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I don't think it's so much about the info on the pages but subtle things like not aligning if you put a grid over it like with the red borders which show how some things are too far right or things that should be flush left or flush right aren't. Think "snap to grid". That and if you saved the position of things on one page in movies but then went to TV Shows it's different yet, then music is yet again different. It's not consistent in position when it can be for different parts of the clients. Obviously different parts of the system have different needs but some things should be the same but aren't. That's my interpretation of what was said.

Both are still maintained. We've never been listed in flathub or snap's store yet but we're working towards that. For now you'd need to install the downloadable packages.

not sure I understand. The path in the snap above. That is the LAN IP of my MacPro with 4 internal drives that have media in various folders.

I don't think Docker limits the number of cores for containers unless you specify it. I run Emby server on Debian in a docker container and all my 8 cores get used when transcoding. Your 100% CPU usage might be due to Snap not detecting quicksync or maybe you have to point the snap package to your CPU device driver, I'm not really familiar with Snap. I tell you this because for Docker, provided you have a recent i3-i5-i7 CPU, you have to provide the path to the driver to get quicksync working. In my case I gotta use the "--device /dev/dri" to the docker run command. If I don't specify that, transcodes take pretty much all my CPU resources instead of maybe 1/10th of that with quicksync enabled. Native install doesn't have this issue because the installed app has full access to your computer. In Docker, you kinda got to tell it what resource can be used for your container. Once you get familiar with Docker, you won't go back. It's so much more customizable than a Snap/Flatpak package. You can specify where you want all the config files to be stored at making backups very easy. With native or Snap/Flatpak, you gotta hunt for the location of settings/config files and sometimes they all over the place. Where Snap/Flatpak is useful is for Apps that don't rely on user configs. If there are user configs to be setup, I'd recommend Docker instead. As for native installs, I usually would only do it in a VM where there's nothing else on it. You can then back up the whole VM file. If there's gonna be other stuff installed on that machine, then I go for Docker. If you don't need/want to backup anything, then just native install everything.

Hi, I’ve been running a “native” Emby install on Linux Mint for the last year or so installed via the .deb package. I’m having just awful issues with Mint and impossible to pin down bugs so I decided to grab an NVMe SSD and start over with OpenSUSE Tumbleweed (so I’m keeping the Mint install limping along till I get the new one sorted out). oST is now installed and I’m about to install Emby but before I proceed, I wondered if anyone had compared running Emby as a native install, via Flatpak, vs Docker. I’ve read that for Plex, Docker can limit the number of threads/CPU making things like transcoding a much different experience (in this case, the person could do I think 10 transcodes in the native install vs around 2 transcodes in the Docker install). I’ve run Plex on my Mint install via a Snap and found that Snaps take up a lot of CPU usage and I’d find myself with 100% usage on all CPU/threads on my quad core/8 thread Core i7 setup. What I don’t know is what is from the Mint bug issues, what is from running in a Snap, and if Docker, Flatpak or a native install would be better (or if either of them would be similar/worse). The thing I like about Snap/Flatpak/Docker is the sandboxing of files and not worrying as much as dependencies running into each other. Obviously, that means there can be duplicated dependencies and I worry about the performance. What have any of you used and has anyone compared performance of running Emby in Docker vs Flatpak vs native install? I’d love to hear any thoughts, advice, experiences, etc. Thanks so much in advance!

That's great! Especially that Ubuntu now ships with Snap.

Hi, yes we're looking into a snap package.

Yes thanks - this has helped. I will automate regular snap shots of the Library.db file only as the entire programdata folder is much too large to do this and keep a few copies. I assume to "restore" all I would have to do is rename the existing file to .old or similar, copy in the backup file and restart the server?

remove the auto box set plugin? - as it sounds like thats whats making the changes [edit] - snap

Hey all, I was wondering if anyone could help with adding a button to the login screen I've managed to create a button and name it but i cant get it to open the link. I've enclosed a snap shot of the button.

For those looking for additional options to run Emby Server, we now have Snap packages available for testing: https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/83274-emby-server-snap-packages/ Thanks !

For those looking for additional options to run Emby Server, we now have Snap packages available for testing: https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/83274-emby-server-snap-packages/ Thanks !

For those looking for additional options to run Emby Server, we now have Snap packages available for testing: https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/83274-emby-server-snap-packages/ Thanks !

For those looking for additional options to run Emby Server, we now have Snap packages available for testing: https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/83274-emby-server-snap-packages/ Thanks !

For those looking for additional options to run Emby Server, we now have Snap packages available for testing: https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/83274-emby-server-snap-packages/ Thanks !

For those looking for additional options to run Emby Server, we now have Snap packages available for testing: https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/83274-emby-server-snap-packages/ Thanks !

For those looking for additional options to run Emby Server, we now have Snap packages available for testing: https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/83274-emby-server-snap-packages/ Thanks !

@@GeekndGamer @@deaerator Emby Server Snap packages are now available for testing: https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/83274-emby-server-snap-packages Thanks !

Hi, I really like to show my movies in Thumb mode instead of posters. However most thumb are just showing a snap shot of the movie, like a scene. Is it possible to show nice thumb for all movies with lets say the title of the movie in the thumb it self and to look like a 'poster'. Similair to Prime Video. Posters looks great but my idea is to have these in thumb mode. Is it also possible to have an option on how to show movies/series on enhanced media, poster or thumb?

Hi, I just noticed that on my phone (Android 8) the mobile friendly page crashes/hangs when opening a picture library. I'm using the latest mobile versions of Chrome and Firefox. With Chrome you can see the first picture load and then the page crashes and shows an "oww snap, something went wrong" message. On Firefox the page simply hangs and you can't scroll down. Requesting the desktop site works well on both browsers. Another thing I noticed that when viewing pictures through a browser (both a phone and pc), CPU usage on the server will spike to 100% until the webpage is done loading a thumb for every picture. Using the Android app this doesn't happen, CPU usage spikes to 30% for a bit and then goes back to normal. I did clear the application cache to make sure the thumbs had to be downloaded again. Is Emby generating thumbs on the fly? And if so, is there anyway to generate them before hand? On the Android app CPU usage does spike to 100% on the server when opening a picture. I'll check with an iPhone later tonight (browser only). The folders I'm viewing have 1000~2000 pictures each. 1) Mobile friendly page hangs/crashes on Android Chrome and Firefox 2) Opening picture full size doesn't work on Android Chrome and Firefox when requesting desktop site 3) 100% CPU on server until all thumbs have loaded on ANY browser, Android and PC. Android app doesn't do this edit: Request desktop site on Android Chrome can still make the page crash. Firefox appears to be OK. edit2: For what its worth, I tested outside my home network. Emby is behind a proxy. Though Everything else is working fine so I don't expect this to be the problem.

thank you for the list. I'm not sure why emby returns these mounts for linux in the IFileSystem interface GetDrives function, but none the less I have added the following code to 'filter-out' some of these directories. if (dir.Name.Split('\\').Length > 2) continue; //Windows - too many subfolders to be what we are looking for if (dir.Name.Split('/').Length > 2) continue; //Linux - too many subfolders to be what we are looking for switch (dir.Name.Split('/')[1]) //Linux - if these sneak past our filter ignore them { case "etc": case "dev": case "run": case "snap": case "sys": continue; } DOWNLOAD: DiskSpace.zip

better, but stil have a lot of useless thing, /dev /run /dev/shm /run/lock /sys/fs/cgroup /snap/lxd /snap/... 4-5 snap rep /run/snapd/ns and major problem / isnt there anymore so we dont have our main harddrive. only mounted one is there

Hello all, I've seen multiple processes for Emby Server in the past. Usually this seemed to happen when I would quit/restart the app. This would not actually quit the previous process but would instead start up a new one. Today I updated to 4.3.1 and now when I launch the app I get two processes right away. 'Emby Server' and 'EmbyServer'. Here is a snap of what it looks like in Activity Monitor: Wondering if anyone else has run into this? I am more than happy to provide server logs if anyone (@luke) wants to see them. Just don't want to post them here for no reason ;-) Thanks! N

Snap or flatpak sounds like a good plan.

is there any plans to release a fedora package? what would be even better would be to release a snap or a flatpak. that way anyone could run it and it wouldn't be tied to any specific distro. Ubuntu, fedora, arch, gentoo could all easily run it if it was a snap or a flatpak.