Are we able to restrict user access to certain video resolutions?

[MajesticMaerlyn 17]

Hi,

As per the title - is there any way (that I may be missing), besides using library access permissions, to prevent access to certain video resolutions per user?

For example,  prevent user X from accessing 4K or higher videos - thus preventing them from trying to stream a 4K file outside my home network?

My current workaround is to have a seperate library (defined by folder with all my 4K versions of videos) created and restrict access that way, but I hoped for a more elegant solution - we can currently restrict access based on ratings or transcoding atm.

Cheers and stay safe all

[rbjtech 5284]

You are likely using the most elegant solution to this (a 4K library).  Other options include 'Tagging' files (and then set the users to exclude items with those tags) or remove 'Transcode' rights but that is not very elegant and results in an error for the user.

 

 

[neik 873]

IIRC, the auto tagging plugin Chef developed can tag items by resolution.

You might wanna have a look at it.

[MajesticMaerlyn 17]

Cheers all. I looked at tagging but when you have 400+ it was a little tiresome... will have a look at Chef's plugin.

Besides that, is there an easy way to recreate the merge between different versions in different locations? I did a dumb and split a heap apart. I vaguely remember a plugin here that did it but for the life of me can't recall its name

Cheers all

Edited June 18, 2021 by MajesticMaerlyn
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[GrimReaper 4740]

13 minutes ago, MajesticMaerlyn said:

Cheers all. I looked at tagging but when you have 400+ it was a little tiresome... will have a look at Chef's plugin.

Besides that, is there an easy way to recreate the merge between different versions in different locations? I did a dumb and split a heap apart. I vaguely remember a plugin here that did it but for the life of me can't recall its name

Cheers all

Don't know is it still working, tho, hopefully it is.

Automatic version grouping for movies - Plugins - Emby Community

[MajesticMaerlyn 17]

Cheers @GrimReaper76 that's the one I was looking for. And now to try tags

Thanks all and have a great day / night ahead

[Carlo 4561]

Typically either a separate library or using Folder Based Access Control is the ideal way using only tools built into Emby. Automatic version grouping takes this to a new level.
https://support.emby.media/support/solutions/articles/44001160108-folder-based-access-control

[MajesticMaerlyn 17]

OMG I am so blind - I completely brain-farted over that @cayars. That will work for me

[MajesticMaerlyn 17]

Sadly that plugin no longer seems to work, so yay, manual grouping time (400 titles is time consuming haha)

[Carlo 4561]

I'm not using it but just checking that thread I don't see any mention of it not working with the current version???

[chef 3810]

The tagging plugin needs updating. I will fix it.

[Happy2Play 9780]

11 hours ago, MajesticMaerlyn said:

Sadly that plugin no longer seems to work, so yay, manual grouping time (400 titles is time consuming haha)

I just tested  "Auto Movie Version Grouping" without issue 4.6/4.7.  Did you download download the one label 4.6.0.22 as it will not auto update?

Edited June 19, 2021 by Happy2Play

[MajesticMaerlyn 17]

Sorry all was offline for these replies.

I thought I had tested the latest, but will have a go again today make sure I had the right one.

Cheers all

[MajesticMaerlyn 17]

Yeah, I had installed it in the wrong location. I put it under programdata\plugins instead of system\plugins

That allowed me to see it, and then I ignored the spinning circle and just hit the update and it worked

 

[Happy2Play 9780]

1 minute ago, MajesticMaerlyn said:

That allowed me to see it, and then I ignored the spinning circle and just hit the update and it worked

Yes that is a reported outstanding issue for plugin config, but has no effect on plugin functionality.