filecore 6 Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 Running Emby on an HP Elitedesk 800 G2 SFF (i5 6500, 16GB, GeForce GT 1030) with Ubuntu 22.04. Emby is installed natively, no VMs or containers. Playback is on localhost via latest Brave browser. Everything was running smoothly until the last upgrade 4.7 -> 4.8. After this, the UI is laggy. Clear and reproducible examples: Side menu slides out jerkily when on home screen Context menu is jerky to animate on any object, and laggy on mouseover Video playback is smooth unless the OSD overlay is triggered (any mouse movement, for example), in which case video playback becomes really stuttery until the OSD overlay vanishes First and foremost, I'm assuming from the huge list of features and fixes that something has been refactored on the UI. I'm wondering if there's an easy way to revert this, or some new option that I'm not seeing (I poked around in the user settings and in the admin but didn't see anything obvious). If not, is it a possible hardware issue? Or something else? Happy to provide logs if needed. Have restarted both Emby server and the physical host, no luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37156 Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 HI, this is almost certainly due to the background blur effect. How does Chrome or MS Edge compare? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filecore 6 Posted February 28 Author Share Posted February 28 Hi, sorry for the slow response - had to go to the office and dig out my work laptop in order to test with Edge and Chrome on Windows. Worked flawlessly. Came home, installed FIrefox on the Linux box, also smooth (wife is happy at the quickfix). Unfortunately I like Brave for its ad-blocking and other privacy features, so it would be a shame to swap away. Hopefully this gives you some ideas for a browser-specific bugfix, but it's weird, since Brave is yet another Chromium-based browser. I have nothing blocked as regards Emby or localhost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy2Play 8325 Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 Didn't test much but did not notice an issue in Brave browsing or playback. Unless this is something specific on Linux as I am on localhost Windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lessaj 76 Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 What about other Chromium based browsers in your Ubuntu environment? Do you have hardware acceleration enabled? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy2Play 8325 Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 Yes have had instances where browser hardware acceleration created issues per browser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filecore 6 Posted February 28 Author Share Posted February 28 I don't have any other Chromium-based browsers installed right now, but I checked in Brave's settings, and hardware acceleration ("Use graphics acceleration when available") was set to OFF. I tried enabling it and the issue was the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lessaj 76 Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 That doesn't necessary mean it's actually enabled, additional tuning/flags may be required to actually enable it. I'm not familiar with Brave but chrome://gpu might still work to show if hardware acceleration is actually enabled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filecore 6 Posted February 28 Author Share Posted February 28 (edited) I installed Chromium itself. Fresh install, same issue as Brave. Tried with hardware acceleration off (it was on by default), but still the same. So to recap: With Emby 4.7.x Brave/Ubuntu Edge/Windows Chrome/Windows With Emby 4.8.1.0 Brave/Ubuntu Chromium/Ubuntu Firefox/Ubuntu Edge/Windows Chrome/Windows Edited February 28 by filecore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filecore 6 Posted March 8 Author Share Posted March 8 I've also noticed with usage that it's a tiny bit laggy in FF. Not enough to be a bother, but noticeable now that I'm watching for it. Any update/quickfix for this? I'm happy to edit a config file or database entry on my own risk, if that would resolve it (eg to disable the onhover blur effect), just need to point me in the right direction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37156 Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 Is it still laggy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filecore 6 Posted March 12 Author Share Posted March 12 I just updated from 4.8.1.0 to 4.8.3.0, and tested on Brave. Something has definitely changed. It's still sluggish while the overlays are present, as if it's dropping frames, but it no longer has the sharp, aggressive stutter from before. I can post a video and/or logs as needed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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