Live TV broken on 4.7.x

[numkem 0]

Hello,

I've tried upgrading Emby to 4.7.x under NixOS. While everything works as expected under 4.6.7.0, the live TV feature doesn't work at all with the 4.7.x series.

I've tried every release including the beta ones to no avail. I've tried deleting everyting related to live tv and starting over. Not only the m3u tuner doesn't work but it's the same thing with my HDHomerun.

I am attaching the log file to this post.

embyserver.txt

[Luke 42078]

Hi there, what exactly happens when you try to play?

[numkem 0]

Both on Android TV (fire tv) and web it goes to the playback screen then will just fail after a few tries saying no stream are available.

I also tried with an empty /var/lib/emby with the same effect.

[Luke 42078]

hi @numkem are you still running into this? Have you updated to Emby Server 4.7.5?

[numkem 0]

Yes @Luke, same exact problem with 4.7.5 unfortunately. If it helps I'm basing my package with the netcore zip release.

Edited July 13, 2022 by numkem

[Luke 42078]

Ok so that means you don't have our ffmpeg build? Is the net core zip really the best you can use? It is generic. Using one of the platform specific packages would be better.

[numkem 0]

Thing is, I was using the stock ffmpeg and even the jellyfin-ffmpeg with it without issues with 4.6.7.0. I've tried using podman instead with the container on docker hub and it works as expected. Still I'd rather have a native package if possible. Where could I find the source/binary for emby's ffmpeg?

[numkem 0]

Seems like 4.7.x is much more reliant on the "right" ffmpeg installation than 4.6.x was. Knowing this, I've rewritten my package by starting with the debian one. I've come up with the package below and it works as expected.

Is there a reason why the netcore zip exists?

{ lib, stdenv, fetchurl, dpkg, makeWrapper, autoPatchelfHook, lttng-ust_2_12 }:

stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
  name = "emby-${version}";
  version = "4.7.5.0";

  src = fetchurl {
    url = "https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Emby.Releases/releases/download/${version}/emby-server-deb_${version}_amd64.deb";
    sha256 = "sha256-y9oHSB1Xy9yWAPyaYcZDQSFu1kq6ajnqEFXlv9wlwPQ=";
  };

  buildInputs = [
    dpkg
    lttng-ust_2_12
  ];

  nativeBuildInputs = [ autoPatchelfHook makeWrapper ];

  unpackPhase = "dpkg-deb -x $src $out";

  installPhase = ''
    cp -r * "$out/opt/emby-server"
    rm -rf $out/opt/emby-server/lib/systemd
    rm -rf $out/opt/emby-server/licenses

    sed -i "s|/opt|$out/opt|g" $out/opt/emby-server/bin/*

    makeWrapper "$out/opt/emby-server/bin/emby-server" $out/bin/emby \
      --prefix LD_LIBRARY_PATH : "$out/opt/emby-server/lib" \
      --add-flags "$out/opt/emby-server/EmbyServer.dll -ffmpeg $out/opt/emby-server/bin/emby-ffmpeg -ffprobe $out/opt/emby-server/bin/emby-ffprobe"

    makeWrapper "$out/opt/emby-server/bin/emby-ffmpeg" $out/bin/emby-ffmpeg \
      --prefix LD_LIBRARY_PATH : "$out/opt/emby-server/lib"

    makeWrapper "$out/opt/emby-server/bin/emby-ffdetect" $out/bin/emby-ffdetect \
      --prefix LD_LIBRARY_PATH : "$out/opt/emby-server/lib"
  '';
}

 

[Luke 42078]

Yea we probably should stop publishing it at this point. Thanks for the feedback.