Apple TV - New Movie Layout Unreadable

[Radical924 24]

Hello,

I just updated my Emby app on Apple TV and now it's completely unusable. You cannot read a thing on any movie or tv show that has a backdrop as it displays the text in white overtop of the backdrops. Some backdrops also look very stretched. Is there a way to revert back to the way it was before I updated the app or at the very least add a black background behind the text descriptions etc.. so they are readable?

Edited January 20, 2024 by Radical924

[Luke 42077]

HI there, can you please show an example of what you mean? Thanks.

[Radical924 24]

I've attached a before update photo and after update photo as an example. As you can see before the layout was readable with a poster... The new layout makes it impossible to tell what your looking at. It's like this for everything...

 

BEFORE:

AFTER:

Edited January 20, 2024 by Radical924

[SamES 1057]

It looks like you're missing a lot of images.  Try refresh metadata and replace all images on the server.

This is what I get for the same movie

[SamES 1057]

We can improve this if there is no background image.  Thanks

[Radical924 24]

While I agree it looks like I'm missing some metadata it still should be similar to your image and not what I posted. This is with Apple TV so I don't know if it's just a glitch or what but it never looked like it does now before.

[SamES 1057]

This is better, it matches the web app now

Proposed

 

The web app, for comparison

 

 

Edited January 20, 2024 by SamES

[Radical924 24]

6 hours ago, SamES said:

This is better, it matches the web app now

Proposed

 

The web app, for comparison

 

 

I like your proposed solution much better! It's readable which is the main thing. If it did optionally include backdrops I'd have the backdrop to the right or something or above so you can still read it.

[SamES 1057]

11 hours ago, SamES said:

It looks like you're missing a lot of images.  Try refresh metadata and replace all images on the server.

This is what I get for the same movie

If you had a backdrop, it would then look like this image in my earlier post

Edited January 20, 2024 by SamES

[Radical924 24]

3 hours ago, SamES said:

If you had a backdrop, it would then look like this image in my earlier post

Hmmm okay. How do I implement your solution? Or will this come in a future update as an option?

[SamES 1057]

5 hours ago, Radical924 said:

Hmmm okay. How do I implement your solution? Or will this come in a future update as an option?

It will be in the next update - no options, that's just how it will display

[Radical924 24]

On 20/01/2024 at 21:49, SamES said:

It will be in the next update - no options, that's just how it will display

I re-scanned my library refreshing existing metadata and turned on image fetchers (for some reason it was off)... anyways this is what the Web app looks like. I would love this look if possible for Apple TV. It shows both poster and backdrops and the backdrop is dimmed in the background so you can still read all the text. Also it doesn't stretch the backdrop image to some strange resolution. I've noticed it will take a backdrop even if the wrong size and stretch it on Apple TV.

Edited January 22, 2024 by Radical924

[SamES 1057]

The image you have shown is from the server, not the web app client view.  Please try opening the same movie from http://tv.emby.media (this is the web based tv view) and you should see this layout, that is what the Apple TV client is matching.  It does not have the poster view when displayed this way.  I think that is why you are seeing a difference.

 

The current AppleTV view below - same fading (unfortunately we can't do the gradient fade which makes it darker at the bottom).  In the current version, it should not be stretching the backdrop - that was an issue I've fixed now.

[arrbee99 1815]

Please tell me its supposed to be like / it will be like the first image above...

[Radical924 24]

1 hour ago, SamES said:

The image you have shown is from the server, not the web app client view.  Please try opening the same movie from http://tv.emby.media (this is the web based tv view) and you should see this layout, that is what the Apple TV client is matching.  It does not have the poster view when displayed this way.  I think that is why you are seeing a difference.

 

The current AppleTV view below - same fading (unfortunately we can't do the gradient fade which makes it darker at the bottom).  In the current version, it should not be stretching the backdrop - that was an issue I've fixed now.

Okay Mine looks just like yours now in the web app. Much better. Its too bad you cant do the gradient but at least it now seems readable.