Android player setting to disable brightness adjuster.

[gbutton 3]

I'd like to just use my system brightness. The difference between 0 and 1 is huge and it's difficult to lock in the correct brightness at night. 

[Luke 42077]

HI, what do you mean by between 0 and 1?

[gbutton 3]

The slider goes from 1 to 100 on the brightness scale. On my phone, pixel 9 pro, 100 is blinding (at night) and 0 is way too dark. I try to set it to something on the middle, but the brightness difference between 0 and 1 on the scale feels really massive, then 1-20 are all about the same. Getting the right brightness in a dark room feels very difficult because of this. 

[darkassassin07 652]

The brightness slider in Emby is tiny compared to the system slider.

 

When in a dark room, you're often using the lower ~5% of the slider, which isn't the easiest on the system slider, but Emby makes this 2 pixels to select between.

 

Emby is taking over system functions (brightness) and making them harder/worse to use. Just give us back the system controls that are already immediately available to users in the notification tray. There's 0 need to co-opt this functionality.

 

 

 

In the same vein; while emby is playing picture-in-picture, you are forced to make the video full screen to be able to change the brightness, then you can return to PIP; instead of just being able to use the system controls.

I don't understand why android even permits such a thing. It's so frustrating.

[gbutton 3]

Brightness controls are given to apps for things like ticket apps, where it overrides to 100% brightness to help with scanning. Then some dev over at Netflix added the slider to their player and everyone hopped on board. 

It's an industry standard feature now that Netflix does it, so I understand why it was implemented here, but it's difficult UI on every platform. Maybe some people like it and it might work better in higher light settings, but I would just love a toggle in settings to use the players brightness bar, or the system brightness bar. 

[Mozgus 1]

So, because I touched the brightness slider, I've forever lost auto brightness functionality provided by android natively when playing video in Emby?

[Luke 42077]

6 hours ago, Mozgus said:

So, because I touched the brightness slider, I've forever lost auto brightness functionality provided by android natively when playing video in Emby?

No, as soon as you stop playing it goes back to the system setting.

[Mozgus 1]

11 minutes ago, Luke said:

No, as soon as you stop playing it goes back to the system setting.

Yes I know that. I want my auto brightness to work for the videos in Emby again.

[Luke 42077]

9 minutes ago, Mozgus said:

Yes I know that. I want my auto brightness to work for the videos in Emby again.

Nothing is saved so you can just restart the app

[Mozgus 1]

2 hours ago, Luke said:

Nothing is saved so you can just restart the app

I was clearing it from recent apps page and it seemed like it was holding whatever brightness level I last had it set at within a video. Oh well. Also noticed that the player's 50% level and upward is actually max brightness on my phone.