Since upgrading from Debian 11.7 to Debian 12.0, I have been unable to play any files (audio/video) using the Emby Theater app. The issue persists after upgrading to Debian 12.1. While I can still use the browser to playback my files, it unfortunately doesn't work as well with my remote.
I've tested this with a fresh install of Debian 12.0 and Debian 12.1 and run into the same problems with both Mate and KDE using amd64 and the install instructions from https://emby.media/emby-theater-linux.html#deb.
The application will open and I can log into my Emby server. However, if I try to playback any files it just hangs on the loading screen indefinitely. If I run the emby-theater command from console, the output for this is:
/usr/bin/emby-theater: 10: ldconfig: not found
readlink: missing operand
Try 'readlink --help' for more information.
/usr/bin/emby-theater: 10: [: -gt: unexpected operator
libGL error: MESA-LOADER: failed to open swrast: /usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory (search paths /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri:\$${ORIGIN}/dri:/usr/lib/dri, suffix _dri)
libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast
Initializing cec-client...
{
cecExePath: 'cec-client',
cecEmitter: EventEmitter {
_events: [Object: null prototype] {},
_eventsCount: 0,
_maxListeners: undefined
},
cecHdmiPort: 'null'
}
cec-client exited with code 1
UDP Client listening on 0.0.0.0:48454
starting udp receive timer with timeout ms: 1000
timer expired 0 servers received
[]
fs access result for path: Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, access '\\192.168.1.10\media\Archer (2009)\S01E03 - Diversity Hire.mkv'
If I build and run Emby Theater from this github, I face the same issue with slightly different output:
> [email protected] start
> electron main.js
libva error: vaGetDriverNameByIndex() failed with unknown libva error, driver_name = (null)
Initializing cec-client...
{
cecExePath: 'cec-client',
cecEmitter: EventEmitter {
_events: [Object: null prototype] {},
_eventsCount: 0,
_maxListeners: undefined,
[Symbol(kCapture)]: false
},
cecHdmiPort: 'null'
}
ERROR: cec-client not installed, running without cec functionality.
cec-client exited with code -2
UDP Client listening on 0.0.0.0:52628
starting udp receive timer with timeout ms: 1000
timer expired 0 servers received
[]
fs access result for path: Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, access '\\192.168.1.10\media\Archer%20(2009)\S01E03%20-%20Diversity%20Hire.mkv'
Here's output from a Debian 11.7 instance that was set up in the same way:
/usr/bin/emby-theater: 10: ldconfig: not found
readlink: missing operand
Try 'readlink --help' for more information.
/usr/bin/emby-theater: 10: [: -gt: unexpected operator
Initializing cec-client...
{
cecExePath: 'cec-client',
cecEmitter: EventEmitter {
_events: [Object: null prototype] {},
_eventsCount: 0,
_maxListeners: undefined
},
cecHdmiPort: 'null'
}
UDP Client listening on 0.0.0.0:57039
starting udp receive timer with timeout ms: 1000
cec-client exited with code 1
timer expired 0 servers received
[]
fs access result for path: Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, access '\\192.168.1.10\media\Archer (2009)\S01E03 - Diversity Hire.mkv'
Please let me know if there is any other information you require.