Emby Theatre on Steam Deck won't play any videos

[DJAndieK 11]

I recently got myself a new Steam Deck OLED. I installed Emby Theatre and the navigation works fine. When I try to play something nothing happens. I just get a spinning ring no matter what I try.

Is there a fix for this as I've search everywhere and nothing seems to be reported. If someone could point me to the right place for the logs I'll see what I can do to post them.

[DJAndieK 11]

I managed to get it working. I'm not sure why though.

1. Switched to Desktop mode
2. I uninstalled the version that I installed via Discover.
3. Downloaded https://github.com/MediaBrowser/emby-theater-electron/releases/download/3.0.19/emby-theater-flatpak_3.0.19_x86_64.flatpak via Chrome
4. Started Konsole (terminal)

5. cd Downloads
   flatpak install emby-theater-flatpak_3.0.19_x86_64.flatpak

6. Started Emby and it worked fine. No idea why there would be a difference though.

[PutzJimmy 6]

I ran into the same problem on all my distros with the install from flathub after a somewhat recent update to something... Started up my wife's laptop that had not been updated for a while and it worked fine, ran updates and same problem as the rest. Doing the above solved it on all distros, you are currently considered a hero in my family DJAndieK

[mrtj18 4]

Once again thanks for the help! Used this method to get emby to work on my steam deck... 

[okurokonfire 4]

I can't seem to be able to download this version anymore. it disconnects after half of the file is downloaded. Is there any way to download it from somewhere else?

[Luke 42077]

2 hours ago, okurokonfire said:

I can't seem to be able to download this version anymore. it disconnects after half of the file is downloaded. Is there any way to download it from somewhere else?

Hi, you're saying the download from github disconnects?

[okurokonfire 4]

On 3/6/2025 at 8:27 PM, Luke said:

Hi, you're saying the download from github disconnects?

Yes, it was disconnecting on multiple tries. Maybe i had something with my network, because today it finally worked