n8lbv 0 Posted December 24, 2022 Share Posted December 24, 2022 (edited) Trying out emby for the first time on a Synology device. I have one simple volume. It is also SMB shared. This is a test box. I try creating a library and adding the folder. I have a few simple DVD rips that I own the DVD in there and I have one that I converted to MKV. All play fine in VLC with the SMB share. Emby server does not find anything in theses folders or sub-folders. I'm a Linux and Windows /IT pro and can usually figure this stuff out quickly - but have been unable to figure emby out and why it is not finding any content. I've tried re-scanning re-creating setting guest permissions to read/write and rebooting. nothing so far has made a difference. Please help or point me to what I might be missing and thanks. Edited December 24, 2022 by n8lbv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eigeplackter 75 Posted December 24, 2022 Share Posted December 24, 2022 The testfiles really reside in /volume1/backups ? probably forgot to aß the permissions on the filesystem und DSM. there‘s a systemuser named emby, Nerds at least read (better rw) permissions.when u Check your lohnen emby Server it will probably Tell you permission denied while scanning library folder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n8lbv 0 Posted December 24, 2022 Author Share Posted December 24, 2022 (edited) I will check this. yes very sure the files are there. I also created a new folder off the Volume wiped the library and created a new library on this same location and same problem. I'll dig deeper into permissions, so far I only gave full read/write to the synology top level admins and guests users/groups. I was unsure if emby would create a new user. or what not. And if "guest" permissons from the synology itself would enable read on anything that emby may have created outside of what the synology already had on it. Thanks. Edited December 24, 2022 by n8lbv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n8lbv 0 Posted December 24, 2022 Author Share Posted December 24, 2022 No additional displayed accounts or groups were created on the Synology device when Emby was installed. And the device has been restarted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution Eigeplackter 75 Posted December 24, 2022 Solution Share Posted December 24, 2022 (edited) You took a wrong turn. It‘s system user, those aren‘t manageable in users. You have to change permission of your library folder, via file explorer- properties- permission if it’s not a shared one. otherwise in control Panel - shared folder properties - permission Edited December 24, 2022 by Eigeplackter Better images Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n8lbv 0 Posted December 25, 2022 Author Share Posted December 25, 2022 Yep thank you. That worked. Can't actually play anything in a browser or in Android emby app yet- Not able to play my DVD VOB files or The MKV test files I converted from VOB. Just get black screen on Android. On a PC/Browser get a long delay nothing but black and eventually see "No compatible streams are currently available" ERROR Isn't the entire point of using emby that it creates a "compatible stream" or transcodes your media into something that the app or a browser can actually decode? Still lost and fumbling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n8lbv 0 Posted December 25, 2022 Author Share Posted December 25, 2022 I think I figured out fairly quickly that the emby apps/players are not supporting MPEG2 streams. I was sorta hoping it might. If I re-encode to Mpeg4 it plays in the players and web browser. I was hoping the server might also be able to transcode Mpeg2 --> Mp4 and work. Pretty sure the small synaolgy NAS does not have the CPU power to do that in realtime as well. But was expecting/hoping for it to work on a more powerful server. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eigeplackter 75 Posted December 25, 2022 Share Posted December 25, 2022 Whats your synology model ? What's in your transcode settings ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37090 Posted December 26, 2022 Share Posted December 26, 2022 On 12/24/2022 at 8:56 PM, n8lbv said: I think I figured out fairly quickly that the emby apps/players are not supporting MPEG2 streams. I was sorta hoping it might. Hi, yes Emby does support mpeg2. Hi there, let's look at an example. Please attach the information requested in how to report a media playback issue. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n8lbv 0 Posted December 26, 2022 Author Share Posted December 26, 2022 Hi- Try not to laugh: model is a DS216se (Single core 800MHz) box. free total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 248508 165156 12256 9344 71096 46074 Swap: 2097084 116340 1980744 admin@ZCCBackup2:/proc$ cat cpuinfo Processor : Marvell PJ4Bv7 Processor rev 1 (v7l) BogoMIPS : 795.44 Features : swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp vfpv3 vfpv3d16 tls CPU implementer : 0x56 CPU architecture: 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eigeplackter 75 Posted December 26, 2022 Share Posted December 26, 2022 If am not completely mistaken those do not support transcoding as they use an ARM CPU: https://nascompares.com/2016/06/02/the-synology-ds216j-versus-the-ds216se-the-busdget-synology-nas-faceoff/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n8lbv 0 Posted December 26, 2022 Author Share Posted December 26, 2022 Thanks!! and does not surprise me one bit. This was my intro to Envy (simply install a synology package). I'll try it on a "real" server next. -Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n8lbv 0 Posted December 26, 2022 Author Share Posted December 26, 2022 Thanks for the Synology link. Good read! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n8lbv 0 Posted December 26, 2022 Author Share Posted December 26, 2022 That articles looks like it was written by cheap or budget AI: "can be intimidating to even hose" "the NAS equivalent of the car the vicar drives just the get back to the shops and back." I'm guessing they ran it through an auto translator and didn't bother to fix it afterward. But yes those units have TINY processors. Was a good intro and I look forward to trying this out on a bigger server/CPU that has some capabilities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37090 Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 Let us know how you get on. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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