itdaboyz wrote:Hi,
I just want to tell you that if you find Emby really slow on your Asustor's NAS, it's not Emby's fault.
I have an AS302T, and I used Emby on it. Loading time was horribly long, UI was really slow and when I played a movie with my PI it was laggy (and sometimes don't even play until I reboot NAS and PI). On my phone, Emby would never load a movie or a TV show because of loading times. Overhaul my experience with Emby was bad.
Recently, I moved the server part from the NAS to the PI (and kept files on the NAS) and I discover a new Emby. Everything is fast and works like a charm, even on my phone ! Updates come in real time (no need to wait months before the new release from the maintainer) and there is no total data wipe when you update.
And wait, there is more ! My NAS is also now faster for other tasks (like torrents and apps like Sonarr, CouchPotato...).
This message is not a blame against Asustor or the maintainer doing it on his free time, but just a answer to the problems you can find on this plateform. A PI is not expensive, don't wait and use this instead !
https://emby.media/community/index.php? ... xperience/
Yep, you pretty much nailed it... My AS5102T can't run Emby Server worth a damn either, even with 8GB RAM. Eventually I migrated it to an old decommissioned duo-core laptop with only 4GB of RAM, tested Win7 and Linux builds, and Emby Server ran like a champ with both! I then tested a Linux build on a small $25 Pine64 board with only 2GB RAM, and it ran Emby Server so well that I left it up just as it is, and it's been smooth running ever since. And like you said, bonus, no late or busted updates to worry about, no need for odd-duck workarounds, it simply runs.
However, I disagree with the part about attribution. If Asustor is going to continue marketing its products as "premier world-class media servers," then it's high time their execs took ownership of these lingering performance and compatibility issues, and fix them! And before some admin gets trigger-happy with the delete/ban button, I am NOT being disrespectful here. Whether you "like" what I say or not, it's simply cold hard objective fact. Even a blind man can see serious platform issues afoot when old low-power laptops and small Pi and Pine boxes can run Emby Server exponentially better than an Asustor NAS with 4x the horsepower! In fact, if anyone reading this has the contact info for an Asustor exec, please forward a copy of this note to them. Perhaps it's time they got a dose of reality from an actual end-user, rather than the carefully "messaged" briefings they get from mid-management.
Also, just because a dev is volunteering their time, doesn't give them a pass on due diligence or the responsibilities associated with their "maintainer" titles. When you commit to something like this, either do it, or see that it gets handed off to someone who can. Asustor really need to up their game in this area as well. If they're aggressively marketing their products as media servers, then they should also be exercising some basic QC and oversight of App Central's content to ensure customer access to timely and reliable updates for apps like Kodi and Emby.
Case in point, Kodi 18 (Leia) is already in alpha; Kodi 17 (Krypton) was in beta and RC status for months, and officially released over a month ago... yet Asustor customers are still stuck with an old stale Kodi 16 (Jarvis) build. Worse, as the OP noted, unwitting users who applied recent Emby updates, lost gigs of critical cache and metadata files, destroyed by a routine in-version update! This started way back in September, yet no notice was ever added to its App Central GUI page warning users of the imminent data loss, nor an apology to those who were burned. And yes, of course users should back up their critical data, but that neither excuses nor justifies its negligent destruction by an update, EVER! I wasn't affected, but I'm still mad as hell that this sort of thing is allowed to happen to fellow customers. Extremely bad business, Asustor.
As much as I'd like to leverage my Asustor as a media server -- that's why I paid the extra $200 for it in the first place -- itdaboyz's performance analysis is spot on, "
Emby on Asustor is not the real Emby experience," and it is absolutely no fault of Emby or its devs. The problems rest exclusively on Asustor's shoulders.