Cannot Manually Create A New Emby Server

[cgcmgr 28]

Took me a while to try this, but finally got around to it today.  The steps laid out by nmalinoski worked.  I now have Emby 4.9.running on a 13.5-RELEASE-p8 Jail on TrueNAs Core 13.0-U6.7

Thank you for this

 

Chris

[cgcmgr 28]

Edit - I actually used Emby 4.9.1.90 rather than 4.9.1.80 and it works.

[Luke 42156]

On 12/30/2025 at 1:35 PM, cgcmgr said:

Edit - I actually used Emby 4.9.1.90 rather than 4.9.1.80 and it works.

How did you install Emby Server?

[cgcmgr 28]

8 hours ago, Luke said:

How did you install Emby Server?

I followed the steps laid out by NYPD54 and nmalinoski on page 2 of this thread.  The only thing I did was I substituted 4.9.1.90 for 4.9.1.80.  Everything seems to be working smoothly.

[bolok 18]

FWIW, current beta version is working too on a truenas core 13.5 jail

Had to change the pkg settings in /etc/pkg to pull latest instead of quarterly to get the 1.2 version of libtheora.  But otherwise it seems to be working still.

 

Ended up making a fresh jail, as i broke something going from 4.9.27 straight to 4.9.41. Seems to be a dotnet8 issue, but i'll have to see if I can sort that out later.  I have known good snapshots I can mess with, but setting up a new jail and copying over the server dir backups works well enough.

[cgcmgr 28]

Good to know.  So my Emby 4.9.1.90, which is in a 13.5 Jail, is showing there is an update to 4.9.3.0 available.  Would you know if I can just install 4.9.3.0 and I'll be good, or would I need to edit the package settings as you did before hand.  If I don't edit the package, I'm assuming I'll get the message that libtheora 1.2 is missing?  Would I just be able to do a pkg add libtheora 1.2 and then install Emby 4.9.3.0?

[nmalinoski 3]

Perhaps it's been long enough for the package to have been updated, but I just installed 4.9.3.0 by shutting down the emby-server service, running `pkg update`, and then running `pkg add` with the URL for the new version. After starting it, it came back up fine, but requested another restart to finish updating. After that, it seems to be running fine.

[cgcmgr 28]

Thanks, I'll give it a try.

[cgcmgr 28]

Gave it a shot today and although it updated to 4.9.3.0, it seems like to broke my permissions.  I can play some of my movies, but not most of them.  Those movies play fine on my other Emby server.  Whenever this happens, I usually mess with the permission and make sure the server is using the correct user, but it's not working in this case.  I'll continue to look at it and report back.

[cgcmgr 28]

Been working on this for a while and I don't think it's a permissions issue.  I checked the logs and see this:

2026-03-14 12:48:17.522 Error FfmpegManager: ProcessRun 'ffmpeg -hide_banner -version' Error Output:

            ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libtheoraenc.so.2" not found, required by "libavcodec.so.59"

 

I then checked the Transcoding section for this Emby server (4.9.3.0) and there are no Software Encoders listed.  I checked the Transcoding section for my other three Emby servers, all of which play ALL my movies just fine, and they all have H.264 (AVC) and H.265 (HEVC) listed as Software Encoders.  I'm assuming that's the issue, however, I checked the Video Codec for the movies that play and for those that don't.  They are they same - H264 - MPEG-4 AVC.  What differs is the Audio Codec.  The movies that play are MPEG AAC (Audio (m4a) and the ones that don't are A52 Audio (aka AC3) (a52).  Any suggestions on how to get these to play?  If the issue has to do with the "libtheoraenc.so.2" object, how can I get that instaleld?

 

[Luke 42156]

On 3/8/2026 at 4:12 PM, cgcmgr said:

Gave it a shot today and although it updated to 4.9.3.0, it seems like to broke my permissions.  I can play some of my movies, but not most of them.  Those movies play fine on my other Emby server.  Whenever this happens, I usually mess with the permission and make sure the server is using the correct user, but it's not working in this case.  I'll continue to look at it and report back.

Hi, what permissions are you referring to?