Porting emby-theater to native wayland: will it be done?

[victrid 0]

Right now, emby-theater runs on electron 9, which does not support native wayland. wayland's x-compatibility layer, known as xwayland, is poorly compatible with nvidia cards.

The newer versions of electron support native wayland, so I tried to update the electron version. After diving into the code of emby-theater-electron I found that the biggest obstacle preventing upgrading to the new version of electron would be libmpv, a plugin to take over rendering via PPAPI, and the ability to load PPAPI was removed in electron 12 (Chrome 89). Porting libmpv should be impossible. This means that the current implementation is stuck at electron 11 at the highest level of compatibility.

However, compared to electron 9, electron 11 allows to enable native Wayland via OzonePlatform, but electron 11 doesn't support the new version of Wayland, and reports error

interface 'wl_output' has no event 4

backports like this issue[1] may fix it, but since electron 11 was already EOL when this problem occurred, there is no official fix.

It seems that the fastest fix might be to patch a version of electron 11 to support the new wayland protocol and use it.

I'm curious if emby has made any official moves to support native wayland.

[1] https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/32487

[Luke 42077]

HI, yes this will happen. we are working on getting updated to a newer electron version, so stay tuned.