13, 2020 by morbificagent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37125 Posted February 13, 2020 Share Posted February 13, 2020 Hi there, we already do this for video. It's coming soon for music. Thanks for the feedback. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morbificagent 0 Posted February 13, 2020 Author Share Posted February 13, 2020 Hi Luke, eventually i misunderstood you, but i am speaking about video and in my tests it plays the online-version of the film instead of the downloaded offline-version when i trigger the playback from another device... When you say "we already do this for video" i will test it again but i am pretty sure... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37125 Posted February 13, 2020 Share Posted February 13, 2020 Ok when remote controlling from another device that's a tricky one. We don't have that at this point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morbificagent 0 Posted February 13, 2020 Author Share Posted February 13, 2020 OK, than i have to search for another possibility to "precache"/"predownload" the files... Does anyone have an idea? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morbificagent 0 Posted February 17, 2020 Author Share Posted February 17, 2020 Only as info: Tested the same with Emby for Android and there its working. It playes the offline files instead of streaming again even if you hit the play button remotely Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37125 Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 Thanks for the info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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