Emby Theater for Linux

[Luke 42077]

5 minutes ago, SHSPVR said:

I can't wait for this come out as currently the client is RIP and Tsukimi it some what works and I hate using the web interface

This week.

[SHSPVR 123]

Just now, Luke said:

This week.

Cool

[ZanderKeen 72]

Im looking forward to trying Emby Theater on Linux on the steam deck in game mode. I recently replaced several smart tv devices with very powerful mini-PC's running SteamOS too & I couldn't be happier! 

[softworkz 5066]

We can't make any promises regarding SteamOS. 

I've been able to get a VM set up for SteamOS. It's been really painful to get it working, and still it can't do Game Mode, only desktop mode with KDE Plasma, but that appears to be working at least...

[ZanderKeen 72]

Hmm. I wonder if that just means game mode isnt loading all the dependencies needed as in the kde desktop mode. ill play with it when its out and i got some time. either way itll still work for my setup.

[softworkz 5066]

20 minutes ago, ZanderKeen said:

Hmm. I wonder if that just means game mode isnt loading all the dependencies needed as in the kde desktop mode. ill play with it when its out and i got some time. either way itll still work for my setup. 

What I meant is that Game Mode as a whole is not working in the Hyper-V VM.

But meanwhile we got actual feedback from one of the private beta members. Current state is that it does actually run in Game Mode and also plays audio and (probably) even video, but the video is not visible. The new app has a secondary window for video rendering which gets synchronized to the main window normally, but that obviously doesn't work in Game Mode. There's likely no X11 environment in that case and I'm not sure whether there are ways to still do this. Without having a device (or emulator with Game Mode working), this is probably not solvable.

What's definitely possible though, is to fallback to the HTML video player (like the web app is doing). in case of Game Mode. Well need to see...

[chesterseenes316 0]

when is the new update coming

[SHSPVR 123]

1 hour ago, chesterseenes316 said:

when is the new update coming

There are still two days left in this week

[Riezel 33]

15 hours ago, softworkz said:

What I meant is that Game Mode as a whole is not working in the Hyper-V VM.

But meanwhile we got actual feedback from one of the private beta members. Current state is that it does actually run in Game Mode and also plays audio and (probably) even video, but the video is not visible. The new app has a secondary window for video rendering which gets synchronized to the main window normally, but that obviously doesn't work in Game Mode. There's likely no X11 environment in that case and I'm not sure whether there are ways to still do this. Without having a device (or emulator with Game Mode working), this is probably not solvable.

What's definitely possible though, is to fallback to the HTML video player (like the web app is doing). in case of Game Mode. Well need to see...

as far as i'm using steamOS (or atleast the other similar that imitate steamOS)
the non steam games that run in gamemode is using gamescope in most case, also incase you want to try, there is bazzite-handheld version, cachyos-deckify (the most identical ones, because it's same Arch based as SteamOS) and nobara-handheld that really 99% emulate steamOS experiences, (i'm using cachyos-deckify btw), also some chromium / electron based app need to add --no-sandbox in launch parameter (here is an example of old emby-theater with video overlay glitch that some user reported tho)

Spoiler

 

Edited December 20, 2025 by Riezel

[ZanderKeen 72]

20 hours ago, softworkz said:

The new app has a secondary window for video rendering which gets synchronized to the main window normally, but that obviously doesn't work in Game Mode.

I'm guessing that was the reason it was done with X11 instead of wayland then as well, because of the lack of persistent window positions on wayland (which drives me mental lol)? 

[softworkz 5066]

14 hours ago, Riezel said:

as far as i'm using steamOS (or atleast the other similar that imitate steamOS)
the non steam games that run in gamemode is using gamescope in most case, also incase you want to try, there is bazzite-handheld version, cachyos-deckify (the most identical ones, because it's same Arch based as SteamOS)

Anything that can be run on Hyper-V would be perfect...

 

[softworkz 5066]

9 hours ago, ZanderKeen said:

On 12/19/2025 at 11:35 AM, softworkz said:

The new app has a secondary window for video rendering which gets synchronized to the main window normally, but that obviously doesn't work in Game Mode.

I'm guessing that was the reason it was done with X11 instead of wayland then as well, because of the lack of persistent window positions on wayland (which drives me mental lol)? 

You nail it!  

In fact, the app has been ready for months. About 90% of the testing we've done in the private beta group has been about windowing behavior on the various desktop environments, because even with X11, this is quite challenging...

[Riezel 33]

8 hours ago, softworkz said:

Anything that can be run on Hyper-V would be perfect...

 

yeah after trying it myself on vmware, sadly game mode won't load at all 
seems it's need real devices, well i'm testing it later on, so... just need to wait for the open beta i guess

[yingste 7]

10 hours ago, softworkz said:

Anything that can be run on Hyper-V would be perfect...

 

At least on my test system it looks like it fails due to lack of Vulkan support. If you could pass through a dedicated GPU to Hyper-V you could probably get it working. 

[Lessaj 467]

2 hours ago, Riezel said:

yeah after trying it myself on vmware, sadly game mode won't load at all 
seems it's need real devices, well i'm testing it later on, so... just need to wait for the open beta i guess

So close you can almost taste it...

[TMCsw 247]

3 hours ago, Riezel said:

just need to wait for the open beta i guess

If I were betting on this, I'd take it to be here before Santa.

[ZanderKeen 72]

@softworkzwell I'm sorry I missed the private party, by the time I noticed that message, the window was long past unfortunately. maybe next time. But it sounds like you guys are really close. I can't wait to try it out!

[chesterseenes316 0]

when is the update coming out

 

[Lessaj 467]

i's being dotted, t's being crossed

[sh0rty 714]

On 12/15/2025 at 7:38 PM, Luke said:

This week.

Well, that didn't age well.

[chesterseenes316 0]

can we please get a eta on the update

 

[Luke 42077]

4 hours ago, chesterseenes316 said:

can we please get a eta on the update

 

HI, should be any day now. We are in the build and packaging stage of the release. Thanks.

[softworkz 5066]

IT's OUT NOW!

[Nestar 12]

40 minutes ago, softworkz said:

IT's OUT NOW!

Testing shortly,

 

However the syntax on the fedora installer page is incorrect/outdated. (looks like it's from dnf4, rather than the current 5)

 

sudo dnf config-manager --add-repo URL

should instead be
 

sudo dnf config-manager addrepo --from-repofile=URL

Edit - Looks fantastic so far. On first launch all the main issues I had with the old one are fixed. UI works while playing, mouseover to bring it back up. Performance is great and its properly decoding using GPU. Launch and playback both started instantaneously .

 

Edit 2 - Spoke a little too soon, Fullscreen doesn't properly hide the taskbar, It disappears then pops back above. I'll have to look more into this on my end, might be a way I can fix that in KDE settings.

Edited January 7 by Nestar

[softworkz 5066]

Please post in the Beta forum: https://emby.media/community/index.php?/forum/188-linux-beta/

Thanks