OneDrive as source

[walkyst 0]

It is possible do direct playing from OneDrive without needing keep local copy of file?

Like how it work on Kodi with add-on for OneDrive

https://kodi.wiki/view/Add-on:OneDrive

[Luke 42078]

Hi, we don't have native support for OneDrive, but if you can mount it to a local folder, then you could add the local folder to Emby.

[Trootter 0]

On 4/24/2020 at 12:34 PM, Luke said:

Hi, we don't have native support for OneDrive, but if you can mount it to a local folder, then you could add the local folder to Emby.

First of all, sorry to bring up a dead topic!

So here's my situation. I have my One Drive account set up on my windows PC. All my media is on the One Drive folder, but not all of it is local ( I don't have the storage to keep it local).

First and foremost, I'd like to know if there's a way for Emby to recognize my files without downloading them. ( i think there isn't)

After that, I'd like my server to be able to stream those files from One Drive, instead of waiting for the file to finish downloading. I know that this is possible cause i do it on my phone all the time.

 

Thanks for the help

[Luke 42078]

Hi, you'd have to be able to mount OneDrive as a local folder, and then add the local folder into Emby Server.

[Trootter 0]

5 minutes ago, Luke said:

Hi, you'd have to be able to mount OneDrive as a local folder, and then add the local folder into Emby Server.

Great, i guess i'm goin into rclone rabbit hole today! Thanks!

 

[JulesC 51]

Have you tried mounting OneDrive using Raidrive? 

[Trootter 0]

16 minutes ago, JulesC said:

Have you tried mounting OneDrive using Raidrive? 

Can't say i have!

But I can report back and say that rclone worked flawlessly with Emby.

[jspanitz 14]

On 6/20/2020 at 11:18 PM, Trootter said:

But I can report back and say that rclone worked flawlessly with Emby.

Any luck?  Seeing how onedrive is native to Windows you'd think Emby would provide some support.  This has been an on and off again ask since at least 2016.

[Gilgamesh_48 1240]

54 minutes ago, jspanitz said:

Any luck?  Seeing how onedrive is native to Windows you'd think Emby would provide some support.  This has been an on and off again ask since at least 2016.

Very few people want or need to use OneDrive for media storage. With local storage quite inexpensive and online connections being so unreliable for streaming from online sources it really makes little sense for Emby to spend time making it work.

While OneDrive can be made to work if you map a regular drive letter to your OneDrive storage it does not really gain much as local storage is so much more reliable.

I would never, under the current circumstances, use any online storage for my owned media. It is both unreliable and unnecessary. Emby has a lot much more important things to fix or improve before they need to specifically worry about using poorly implemented online storage like OneDrive.

[jspanitz 14]

@Gilgamesh_48 Appreciate your comments, however, I really wasn't looking for your opinion.  I, like many others, use onedrive and google drive as a repo for photos, not video.  In that respect both are 100% reliable.  Thanks for your small world view, but honestly, no one asked.

[Gilgamesh_48 1240]

24 minutes ago, jspanitz said:

@Gilgamesh_48 Appreciate your comments, however, I really wasn't looking for your opinion.  I, like many others, use onedrive and google drive as a repo for photos, not video.  In that respect both are 100% reliable.  Thanks for your small world view, but honestly, no one asked.

I also do not want your opinion. The fact that you chose to respond to me with such a insipid post just says that you have no real desire for help or advice. Also saying that anyone has a small world view is a personal attack that has no place in communication at all.

Since this is public board that YOU posted to you should expect to get responses that agree with you and ones that don't and ones that suggest alternatives.

BTW: You will be happy to know that you have managed to get on my ignore list so quickly and easily.

[jspanitz 14]

Now that @Gilgamesh_48 has vented with his expertise and infinite wisdom, if anyone else has any constructive advice on using onedrive with emby, please feel free to respond.

[Spaceboy 2573]

why wouldnt you just mount your onedrive using rclone? even the gdrive and dropbox plugins only allow you to sync your media to those cloud providers, not mount and play existing media. i have an encrypted gdrive mounted in windows - plenty of guides around to do it

[jspanitz 14]

Running DietPI and at the moment I don't see a way to run rclone.  I need to switch over to a different distro to use it.

[Spaceboy 2573]

tbh i think thats going to be your only option in the short and medium term. as i say, its not just the lack of a onedrive plugin, its the lack of the functionality you are looking for in the already existing similar plugins

[kikinjo 281]

17 hours ago, jspanitz said:

Now that @Gilgamesh_48 has vented with his expertise and infinite wisdom, if anyone else has any constructive advice on using onedrive with emby, please feel free to respond.

Hi. i have been testing it for months with rclone and vfs cache. Its working fine, but, i have much better results with google drive than with onedrive. One drive is ways slower, connectivity and data storing in DC that is closer to you and similar bandwith issues will pop up. If u want to save some time better switch to gdrive. One drive is ok for 720p but anything over that and experience will be questionable. All my testing were from EU, this does not mean someone from USA cpould have similar issues. But as i said, gdrive is much more better.

[unisoft 352]

So some reasons why customers would like OneDrive (on Synology in my case):

1. If you have Office 365 Family, you get 6 users (or 6 email addresses) with 1TB storage (paid for OneDrive is much faster than freebie OneDrive). In the UK a one year subscription to the public is as low as £39.99 and you can pre-buy 5 years worth in advance in one go. Cheap online backup solution.

2. My Synology NAS uses cloudsync to backup critical classed content to the cloud in addition to other back up options in place.

3. For a member of my family/specific Emby user account, I may wish to point a library at content in their OneDrive (like photo uploads from their phone to cloud OneDrive) and present that as a library but only to that user account or content in another OneDrive account if they didn't wish to share their login details for their own OneDrive account.

Edited December 30, 2021 by unisoft

[jspanitz 14]

Thanks everyone.  My use case is just photos and short videos from phones so performance isn't so critical.  Movie streaming is all done with local storage.  I'll rebuild emby on another flavor of linux and give rclone a shot.

Would still really like to see emby support cloud natively rather than roll your own. I'd expect that from JellyFin but not from Emby w/Premiere. 

[olympus1 46]

I personally don't mount a cloud drive. If you mount and try to use it as a source, then Emby will become slow on reading nfos, artowrk etc.

And in the case of GDrive you will be 24h banned.

But this isn't the only way to use cloud streams in Emby because Emby supports strm files.

I create an http server with rclone and add the direct http files rclone creates from the google drive links to strm files.

https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_serve_http/

It is so fast and my Emby setup works great.

The same can be done with Onedrive too, rclone supports OneDrive.

If I was an Apple guy though, I would use Infuse Pro which supports cloud sources internally.

I have asked for this feature a week ago, basically about making Emby capable to interact with plugins before playback starts and modify the link (what Kodi can do).

If it will be implemented I will personally create a GDrive strm resolver and maybe an OneDrive resolver too.

I hope it does 

 

 

Edited December 30, 2021 by olympus1