Media server integration settings

Streams Manager offers integration with your media servers. This section governs how that integration works. The settings are as follows:

Media server sync settings

• Import new users as permanent - indicates whether new users should be marked as permanent when they are imported from your media server. This setting is especially important when doing a user sync for the first time. When turned OFF, any user that shares your media server that is not tracked in Streams Manager will be imported and assigned to a default plan and be active for the duration of the default plan

Emby/Jellyfin settings

• Default Emby/Jellyfin user - indicates the user from which default settings will be taken when creating or inviting new Emby/Jellyfin users. In essence, configuration of this user will server as a template for new users. Streams Manager will made adjustments to to the settings to ensure that the user is given access to correct libraries based on the their plan, number of allowed devices, etc. Every Emby/Jellyfin server needs to have this user created for the feature to work.

• Require Emby Connect - when enabled, users are required to register with and use Emby Connect enabled account. See Emby Connect for details how Emby Connect works. If enabled, please note that upon registration Streams Manager must validate that user's email is a valid Emby Connect email. This is done by creating a dummy user EmbyConnectLinkTest and then immediatelly removing it. However, this will generate an email sent to the user from Emby asking them to link their Emby account that they should ignore.

Advanced maximum devices in use streaming enforcement

This is a feature that is part of the premium pack that needs to be purchased separately.

Advanced maximum devices in use streaming enforcement allows you to configure additional enforcement for users that use more devices concurrently than their plan allows. When a user is using more devices than their plan allows, Streams Manager will stop their stream within 5 minutes via a background job and display a message on the screen that you can configure in Streaming enforcement messages section. If you so choose, in addition to stopping the stream, Streams Manager can limit user's library access to only certain libraries. Once a user exceeds number of warnings for using too many devices in the past week you set, Stream Manager will restrict user's library access to only libraries you specify within 5 minutes via a background job. Once a user's number of warning in the past week drops below the limit (as the time elapses), Stream Manager will again enable all libraries on user's plan within 5 minutes via a background job.

Number of warnings is squashed hourly which means that multiple warnings in the same hour will count as a single warning.

• Enable advanced maximum devices in use streaming enforcement - indicates whether advanced maximum devices in use streaming enforcement is enabled or not

• Weekly warnings limit - number of too many devices in use warnings a user must have in the last week in order for library access to be limited. Number of warnings is squashed hourly which means that multiple warnings in the same hour will count as a single warning

• Library names with access - comma separated list of library names a user will be limited to when exceeding weekly warnings limit for too many devices in use warnings

Advanced transcoding 4K streaming enforcement

This is a feature that is part of the premium pack that needs to be purchased separately.

Advanced transcoding 4K streaming enforcement allows you to configure additional enforcement for users that transcode 4K content. When a user is transcoding 4K content, Streams Manager will stop their stream within 5 minutes via a background job and display a message on the screen that you can configure in Streaming enforcement messages section. If you so choose, in addition to stopping the stream, Streams Manager can remove certain (i.e. 4K) libraries for their access. Once a user exceeds number of warnings for transcoding 4K content in the past week you set, Stream Manager will remove access to libraries you specify within 5 minutes via a background job. Once a user's number of warning in the past week drops below the limit (as the time elapses), Stream Manager will again enable all libraries on user's plan within 5 minutes via a background job.

Number of warnings is squashed hourly which means that multiple warnings in the same hour will count as a single warning.

• Enable advanced transcoding 4K streaming enforcement - indicates whether advanced transcoding 4K streaming enforcement is enabled or not

• Weekly warnings limit - number of transcoding 4K warnings a user must have in the last week in order for library access to be limited. Number of warnings is squashed hourly which means that multiple warnings in the same hour will count as a single warning

• Library names to be removed from access - comma separated list of library names a user will be lose access to when exceeding weekly warnings limit for transcoding 4K content warnings

Streaming enforcement messages

Streaming enforcement messages allows you to customize messages that are shown to the user in the media streaming app once they are detected exceeding streaming limits or transcoding 4K content. Streaming enforcement on Plex requires a Plex Pass. For Emby and Jellyfin servers, streaming enforcement may not always work as Emby and Jellyfin often spawn ffmpeg processes on the server that cannot be stopped via an API.

• Device in use exceeded message - Message shown on user's device after their stream is stopped because they have more devices in use concurrently than their plan allows. You can use the following placeholders that will be replaced at runtime: ##NumberOfDevicesInUse##, ##NumberOfDevicesAllowed##. This only works on Plex.

• Transcoding not allowed message - message shown on user's device after their stream is stopped because they are transcoding content and their plan does not allow transcoding. This only works on Plex.

• Transcoding 4K not allowed message - message shown on user's device after their stream is stopped because they are transcoding 4K content and the Plex server does not allow transcoding..