Permission Denied when playing

[dcook 299]

I am having issues with permissions:

 

My Media has read access for everyone:

511301 -rw-r--r--. 1 dcook dcook 523572033 Nov 16  2015 Game of Thrones - 1x01 - Winter Is Coming.mkv

Emby is running as user emby

 

I am getting permisson denied in the ffmpeg log when trying to play:

[dcook@[member="emby1"] logs]$ cat ffmpeg-transcode-ed1275c8-c702-4859-baf0-a61bc2f86b17.txt
http://ip address:8096/emby/videos/06ea2f9bc97372785f1b73237e19e565/stream.mkv?DeviceId=2ce847561ba3f250&MediaSourceId=06ea2f9bc97372785f1b73237e19e565&VideoCodec=h264&AudioCodec=mp3,aac,ac3&AudioStreamIndex=1&VideoBitrate=64000&AudioBitrate=128000&Level=41&Profile=high&PlaySessionId=1b547832b577497094ceab3127a65927&api_key=a4f382316f60496c86a5d6908e647155&CopyTimestamps=false&TranscodingMaxAudioChannels=2&EnableSubtitlesInManifest=false&Tag=c079a5cdadf12b1a6b7e14bc94516309&RequireAvc=false

{"Protocol":"File","Id":"06ea2f9bc97372785f1b73237e19e565","Path":"/emby/cloud/media/series/Game of Thrones/Season 1/Game of Thrones - 1x01 - Winter Is Coming.mkv","Type":"Default","Container":"mkv","Name":"720P/H264/AAC","IsRemote":false,"ETag":"c079a5cdadf12b1a6b7e14bc94516309","RunTimeTicks":36971831296,"ReadAtNativeFramerate":false,"SupportsTranscoding":true,"SupportsDirectStream":true,"SupportsDirectPlay":true,"IsInfiniteStream":false,"RequiresOpening":false,"RequiresClosing":false,"SupportsProbing":true,"VideoType":"VideoFile","MediaStreams":[{"Codec":"h264","TimeBase":"1/1000","CodecTimeBase":"1001/48000","NalLengthSize":"4","IsInterlaced":false,"IsAVC":true,"BitRate":1132910,"BitDepth":8,"RefFrames":5,"IsDefault":true,"IsForced":false,"Height":720,"Width":1280,"AverageFrameRate":23.97602,"RealFrameRate":23.97602,"Profile":"High","Type":"Video","AspectRatio":"16:9","Index":0,"IsExternal":false,"IsTextSubtitleStream":false,"SupportsExternalStream":false,"PixelFormat":"yuv420p","Level":40,"IsAnamorphic":false},{"Codec":"aac","TimeBase":"1/1000","CodecTimeBase":"1/48000","DisplayTitle":"AAC stereo Default","IsInterlaced":false,"ChannelLayout":"stereo","Channels":2,"SampleRate":48000,"IsDefault":true,"IsForced":false,"Profile":"HE-AAC","Type":"Audio","Index":1,"IsExternal":false,"IsTextSubtitleStream":false,"SupportsExternalStream":false,"Level":0,"IsAnamorphic":false}],"PlayableStreamFileNames":[],"Formats":[],"Bitrate":1132910,"RequiredHttpHeaders":{}}

/var/lib/emby-server/ffmpeg/20160215/ffmpeg -f matroska -codec:0 h264 -codec:1 aac -i file:"/emby/cloud/media/series/Game of Thrones/Season 1/Game of Thrones - 1x01 - Winter Is Coming.mkv" -map 0:0 -map 0:1 -map -0:s -codec:v:0 libx264 -force_key_frames "expr:gte(t,n_forced*5)" -vf "scale=trunc(min(max(iw\,ih*dar)\,426)/2)*2:trunc(ow/dar/2)*2" -pix_fmt yuv420p -preset superfast -crf 23 -maxrate 64000 -bufsize 128000 -vsync -1 -profile:v high -level 4.1 -x264opts:0 subme=0:rc_lookahead=10:me_range=4:me=dia:no_chroma_me:8x8dct=0:partitions=none -map_metadata -1 -map_chapters -1 -threads 0 -codec:a:0 libmp3lame -ac 2 -ab 128000 -af "aresample=async=1" -y "/emby/temp/transcoding-temp/e04da674cc90c602fb3047baa5d84da2.mkv"


ffmpeg version N-52954-g295de3e-static http://johnvansickle.com/ffmpeg/  Copyright (c) 2000-2016 the FFmpeg developers
  built with gcc 5.3.1 (Debian 5.3.1-8) 20160205
  configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --disable-shared --disable-debug --enable-runtime-cpudetect --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libwebp --enable-libspeex --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libfreetype --enable-fontconfig --enable-libxvid --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libtheora --enable-libvo-amrwbenc --enable-gray --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libopus --enable-libass --enable-gnutls --enable-libvidstab --enable-libsoxr --enable-frei0r --enable-libfribidi --disable-indev=sndio --disable-outdev=sndio --enable-librtmp --enable-libmfx --cc=gcc
  libavutil      55. 17.103 / 55. 17.103
  libavcodec     57. 24.102 / 57. 24.102
  libavformat    57. 25.100 / 57. 25.100
  libavdevice    57.  0.101 / 57.  0.101
  libavfilter     6. 31.100 /  6. 31.100
  libswscale      4.  0.100 /  4.  0.100
  libswresample   2.  0.101 /  2.  0.101
  libpostproc    54.  0.100 / 54.  0.100
file:/emby/cloud/media/series/Game of Thrones/Season 1/Game of Thrones - 1x01 - Winter Is Coming.mkv: Permission denied
[dcook@[member="emby1"] logs]$

What am I missing here?

Edited March 1, 2017 by dcook

[mastrmind11 722]

I am having issues with permissions:

 

My Media has read access for everyone:

511301 -rw-r--r--. 1 dcook dcook 523572033 Nov 16  2015 Game of Thrones - 1x01 - Winter Is Coming.mkv

Emby is running as user emby

 

I am getting permisson denied in the ffmpeg log when trying to play:

[dcook@[member="emby1"] logs]$ cat ffmpeg-transcode-ed1275c8-c702-4859-baf0-a61bc2f86b17.txt
http://ip address:8096/emby/videos/06ea2f9bc97372785f1b73237e19e565/stream.mkv?DeviceId=2ce847561ba3f250&MediaSourceId=06ea2f9bc97372785f1b73237e19e565&VideoCodec=h264&AudioCodec=mp3,aac,ac3&AudioStreamIndex=1&VideoBitrate=64000&AudioBitrate=128000&Level=41&Profile=high&PlaySessionId=1b547832b577497094ceab3127a65927&api_key=a4f382316f60496c86a5d6908e647155&CopyTimestamps=false&TranscodingMaxAudioChannels=2&EnableSubtitlesInManifest=false&Tag=c079a5cdadf12b1a6b7e14bc94516309&RequireAvc=false

{"Protocol":"File","Id":"06ea2f9bc97372785f1b73237e19e565","Path":"/emby/cloud/media/series/Game of Thrones/Season 1/Game of Thrones - 1x01 - Winter Is Coming.mkv","Type":"Default","Container":"mkv","Name":"720P/H264/AAC","IsRemote":false,"ETag":"c079a5cdadf12b1a6b7e14bc94516309","RunTimeTicks":36971831296,"ReadAtNativeFramerate":false,"SupportsTranscoding":true,"SupportsDirectStream":true,"SupportsDirectPlay":true,"IsInfiniteStream":false,"RequiresOpening":false,"RequiresClosing":false,"SupportsProbing":true,"VideoType":"VideoFile","MediaStreams":[{"Codec":"h264","TimeBase":"1/1000","CodecTimeBase":"1001/48000","NalLengthSize":"4","IsInterlaced":false,"IsAVC":true,"BitRate":1132910,"BitDepth":8,"RefFrames":5,"IsDefault":true,"IsForced":false,"Height":720,"Width":1280,"AverageFrameRate":23.97602,"RealFrameRate":23.97602,"Profile":"High","Type":"Video","AspectRatio":"16:9","Index":0,"IsExternal":false,"IsTextSubtitleStream":false,"SupportsExternalStream":false,"PixelFormat":"yuv420p","Level":40,"IsAnamorphic":false},{"Codec":"aac","TimeBase":"1/1000","CodecTimeBase":"1/48000","DisplayTitle":"AAC stereo Default","IsInterlaced":false,"ChannelLayout":"stereo","Channels":2,"SampleRate":48000,"IsDefault":true,"IsForced":false,"Profile":"HE-AAC","Type":"Audio","Index":1,"IsExternal":false,"IsTextSubtitleStream":false,"SupportsExternalStream":false,"Level":0,"IsAnamorphic":false}],"PlayableStreamFileNames":[],"Formats":[],"Bitrate":1132910,"RequiredHttpHeaders":{}}

/var/lib/emby-server/ffmpeg/20160215/ffmpeg -f matroska -codec:0 h264 -codec:1 aac -i file:"/emby/cloud/media/series/Game of Thrones/Season 1/Game of Thrones - 1x01 - Winter Is Coming.mkv" -map 0:0 -map 0:1 -map -0:s -codec:v:0 libx264 -force_key_frames "expr:gte(t,n_forced*5)" -vf "scale=trunc(min(max(iw\,ih*dar)\,426)/2)*2:trunc(ow/dar/2)*2" -pix_fmt yuv420p -preset superfast -crf 23 -maxrate 64000 -bufsize 128000 -vsync -1 -profile:v high -level 4.1 -x264opts:0 subme=0:rc_lookahead=10:me_range=4:me=dia:no_chroma_me:8x8dct=0:partitions=none -map_metadata -1 -map_chapters -1 -threads 0 -codec:a:0 libmp3lame -ac 2 -ab 128000 -af "aresample=async=1" -y "/emby/temp/transcoding-temp/e04da674cc90c602fb3047baa5d84da2.mkv"


ffmpeg version N-52954-g295de3e-static http://johnvansickle.com/ffmpeg/  Copyright (c) 2000-2016 the FFmpeg developers
  built with gcc 5.3.1 (Debian 5.3.1-8) 20160205
  configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --disable-shared --disable-debug --enable-runtime-cpudetect --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libwebp --enable-libspeex --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libfreetype --enable-fontconfig --enable-libxvid --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libtheora --enable-libvo-amrwbenc --enable-gray --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libopus --enable-libass --enable-gnutls --enable-libvidstab --enable-libsoxr --enable-frei0r --enable-libfribidi --disable-indev=sndio --disable-outdev=sndio --enable-librtmp --enable-libmfx --cc=gcc
  libavutil      55. 17.103 / 55. 17.103
  libavcodec     57. 24.102 / 57. 24.102
  libavformat    57. 25.100 / 57. 25.100
  libavdevice    57.  0.101 / 57.  0.101
  libavfilter     6. 31.100 /  6. 31.100
  libswscale      4.  0.100 /  4.  0.100
  libswresample   2.  0.101 /  2.  0.101
  libpostproc    54.  0.100 / 54.  0.100
file:/emby/cloud/media/series/Game of Thrones/Season 1/Game of Thrones - 1x01 - Winter Is Coming.mkv: Permission denied
[dcook@[member="emby1"] logs]$

What am I missing here?

What happens if you chmod 777 on the file?  Or chown emby:emby?

[dcook 299]

777 would give all users write permissions I should not need to do that.  

Read permission should be enough

 

 

 

What happens if you chmod 777 on the file?  Or chown emby:emby?

[mastrmind11 722]

777 would give all users write permissions I should not need to do that.  

Read permission should be enough

I know what it means, and you shouldn't have to, but it would certainly rule out file permission as one of the problems.  What about the chown test?

[dcook 299]

Changing ownership to emby user is the same as giving 777, it means that the emby user would be able to write or delete the files, which I don't want.

 

I don't want the account that is running emby to be able to delete or modify my media.

This is in case there is a security issue or bug in Emby and for example a library is deleted and it also deletes my actual media files.

 

On my Windows system I setup a read only share and that is what Emby used to access the media, so I know that Emby does not require write access, read only is enough.  However on Linux I am getting the permission denied messages.

 

 

 

 

 

I know what it means, and you shouldn't have to, but it would certainly rule out file permission as one of the problems.  What about the chown test?

[glastis 1]

If anyone is still having this problem and don't want to try an useless temporary 777 file permissions, you should try that:

 

 

Restoring directories default permissions:

find /home/user/emby_media -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;

Restoring files default permissions:

find /home/user/emby_media -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

For reasons, directories needs +x rights.

Edited August 16, 2018 by glastis

[Luke 42077]

Thanks for the info !