yeah....i have zero clue about filesystem permissions. 🙄 So it turns out Arch needs some special tweaking. I need to create a directory and file: /etc/systemd/system/emby-server.service.d/write-permissions.conf containing not quite what the Arch wiki says: [Service] SupplementaryGroups=users ReadWritePaths= /home/emby/   Ownership of /home/emby is still emby:emby. Restart emby and everything works. No problem setting the DVR directory path. Didn't hav