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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@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ import '../media/ids.dart';
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import '../mpv/mpv.dart';
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import '../media/media_backend.dart';
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import '../media/media_item.dart';
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import '../media/media_server_client.dart';
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import '../media/media_source_info.dart';
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@@ -17,17 +16,17 @@ import '../utils/watch_state_notifier.dart';
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/// Tracks playback progress and reports it to the active media server.
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///
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/// Both Plex and Jellyfin go through the unified
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/// Plex and both MediaBrowser dialects go through the unified
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/// [MediaServerClient.reportPlayback*] surface — Plex maps the three signals
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/// onto `/:/timeline` updates with appropriate `state`, Jellyfin uses the
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/// three `/Sessions/Playing*` endpoints.
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/// onto `/:/timeline` updates with appropriate `state`, while MediaBrowser
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/// uses the three `/Sessions/Playing*` endpoints.
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///
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/// Local watched state flips as soon as the position crosses the client's
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/// [MediaServerClient.watchedThreshold] (per-server pref on Plex, fixed 90% on
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/// Jellyfin). The *server-side* mark is a separate decision: both backends
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/// already mark an item played from a threshold crossing they observe in the
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/// MediaBrowser). The *server-side* mark is a separate decision: each backend
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/// already marks an item played from a threshold crossing it observes in the
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/// reports this tracker sends, so an explicit mark is issued only for sessions
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/// that gave them no such crossing (#1287, #1740).
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/// that gave it no such crossing (#1287, #1740).
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class PlaybackProgressTracker {
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/// Server client for online progress updates (null when offline). Pinned
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/// for the tracker's lifetime — one playback session against the server
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@@ -429,7 +428,7 @@ class PlaybackProgressTracker {
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/// Records what the backend actually received, then re-evaluates whether the
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/// explicit mark is still needed.
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///
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/// Both backends mark an item played from a watched-threshold *crossing*
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/// Every supported backend marks an item played from a watched-threshold *crossing*
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/// observed inside a single reporting session — a report below the threshold
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/// followed by one at or above it. Absolute position is not enough: a session
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/// whose every report sits above the threshold, or one resuming past it, is
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@@ -579,7 +578,7 @@ class PlaybackProgressTracker {
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int? _currentAudioStreamIndex(MediaSourceInfo info) {
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final playerAudioTracks = player.state.tracks.audio.where((t) => t.id != 'auto' && t.id != 'no').toList();
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if (metadata.backend == MediaBackend.jellyfin &&
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if (metadata.backend.usesMediaBrowserApi &&
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(info.audioTracks.any((track) => track.isExternal) || playerAudioTracks.length <= 1)) {
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final selectedSourceTrack = _selectedSourceAudioTrack(info);
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if (selectedSourceTrack != null) return selectedSourceTrack.id;
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