Maximal Parental Classification clarification

[Gecko 71]

Hi there,

 

I played a little bit with parental classification and countries recently in order to create an Emby account for a kid and it turned out the actual system (on beta .34 at least), seems to be not working as intended (or how I expect the system to work).

Let me explain the situation :

I tested Emby in the following 3 countries: USA, France, Belgium. Why those three you may ask ? Because according to wikipedia, the age classification is well defined for my fit in those last 2 countries, and the US being the default choice I wanted to test. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_picture_content_rating_system

So about the newly created kid's account, it has been set for the lowest parental classification available in the 3 countries : All Public (Rated G in the US) which merely gives a 6 years old children account. I checked the last movies I had available recently and one was clearly not properly filtered by the system: Babylon which is rated Prohibited in France, MA15+ in Belgium and R in the US.

How such a situation is possible ? MA15+ is not a possible value for Belgium and seems to be a default choice from another country, Prohibited is a valid classification given by Wikipedia for France, but is not listed in Emby (well, assuming Prohibited = no restriction by Emby, it makes sense anyway). The only working filter by Emby is by setting the library's country to US, where R is properly recognized and filtered for the account.

So, my questions are:

- how the classification is treated by Emby when you choose one or another country ? I assume the source is tmdb or something like that.

- shouldn't a classification apparently not tied to the chosen country be filtered by default ? (like MA15+ clearly not from the chosen country)

- is the US the only choice to make to be sure that media that should not be available to children are properly filtered ? (but the US classification does not suits me) 

I know an account for a so young children is a bit extreme but shouldn't this system be too restrictive than necessary by default in case classification is let's say weird ?

 

Thanks,

Gecko

 

 

[ebr 16187]

Hi.  Did you select the option to block unrated and unrecognized ratings?  If you do, you should get what you are expecting.

All the different country ratings are converted into a numeric value and that is what is used for comparison in Emby.  So where the rating comes from shouldn't matter from a filtering perspective.

[Gecko 71]

Hi ebr,

Thank you for your reply. I feel silly now, I did not saw the additional choices available below the parental control...

Last question that crossed my mind : do you know if the label applied to the numeric value can be manually changed so that the text displayed at the start of every media playback can be more explanatory to the users ? (ex: changing 'R' to 'Contains some adult material') ? I read somewhere that a mapping file was tweakable inside Emby but I did not find it... maybe that's from a previous server version.

[ebr 16187]

16 minutes ago, Gecko said:

so that the text displayed at the start of every media playback can be more explanatory to the users ? (ex: changing 'R' to 'Contains some adult material') ?

That would be a "rating reason" as opposed to a rating.  We don't currently have access to that kind of information and attempting to change the actual rating value to that would make a bit of a mess as that rating value is shown in lots of places where it isn't expecting a long string of text like that.

[Gecko 71]

1 minute ago, ebr said:

That would be a "rating reason" as opposed to a rating.  We don't currently have access to that kind of information and attempting to change the actual rating value to that would make a bit of a mess as that rating value is shown in lots of places where it isn't expecting a long string of text like that.

Actually, I meant the label applied by Emby to the actual rating of a media: but switching the country keep the previous label in place, which can only mean that the numerical value you mention is not stored by media but rather used to generate a classification label based on the chosen country...

Happy2Play talked about this kind of mapping file in another related topic which, if manually edited could lead to custom labels to be displayed but I cannot find such file on my server.

 

[Gecko 71]

Nevermind, I just found this thread where Luke said such customization was not possible anymore and it was planned to be back in the future.

So I'll live with the current situation, it's just a nice-to-have request.