Create and Play Video URL Playlists

[Romek123 42]

i think trailers work this way allready

 

Feature: add any video Url from the internet (Dailymotion, vimeo, youtube etc.) to a playlist and play this video when click on it

 

in VLC this is allready possible

https://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/create-a-playlist-from-urls-in-vlc-player/

 

 

With this it would be possible to make own music lists, concert lists, learning videos, guides, shows ... etc. from all sources on the internet and dont need to download anything.

 

thanks for your time

[ebr 16169]

It is an additional step but you could do this now using strm files.

[Romek123 42]

But How?

 

Im not an advanced user. When i google for .strm than almost nothing appear. Only the question from a Kodi user in reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/kodi/comments/3lg88r/how_to_make_a_strm_file_play_in_kodi/

 

But this dont really help

 

So is it allready possible to add video urls with this .strm files?

Can i do it? when yes how?

[mickle026 650]

strm files are just text files renamed to strm (stream files), so I believe this would work like this:

 

If you want to add "Big Buck Bunny" then you add a folder to your library called Big Buck Bunny and in that folder create a text file called "Big Buck Bunny.strm"

Then in the strm TEXT file put the url "http://distribution.bbb3d.renderfarming.net/video/mp4/bbb_sunflower_2160p_30fps_normal.mp4" and make sure it doesnt save with the TXT extension.

 

I hope this is correct, I havent tested it......

Edited July 6, 2019 by mickle026

[darkassassin07 652]

Will that work with a regular youtube video url or other pages with embedded video, or do you have to link directly to a media file? (like the .mp4 in your example)

 

Curious what sort of sources would be supported there. I've never used strm before.

Edited July 6, 2019 by darkassassin07

[Romek123 42]

i just tried this and it total killed my complete library

 

i copyed only 1 youtube url in a text file and renamed it test.strm

 

than i added this file as "mixed files" and as "music video" because i dont know where to add it ... the music video thing found the file but added tons of other files with cryptic names and .dns at the end

after i removed this music video library all my other movies was gone and i had to rescrape everything - i lost all my manually set tags and movie sets.for over 3000 movies. the work of months

 

im done

[ebr 16169]

Hi.  Our documentation - which is linked from the front page under "Having a Problem?" explains our support for .strm files.

 

Strm files

 

I'm not really sure how you managed to lose your library by setting up a new one but what exact url did you try to create in the file?

[Romek123 42]

i used this link: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZwr2a_lFWY" its just the browser url

and scanned as music video it found tons of stuff

 

saw later i could right click on the video and copy video url so it would look like this:

 

"https://youtu.be/WZwr2a_lFWY"

Edited July 7, 2019 by Romek123

[gillmacca 17]

Has anyone successfully got this to work with the nasa youtube channel streams. It adds to Emby, but says no compatible stream available

[ebr 16169]

YouTube does not allow playback of their streams outside of a sanctioned YouTube player.  Therefore, the urls that you see when accessing these videos in a browser are not direct playable content.

 

For strm files, you need direct playable urls.

[djerniehoule 23]

I created a .strm file, and I put in the url: (now where do I upload this to emby so I can easily watch it?)

 

[Luke 42077]

5 hours ago, djerniehoule said:

I created a .strm file, and I put in the url: (now where do I upload this to emby so I can easily watch it?)

 

Hi @djerniehoulesimply add this strm file to one of your emby video libraries just as if it were a regular video file.

[djerniehoule 23]

i tied that but it does not play

Stream.strm

[Luke 42077]

 

Hi there, let's look at an example. Please attach the information requested in how to report a media playback issue. Thanks!

 

[djerniehoule 23]

I added the file to my last post, do you see that?

[Luke 42077]

Just now, djerniehoule said:

I added the file to my last post, do you see that?

Yes, but I'm looking to learn what happened on your server. Also, does the strm contain a video url? 

Please note, web page urls and youtube urls are not video urls.

[djerniehoule 23]

it says playback error (the stream does contain a  url): No compatible streams are currently available. Please try again later or contact your system administrator for details.

[Luke 42077]

4 hours ago, djerniehoule said:

it says playback error (the stream does contain a  url): No compatible streams are currently available. Please try again later or contact your system administrator for details.

Ok we’ll need the information that I requested in my link above in order to see what’s going on. Thanks.

[djerniehoule 23]

ok, it doesnt work because that is a youtube url, I can't obtain a video url - all good