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linuxserver/emby

Emby organizes video, music, live TV, and photos from personal media libraries and streams them to smart TVs, streaming boxes and mobile devices. This container is packaged as a standalone emby Media Server.

Supported Architectures

We utilise the docker manifest for multi-platform awareness. More information is available from docker here and our announcement here.
Simply pulling lscr.io/linuxserver/emby:latest should retrieve the correct image for your arch, but you can also pull specific arch images via tags.
The architectures supported by this image are:
Architecture
Available
Tag
x86-64
amd64-<version tag>
arm64
arm64v8-<version tag>
armhf
arm32v7-<version tag>

Version Tags

This image provides various versions that are available via tags. Please read the descriptions carefully and exercise caution when using unstable or development tags.
Tag
Available
Description
latest
Stable emby releases
beta
Beta emby releases
## Application Setup
Webui can be found at http://<your-ip>:8096
Emby has very complete and verbose documentation located here .
Hardware acceleration users for Intel Quicksync and AMD VAAPI will need to mount their /dev/dri video device inside of the container by passing the following command when running or creating the container:
--device=/dev/dri:/dev/dri
We will automatically ensure the abc user inside of the container has the proper permissions to access this device.
Hardware acceleration users for Nvidia will need to install the container runtime provided by Nvidia on their host, instructions can be found here:
https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-docker
We automatically add the necessary environment variable that will utilise all the features available on a GPU on the host. Once nvidia-docker is installed on your host you will need to re/create the docker container with the nvidia container runtime --runtime=nvidia and add an environment variable -e NVIDIA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=all (can also be set to a specific gpu's UUID, this can be discovered by running nvidia-smi --query-gpu=gpu_name,gpu_uuid --format=csv ). NVIDIA automatically mounts the GPU and drivers from your host into the emby docker.

OpenMAX (Raspberry Pi)

Hardware acceleration users for Raspberry Pi OpenMAX will need to mount their /dev/vchiq video device inside of the container and their system OpenMax libs by passing the following options when running or creating the container:
--device=/dev/vchiq:/dev/vchiq
-v /opt/vc/lib:/opt/vc/lib

V4L2 (Raspberry Pi)

Hardware acceleration users for Raspberry Pi V4L2 will need to mount their /dev/video1X devices inside of the container by passing the following options when running or creating the container:
--device=/dev/video10:/dev/video10
--device=/dev/video11:/dev/video11
--device=/dev/video12:/dev/video12

Usage

To help you get started creating a container from this image you can either use docker-compose or the docker cli.
---
version: "2.1"
services:
emby:
image: lscr.io/linuxserver/emby:latest
container_name: emby
environment:
- PUID=1000
- PGID=1000
- TZ=Etc/UTC
volumes:
- /path/to/library:/config
- /path/to/tvshows:/data/tvshows
- /path/to/movies:/data/movies
- /opt/vc/lib:/opt/vc/lib #optional
ports:
- 8096:8096
- 8920:8920 #optional
devices:
- /dev/dri:/dev/dri #optional
- /dev/vchiq:/dev/vchiq #optional
- /dev/video10:/dev/video10 #optional
- /dev/video11:/dev/video11 #optional
- /dev/video12:/dev/video12 #optional
restart: unless-stopped
docker run -d \
--name=emby \
-e PUID=1000 \
-e PGID=1000 \
-e TZ=Etc/UTC \
-p 8096:8096 \
-p 8920:8920 `#optional` \
-v /path/to/library:/config \
-v /path/to/tvshows:/data/tvshows \
-v /path/to/movies:/data/movies \
-v /opt/vc/lib:/opt/vc/lib `#optional` \
--device /dev/dri:/dev/dri `#optional` \
--device /dev/vchiq:/dev/vchiq `#optional` \
--device /dev/video10:/dev/video10 `#optional` \
--device /dev/video11:/dev/video11 `#optional` \
--device /dev/video12:/dev/video12 `#optional` \
--restart unless-stopped \
lscr.io/linuxserver/emby:latest

Parameters

Docker images are configured using parameters passed at runtime (such as those above). These parameters are separated by a colon and indicate <external>:<internal> respectively. For example, -p 8080:80 would expose port 80 from inside the container to be accessible from the host's IP on port 8080 outside the container.

Ports (-p)

Parameter
Function
8096
Http webUI.
8920
Https webUI (you need to setup your own certificate).

Environment Variables (-e)

Env
Function
PUID=1000
for UserID - see below for explanation
PGID=1000
for GroupID - see below for explanation
TZ=Etc/UTC
specify a timezone to use, see this list.

Volume Mappings (-v)

Volume
Function
/config
Emby data storage location. This can grow very large, 50gb+ is likely for a large collection.
/data/tvshows
Media goes here. Add as many as needed e.g. /data/movies, /data/tv, etc.
/data/movies
Media goes here. Add as many as needed e.g. /data/movies, /data/tv, etc.
/opt/vc/lib
Path for Raspberry Pi OpenMAX libs optional.

Device Mappings (--device)

Parameter
Function
/dev/dri
Only needed if you want to use your Intel or AMD GPU for hardware accelerated video encoding (vaapi).
/dev/vchiq
Only needed if you want to use your Raspberry Pi OpenMax video encoding (Bellagio).
/dev/video10
Only needed if you want to use your Raspberry Pi V4L2 video encoding.
/dev/video11
Only needed if you want to use your Raspberry Pi V4L2 video encoding.
/dev/video12
Only needed if you want to use your Raspberry Pi V4L2 video encoding.

Miscellaneous Options

Environment variables from files (Docker secrets)

You can set any environment variable from a file by using a special prepend FILE__.
As an example:
-e FILE__PASSWORD=/run/secrets/mysecretpassword
Will set the environment variable PASSWORD based on the contents of the /run/secrets/mysecretpassword file.

Umask for running applications

For all of our images we provide the ability to override the default umask settings for services started within the containers using the optional -e UMASK=022 setting. Keep in mind umask is not chmod it subtracts from permissions based on it's value it does not add. Please read up here before asking for support.

User / Group Identifiers

When using volumes (-v flags), permissions issues can arise between the host OS and the container, we avoid this issue by allowing you to specify the user PUID and group PGID.
Ensure any volume directories on the host are owned by the same user you specify and any permissions issues will vanish like magic.
In this instance PUID=1000 and PGID=1000, to find yours use id user as below:
$ id username
uid=1000(dockeruser) gid=1000(dockergroup) groups=1000(dockergroup)

Docker Mods

We publish various Docker Mods to enable additional functionality within the containers. The list of Mods available for this image (if any) as well as universal mods that can be applied to any one of our images can be accessed via the dynamic badges above.

Support Info

  • Shell access whilst the container is running:
    • docker exec -it emby /bin/bash
  • To monitor the logs of the container in realtime:
    • docker logs -f emby
  • Container version number
    • docker inspect -f '{{ index .Config.Labels "build_version" }}' emby
  • Image version number
    • docker inspect -f '{{ index .Config.Labels "build_version" }}' lscr.io/linuxserver/emby:latest

Versions

  • 31.05.23: - Use upstream deb packages instead of rpm.
  • 26.09.22: - Update chown behavior.
  • 18.09.22: - Migrate to s6v3, rebase to Ubuntu Jammy.
  • 19.05.21: - Structural changes upstream.
  • 17.01.21: - Deprecate UMASK_SET in favor of UMASK in baseimage, see above for more information. Remove no longer used mapping for /transcode.
  • 21.12.20: - Rebase to Focal, see here for troubleshooting armhf.
  • 03.11.20: - Fix issue with missing samba folder.
  • 13.11.20: - Fix issue with samba and ffmpeg.
  • 03.07.20: - Add support for amd vaapi hw transcode.
  • 29.02.20: - Add v4l2 support on Raspberry Pi.
  • 26.02.20: - Add openmax support on Raspberry Pi.
  • 15.02.20: - Allow restarting emby from the gui (also allows for auto restarts after addon updates).
  • 02.10.19: - Improve permission fixing for render and dvb devices.
  • 13.08.19: - Add umask environment variable.
  • 24.06.19: - Fix typos in readme.
  • 30.05.19: - Initial release.