Scrubbing an Emby video showed no preview thumbnails on the timeline
while Plex and Jellyfin both worked: Emby's scrubThumbnails capability
was off, so the player never attempted a load. It was off because the
4.9.5 test server answered the preview endpoints with empty payloads —
its extraction task had not run.
Emby's preview transport is a Roku-format BIF at
/Videos/{id}/index.bif?Width=320, the same wire format Plex serves, so
the existing BIF parser handles it unchanged. Enable the capability and
route Emby previews through the shared BifThumbnailService, whose load
now takes a bytes callback instead of a Plex-typed client. MediaBrowser
sources also carry videoAspectRatio from the video stream so the
tooltip sizes itself to the stream. A server without extracted frames
still answers a header-only BIF, which parses to zero frames and keeps
the tooltip suppressed.
close #1930
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/// Static capability flags advertised by a [MediaServerClient]. UI consults
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/// these to gate feature affordances per server (e.g. hide Live TV when no
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/// connected server supports it).
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///
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/// These describe what the *backend kind* supports in this app's current
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/// implementation — not necessarily what the wire protocol can do. As more
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/// Jellyfin features are wired in over time, the corresponding flags flip
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/// without changing call sites.
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class ServerCapabilities {
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/// This backend kind has a Live TV / DVR API the app can talk to. Whether
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/// a *specific* server has Live TV configured is a runtime concern —
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/// [MultiServerProvider.checkLiveTvAvailability] probes each server and
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/// only those with channels surface in [MultiServerProvider.liveTvServers].
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final bool liveTv;
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/// Server has DVR/recording lineups (Plex `/livetv/dvrs`). Channel listing
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/// is gated by [liveTv]; this flag enables the additional recordings/scheduling
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/// UI. Jellyfin's DVR API isn't wired in this app yet, so it stays false even
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/// when [liveTv] is true.
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final bool liveTvDvr;
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/// Server can transcode video.
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final bool videoTranscoding;
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/// Server provides curated recommendation hubs (Plex Discover). Jellyfin
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/// returns synthesized hubs but with sparser categorisation.
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final bool richHubs;
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/// Numeric ratings (Plex 0–10 via [Item.userRating]). Jellyfin has no
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/// numeric user rating, so star sliders should be hidden.
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final bool numericUserRating;
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/// Per-user favorite flag ("heart") on media items. Jellyfin exposes it via
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/// `/UserFavoriteItems/{itemId}?userId=...`; Plex has no equivalent.
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final bool userFavorites;
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/// Hide an item from Continue Watching without changing watch state or
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/// playback progress. Plex exposes this directly; Jellyfin does not.
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final bool continueWatchingRemoval;
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/// External subtitle search/marketplace (Plex `/library/metadata/{id}/subtitles`).
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/// Hides the "Search subtitles" affordance when false.
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final bool externalSubtitleSearch;
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/// Server exposes metadata edit endpoints. Hides edit affordances when false.
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final bool richMetadataEdit;
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/// Server can supply thumbnails for the player's seek-bar scrub preview.
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/// Plex serves them as a `.bif` asset; Jellyfin uses `/Trickplay` sprite
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/// sheets. Both backends are wired through [ScrubPreviewSource]; the flag
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/// gates whether the player attempts the load at all.
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final bool scrubThumbnails;
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/// Library section exposes a folder hierarchy. Plex uses
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/// `/library/sections/{id}/folders`; Jellyfin uses direct-child
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/// `/Items?ParentId=...&Recursive=false` queries.
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final bool folderGrouping;
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/// Server can build an "instant mix" / radio track list from a seed item.
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/// Jellyfin: `/Items/{id}/InstantMix`; Plex: station play queues
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/// (`POST /playQueues?type=audio&uri=...station...`).
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final bool instantMix;
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const ServerCapabilities({
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this.liveTv = false,
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this.liveTvDvr = false,
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this.videoTranscoding = true,
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this.richHubs = false,
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this.numericUserRating = false,
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this.userFavorites = false,
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this.continueWatchingRemoval = false,
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this.externalSubtitleSearch = false,
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this.richMetadataEdit = false,
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this.scrubThumbnails = false,
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this.folderGrouping = false,
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this.instantMix = false,
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});
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/// Defaults for a fully-featured Plex server.
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static const ServerCapabilities plex = ServerCapabilities(
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liveTv: true,
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liveTvDvr: true,
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videoTranscoding: true,
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richHubs: true,
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numericUserRating: true,
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userFavorites: false,
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continueWatchingRemoval: true,
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externalSubtitleSearch: true,
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richMetadataEdit: true,
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scrubThumbnails: true,
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folderGrouping: true,
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instantMix: true,
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);
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/// Defaults for a Jellyfin server.
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///
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/// `videoTranscoding` is `true` — `JellyfinClient.getPlaybackInitialization`
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/// negotiates via `POST /Items/{id}/PlaybackInfo` and uses the server's
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/// `TranscodingUrl` when a non-original quality preset is selected.
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///
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/// `liveTv` is `true` because Jellyfin exposes `/LiveTv/Channels` and
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/// `/LiveTv/Programs`. Detection + channel listing are wired today;
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/// EPG and tuning are follow-ups.
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static const ServerCapabilities jellyfin = ServerCapabilities(
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liveTv: true,
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liveTvDvr: false,
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videoTranscoding: true,
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richHubs: false,
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numericUserRating: false,
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userFavorites: true,
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externalSubtitleSearch: false,
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richMetadataEdit: true,
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scrubThumbnails: true,
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folderGrouping: true,
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instantMix: true,
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);
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/// Defaults for an Emby server.
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///
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/// `continueWatchingRemoval` is the one flag where Emby is ahead of Jellyfin:
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/// `POST /Users/{uid}/Items/{id}/HideFromResume` drops an item from Continue
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/// Watching while keeping its resume position, and Jellyfin 10.11 has no
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/// equivalent route.
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///
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/// Scrub thumbnails take a different transport than Jellyfin's: Emby has no
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/// `Trickplay` item field or sprite-sheet route, so the player loads a
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/// Roku-format BIF from `/Videos/{id}/index.bif` instead — the same wire
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/// format Plex serves, parsed by the same `BifThumbnailService`. Emby only
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/// fills the endpoint once its own preview-extraction task has run; a server
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/// that has not generated frames answers with a header-only BIF, which
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/// parses to zero frames and keeps the seek-bar tooltip suppressed.
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static const ServerCapabilities emby = ServerCapabilities(
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liveTv: true,
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liveTvDvr: false,
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videoTranscoding: true,
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richHubs: false,
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numericUserRating: false,
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userFavorites: true,
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continueWatchingRemoval: true,
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externalSubtitleSearch: false,
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richMetadataEdit: true,
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scrubThumbnails: true,
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folderGrouping: true,
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instantMix: true,
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);
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/// Every flag here is fixed per backend *kind* except [videoTranscoding],
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/// which Plex probes per server (`PlexClient.capabilities`) — so that is the
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/// only override this type needs. Widen the parameter list if another flag
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/// ever becomes a runtime probe.
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ServerCapabilities copyWith({bool? videoTranscoding}) {
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return ServerCapabilities(
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liveTv: liveTv,
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liveTvDvr: liveTvDvr,
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videoTranscoding: videoTranscoding ?? this.videoTranscoding,
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richHubs: richHubs,
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numericUserRating: numericUserRating,
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userFavorites: userFavorites,
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continueWatchingRemoval: continueWatchingRemoval,
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externalSubtitleSearch: externalSubtitleSearch,
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richMetadataEdit: richMetadataEdit,
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scrubThumbnails: scrubThumbnails,
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folderGrouping: folderGrouping,
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instantMix: instantMix,
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);
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}
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}
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