NJS Emby Enhancer

A module enhances Emby to call external video players to play media on your hosted server, powered by njs (NGINX JavaScript).

Table of Contents

• Features
• Screenshot
• Usage
• License

Features

• Supporting Emby WebUI/iOS Client/Android Client

• Supporting multiple media sources

• Auto-detection for platform & system, only showing available players

• Additional Components: Concealing the real address of the server to avoid IP leakage

Screenshot

Usage

1. Download dist/njs-emby-extlink.js and put it in nginx working folder

2. Insert a line in nginx.conf to load NJS engine

   # Load NJS Engine
   load_module modules/ngx_http_js_module.so;

3. Add this entry in the first line of emby’s reverse proxy configuration file (emby.conf)

   # change the path from "path-to/njs-emby-extlink.js"
   js_import embyPlugin from path-to/njs-emby-extlink.js;

4. Add a rewrite rule for root path in emby.conf

   location / {
     ...
   	## Emby Nginx Plugin: ExtPlay
   	rewrite ^/Videos/(\d+)/ExtPlay/ /emby/videos/$1/stream redirect;
   }

5. Add/change the following sections in emby.conf

   location ~* /Users/(\w+)/Items/(\d+) {
   	js_header_filter embyPlugin.contentTypeJson;
   	js_body_filter embyPlugin.addExtLinkFilter buffer_type=string;
     ## Others
     proxy_pass http://emby;
     ...
   }

   location /Emby/Addons/ExtPlay {
   	js_content embyPlugin.handleExtPlay;
   }

6. Optional: Add/change the following sections to conceal system info

   location ~* /System/Info {
   	js_header_filter embyPlugin.contentTypeJson;
   	js_body_filter embyPlugin.concealPublicInfo buffer_type=string;
   	## Others
     proxy_pass http://emby;
     ...
   }

License

This project is licensed under AGPL-3.0 License. It used a portion of codes from njs-typescript-starter, which is licensed under MIT License