TV Themes Contributers themes wrong language and quality issues.

[rostar99 4]

Lately, more and more TV themes that have been downloaded from the contributors' network have been in the wrong language (Spanish, German, etc.) and have bad video quality with ugly contributors' watermarks. This means I must create themes to replace the wrong language (and sometimes bad video quality downloads). How does the plugin match the theme's language with that of the user's system? What are the exact specs for usable theme files (besides mp4), such as file size, video and audio codecs, audio channels, and resolution, so my files might meet the specifications?  I have enjoyed your various plugins for over ten years, but with the issues, I have decided to turn off the theme plugins contributor's feature till it gets sorted.

Thank you

[Luke 42077]

@radeon

[Kurt13 11]

Those plug ins are only visible on catalog to those who have Emby Premiere? I know it's a Premiere feature but I thought they would be visible (but not usable) even on Emby free.

Also, it works like on Plex (sorry for the comparison) or it has to create files (music themes and video themes) on our content folders, and consequently, using more storage on our hard drives?

 

Thanks

[rostar99 4]

Kurt13, yes it is a premier feature paid add-on plugin. It does take some hard drive space (about 30 MB on average) but that's trivial compared to 4K and HD rips.

[Kurt13 11]

5 hours ago, rostar99 said:

Kurt13, yes it is a premier feature paid add-on plugin. It does take some hard drive space (about 30 MB on average) but that's trivial compared to 4K and HD rips.

And it only shows on catalog after we paid for Premiere??? I can see other plugins there that are also exclusive for Premiere members but nothing related to tv and movies music/video themes. 

What's the name? 

Also, I remember reading somewhere here in the community something about we having to pay for tv/movies themes plug in to a developer. Is it true??? 

 

Thanks!

[ebr 16169]

Hi.  This plugin is not in the Emby catalog as it would violate store and other policies.

[Kurt13 11]

On 11/9/2024 at 2:57 PM, ebr said:

Hi.  This plugin is not in the Emby catalog as it would violate store and other policies.

Hi, 

I'm confused. So, even with Premiere it won't be there? If so, can you provide me the link to the repository used? 

 

Thanks 

[radeon 755]

These plugins should be under general within the plugin catalog however I'm told do not appear within the emby clients.

Emby hid them without telling me after changing their policies. I've never had it explained to me what policies they actually break

[Kurt13 11]

31 minutes ago, radeon said:

These plugins should be under general within the plugin catalog however I'm told do not appear within the emby clients.

Emby hid them without telling me after changing their policies. I've never had it explained to me what policies they actually break

And you're a Premiere client???

If you are, so we have to manually add a repository? 

 

I'm considering ditching completely Plex and go with Emby Premiere (mostly to help the developers; I don't care about many of the features) but these kind of situations always make me think. 

I don't like the way Plex has been doing in some aspects but at least they are more "clear" regarding features.

[radeon 755]

The plugins required an active premier licence to be enabled and as an independent developer also require a smaller purchase from me directly. You can buy directly from my website as a bundle for cheaper than the catalog www.ballingtons.com/products 

You should still be able to download the plugins from the catalog as long as you're using a normal browser rather than a client. 

[Kurt13 11]

4 minutes ago, radeon said:

The plugins required an active premier licence to be enabled and as an independent developer also require a smaller purchase from me directly. You can buy directly from my website as a bundle for cheaper than the catalog www.ballingtons.com/products 

You should still be able to download the plugins from the catalog as long as you're using a normal browser rather than a client. 

Thanks for the clarification!

I can buy directly from you but even that way, I need to be a Premiere member, right? 

[radeon 755]

Yup

[ebr 16169]

19 hours ago, radeon said:

I've never had it explained to me what policies they actually break

All the app stores completely freak out with anything that downloads content.  We even had to remove our own download function from the Amazon store.

[rostar99 4]

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Lately, more and more TV themes that have been downloaded from the contributors' network have been in the wrong language (Spanish, German, etc.) and have bad video quality with ugly contributors' watermarks. This means I must create themes to replace the wrong language (and sometimes bad video quality downloads). How does the plugin match the theme's language with that of the user's system? What are the exact specs for usable theme files (besides mp4), such as file size, video and audio codecs, audio channels, and resolution, so my files might meet the specifications?  I have enjoyed your various plugins for over ten years, but with the issues, I have decided to turn off the theme plugins contributor's feature till it gets sorted.

Apparently,  no one, not even the developer that I supported, can answer the question about the contributors' provided theme videos. Instead, everyone answers a random off-topic comment and ignores the main question.

[radeon 755]

Sorry, was just brought to the last comment and answered that. I'd always suggest posting in my support threads as 1 I'll get notification, 2 I read all of the comments on my own threads as that's the specific reason I put the threads there. 

 

The acceptance of themes withing the CN are very broad, I did have a report mechanism available a couple of years ago and in its whole time of being active, only one theme was ever reported so it wasn't viable to maintain. I'm not in a position to get you the exact specs of the files allowed for upload but will when I'm back home. That is what the filter list is there for too as it gives you the final day on what you want in your collection whilst still leaning into the CN 

[rostar99 4]

The broad criterion for the contributors' network explains the different languages and quality. I can understand you not maintaining the reporting function if no one used it. Having languages other than English is a positive and not a problem by itself.

Before putting out the file specs, can you confirm that whatever upload gets accepted to the (automated) contributors' network first for a particular TV show or Movie becomes the only available version for download from that network?

Thank you