Feature Suggestion for Emby Android Client

[jacksen168 3]

@LukeHey Luke!  I would like to make the following suggestions for future versions of Android client.

In the settings under "Playback," when I enable "Use external player for video playback," clicking the play button doesn’t allow me to switch video bitrates (real-time transcoding). I have to first disable this feature, play the video in the official Emby client to select the bitrate, then re-enable the external player setting for it to take effect in third-party players.

I’d love to see a prompt asking users to choose their preferred bitrate when clicking play while using an external player.

I noticed the Emby client passes a video URL with bitrate and other info to third-party players. Implementing this feature shouldn’t be too hard. Hope you won’t just "promise and delay" this time—wink.

 

Original (Chinese):

嘿luke! 我又来给你提关于emby安卓版客户端的建议了。

我在设置-播放里打开了使用外部播放器播放时，点击播放视频无法切换视频码率(实时转码功能)。必须先关闭该功能，在emby官方客户端先播放视频才能切换码率，最后再返回设置打开功能切换码率才能在第三方播放器上生效。

希望当用户设置为使用第三方播放器播放时，点击播放按钮能询问用户要使用什么码率播放视频。

我看了一下，emby客户端会传给第三方播放器一个视频播放的URL，上面带了些当前视频需要的码率等信息。我认为实现我希望在未来添加的功能并不难。希望luke你不要再画饼了，wink

[Luke 42077]

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In the settings under "Playback," when I enable "Use external player for video playback," clicking the play button doesn’t allow me to switch video bitrates (real-time transcoding). I have to first disable this feature, play the video in the official Emby client to select the bitrate, then re-enable the external player setting for it to take effect in third-party players.

hi, you can also change the quality in the settings without having to first open the video. did you miss that?

[jacksen168 3]

8 hours ago, Luke said:

hi, you can also change the quality in the settings without having to first open the video. did you miss that?

@LukeBefore making this suggestion, I actually tested it—but it didn’t seem to work.

I went to "Settings" - "Emby for Android" - "Playback" and modified all the quality options, but when passed to the third-party player, the data still shows the original quality.

 

Original (Chinese):

在发起建议之前我已经试过了，貌似没有用。我在"设置"-"emby for Android"-"播放"里将质量全部都进行了修改，可是传递给第三方播放器播放时数据显示依然是原始质量。

[Luke 42077]

What version number of the app?

[jacksen168 3]

3 hours ago, Luke said:

What version number of the app?

@Luke v3.4.39 for Android

[Luke 42077]

Hi there, please attach the Emby server log from when the problem occurred:

How to Report a Problem

Thanks!

 

[jacksen168 3]

24 minutes ago, Luke said:

Hi there, please attach the Emby server log from when the problem occurred:

How to Report a Problem

Thanks!

 

@Lukebor, You can try out such an obvious problem yourself. I think anyone can easily reproduce this problem. Emby server log is here.

embyserver.txt

 

 

Original (Chinese):

哥们,怎这么明显的问题自己都可以试了,麻不麻烦啊,还要我给你提供emby服务端log日志, APP客户端问题看emby服务端日志能看个屁出来啊。

[Luke 42077]

You're only on 3.4.39. Can you try updating to the latest build, then reconfiguring the options and try again? Thanks.