Latest Movies, show poster not thumb

[Tolerant 70]

My library is showing thumb card images for movies (ie. lastest movies) but my woman's account is showing movie posters for movies. I feel like my settings are not correct somewhere, but I am unable to find out where or a way to reset my prefs. I would like to see the movie poster, not a thumb/background image, is there a setting somewhere or something I need to edit to restore my settings to default without losing my watched history?

 

Thanks

 

 

[Happy2Play 8315]

Could you post a screenshot to ensure the location you are referring to.

[Tolerant 70]

Could you post a screenshot to ensure the location you are referring to.

 

[Happy2Play 8315]

There is no setting for this that I am aware of.  All mine show Posters in Latest Movies.  Personally I would prefer a all thumbs or poster view on home screen

 

What server version?  Does this happen in a different browser also?

[Tolerant 70]

There is no setting for this that I am aware of.  All mine show Posters in Latest Movies.  Personally I would prefer a all thumbs or poster view on home screen

 

What server version?  Does this happen in a different browser also?

 

Version 3.1.2.0, release. Well it's not showing "thumbs" its showing the background artwork, and if there is none then it shows the poster (which shows me I need a background). These used to be things we could configure, and in the "move" to updated versions, this option has been removed, and yet mine is still "stuck" now.  The only thing that comes to mind is the popup about pay for Emby and I can get more view options... options that used to be free.

[Luke 37128]

You don't need to pay to add more view options. What type of content type is that Movies library? 

 

Here's what we changed - we changed the latest section from one large combined section to individual sections per each library. If the content type of the library is Movies it will use the movie posters.

[Happy2Play 8315]

Only thing I can think of is comparing the users config.xml, but there hasn't been a option for image types on Home Screen that I have ever seen.  (C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\config\users)

 

The change in this release separated content types to there own row.  Where before they were all lumped together.

[Luke 37128]

But the latest section before this server release was all combined and they were all using thumb images, so your screenshot probably look similar to what it was before.

[Happy2Play 8315]

But the latest section before this server release was all combined and they were all using thumb images, so your screenshot probably look similar to what it was before.

The issue is two users are getting two different perspectives one with thumbs and the other with poster for latest movies.

[Luke 37128]

Maybe one has enabled grouping under user settings?

[Tolerant 70]

Maybe one has enabled grouping under user settings?

 

Walked thru "User" settings on both profiles, they are the same (as far as what we can set).  There are simply no options for me to pick how I see these and have to wonder is it in a config / prefs file somewhere.. or something left over from when we could actually choose our views.

[Tolerant 70]

These are the 4 config files I find that have info... not sure which is which user though.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<UserConfiguration xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
  <AudioLanguagePreference />
  <PlayDefaultAudioTrack>false</PlayDefaultAudioTrack>
  <SubtitleLanguagePreference>eng</SubtitleLanguagePreference>
  <DisplayMissingEpisodes>false</DisplayMissingEpisodes>
  <DisplayUnairedEpisodes>false</DisplayUnairedEpisodes>
  <GroupMoviesIntoBoxSets>true</GroupMoviesIntoBoxSets>
  <GroupedFolders>
    <string>689c3f2fb8ec0ad205e3d8a10f2374c3</string>
    <string>4514ec850e5ad0c47b58444e17b6346c</string>
  </GroupedFolders>
  <SubtitleMode>Default</SubtitleMode>
  <DisplayCollectionsView>true</DisplayCollectionsView>
  <DisplayFoldersView>false</DisplayFoldersView>
  <EnableLocalPassword>false</EnableLocalPassword>
  <OrderedViews>
    <string>689c3f2fb8ec0ad205e3d8a10f2374c3</string>
    <string>4514ec850e5ad0c47b58444e17b6346c</string>
    <string>384fe71bd5db8c0c97c6b356a93be6d8</string>
  </OrderedViews>
  <IncludeTrailersInSuggestions>true</IncludeTrailersInSuggestions>
  <LatestItemsExcludes />
  <PlainFolderViews />
  <HidePlayedInLatest>true</HidePlayedInLatest>
  <EnableChannelView>false</EnableChannelView>
  <RememberAudioSelections>true</RememberAudioSelections>
  <RememberSubtitleSelections>true</RememberSubtitleSelections>
  <EnableNextEpisodeAutoPlay>false</EnableNextEpisodeAutoPlay>
</UserConfiguration>

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<UserConfiguration xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
  <AudioLanguagePreference />
  <PlayDefaultAudioTrack>false</PlayDefaultAudioTrack>
  <SubtitleLanguagePreference>eng</SubtitleLanguagePreference>
  <DisplayMissingEpisodes>false</DisplayMissingEpisodes>
  <DisplayUnairedEpisodes>false</DisplayUnairedEpisodes>
  <GroupedFolders>
    <string>689c3f2fb8ec0ad205e3d8a10f2374c3</string>
    <string>4514ec850e5ad0c47b58444e17b6346c</string>
  </GroupedFolders>
  <SubtitleMode>OnlyForced</SubtitleMode>
  <DisplayCollectionsView>true</DisplayCollectionsView>
  <EnableLocalPassword>false</EnableLocalPassword>
  <OrderedViews>
    <string>4514ec850e5ad0c47b58444e17b6346c</string>
    <string>689c3f2fb8ec0ad205e3d8a10f2374c3</string>
    <string>9df4efab1f9566a6088195a3f6029855</string>
  </OrderedViews>
  <LatestItemsExcludes />
  <PlainFolderViews />
  <HidePlayedInLatest>true</HidePlayedInLatest>
  <RememberAudioSelections>true</RememberAudioSelections>
  <RememberSubtitleSelections>true</RememberSubtitleSelections>
  <EnableNextEpisodeAutoPlay>false</EnableNextEpisodeAutoPlay>
</UserConfiguration>

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<UserConfiguration xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
  <AudioLanguagePreference>eng</AudioLanguagePreference>
  <PlayDefaultAudioTrack>false</PlayDefaultAudioTrack>
  <SubtitleLanguagePreference>eng</SubtitleLanguagePreference>
  <DisplayMissingEpisodes>false</DisplayMissingEpisodes>
  <DisplayUnairedEpisodes>false</DisplayUnairedEpisodes>
  <GroupedFolders>
    <string>689c3f2fb8ec0ad205e3d8a10f2374c3</string>
    <string>4514ec850e5ad0c47b58444e17b6346c</string>
  </GroupedFolders>
  <SubtitleMode>OnlyForced</SubtitleMode>
  <DisplayCollectionsView>true</DisplayCollectionsView>
  <EnableLocalPassword>false</EnableLocalPassword>
  <OrderedViews>
    <string>4514ec850e5ad0c47b58444e17b6346c</string>
    <string>689c3f2fb8ec0ad205e3d8a10f2374c3</string>
    <string>9df4efab1f9566a6088195a3f6029855</string>
  </OrderedViews>
  <LatestItemsExcludes />
  <PlainFolderViews>
    <string>689c3f2fb8ec0ad205e3d8a10f2374c3</string>
  </PlainFolderViews>
  <HidePlayedInLatest>true</HidePlayedInLatest>
  <RememberAudioSelections>true</RememberAudioSelections>
  <RememberSubtitleSelections>true</RememberSubtitleSelections>
  <EnableNextEpisodeAutoPlay>false</EnableNextEpisodeAutoPlay>
</UserConfiguration>

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<UserConfiguration xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
  <PlayDefaultAudioTrack>true</PlayDefaultAudioTrack>
  <DisplayMissingEpisodes>false</DisplayMissingEpisodes>
  <DisplayUnairedEpisodes>false</DisplayUnairedEpisodes>
  <GroupedFolders />
  <SubtitleMode>Default</SubtitleMode>
  <DisplayCollectionsView>false</DisplayCollectionsView>
  <EnableLocalPassword>false</EnableLocalPassword>
  <OrderedViews />
  <LatestItemsExcludes />
  <PlainFolderViews />
  <HidePlayedInLatest>true</HidePlayedInLatest>
  <RememberAudioSelections>true</RememberAudioSelections>
  <RememberSubtitleSelections>true</RememberSubtitleSelections>
  <EnableNextEpisodeAutoPlay>true</EnableNextEpisodeAutoPlay>
</UserConfiguration>

[Luke 37128]

in the third one try resetting PlainFolderViews to match the others.

[Tolerant 70]

in the third one try resetting PlainFolderViews to match the others.

 

Signed out, and back in after making the change and no difference in the main page display.

[Luke 37128]

Try restarting the server.

[Tolerant 70]

Ok.. gotta wait until the users are done, dammit. But I will give that a try, thanks.

[Happy2Play 8315]

If you go to Dashboard-Users and click each user you can see what id goes to what user.
 
I will have to test this PlainFolderViews to see if I see a difference.

 

@@Luke

 

I couldn't see a difference when I tested checking grouping for Movies.  It still presented posters.

[Luke 37128]

Yea a movie library should be showing posters.

[Tolerant 70]

It's been this way for a very long time for me.. it was only till I saw her user that I was like.. wtf.. I don't see that.. and noticed I had a problem. 

 

The biggest issue (off topic) that gets me is how long it takes my pages to refresh.. like the pc just chokes and takes 1-2 minutes to display whats new, whats next, whats played.. etc..   and yet once in awhile after updates this stuff is lightning fast. I have tried everything I can think of aside of replacing hardware and I just live with the slowness.

 

-- But back to the point, I would love to find a solution to this. The ONLY thing I care about "keeping" is "watched status" for myself and users.. the rest is not going to bother me if I have to reset or setup stuff again but I am not going thru 3k movies again to click what I have seen.. and I of course can't do that for users.

[Tolerant 70]

Restarting the server, DID resolve the background vs poster issue with movies. So I have to assume it was that edit you suggested. Thanks for finding a way to resolve this issue.

[Luke 37128]

Thanks for reporting back.

[Tolerant 70]

Glad to help and thanks for finding a solution. If this helps the build in the future then my suffering was worth it

[Luke 37128]

that hidden config switch is being removed for the next server release so at that point the inconsistency will no longer exist.

[Happy2Play 8315]

that hidden config switch is being removed for the next server release so at that point the inconsistency will no longer exist.

Sigh, guess that would be why I couldn't get it to work on beta or dev.  But this is what the third person that has had an issue with this legacy setting.