Plugin: Watch your Dispatcharr VOD library in Emby

[flashls82 8]

With a lot of help from Claude, I've built a fork of the already-very-cool Xtream Tuner plugin (by firestaerter3), which exports VODs to .strm files that Emby can scan/play and that I've found to be a lot more usable than the semi-official Webstreams plugin. My version optimizes things for using Dispatcharr as your XC provider -- so that you get the benefit of its proxy, connection management, and work to consolidate titles across multiple IPTV providers.

Most notably, it adds a new review interface that makes it easier to pick the titles you want in your Emby library and exclude the rest. It gives you a de-duplicated view, so you only have to review a title once even if your Dispatcharr library has multiple verisons. It keeps track of which titles you have reviewed and only syncs titles once they've been reviewed -- so your library doesn't end up wtih a bunch of stuff you don't want while you're doing your initial review or when your provider adds a bunch of new content.

You can download my fork of Emby Xtream (emby-xtream-dedupe) here.

I've also built three plugins for Dispatcharr that solve other pain points around using Emby to watch your Dispatcharr VOD library.

• VOD Concurrency Fix helps Dispatchar see Emby's multiple seeks on playback start as just one provider connection, so VODs actually play instead of failing over to another provider and erroring out/playing garbled
• VOD Preferences gives you greater control over which stream of a particular movie/episode Dispatcharr serves you. You can prefer 4K/1080p/720p, prefer 5.1 audio as a tiebreaker within the same video quality tier, or always play a version you select via the Dispatcharr UI. The result is that you have one copy of the movie/show in Emby, and it automatically plays the version you want.
• VOD Episode Sweep ensures that Emby Xtream actually scrapes the latest episodes and copies of episodes in your Dispatcharr library. Dispatcharr won't do this refresh on its own, even when it syncs with your providers. The result: new episodes of series you're following show up in Emby automatically.

Dispatcharr is a great product overall that works really well with Emby for Live TV right out of the box. After using them for a few weeks, I'm really happy that my fork of Xtream Tuner and these three plugins create a similarly seamless experience with VODs. Hope they help someone other than just me!

Edited 39 minutes ago by flashls82