Emby Theater for Linux

[SHSPVR 121]

3 hours ago, alucryd said:

Do you have either i965-va-driver or intel-media-va-driver installed? What's the output of the `vainfo` command (you may need to install the corresponding package) ?

The ubuntu wiki also recommends installing libvdpau-va-gl1, but I fail to see why that would be needed.

For Intel, it's split generationally, and into free and non-free drivers. The non-free drivers are necessary to encode media while the free drivers can only decode.

As for libvdpau-va-gl1 gl = OpenGL under the hood to accelerate drawing and scaling and VA-API

i965-va-driver is for 9 gen or older

intel-media-va-driver is for 8 gen or newer

HardwareVideoAcceleration - Debian Wiki

[Luke 40091]

5 hours ago, alucryd said:

@Luke Does theater use native paths over samba or is it http(s) only?

Out of the box its http

[fantaxp7 191]

Hello,

For downloading within Emby Theater, I attempt to download a series of a season but it points to another device.

Is there something I'm missing?

Thanks

[GrimReaper 4153]

2 minutes ago, fantaxp7 said:

Hello,

For downloading within Emby Theater, I attempt to download a series of a season but it points to another device.

Is there something I'm missing?

Thanks

AFAIK Only Theater UWP (Windows Store) has offline capability/download features, Theater Desktop doesn't still. Feature unification is on the roadmap, though.

[fantaxp7 191]

3 minutes ago, GrimReaper said:

AFAIK Only Theater UWP (Windows Store) has offline capability/download features, Theater Desktop doesn't still. Feature unification is on the roadmap, though.

Gotcha, thanks

[GrimReaper 4153]

4 minutes ago, fantaxp7 said:

Gotcha, thanks

Just now saw it's Linux thread, tbh don't know what's the situation there, someone might chime in, as per Premiere Feature Matrix it IS listed as such:

[fantaxp7 191]

4 minutes ago, GrimReaper said:

Just now saw it's Linux thread, tbh don't know what's the situation there, someone might chime in, as per Premiere Feature Matrix it IS listed as such:

Ok cool so there is hope

[GrimReaper 4153]

1 minute ago, fantaxp7 said:

Ok cool so there is hope

I'd say there's hope either way, if not already implemented should be in some foreseeable future.

@Luke 

[TurtleXIII 0]

I'm not sure where to ask this. I've been using Emby Server on my server PC and my main desktop (Ubuntu) I've been using Emby Theater and it's been working great for a long time. I just today added a harddrive to the server and started moving stuff around. For some reason, my Emby Theater on my main desktop PC, now will not load any media from the server. It will just infinite loading circle until I close the application and reopen. Playback works on other PCs, I tested through browser which works, and I tested on my phone which also works. So it seems like it's a problem with my main PC but I'm not sure how to fix. Anyone have any ideas?

Edit: Shoot sorry it doesn't seem to be doing it anymore. I restarted PC to see if that might work and it seems to be working fine now.

[smw36 2]

Hello I am using emby-server-4.6.7.0-1.x86_64 on Rocky Linux 8.5. Two android clients (Android 12 resp. 9) as well as one Windows 10 client are working well playing all vidoes, all music and liveTV. I have tried the same on two different hardwares running fedora 35 as well as from the server with emby-theater-3.0.15-1.x86_64, all content is visible, but no videos nor music is playing (running circle). I can download the video file to local space and then play with vlc or xine, playing within the web app is working too. I have read this forum, but I have no clue. What is the problem with emby-theater on my linux devices ?

[smw36 2]

After trying a lot of things, testing hardware acceleration and so on, I wondered, what will happen, if I remove all the installed graphic libraries installed within /opt/emby-theater/extra/ and moved the folder lib. I started emby-theater without any error, and ... now every content is playing: video, music, Live-TV ... all three linux devices ...

[alucryd 240]

We originally split these libs in an extra directory so they can easily be disabled. Ideally this should be done from within emby with a "Prefer system libs" checkbox, but it could also be done via a conf file in /etc/conf.d, the latter can be implemented fairly quickly.

[dedyms 2]

So on some system with no video loading i realized that emby not looking the right path or not requesting the right name.

This is on debian sid.

Emby internal package

```

❯ dpkg-query -L emby-theater | grep radeon
/opt/emby-theater/extra/lib/dri/radeonsi_drv_video.so
/opt/emby-theater/extra/lib/libdrm_radeon.so.1.0.1
/opt/emby-theater/extra/lib/libdrm_radeon.so
/opt/emby-theater/extra/lib/libdrm_radeon.so.1

```

System vainfo

```

❯ vainfo
libva info: VA-API version 1.14.0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/radeonsi_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_14
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
vainfo: VA-API version: 1.14 (libva 2.12.0)
vainfo: Driver version: Mesa Gallium driver 21.3.7 for AMD Radeon RX 580 Series (POLARIS10, DRM 3.44.0, 5.16.0-14.1-liquorix-amd64, LLVM 13.0.1)
vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
      VAProfileMPEG2Simple            : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileMPEG2Main              : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVC1Simple              : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVC1Main                : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVC1Advanced            : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileH264Main               : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264Main               : VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileH264High               : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264High               : VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileHEVCMain               : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileHEVCMain               : VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileHEVCMain10             : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileJPEGBaseline           : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileNone                   : VAEntrypointVideoProc

```

libgl1-mesa-dri

```

❯ dpkg-query -L libgl1-mesa-dri:amd64
/.
/usr
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/crocus_dri.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/d3d12_dri.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/i830_dri.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/i915_dri.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/i965_dri.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iris_dri.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/kms_swrast_dri.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/nouveau_dri.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/nouveau_vieux_dri.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/r200_dri.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/r300_dri.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/r600_dri.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/radeon_dri.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/radeonsi_dri.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/swrast_dri.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/virtio_gpu_dri.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/vmwgfx_dri.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/zink_dri.so
/usr/share
/usr/share/bug
/usr/share/bug/libgl1-mesa-dri
/usr/share/bug/libgl1-mesa-dri/control
/usr/share/bug/libgl1-mesa-dri/script
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/libgl1-mesa-dri
/usr/share/doc/libgl1-mesa-dri/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/libgl1-mesa-dri/changelog.gz
/usr/share/doc/libgl1-mesa-dri/copyright
/usr/share/drirc.d
/usr/share/drirc.d/00-mesa-defaults.conf

```

 

What emby looking for

```

❯ emby-theater
Gtk-Message: 22:41:57.439: Failed to load module "colorreload-gtk-module"
Gtk-Message: 22:41:57.439: Failed to load module "window-decorations-gtk-module"
libGL error: MESA-LOADER: failed to open radeonsi: /usr/lib/dri/radeonsi_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory (search paths /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri:\$${ORIGIN}/dri:/usr/lib/dri, suffix _dri)
libGL error: failed to load driver: radeonsi
libGL error: MESA-LOADER: failed to open radeonsi: /usr/lib/dri/radeonsi_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory (search paths /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri:\$${ORIGIN}/dri:/usr/lib/dri, suffix _dri)
libGL error: failed to load driver: radeonsi
libGL error: MESA-LOADER: failed to open swrast: /usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory (search paths /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri:\$${ORIGIN}/dri:/usr/lib/dri, suffix _dri)
libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast
Initializing cec-client...

{
  cecExePath: 'cec-client',
  cecEmitter: EventEmitter {
    _events: [Object: null prototype] {},
    _eventsCount: 0,
    _maxListeners: undefined
  },
  cecHdmiPort: ''
}
ERROR: cec-client not installed, running without cec functionality.

cec-client exited with code -2
UDP Client listening on 0.0.0.0:37653
starting udp receive timer with timeout ms: 1000
Message from: 192.168.0.2:7359
ServerDiscovery message received
Server discovery json: {"Address":"http://192.168.0.2:8096","Id":"db11e1c2722d4f68839ce90101bc8e09","Name":"Emby-Media"}
timer expired 1 servers received
[
  {
    Address: 'http://192.168.0.2:8096',
    Id: 'db11e1c2722d4f68839ce90101bc8e09',
    Name: 'Emby-Media',
    EndpointAddress: '192.168.0.2'
  }
]

```

Edited March 19, 2022 by dedyms
Add libgl1-mesa-dri

[daldana 83]

@alucryd,

Any luck on a new pi image or deb that will work on pi 3b and pi 4?

[Luke 40091]

On 3/24/2022 at 3:27 PM, daldana said:

@alucryd,

Any luck on a new pi image or deb that will work on pi 3b and pi 4?

We should have some new updates for the Pi in the near future but the current downloads should work just fine with the Pi4.

[daldana 83]

Thanks @luke,

I'm running ET on a 3b which works and uses hw acceleration, but the picture actually looks better without hwa. So I'll hope the updates will fix that.

[QuarkZ 13]

On 3/19/2022 at 8:42 AM, dedyms said:

So on some system with no video loading i realized that emby not looking the right path or not requesting the right name.

This is on debian sid.

Emby internal package

```

❯ dpkg-query -L emby-theater | grep radeon
/opt/emby-theater/extra/lib/dri/radeonsi_drv_video.so
/opt/emby-theater/extra/lib/libdrm_radeon.so.1.0.1
/opt/emby-theater/extra/lib/libdrm_radeon.so
/opt/emby-theater/extra/lib/libdrm_radeon.so.1

```

System vainfo

```

❯ vainfo
libva info: VA-API version 1.14.0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/radeonsi_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_14
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
vainfo: VA-API version: 1.14 (libva 2.12.0)
vainfo: Driver version: Mesa Gallium driver 21.3.7 for AMD Radeon RX 580 Series (POLARIS10, DRM 3.44.0, 5.16.0-14.1-liquorix-amd64, LLVM 13.0.1)
vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
      VAProfileMPEG2Simple            : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileMPEG2Main              : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVC1Simple              : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVC1Main                : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVC1Advanced            : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileH264Main               : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264Main               : VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileH264High               : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264High               : VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileHEVCMain               : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileHEVCMain               : VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileHEVCMain10             : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileJPEGBaseline           : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileNone                   : VAEntrypointVideoProc

```

libgl1-mesa-dri

```

❯ dpkg-query -L libgl1-mesa-dri:amd64
/.
/usr
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/crocus_dri.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/d3d12_dri.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/i830_dri.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/i915_dri.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/i965_dri.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iris_dri.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/kms_swrast_dri.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/nouveau_dri.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/nouveau_vieux_dri.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/r200_dri.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/r300_dri.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/r600_dri.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/radeon_dri.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/radeonsi_dri.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/swrast_dri.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/virtio_gpu_dri.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/vmwgfx_dri.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/zink_dri.so
/usr/share
/usr/share/bug
/usr/share/bug/libgl1-mesa-dri
/usr/share/bug/libgl1-mesa-dri/control
/usr/share/bug/libgl1-mesa-dri/script
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/libgl1-mesa-dri
/usr/share/doc/libgl1-mesa-dri/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/libgl1-mesa-dri/changelog.gz
/usr/share/doc/libgl1-mesa-dri/copyright
/usr/share/drirc.d
/usr/share/drirc.d/00-mesa-defaults.conf

```

 

What emby looking for

```

❯ emby-theater
Gtk-Message: 22:41:57.439: Failed to load module "colorreload-gtk-module"
Gtk-Message: 22:41:57.439: Failed to load module "window-decorations-gtk-module"
libGL error: MESA-LOADER: failed to open radeonsi: /usr/lib/dri/radeonsi_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory (search paths /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri:\$${ORIGIN}/dri:/usr/lib/dri, suffix _dri)
libGL error: failed to load driver: radeonsi
libGL error: MESA-LOADER: failed to open radeonsi: /usr/lib/dri/radeonsi_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory (search paths /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri:\$${ORIGIN}/dri:/usr/lib/dri, suffix _dri)
libGL error: failed to load driver: radeonsi
libGL error: MESA-LOADER: failed to open swrast: /usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory (search paths /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri:\$${ORIGIN}/dri:/usr/lib/dri, suffix _dri)
libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast
Initializing cec-client...

{
  cecExePath: 'cec-client',
  cecEmitter: EventEmitter {
    _events: [Object: null prototype] {},
    _eventsCount: 0,
    _maxListeners: undefined
  },
  cecHdmiPort: ''
}
ERROR: cec-client not installed, running without cec functionality.

cec-client exited with code -2
UDP Client listening on 0.0.0.0:37653
starting udp receive timer with timeout ms: 1000
Message from: 192.168.0.2:7359
ServerDiscovery message received
Server discovery json: {"Address":"http://192.168.0.2:8096","Id":"db11e1c2722d4f68839ce90101bc8e09","Name":"Emby-Media"}
timer expired 1 servers received
[
  {
    Address: 'http://192.168.0.2:8096',
    Id: 'db11e1c2722d4f68839ce90101bc8e09',
    Name: 'Emby-Media',
    EndpointAddress: '192.168.0.2'
  }
]

```

Hello, I'm currently on Kubuntu 22.04 and I see this same behavior using 3.0.15, Nothing actually starts, it just spins until I manually force close it, however 3.0.14 works just fine. Is there any fix for this?

I tried Linux Mint also on the same machine and 3.0.15 worked, so I'm guessing something is missing, but not sure what.  It's a laptop with Intel Graphics, using i915 drivers

Kubuntu on my main machine but using nvidia works also just fine
Thanks

[carbonbaseunit 15]

Hi.  I simply cannot get Emby Theater to play any videos on my Ubuntu 22.04 laptop.  Here is the log.

emby-theater
libGL error: MESA-LOADER: failed to open crocus: /usr/lib/dri/crocus_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory (search paths /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri:\$${ORIGIN}/dri:/usr/lib/dri, suffix _dri)
libGL error: failed to load driver: crocus
libGL error: MESA-LOADER: failed to open crocus: /usr/lib/dri/crocus_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory (search paths /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri:\$${ORIGIN}/dri:/usr/lib/dri, suffix _dri)
libGL error: failed to load driver: crocus
libGL error: MESA-LOADER: failed to open swrast: /usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory (search paths /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri:\$${ORIGIN}/dri:/usr/lib/dri, suffix _dri)
libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast
Initializing cec-client...

{
  cecExePath: 'cec-client',
  cecEmitter: EventEmitter {
    _events: [Object: null prototype] {},
    _eventsCount: 0,
    _maxListeners: undefined
  },
  cecHdmiPort: ''
}
UDP Client listening on 0.0.0.0:60663
starting udp receive timer with timeout ms: 1000
Message from: 192.168.1.16:7359
ServerDiscovery message received
Server discovery json: {"Address":"http://192.168.1.16:35400","Id":"5120f4725ecf413992dbc6a2ac344c74","Name":"Shane's Emby Server"}
cec-client exited with code 1
timer expired 1 servers received

Any help would be appreciated.  The server is on a Windows machine.

Also this at the end when I try to play a video

fs access result for path: Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, access 'G:\television\*SOMESHOW* (2005)\Season 1\s01e01 - Pilot.mp4'

 

Edited June 17, 2022 by carbonbaseunit
Added information

[alucryd 240]

@carbonbaseunitPlease try installing libatomic1 if it's not installed. If that still doesn't work, we will have a new deb available for testing shortly.

[dedyms 2]

On 4/30/2022 at 8:56 AM, QuarkZ said:

Hello, I'm currently on Kubuntu 22.04 and I see this same behavior using 3.0.15, Nothing actually starts, it just spins until I manually force close it, however 3.0.14 works just fine. Is there any fix for this?

I tried Linux Mint also on the same machine and 3.0.15 worked, so I'm guessing something is missing, but not sure what.  It's a laptop with Intel Graphics, using i915 drivers

Kubuntu on my main machine but using nvidia works also just fine
Thanks

 

I had 22.04 upgrade from 20.04 then 3.0.15 work fine, but as i posted my debian sid wont work on 3.0.15, but you posted that 3.0.14 work fine, then i tried to install 3.0.14 version, and it work correctly. I also try to install depedencies like as described https://emby.media/emby-theater-linux.html , but no dice, so in mean i just use what works.

Edit: one i noticed is emby theatre 3.0.14 read user mpv.conf, ex you had conf ~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf with infinite loop, the video will play infinite loop, regardless playback set in apps.

Edited June 20, 2022 by dedyms

[carbonbaseunit 15]

Quote

9 hours ago, alucryd said:

@carbonbaseunitPlease try installing libatomic1 if it's not installed. If that still doesn't work, we will have a new deb available for testing shortly.

 I have this installed already.  I have reverted back to 3.0.14 for the time being from the repository here https://ishort.ink/JVDr

Thanks you for responding to me.

[alucryd 240]

Sorry about the wait, for the longest time I thought I made no progress but it's just that the packages don't play well inside a VM. The flatpak works on my main arch linux machine, since all packages are made from the same binaries it's fair to assume it should translate to the others. Here's a new deb for you to try, for this one it would actually be better to uninstall libatomic1 as I found it would cause issue in my Ubuntu 22.04 VM (might not be the case on an actual system though).

https://files.alucryd.xyz/emby-theater-deb_3.0.15_amd64.deb

[daldana 83]

Hi @alucryd,

Any thing new for armhf?

[alucryd 240]

@daldanaStill struggling with rpi support, the new plan is to use the system mpv as I can't get hwaccel to work properly with ours, don't think I will without building our whole ffmpeg/mpv stack on a pi, but that would mean our arm packages would be very much less portable. However using the system mpv comes with its own set of problems because electron essentially comes with a stripped down ffmpeg library that conflicts with mpv. Had found a way to overcome those issues at some point but I can't for the life of me reproduce it on the newly created images. Stay tuned, hopefully I have some good news soon. One good news is the new images will be compatible with the rpi imager so you can set your hostname and wifi connection settings within the tool itself, removing the need to manually do these steps upon first boot.

[daldana 83]

@alucryd

That is good news! I'm available if you need any testing done...