VirtualTV plugin

[pünktchen 1417]

3 hours ago, alex77777 said:

Two issues I noticed with "Native (Live)"

1. Doesn't seem to show "Skip Intro" prompt or "Keep Watching/Next Episode" at the end of the episode.

2. If I were to skip forward to the end of the episode, it just puts be back to the "Live" position and doesn't auto advance the to next episode. But if the Live position hits the end of the episode it will advance the the next episode. 

This is all more or less by design, because with "Native (Live)" the videos are really treated like a live tv stream by Emby - with all positive or negative side affects.

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2 hours ago, alex77777 said:

@pünktchen This notification popped up when it was switching the next episode at one point. Ive seen this before with Playlist playback, seems if i switch to other Virtual TV channels with the overlay guide (the guide you can access while something plays in the background) it pops up. What I usually do is just press back which removes the notification from the screen and everything plays fine, so I'm not too sure why its popping up. 

I Appreciate the help.

Cannot comment on that other than i've never seen this with the Android app.

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18 minutes ago, pünktchen said:

This is all more or less by design, because with "Native (Live)" the videos are really treated like a live tv stream by Emby - with all positive or negative side affects.

That's understandable

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2 hours ago, The Mad Titan said:

The programing that is on the guide is not what the system will play. For example all live shows and movies are actually 2 selection ahead of what should be played.

Are the server and client devices in different time zones?

[The Mad Titan 8]

No they are not.

 

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2 hours ago, alex77777 said:

Switching from one "Native (Live)" channel to another "Native (Live)" channel using the overlay guide causes the video to start but the guide then pops up and you cant see what is playing, but you can hear it in the background. The only way to switch between "Native (Live)" Channels is to back out to the guide and then go the channel and click play, otherwise you'll just have the video stuck playing behind all the UI and you can't see it. This is essentially the same issue with the Playlist playback I was having when the remote playlist delay was set to 0. Seems more like an issue with the Emby App on the Apple TV itself than anything else.

Oh okay. And i've always thought the problem is the video stream does not play at all, but only the audio stream. But it's just hidden by some UI stuff?!

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1 minute ago, pünktchen said:

Oh okay. And i've always thought the problem is the video stream does not play at all, but only the audio stream. But it's just hidden by some UI stuff?!

Yeah its playing fine but has the UI completely covering it from what I can tell. Must be a bug with the Play on another Device Feature. If the Dev's fix this, the Playlist Playback delay should be able to be set to 0 and work fine with Apple TV.

@SamESNot sure if this is your department but if it is your help would be appreciated.  

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22 minutes ago, The Mad Titan said:

No they are not.

Then please enable debug logging for the Emby server and inside the plugin's general settings, replicate the issue and pm me your log file. Tell me what was playing at what time and what should have been played.

[The Mad Titan 8]

No they are not.

Andor should be playing according to the guide, but Milo Murphys Law plays instead which is exactly 2 to 3 shows up like all od them play even the movies does this. here is the attached log.

Thank you for looking into.

embyserver (1).txt

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@The Mad TitanPlease follow these instructions und tell me the result:

1. In a browser directly on your Emby server machine, open the Emby Dashboard and click on the API link at the bottom.
2. Scroll down to "ItemsService", open it and hit the "Try it out" button.
3. Fill in "Ids" with 42769591 and hit the "Execute" button.

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1 hour ago, pünktchen said:

42769591

i pm'ed you

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@The Mad TitanI think i know what's happening. You have Bumpers activated for your channels, but your bumpers folder only has one or two videos.
This results in many repeated item ids within a single streaming session. Example from your log file:

VirtualTV: StreamingService > Channel: MagicKingdom TV, PushRemotePlaylist, StartIndex: 4, StartOffset: 26 min, ItemIds: 42769595|44060332|44060332|44060332|42769591|44060332|44060332|44060332|42772417|44060332|44060332|44060332|42784346|44060332|44060332|44060332|42784331|44060332

The StartIndex is zero based, that means the fifth element of the list of ItemIds should be played. That is 42769591 - an episode of Andor. But actually 42784346 was playing!
Why? Because Emby incorrectly removes all duplicate Ids from the playlist. So the resulting playlist is:

StartIndex: 4, StartOffset: 26 min, ItemIds: 42769595|44060332|42769591|42772417|42784346|42784331|42784329|42742837|42356797|42356784|42369904|42769568|42369868|42784379

StartIndex 4 - fifth element is now 42784346! I've already reported that unwanted behaviour some years ago to the Emby devs - but as you can see, nothing has happened on their end.

[The Mad Titan 8]

So remove the bumbers?

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28 minutes ago, The Mad Titan said:

So remove the bumbers?

Unless you can provide some hundreds of them, yes i would disable that option.

[The Mad Titan 8]

Lookeed like that worked. Content is playing what guide specified.... TY....