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juergenthefish
Posted

I have a media library with subfolders containing photos and videos. Many of these do appear when trying look at them either from the server or theater instance, but many of them do not appear, resp. appear as empty folders. It's kind of a miracle to me, because all of them show up in the Synologgy Photos app without any problem at all.

visproduction
Posted (edited)

Use this page to find which browser can support which image / video type. 
https://caniuse.com/

Emby licensed version can transcode, videos which cannot be viewed by a browser or TV / Mobile App.  I am not sure what other limitations there are for images.  You may find that the image type you want to view is not available for either the browser or TV app, that your other software image viewer can view.  This is quite common issue with videos.  I thought that images didn't run into this, but perhpas you have some unusual image types.  Just because a 3rd party viewer can see content, does not automatically mean a web browser / TV mobile app can see the same content.  You are dealing with different software.

For example: this advanced image type is hardly viewable by any software: https://caniuse.com/jpegxl

 

Another quick test page is https://wiesmann.codiferes.net/share/bitmaps/

You see immediately what can and cannot be viewed.

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juergenthefish
Posted

Standard browser (chrome), standard jpg files - see attachements ...

Empty folder with Emby.jpg

Simple JPG files.jpg

All OK with Synology Photos.jpg

Happy2Play
Posted

And the server log?  But can only guess a permissions issue.

juergenthefish
Posted

No idea how to check the server log and besides why does Synology Photos then have no issue?

visproduction
Posted (edited)

Jurgen, One software sees your images and another does not.  That is sort of like going into a used car lot and finding a car that drives and one that doesn't and you tell the salesman, 

  "That one should drive because the other one drives."

This page supposidly can repair images.  Maybe that is your problem. 

https://fabconvert.com/file-repair/jpg

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juergenthefish
Posted

Why should suddenly 20% of my images all of a sudden need a repair - all taken with same camera, all viewable with other softwasre, not just Synology Photos  - I rather believe Emby needs a repair ... 

visproduction
Posted

Juergen,

Good point.  Try the site and rule out that some of your images have any issues.  Also your screen shot of the sample .jpg files looks fine, all the files have the same user and rights ownership.  But Linux can create files with different groups or user ownership and different rights.  Do an director list and check if some of your images files have different owners, groups or rights which could cause Emby not to be able to reach them.   Maybe upload a sample image that fails with Emby.

Hope that helps.

Happy2Play
Posted
17 hours ago, juergenthefish said:

No idea how to check the server log and besides why does Synology Photos then have no issue?

The How to that Luke posted has directions as all anyone can do is guess without logs to look for errors.  I will still guess permissions.

Posted
On 6/30/2025 at 1:00 PM, juergenthefish said:

Standard browser (chrome), standard jpg files - see attachements ...

Empty folder with Emby.jpg

Simple JPG files.jpg

All OK with Synology Photos.jpg

Hi, sorry, I don't quite understand. What do these screenshots tell us?

You're showing us a picture of two folders in Emby, right? Should something else be there, or are you asking why there is a folder icon?

juergenthefish
Posted

Sorry I thought they would be self-explaining. One shows an empty folder in Emby (altghough the right folder does contain visible entries), the other shows a non-malfunction Synology Photos (with the same folder AdbK... not empty as in Emby) and that list shows that ALL the JPGs in that folder are the same and are world-readable). Even on a Samba mapped folder I can view them all with all those Windows Photo apps.
I'm getting more and more convinced that Emby is just not professional enough to handle whatever it considers a problem there - is there at least an error log to? Users should have such problems and do not have with other applications of that type.

Happy2Play
Posted
8 minutes ago, juergenthefish said:

is there at least an error log to?

Listed in Luke's post.  All anyone can do is guess without requesting information.

 

This community is here to help you. Here are some guidelines on what information you should supply when reporting issues. Make sure to check out our Knowledge Base for more useful information.

General Emby Issues

Please create a topic in the community.
Describe the problem in your own words, including what you're trying to accomplish, and where you're getting stuck. Please mention some specific examples.
In your description, be very specific about the steps you took and what happened with the system.  Describe it like you are talking to a blind person - because you are. We cannot see what you did or what happened so be as specific as possible.
If you saw error messages, please tell us what they were. If the problem is difficult to explain, please include screenshots that demonstrate the issue.
Please attach the server log from the time frame the activity occurred. See the section below titled Emby Server Logs. Please supply the full and complete log file in txt format. Please don't zip or compress, and avoid attempting to extract relevant sections. Everything is relevant to us. If a server transcoding log (ffmpeg log) was also generated during playback (in the server logs folder), please attach that as well.
If you are using the Roku or Android TV specific app, please also follow the instructions below to send a log from the app.
 

Emby Server Logs

Logs can be accessed directly within the server's web interface by navigating to Advanced -> Logs.

If you're having difficulty using the web interface, log files can be found in the logs subfolder of the Emby Server Data Folder .

https://emby.media/support/articles/Server-Data-Folder.html

juergenthefish
Posted

Thanks for helping on finding the logs, but all I can find in these seem to be networking issues - not explaining why some of the photo folders appear empty:
embyserver.txt:2025-07-02 13:57:41.217 Error App: Error sending socket message from 0.0.0.0:1900 to 239.255.255.250:1900
embyserver.txt: *** Error Report ***
embyserver.txt:2025-07-02 13:57:41.218 Error App: Error sending socket message from 0.0.0.0:56585 to 239.255.255.250:1900
embyserver.txt: *** Error Report ***
embyserver.txt:2025-07-02 13:57:41.218 Error App: Error sending socket message from 0.0.0.0:1900 to 239.255.255.250:1900
embyserver.txt: *** Error Report ***
embyserver.txt:2025-07-02 13:57:41.218 Error App: Error sending socket message from 0.0.0.0:56585 to 239.255.255.250:1900
embyserver.txt: *** Error Report ***
 

Happy2Play
Posted
4 minutes ago, juergenthefish said:

Thanks for helping on finding the logs, but all I can find in these seem to be networking issues - not explaining why some of the photo folders appear empty:
embyserver.txt:2025-07-02 13:57:41.217 Error App: Error sending socket message from 0.0.0.0:1900 to 239.255.255.250:1900
embyserver.txt: *** Error Report ***
embyserver.txt:2025-07-02 13:57:41.218 Error App: Error sending socket message from 0.0.0.0:56585 to 239.255.255.250:1900
embyserver.txt: *** Error Report ***
embyserver.txt:2025-07-02 13:57:41.218 Error App: Error sending socket message from 0.0.0.0:1900 to 239.255.255.250:1900
embyserver.txt: *** Error Report ***
embyserver.txt:2025-07-02 13:57:41.218 Error App: Error sending socket message from 0.0.0.0:56585 to 239.255.255.250:1900
embyserver.txt: *** Error Report ***
 

That is only a issue with DLNA to irrelavent.

But all we can do is guess.  And I am still guessing Em,by does not have access/permissions to said folder.

Posted
2 hours ago, juergenthefish said:

Thanks for helping on finding the logs, but all I can find in these seem to be networking issues - not explaining why some of the photo folders appear empty:
embyserver.txt:2025-07-02 13:57:41.217 Error App: Error sending socket message from 0.0.0.0:1900 to 239.255.255.250:1900
embyserver.txt: *** Error Report ***
embyserver.txt:2025-07-02 13:57:41.218 Error App: Error sending socket message from 0.0.0.0:56585 to 239.255.255.250:1900
embyserver.txt: *** Error Report ***
embyserver.txt:2025-07-02 13:57:41.218 Error App: Error sending socket message from 0.0.0.0:1900 to 239.255.255.250:1900
embyserver.txt: *** Error Report ***
embyserver.txt:2025-07-02 13:57:41.218 Error App: Error sending socket message from 0.0.0.0:56585 to 239.255.255.250:1900
embyserver.txt: *** Error Report ***
 

Hi there, please run a library scan and then attach the complete emby server log file. Thanks.

juergenthefish
Posted

July 3rd @ 18:46 approx

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