Emby is a media server designed to organize, play, and stream audio and video to a variety of devices. Bringing all of your home videos, music, and photos together into one place has never been easier. Your personal Emby Server automatically converts and streams your media on-the-fly to play on any device. Hardware transcoding makes media streaming from your NAS faster and more efficient. In this step by step guide I will show you how to install Emby with Hardware Transcoding on your UGREEN NAS using Docker & Portainer.

💡Note: This guide works perfectly with the latest Emby v4.8.8.0 release.

• STEP 1

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• STEP 2

⚠️Remember: for using Hardware Transcoding with Emby, it’s also mandatory to have an Emby Premiere License.

• STEP 3

Install Portainer using my step by step guide. If you already have Portainer installed on your UGREEN NAS, skip this STEP. Attention: Make sure you have installed the latest Portainer version.

• STEP 4

Add Read & Write Permissions to the Docker Folder. If you have already added the Read and Write Permissions to the Docker Folder, skip this STEP.

• STEP 5

Go to File Manager and open the docker folder. Inside the docker folder, create one new folder and name it embyht. Follow the instructions in the image below.
Note: Be careful to enter only lowercase, not uppercase letters.

• STEP 6

Now create four new folders inside the manyfold folder that you created at STEP 5 and name them config, movies, redis, tvshows. Follow the instructions in the image below.
Note: Be careful to enter only lowercase, not uppercase letters.

• STEP 7

Log into Portainer using your username and password. On the left sidebar in Portainer, click on Stacks then + Add stack. Follow the instructions in the image below.

• STEP 8

In the Name field type in embyht. Follow the instructions in the image below.

Note: Copy Paste the code below in the Portainer Stacks Web editor.

services:
  emby:
    image: emby/embyserver:latest
    container_name: Emby
    environment:
      TZ: Europe/Bucharest
      UID: 999
      GID: 10
      GIDLIST: 44, 105
    ports:
      - 8096:8096
      - 8920:8920
    volumes:
      - /volume1/docker/embyht/config:/config:rw
      - /volume1/docker/embyht/tvshows:/tvshows:rw
      - /volume1/docker/embyht/music:/music:rw
      - /volume1/docker/embyht/movies:/movies:rw
    devices:
      - /dev/dri/renderD128:/dev/dri/renderD128
      - /dev/dri/card0:/dev/dri/card0
    restart: on-failure:5
    network_mode: host

Note: Before you paste the code above in the Web editor area below, change the value for TZ. (Select your current Time Zone from this list.)
Note: Before you paste the code above in the Web editor area below, change the value numbers for UID and GID with your own values. (Follow my step by step guide on how to do this.)
Note: Before you paste the code above in the Web editor area below, change the tvshows, music and movies path folders with your own tvshows, music and movies path folders. For example: my movies folder, where my media is, is in /volume1/docker/embyht/movies and my music folder, where my music is, is located in /volume1/docker/embyht/music

• STEP 9

Scroll down on the page until you see a button named Deploy the stack. Click on it. Follow the instructions in the image below. The installation process can take up to a few minutes. It will depend on your Internet speed connection.

• STEP 10

If everything goes right, you will see the following message at the top right of your screen: “Success Stack successfully deployed“.

• STEP 11

Go back to STEP 1 or you will deal with karma 🙂

• STEP 12

The installation process can take up to a few seconds/minutes. It will depend on your Internet speed connection. Now open your browser and type in http://ugreennas-ip-address:8096 Select your Preferred display language, then click Next. Follow the instructions in the image below.

• STEP 13

After you click Next on STEP 12, you will be prompted to Create a new Emby user account. Click Next. Follow the instructions in the image below.

• STEP 14

Click the + New Library tab. Follow the instructions in the image below.

• STEP 15

For Movies select Movies then + Add to add the movie folder. Follow the instructions in the image below.

• STEP 16

From the folder list, search for /movies then click OK. Follow the instructions in the image below.

Note: for Music, select Music on STEP 15 then your /music folder on STEP 16.

• STEP 17

After you click OK at STEP 16, click OK at STEP 17. Follow the instructions in the image below.

• STEP 18

Click Next or Add another folder like the music folder following the same exact STEPS from STEP 14 to STEP 17. Follow the instructions in the image below.

• STEP 19

Select the Language then the Country for Preferred Metadata Language, then click Next. Follow the instructions in the image below.

• STEP 20

Disable “Automatic port mapping”, then click Next. Follow the instructions in the image below.

• STEP 21

Accept the Emby Terms of use, then click Next. Follow the instructions in the image below.

• STEP 22

Click Finish. Follow the instructions in the image below.

• STEP 23

Click on the user that you have previously created at STEP 13. Follow the instructions in the image below.

• STEP 24

Type in the Username and Password that you have previously created at STEP 13, then click Sign In. Follow the instructions in the image below.

• STEP 25

On the left sidebar, click on the gear icon, then Transcoding to access your Hardware Acceleration options. Follow the instructions in the image below.

• STEP 26

Check your movies!

• STEP 27

Play your movies!

Enjoy Emby on your UGREEN NAS!

This post was updated on Wednesday / September 18th, 2024 at 8:57 AM