Anyway to reference Media by URL?

[dcook 299]

I am wondering if there is a way to reference my media by URL?

 

For example in EMBY instead of:

d:\media\movies\Top Gun.mkv

or

\\server\media\movies\Top Gun.mkv 

If I had the movie stored on another server accessible as:

https://myservername.com/movies/Top Gun.mkv

[Luke 42079]

I think some people are doing that sort of trick with .strm files.

 

https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Wiki/wiki/Strm%20files

[dcook 299]

Any thought of having that format supported naively?

 

If we could reference media as URL then I could place my media anywhere and Emby should be able to read it

 

 

 

I think some people are doing that sort of trick with .strm files.

 

https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Wiki/wiki/Strm%20files

[Luke 42079]

I'm not sure what you're asking. can you explain a little more? you mean in library setup?

[dcook 299]

Sure, say for example I wanted to setup a multi-server library:

 

Server1 - Emby

 

Server2 - Movies

 

Server3 - Music

 

 

Since the servers are not local on the same network, NFS or SAMBA is not an option and iSCSI is too slow.

 

If when I am setting up the library on Server1  I could add a folder as https://server2.com/Movies or https://server3.com/Music  that would allow me to have media on multiple servers as long as I have a web server setup so the media is accessible via HTTPS

 

So when adding a folder to a library if you can allow http or https://servername.com/ instead of only \\servername ?

 

 

 

 

I'm not sure what you're asking. can you explain a little more? you mean in library setup?

[Luke 42079]

Yes I think in the future we'd like to support alternative protocols.