RobynGibson 0 Posted June 4, 2016 Share Posted June 4, 2016 I recently installed Emby as an OSS alternative to Plex on a headless Debian machine. The machine is a netbook, so is not particularly powerful, but should be able to handle it. I am able to browse the media libraries fine, however, if I attempt to play something, it simply fails, sometimes saying 'TimeoutError'. I have paid for the apps across all of my devices, so what am I doing wrong? Are there higher minimum specs than I expected? Thanks in advance, Robyn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mscroggi 0 Posted June 4, 2016 Share Posted June 4, 2016 (edited) I recently installed Emby as an OSS alternative to Plex on a headless Debian machine. The machine is a netbook, so is not particularly powerful, but should be able to handle it. I am able to browse the media libraries fine, however, if I attempt to play something, it simply fails, sometimes saying 'TimeoutError'. I have paid for the apps across all of my devices, so what am I doing wrong? Are there higher minimum specs than I expected? Thanks in advance, Robyn I would go to the dashboard view in a browser on the server (http://localhost:8096/web/dashboard.html), scroll down and click on paths and note what the path is to the logs (for me it is /var/lib/emby-server/logs). Then go to that folder and see what is being logged for the playback attempts. I had an issue and it was simply file permissions. Edited June 4, 2016 by mscroggi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36876 Posted June 4, 2016 Share Posted June 4, 2016 Hi, welcome and thanks! Yes this is good advice in post #2. If you can do that then we should be able to help identify what the issue is. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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