Images used for "continue watching"

[MagicDoubleM 121]

So, usually this place is filled with the series/season thumb or an fanart pic. I guess that's okay, no spoilers and all, but it gets boring real quick and to me it would make much more sense to have the episode thumb/screenshot there (maybe with the series logo added somehow). The only way to get it that way, is by deleting thumbs and fanart completely, but the latter are used on different places too, so I want to keep them.

How about an option to use ep-thumbs for "continue" and "next up"?

[Riddler84 54]

Second this!

Switched from Jellyfin to Emby, because of built-in features like scrubber images or intro-skipping. But this is one thing I really miss from Jellyfin.
There, you could just set a checkbox in the settings to show the episode thumbs instead of the show thumbs.

For me, it'd make this whole section more interesting. I guess there can be rare occasions where such a thumb can spoil something, but I personally can't remember a single moment where that was the case. Actually, most of the time, these thumbs make me want to watch an episode, because of what they're showing.

[Luke 42077]

HI, options to control this are certainly possible for future updates.

One thing we know for sure that needs to happen is a revamp of home screen settings, so I imagine everything will be more robust after that.

[Riddler84 54]

13 hours ago, Luke said:

One thing we know for sure that needs to happen is a revamp of home screen settings, so I imagine everything will be more robust after that.

Is this part of a bigger revamp of the home screen itself, or did you mean only the settings? Because in my opinion the home screen needs to improve drastically. More dynamic, more individualism, more interesting categories to show, maybe a configurable featured section etc. Basically, there should be something new to explore, every time I visit it.

I mean, it's not even possible to put playlists or genre on the home screen, whether it's static or dynamic. I would really love to hear a little bit about your plans regarding the home screen, if you can share anything

[Luke 42077]

Probably a bit of both.

[OnyxUK 84]

Hey @Luke any updates on this my friend. 

mainly for the ep thumb pics 

[Luke 42077]

On 4/21/2023 at 3:34 PM, OnyxUK said:

Hey @Luke any updates on this my friend. 

mainly for the ep thumb pics 

I don't have an update yet, but an option is something that could certainly be added. 

[GrimReaper 4739]

1 hour ago, Luke said:

I don't have an update yet, but an option is something that could certainly be added. 

And how about support for episode landscapes, as discussed on the other thread, pretty please? 

[OnyxUK 84]

On 4/23/2023 at 5:51 AM, Luke said:

I don't have an update yet, but an option is something that could certainly be added. 

thanks mate for the update and yess please, pretty please haha 

[Riddler84 54]

On 4/23/2023 at 8:42 AM, GrimReaper said:

And how about support for episode landscapes, as discussed on the other thread, pretty please? 

Isn't the "Continue watching" segment already using the landscape version of movies and episodes? Or did you mean something else?

[GrimReaper 4739]

3 minutes ago, Riddler84 said:

Isn't the "Continue watching" segment already using the landscape version of movies and episodes?

Nope. 

 

[alok1 14]

On 4/23/2023 at 10:21 AM, Luke said:

I don't have an update yet, but an option is something that could certainly be added. 

Hello Sir, Is there any update on this option of episode thumb in Continue Watching instead of Series Thumb ?

[Riddler84 54]

On 1/13/2024 at 7:03 AM, kakashi55 said:

Hello Sir, Is there any update on this option of episode thumb in Continue Watching instead of Series Thumb ?

I really don't know why it isn't there already. Jellyfin has this for ages.

It's probably one of the easiest changes they could possibly make. All the data they need for this is already there in the request results. It includes the image tags of the item that is showing, as well as the image tags for its parent item.

So all that's missing is a new setting whether or not you want to see episode thumbs instead of show thumbs and a conditional statement in the code that checks for that setting and if it's an episode or not and then change the image link accordingly.

I was able to quickly change the image just by swapping a few arguments of the image URL (item id and image tag. Image type changed from Thumb to Primary). All the values were already there in the item object, which can be viewed in the browser network console. So it shouldn't be that hard to do in my opinion.

[HouseOfCards 95]

On 12/27/2022 at 8:12 AM, Riddler84 said:

Is this part of a bigger revamp of the home screen itself, or did you mean only the settings? Because in my opinion the home screen needs to improve drastically. More dynamic, more individualism, more interesting categories to show, maybe a configurable featured section etc. Basically, there should be something new to explore, every time I visit it.

I couldn't agree more, and this is what I do...  It's a bit involved, but it's been functioning great...

Along with this, any more functionality the devs add would only be icing on the cake. 

[Luke 42077]

Hi, yes this option is certainly possible for future updates. Thanks.

[ArcherTatsu 2]

On 1/16/2024 at 2:58 PM, Luke said:

Hi, yes this option is certainly possible for future updates. Thanks.

Vote for "episode image" rather than "series backdrop" or "series thumb".

"Episode image" is morrrrrrre distinctive for the next episode!

[Anshul99 1]

+1 for this. Came searching for this exactly, kinda disappointed that its not implemented yet. 

Also +1 for a dynamic home screen: being able to show me different things and help me figure out what I want to watch next (a la Netflix) would make Emby infinitely better. Already loving it tho. 

[ginjaninja 605]

For Continue Watching, i strongly disliked episode thumbs, when that was the norm a few years back.

Show thumbs are much more distinctive (main reason/my reason) than episode thumbs and avoid spoilers.

still cant argue against an option...but I would hate to loose the current design...

 

[Riddler84 54]

On 10/18/2024 at 12:04 PM, ginjaninja said:

For Continue Watching, i strongly disliked episode thumbs, when that was the norm a few years back.

Show thumbs are much more distinctive (main reason/my reason) than episode thumbs and avoid spoilers.

still cant argue against an option...but I would hate to loose the current design...

 

Well, it should definitely be an option, you can choose, if you want. It should even be defaulted to the show thumb. That's the way Jellyfin is doing it.

But there are certainly a lot of people who would like to have the episode thumbs in the Continue Watching section. I understand the fear of spoilers, although I think, this fear is a little exaggerated. Right now, I can't think of a moment, where I felt that an episode thumb has spoiled something for me. The descriptions can be spoil things occasionally.

If anything, these thumbs are making me more exciting for the next episode. Also, it would just bring a little bit of variety on the Emby front page, which is so desperately needed imo.

[S.Flix 2]

On 16/01/2024 at 07:58, Luke said:

Hi, yes this option is certainly possible for future updates. Thanks.

Yeah... you have been saying that for the more than 2 years.

Could it be possible to do something about it? Users would really appreciate it. 

I cant recall any functional or visual update regarding libraries for a long time.

 

[irawhitejr 2]

On 4/22/2023 at 8:51 PM, Luke said:

I don't have an update yet, but an option is something that could certainly be added. 

Came here because I wanted thumbs from episodes too as I had it in jellyfin also, it's been over 2 years since the request. Is there any actual real updates on when we get this?

[Veeb 1]

Here's a bump six months later because I'm just looking into whether this is possible now. Presumably still not? Thanks.

[Luke 42077]

Hi, no, but we’re going to be revamping Home Screen settings so stay tuned.

[S.Flix 2]

Ok. Bye.

The images are already there. At this point this is just stupid stubbornness.

 

[Luke 42077]

18 minutes ago, S.Flix said:

Ok. Bye.

The images are already there. At this point this is just stupid stubbornness.

 

Hi, stay tuned. We have a revamp of home screen settings coming soon. Thanks.