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Please Add Support for .STRMLNK Files


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KevinSartori
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Hi.  I use Emby server with Infuse on my Apple TV.  Infuse recently added support for .STRMLNK files, which allows Infuse to launch directly to a specific title in a separate streaming app.  Emby doesn't recognize these .STRMLNK files.  I tried shortening the extension to .STRM, which Emby recognizes, but I received an error in Infuse when I tried to "play" that file.  Here are the notes from the recent update:

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What’s new in beta 2 (5166) 4/11/25

  • Library: Added support for .strmlnk files for linking to other services*

*strmlnk notes: These are simple text files with the extension changed to .strmlnk. Inside is a single line with a direct link to a video title on a 3rd party service (Netflix, Apple TV+, Amazon Prime, etc…).

EG

https://tv.apple.com/us/episode/the-cellar/umc.cmc.6lb489nnik0je6wf3sm61wj2k?showId=umc.cmc.15p55n2osur6c56uam2gxhye3

https://www.disneyplus.com/video/1170bf6f-19ce-4acd-b018-7c02252416b7

http://www.netflix.com/watch/80117471

There are some limitations when using these files.

  • Naming should follow the standard Infuse movie/TV show formats
  • We open all URLs as-is, relying on apple-app-site-association to handle them. The only exception is Amazon - for it, we try to extract the content ID from the URL and open it using their deeplink scheme.
  • On pre-playback, the button says “Open” instead of “Play”
  • Metadata fetching is available, but local (generated) thumbnails metadata will not be
  • Downloads are not available
  • In the Add Files dialog, these are shown as unsupported files (since we can’t play them, and it doesn’t really make sense to allow opening them from there either)
  • Movie folders should also use the .strmlnk extension, and the presence or absence of this extension on a folder should match that of the associated file. Otherwise, we won’t recognize it as a movie folder

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Could you please add support for these .STRMLNK files in Emby?

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Moving to feature requests.

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This is just a specific implementation request for this:

 

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