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[joshuakay92 0]

Is there any way Emby theater can be used without an internet connection for an extended period of time ? I have a lifetime subscription to emby and go on frequent deployments where there is truly no internet capabilities at all for several months and having something like emby theatre would be amazing to have. One of the little things you miss when you're away is browsing a nice UI instead of looking at dull lists of movies in the file explorer. Is there any way I can use emby theatre while away ? Normally when I launch emby theatre without an internet connection, it just refuses to open the app window.

[GrimReaper 3746]

17 hours ago, joshuakay92 said:

Is there any way Emby theater can be used without an internet connection for an extended period of time ? I have a lifetime subscription to emby and go on frequent deployments where there is truly no internet capabilities at all for several months

Currently there isn't. Use browser instead in that scenario. 

[Luke 38500]

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launch emby theatre without an internet connection, it just refuses to open the app window.

This will change soon though as we have a new windows app coming, so stay tuned.

[joshuakay92 0]

Would using the browser work indefinitely or will it require me to connect back to the internet at some point for validation? 

[GrimReaper 3746]

3 minutes ago, joshuakay92 said:

Would using the browser work indefinitely

It will.

Edit: Though pick a browser that'll DirectPlay (or at least DirectStream) most/majority/all of your content (MS Edge, Marmaduke Chromium, Thorium.. all have good codec support), as you'll lose Hardware-accelerated transcoding at some point after server license cache expires which might affect you, depending on your server machine capabilities). 

Edited August 23 by GrimReaper
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[joshuakay92 0]

Thank you very much for the support, I've been put in charge of sorting out all of the media for the next time we deploy and it's been a deer in headlights situation so the help has been appreciated.