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.
94 lines
3.6 KiB
Dart
94 lines
3.6 KiB
Dart
import 'dart:async';
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import 'dart:convert';
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import 'dart:io';
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import '../media/media_browser_dialect.dart';
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import '../utils/app_logger.dart';
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import '../utils/udp_broadcast_sockets.dart';
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import 'jellyfin_endpoint_discovery.dart';
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class DiscoveredJellyfinServer {
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final String address;
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final String id;
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final String name;
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final MediaBrowserDialect dialect;
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DiscoveredJellyfinServer({required this.address, required this.id, required this.name, required this.dialect});
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}
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class JellyfinLanDiscoveryService {
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static const int discoveryPort = 7359;
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/// Sends the selected dialect's discovery packet twice, 350 ms apart, then
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/// listens for [responseWindow] after the second packet. Jellyfin and Emby
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/// answer only their own payload, while both use the same response shape.
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Future<List<DiscoveredJellyfinServer>> discover({
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required MediaBrowserDialect dialect,
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Duration responseWindow = const Duration(seconds: 2),
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InternetAddress? broadcastAddress,
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}) async {
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UdpBroadcastSocketSet? socketSet;
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final discovered = <String, DiscoveredJellyfinServer>{};
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try {
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socketSet = await UdpBroadcastSockets.bind();
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socketSet.listen((datagram) {
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final server = parseDiscoveryResponse(datagram.data, dialect: dialect);
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if (server == null) return;
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discovered.putIfAbsent(server.id, () => server);
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}, debugLabel: '${dialect.productName} LAN discovery');
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final data = utf8.encode(dialect.lanDiscoveryMessage);
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final target = broadcastAddress ?? UdpBroadcastSockets.limitedBroadcastAddress;
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socketSet.send(data, target, discoveryPort);
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await Future<void>.delayed(const Duration(milliseconds: 350));
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socketSet.send(data, target, discoveryPort);
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await Future<void>.delayed(responseWindow);
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} catch (e, st) {
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appLogger.w('${dialect.productName} LAN discovery failed', error: e, stackTrace: st);
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} finally {
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await socketSet?.close();
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}
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return sortDiscoveredServers(discovered.values);
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}
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static List<DiscoveredJellyfinServer> sortDiscoveredServers(Iterable<DiscoveredJellyfinServer> servers) {
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final sorted = servers.toList()
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..sort((a, b) {
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final name = a.name.toLowerCase().compareTo(b.name.toLowerCase());
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if (name != 0) return name;
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final address = a.address.compareTo(b.address);
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if (address != 0) return address;
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final id = a.id.compareTo(b.id);
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if (id != 0) return id;
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return a.dialect.id.compareTo(b.dialect.id);
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});
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return List.unmodifiable(sorted);
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}
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static DiscoveredJellyfinServer? parseDiscoveryResponse(List<int> data, {required MediaBrowserDialect dialect}) {
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try {
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final decoded = jsonDecode(utf8.decode(data));
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if (decoded is! Map<String, dynamic>) return null;
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final address = _stringValue(decoded, 'Address') ?? _stringValue(decoded, 'address');
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final id = _stringValue(decoded, 'Id') ?? _stringValue(decoded, 'id');
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final name = _stringValue(decoded, 'Name') ?? _stringValue(decoded, 'name');
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if (address == null || id == null || name == null) return null;
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final normalized = JellyfinEndpointDiscovery.normalizeBaseUrl(address);
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if (normalized.isEmpty || id.trim().isEmpty || name.trim().isEmpty) return null;
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return DiscoveredJellyfinServer(address: normalized, id: id.trim(), name: name.trim(), dialect: dialect);
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} catch (_) {
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return null;
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}
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}
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static String? _stringValue(Map<String, dynamic> json, String key) {
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final value = json[key];
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if (value is! String) return null;
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final trimmed = value.trim();
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return trimmed.isEmpty ? null : trimmed;
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}
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}
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