Emby Theater

Emby Theater is the playback client published by the Emby project, described by its makers as an open media solution. Where a server component holds and organises a collection, the theater application is the part a viewer opens in order to browse that collection and play items from it, so the two are used together rather than separately.

The entry records Linux as the platform, and the licence is stated as GPL-2.0. That combination suits people who keep a media library on their own machine or on a household server and want a desktop front end for it under a free licence. Users of other operating systems should consult the publisher's own channels, since only the Linux listing is covered here.

One practical point follows from the architecture: the client is of limited use on its own, because it expects a reachable Emby server holding the library. Setting up and maintaining that server is a separate task from installing the client.