Plugin: StrmCompanion

[soderlund 160]

Hello! I have put together a small plugin to help when using .strm files. There are already existing plugins and functions for this, but i wanted to gather them under the same hood and add the ability to control the settings some more of the functions they provide. I made this for myself, and sharing if anyone else finds it useful  

 

This plugin enables functions that is missing from native Emby when using .strm files. Most of the functions can also be used on regular media types(mkv, avi, etc). 

More info and latest release at: https://github.com/soderlund91/StrmCompanion

 

Features

Media info extract (specific for .strm files)
This plugin uses FFmpeg to probe movies and episodes in selected libraries to extract the media information. 
This enable Emby to recognize resolution, playtime, audio-codec, subtitles, etc that Emby natively cannot do. 
It also enables for faster startup since this process has already been made.  

Can be run as a scheduled task and/or auto detect on new media. 

Auto merge (all mediatypes)
The plugin can merge same movies and episodes across multiple libraries and folders. Emby native only merge if they are located within the same folder. This enable you to for example  have a folder of 4K movies and another one of 1080p. The plugin then finds multiple movies or episodes with the same IMDb or TVDb ID and merges them across all or selected libraries. 

Can be run as a scheduled task and/or auto detect on new media. 

Intro dectect (all mediatypes)
The built in Emby function to detect intros can not run on .strm files. This plugin uses the same technique as Emby (chromaprint) and some other tweaks to find the intro. The detection runs on user selected shows or season, it then posts the intro markers to Emby database and it will work as native in Emby player with the "skip intro" button.

The intro detect also can list all existing intro markers even if they are not from this plugin. 

Disclaimer
The intro detection is work in progress. It currently works really good on some shows, and not as good on others. The process is pretty slow (I have prioritized quality over speed) but when the fingerprinting is done you can change the settings and play around with them and it will be a lot quicker. The fingerprinting is the slow process and unaffected by the user settings. 
So do the fingerprinting and then test with other settings. 

 

Screenshots:

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Intro detect

 

Media info scan

 

Merge version

 

StrmCompanion.dll

Edited 21 hours ago by soderlund
Added .dll

[GrimEvil 81]

will give it ago and report back in 6000 years, my library is VERY large  

Edited 19 hours ago by GrimEvil

[soderlund 160]

4 hours ago, GrimEvil said:

will give it ago and report back in 6000 years, my library is VERY large  

Damm! I thought my library was large with about 160k movies and episodes  

You could bump up the simultaneous scan, but be carefull you don’t get rate limited, especially if it’s from an IPTV provider. I would go with 3, maybe 4 if that is the case. 

[GrimEvil 81]

12 hours ago, soderlund said:

Damm! I thought my library was large with about 160k movies and episodes  

You could bump up the simultaneous scan, but be carefull you don’t get rate limited, especially if it’s from an IPTV provider. I would go with 3, maybe 4 if that is the case. 

Yes it is quite large....

Its fine I will keep it at the default, but I have no issue with rate limiting, but I am in no rush, will let it just do its thing 

But so far so good and it does help that it has its own gui, at least I can now see what it is doing!

 

[soderlund 160]

1 hour ago, GrimEvil said:

Yes it is quite large....

Its fine I will keep it at the default, but I have no issue with rate limiting, but I am in no rush, will let it just do its thing 

But so far so good and it does help that it has its own gui, at least I can now see what it is doing!

 

Yeah a good GUI was exactly what I felt was missing from existing plugins. 

If you have any feedback, good or bad, just let me know I’m vibe coding this 100% so I’ll just tell Claude to fix it in between diaper changes. 
 

I’m thinking of implementing another project I have made into the plugin as well where you can use a m3u file and create .strm files for all movies and series. 
https://github.com/soderlund91/strmcreator

But I’m unsure how it works with other providers, and might be better to keep them apart.