New Emby for Linux - Engineering Demo: Call for Testers!

[softworkz 4488]

Hello,

as recently mentioned, there's a successor in the works to Emby Theater for Linux. The new video integration is quite challenging on Linux, because - opposed to Windows and Mac - there's a multitude of implementations for desktop UI, specifically window managers, compositors and configurations.across distros and individual user choices. 
That's why we are conducting a small prototype test for which we are looking for a few testers. It's not about something like an unfinished version with lots of bugs - it's a quite simplistic test application and once installed it takes just a few minutes to test - if at all.

Requirements

• You must have an overlapping window manager, i.e. where one window can be on top of another window
• You must have a compositor running
• A GitHub account

The goal is to cover a broad range of different setups, but no more than two testers for each kind of case. Same setup but with different rendering (software vs. hw) counts as a separate case. 

If you are wiling to help, please just respond to the post below and fill in your information. If you have multiple setups - even better! Just quote multiople times and fill in your specs.

It's not yet decided whether the beta later will be public or not, but all those who are joining now will get access for sure.

Thank you!

Edited September 28, 2024 by softworkz

[softworkz 4488]

Operating System	Version	Desktop Environment	Window Manager	Compositor	Graphics
					SW/HW

Edited September 28, 2024 by softworkz

[softworkz 4488]

Here's an example:

1 minute ago, softworkz said:

Operating System	Version	Desktop Environment	Window Manager	Compositor	Graphics
Ubuntu	22.04	Gnome	Mutter	Mutter	HW

[softworkz 4488]

If you don't know your compositor or window manager, it means that you didn't change it and you just have the default of your distro. 
In that case, you can just leave those fields blank.

You can also send me a PM if you prefer. 

[Arcau 7]

18 hours ago, softworkz said:

Operating System	Version	Desktop Environment	Window Manager	Compositor	Graphics
Nobara (Fedora)	40	Plasma	Kwin	Wayland	HW

 

[TMCsw 165]

Pi4b(4gb) Ubuntu 22.04 Gnome Wayland

I7-8550u (Kaby Lake) Proxmox bare metal /w KDE Plasma:

Pi4b(4gb) can install anything you want to test...

[TMCsw 165]

Ok, sorry TMI 

Operating System	Version	Desktop Environment	Window Manager	Compositor	Graphics
Ubuntu	22.04	Gnome	Mutter	Mutter	HW

 

Operating System	Version	Desktop Environment	Window Manager	Compositor	Graphics
Proxmox	8.2.7	KDE	KWin	KWin	HW

[softworkz 4488]

VMs with Linux are also welcome!

I forgot to mention this. In that case, please enter SW (VM) for Graphics. 
(except Ubuntu default installations, got enough of those already  )

[mchammer 3]

Operating System Version Desktop Environment Window Manager Compositor Graphics NixOS 24.05 KDE Wayland Wayland HW

[richt 84]

 

Operating System	Version	Desktop Environment	Window Manager	Compositor	Graphics
Linux Mint (Cinnamon)	21.3	Cinnamon	Mutter (Muffin)	Muffin	HW

 

:~$ sudo wmctrl -m
Name: Mutter (Muffin)

 

[nogglet 3]

On 9/28/2024 at 12:17 PM, softworkz said:

 

Operating System	Version	Desktop Environment	Window Manager	Compositor	Graphics
MX Linux	23.4	Plasma	x11	kwin x11	HW

if you still need testers

love emby and the linux app is the only missing piece for me - keen to help

 

 

I have another identical set up using Xfce

Edited October 2, 2024 by nogglet

[softworkz 4488]

20 minutes ago, nogglet said:

if you still need testers

Yes, please keep it going, there are at least 5 or 7 days before we start and having like 10 or 15 would be great! (currently 5)

[nogglet 3]

ok - I'm in

btw - I also have an MX partition which uses fluxbox as its DE,/WM if that is any use - dunno how many people still use it

[softworkz 4488]

@nogglet- Great, but could you please fill in the data?

Regarding Fluxbox - do you have a compositor installed for Fluxbox? I have Fluxbox on Ubuntu but no compositor. Haven't tried installing one yet because I have a bunch of DE's installed and was afraid to screw things up.
If you have Fluxbox with a compositor, please fill out the data twice. Thanks.

[Aldursil 11]

Operating System	Version	Desktop Environment	Window Manager	Compositor	Graphics
Ubuntu	24.04	Mate	Metacity (Marco)		HW

[nogglet 3]

On 10/3/2024 at 4:39 AM, softworkz said:

Regarding Fluxbox - do you have a compositor installed for Fluxbox? I have Fluxbox on Ubuntu but no compositor. Haven't tried installing one yet because I have a bunch of DE's installed and was afraid to screw things up.
If you have Fluxbox with a compositor, please fill out the data twice. Thanks.

ok... will do that when i get home - sometime tomorrow

 

[bric 33]

On 27/09/2024 at 22:17, softworkz said:

Operating System	Version	Desktop Environment	Window Manager	Compositor	Graphics
Ubuntu	24.04	Gnome	Wayland	Gnome-shell	HW

 

[vincen 31]

On 9/28/2024 at 7:17 AM, softworkz said:

Operating System	Version	Desktop Environment	Window Manager	Compositor	Graphics
Debian	12	KDE Plasma 5.27.5	X11	Active	AMD Radeon Graphics

 

[softworkz 4488]

Thanks to all those who have committed so far!

I'm giving it two more days before closing the applications...

[hukt_own_fonikz 9]

I know I'm late, but just in case, I do have a slightly different setup:

Operating System	Version	Desktop Environment	Window Manager	Compositor	Graphics
Ubuntu Studio	24.04	KDE Plasma 5.27.11	X11	X11	HW - nvidia

 

[DreadMore 5]

please ignore this message 

Edited November 1, 2024 by DreadMore

[DreadMore 5]

On 9/28/2024 at 7:17 AM, softworkz said:

I'm also late, but I have a system you probably didn't have in testing scenarios yet
I have both SteamDeck LCD (512GB model) and OLED (1GB model)

Operating System	Version	Desktop Environment	Window Manager	Compositor	Graphics
SteamOS	3.6.19	KDE Plasma 5.27.10	Kwin_X11, Gaming Mode uses GameScope and Wayland	KWin Compositor	AMD APU graphics with the open-source Mesa drivers (typically RADV Vulkan driver)

 

[softworkz 4488]

I thought I had posted an "Applications are closed!" message here, but maybe I forgot to hit the button  

So @DreadMore- you're lucky because we got a little bit delayed.

But now - definitely:

Applications are closed!

Thanks