feat(emby): add Emby as a MediaBrowser backend alongside Jellyfin
Emby is Jellyfin's upstream ancestor and speaks a near-identical MediaBrowser
API, so the existing Jellyfin stack is parameterised by a `MediaBrowserDialect`
rather than forked. `JellyfinClient`, its auth service, endpoint discovery, LAN
discovery, and the add/edit connection screens all take the dialect and keep one
implementation; `MediaBackend.emby` and `ConnectionKind.emby` carry it through
the neutral models, the Drift `kind` discriminator, downloads, and caches.
Every divergence below was measured against a live Emby 4.9.5 server, not
inferred from documentation, and each is documented at its capability getter.
Jellyfin's request strings stay byte-identical so nothing about its behaviour
changes.
Routes and auth
- Emby only accepts the pre-10.9 user-scoped item routes (`/Users/{id}/Items/…`,
`/Users/{id}/PlayedItems/…`, `/Users/{id}/FavoriteItems/…`); the unprefixed
forms Jellyfin 10.11 added return 404.
- The API is also served under a legacy `/emby` prefix, and both dialects accept
the token as `X-Emby-Token` or `api_key=`.
- Emby answers only its own LAN discovery datagram ("who is EmbyServer?") and
ignores Jellyfin's; its default HTTPS port is 8920.
- No `/QuickConnect` route exists, so Quick Connect stays Jellyfin-only.
Row fields Emby withholds
- `ProductionYear`, `OfficialRating`, `PremiereDate` and `DateCreated` are absent
from list rows unless named in `Fields`, which would otherwise strip the year
and age-rating badge from every card in the app.
- `UserData.LastPlayedDate` never appears on a list row under `Fields=UserData`,
`EnableUserData=true` or the user-scoped `Ids=` form — only on the single-item
detail route, or when the Emby-specific `UserDataLastPlayedDate` token is
requested. Without it every recency-ordered surface silently degrades to
library-add time, and `JellyfinApiCache.applyWatchState` stamps
`DateTime.now()` on watched rows, so an offline watch-state pull would rewrite
the cached play time of everything it walked.
Continue Watching and Next Up
- Emby computes Next Up per series only: the library-wide `/Shows/NextUp` query
returns nothing under every parameter combination tried. The shelf is
therefore reconstructed from a played-episode recency scan plus one
`/Shows/NextUp?SeriesId=` per distinct series, bounded by a shared wall clock
that covers the scan as well — per-request timeouts cannot bound the pass
because `MediaServerHttpClient` times the connect and receive phases
independently. Rows are stamped with their series' newest play from the same
response that ordered them, so no per-series enrichment request is needed.
- `/Shows/NextUp` ignores `NextUpDateCutoff`, and no server-side played-date
filter exists to delegate to (`MinDatePlayed` and `MinDateLastPlayed` are
ignored; `MinDateLastSaved`, `MinDateCreated` and `MinPremiereDate` filter
unrelated dates), so the 365-day window is applied to the scanned dates.
- The resume route returns items with no saved position, including plain next
episodes, so the Emby resume leg reads from `/Items?Filters=IsResumable`.
- Emby is ahead of Jellyfin in one place: `/Users/{id}/Items/{id}/HideFromResume`
makes Continue Watching removal a real capability.
Everything else
- `/Sessions/Playing` and `/Sessions/Playing/Progress` reject a body with no
`PlaySessionId` (HTTP 400), so playback reporting always sends one.
- Passing any `MediaTypes` value to the playlist query returns an empty list.
- There is no aggregate `/Items/Filters` route; the four filter facets are
reassembled from `/Genres`, `/OfficialRatings`, `/Studios` and `/Tags`.
- Metadata writes take name-pair lists (`Genres: [{'Name': 'Action'}]`); the
plain string array is accepted and then silently discarded.
- Custom artwork uploads must be base64 text, not raw bytes — which was broken
for Jellyfin too and is fixed for both.
- Trickplay, media segments and lyrics 404 on Emby, so scrub previews are absent
and intro/credit markers fall back to chapter names.
Verified against a local Emby 4.9.5 and a Jellyfin 10.11.11 control server:
onboarding, browse, detail, playable stream URLs serving real bytes, subtitle
sidecars, watch-state write and restore, hubs, cross-server aggregation and
search across both backends simultaneously.
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@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ class MultiServerProvider extends ChangeNotifier with DisposableChangeNotifierMi
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/// Whether at least one online server is a Plex server. Used to gate
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/// Plex-only chrome (server-activities popover, conflict-resolution
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/// helpers) so they don't render against a Jellyfin-only profile.
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/// helpers) so it doesn't render against a MediaBrowser-only profile.
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bool get hasOnlinePlexServers => onlineServerIds.any((id) => _serverManager.getPlexClient(ServerId(id)) != null);
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/// Visibility-filtered server ids whose latest health probe was rejected
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@@ -263,10 +263,9 @@ class MultiServerProvider extends ChangeNotifier with DisposableChangeNotifierMi
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/// Check all online servers for DVR/Live TV availability. Plex servers
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/// expose `/livetv/dvrs` (one entry per configured DVR with its own
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/// lineup); Jellyfin servers expose `/LiveTv/Channels` with a single
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/// lineup); MediaBrowser servers expose `/LiveTv/Channels` with a single
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/// flat channel list per server (synthesized into one [LiveTvServerInfo]
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/// with `dvrKey: 'jellyfin'` so the rest of the UI's per-DVR loop works
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/// uniformly).
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/// whose backend-derived `dvrKey` keeps the UI's per-DVR identity stable).
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Future<void> checkLiveTvAvailability() async {
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if (isDisposed) return;
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final generation = ++_liveTvCheckGeneration;
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@@ -285,9 +284,11 @@ class MultiServerProvider extends ChangeNotifier with DisposableChangeNotifierMi
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newLiveTvServers.add(LiveTvServerInfo(serverId: serverId, dvrKey: dvr.key, lineup: dvr.lineup, dvrs: dvrs));
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}
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} else if (await liveTv.isAvailable()) {
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// Jellyfin: no per-DVR partitioning; synthesize a single entry so
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// the rest of the UI's per-DVR loop works uniformly.
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newLiveTvServers.add(LiveTvServerInfo(serverId: serverId, dvrKey: 'jellyfin', lineup: null, dvrs: const []));
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// MediaBrowser: no per-DVR partitioning; synthesize a single entry
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// so the rest of the UI's per-DVR loop works uniformly.
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newLiveTvServers.add(
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LiveTvServerInfo(serverId: serverId, dvrKey: genericClient.backend.id, lineup: null, dvrs: const []),
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);
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}
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} catch (e) {
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appLogger.d('LiveTV check failed for server $serverId', error: e);
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