openmediavault-emby plugin (formerly mediabrowser)

ooops ... sry ...
u r using zfs ...
this might be the difference ...
I'm using snapraid and aufs ...
In my case all drives except the aufs-pool are shown by emby ...

but I also would prefer to set the network the network path here in order to get rid of the path substituion

actual config:

snapraidpool : /media/uuid/storage
smb-share : /storage --> /media/uuid/storage (the snapraidpool)
subfolders for movies, tv-shows, documentations etc.
resulting network-path : \\192.168.123.50\storage\movies

local stats to storage

root@mynas:/media# stat /media/f7cbd576-ea8b-48e8-a535-ac340ae7e6f5/storage/
  Datei: „/media/f7cbd576-ea8b-48e8-a535-ac340ae7e6f5/storage/“
  Größe: 4096           Blöcke: 8          EA Block: 4096   Verzeichnis
Gerät: 841h/2113d       Inode: 55836673    Verknüpfungen: 15
Zugriff: (0777/drwxrwxrwx)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (  100/   users)
Zugriff    : 2016-04-10 20:34:29.387638860 +0200
Modifiziert: 2016-04-02 00:46:20.518308133 +0200
Geändert   : 2016-04-02 00:46:20.518308133 +0200
 Geburt    : -

access problems for emby server process
tried also :

usermod -a -G users emby

no changes ...

@El Muchacho
There are issues with aufs. You should use MergerFS instead.

Give me results of this:

ls -la /var/lib/emby

You should not have anything at this location. When you enable the plugin it should be moved to a data drive.
You should read this on creating a media share too:
How to make a good Media share for Emby and PlexMediaServer

@hoppel118 In the Emby UI when you add a library can you show me the paths that you have to choose from???

The 2 of you have very different issues. They are not related.

@tekkb

root@mynas:~# ls -la /var/lib/emby
ls: Zugriff auf /var/lib/emby nicht möglich: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden

I'm running aufs instead of mergerfs due to strange performance problems ...
mergerfs was unbelieveable slow on OMV 2.2.1

And for sure: I followed ur given link before posting the issue

actual setting:
- I've pooled the three snapraid-data-hdd to the aufs-pool "snapraidpool"
- I've created a shared folder named "storage" there and shared this one in samba as "storage"
From a win-client i can browse \\mynas\storage or \\192.168.123.50\storage
I've created some folders underneath "storage" ... f.e. filme, serien, dokus ...

Wasn't this correct?

A lot of people had issues with AUFS. There was one guy that got it working. I will have to try and find his post. Busy right now.

@ryecoaaron Please build new version 3.1 and get it in the repo. The restart button was not working. Had to update for systemd. Already did changelog and fix.

@El Muchacho

OK, lesson for the day. When you use "locate" command sometimes the indexing of your files and folders is not updated. Do this for me in command line:
updatedb
locate ffmpeg

And then give me the results....

@hoppel118 When you add a library in the emby you should have a root of system drive option "/". From that you should be able to guide yourself to anything that is mounted. Data drive that are formatted ext4 or XFS are mounted at the /media/UUID location. The UUID is a long number.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier

ZFS pools are not at this standard location /media/UUID.

Something was wrong with my access rights. By default the user "emby" is in the group "nogroup".

After "chown root:nogroup -R /mediatank/movies" I got into the directory "/mediatank/movies/movies/dvd" with the wizard where all my dvd movies reside. After building path substitutions I could access my media with emby clients (emby theatre, emby classic for wmc and emby for ipad).

But I didn't want the folder to be in group "nogroup". I prefer the group "users" for my media folders. Found this from you @tekkb here in the forum:

Emby spielt keine Videos ab, zeigt keine Bilder an

I think that is what I was looking for and at least it works for me.

At the moment everthing works as expected, yehaaaa: zfs, emby and vdr

Now I want to do some changes in my old movie naming structure before scanning the whole library with emby. I will report here.

Zitat von tekkb

hoppel118 In the Emby UI when you add a library can you show me the paths that you have to choose from???

My media pathes look like this.

/mediatank/movies/movies/bluray/movie 1
/mediatank/movies/movies/bluray/movie 2
/mediatank/movies/movies/dvd/movie 1
/mediatank/movies/movies/dvd/movie 2
/mediatank/music/music/album
/mediatank/music/music/artist/album 1
/mediatank/music/music/artist/album 2
/mediatank/pictures/pictures/yyyymmdd - name 1
/mediatank/pictures/pictures/yyyymmdd - name 2

It's the following sturcture:

/mediatank -> zfs pool
/mediatank/movies -> mountpoint of zfs filesystem
/mediatank/movies/movies -> smb share
/mediatank/movies/movies/... -> my own structure

In this way it's possible to configure every smb share (respective zfs filesystem) with its own zfs features (snapshots, quotas, recordsize, compression, etc.). Some zfs features can be inherited from the pool, for example "global lz4 compression". I am new to zfs, but until now I realy like it. Even after a fresh installation of omv it was an easy one-click to import the existing pool with the omv webui.

You can also look at the screenshot for a path example.

Is it possible to get the network path to work with zfs?

Grreting Hoppel

Your media shares should not be in nogroup. What is important is the chmod value for others. When you set privileges you want the others group to be read only. That is all media servers normally need is to be able to read files. When you create a shared folder the default value for others is read only. Look at the drop down when you create a shared folder.

When your media shares are on same machine as your media server you do not use a network path. If you have another machine that has shares on it you need to use the remote share plugin to mount it on your OMV. Then you will have a path you can reach without using a network path.

This link you give hoppel is only if you want to write meta data to the media share folders. A lot of people don't want this and just want the meta data in the database for a given media server. I don't like meta data from a given media server putting files in my folders because I am always using/testing several media servers. I don't want one media servers data to be interfering with another media servers. And I don't want to have to ever go through thousands of folders to remove it. Yes, I would write a script to do but it is a pain.

Maybe @subzero79 will answer all your ZFS questions....

Zitat von tekkb

Do this for me in command line:
updatedb
locate ffmpeg

as u like, @tekkb

root@mynas:~# updatedb
root@mynas:~# locate ffmpeg
/media/d50f5f5e-ca4a-4c09-8373-392e15e1f180/emby/cache/temp/89931c2e-da55-460f-b722-b2efca90d1e8/ffmpeg
/media/d50f5f5e-ca4a-4c09-8373-392e15e1f180/emby/ffmpeg
/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg
/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg/20160215
/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg/20160215/ffmpeg
/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg/20160215/ffprobe
/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg/20160215/fonts
/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg/20160215/fonts/ARIALUNI.TTF
/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg/20160215/fonts/fonts.conf
/usr/share/doc/libav-tools/html/ffmpeg.html

but for ur info: I do always an "updatedb" before running "locate"

And right now it is working after deinstalling dansguardian
I don't know how dansguardian breaks the emby-install ?! It should only be used by privoxy and not directly filtering network-traffic ...

@El Muchacho The last time you gave results it was not showing anything at the default location /var/lib/ffmpeg. It was like it had moved it and you did not run a updatedb. It looks like everything is setup correctly. So you have no issues with AUFS now??? Never used Dansguardian so can't be much help there.

Currently running...
local aufs pool is not shown directly.
I need to enter /media and then it comes up.
With additionally path substitution it works in Kodi too.

Gesendet von meinem C6903 mit Tapatalk

I tried looking for the one guy's post that solved some AUFS issues. It is like looking for a needle in a haystack....

Zitat von tekkb

So you have no issues with AUFS now???

to declare it a little bit more:

by adding a new library the default options from emby are:

/
/media/uuid1
/media/uuid2
/media/uuid3
/media/uuid4
/media/uuid5
network

"/media/aufs-pool-uuid" is missing ...

looks like emby shows only drives with uuid from fstab

by entering "/media" maually i see the aufs-pool-uuid and can choose it.
and it works inside emby ...

but network is not usable in my setup
emby has no permissions to enter \\192.168.123.50\storage\filme
so I always need to add a path-substitution for every library

but so far it works for me ... enough for testing emby, i think

Zitat von tekkb

Your media shares should not be in nogroup. What is important is the chmod value for others. When you set privileges you want the others group to be read only. That is all media servers normally need is to be able to read files. When you create a shared folder the default value for others is read only. Look at the drop down when you create a shared folder.

The group for my media shares is "users" and the chmod value is "775" now. Everthing works as expected.

Zitat von tekkb

When your media shares are on same machine as your media server you do not use a network path. If you have another machine that has shares on it you need to use the remote share plugin to mount it on your OMV. Then you will have a path you can reach without using a network path.

Now I understand the concept behind the path substitution. This works fine with my zfs filesystems. Openmediavault, zfs and emby represent a great combination. On the one hand it's possible to stream the movies (audio-passthrough of dts-hd master works fine) with kodi and emby theatre directly from the samba shares and on the other hand emby transcodes the streams for all my mobile devices. Perfect!

Zitat von tekkb

This link you give hoppel is only if you want to write meta data to the media share folders. A lot of people don't want this and just want the meta data in the database for a given media server. I don't like meta data from a given media server putting files in my folders because I am always using/testing several media servers. I don't want one media servers data to be interfering with another media servers. And I don't want to have to ever go through thousands of folders to remove it. Yes, I would write a script to do but it is a pain.

Maybe @subzero79 will answer all your ZFS questions....

Yes, I want to write my metadata to the share folders, because in the past I allways did it this way. At the moment I don't need to test several media servers. What is an alternative for emby? Plex, no, not for me. I am happy with emby and the emby plugins for kodi.

Thank you very much for your great support and the really fast portation of emby to omv3beta.

Now, I know how to setup the complete system (initial omv installation, importing the zfs pool, configuring smart, vdr and emby). If the omv3beta gets broken it's not the problem to set up the complete system. At the moment it's fantastic!

Greetings Hoppel

Just a warning guys... If you see an upgrade to OMV 3.0.15 do not do it right away. Emby has to be upgraded again to work with this newer version of OMV. Some major changes coming and all the plugins need to be updated for it. Ask here if Emby is ready before you upgrade to this version of OMV 3.0.15.

Thanks for the Information!

@tekkb but OMV 3.0.15 is not releas now?