Back navigation not working on Favorites screen

[scottpro 10]

When navigating to the "Favorites" screen and selecting a movie on that screen the "Esc key", "Backspace key" or "<" button does not return you back the the Favorites screen.  The only key/button that works is the "Home key" or "Home button" which returns you all the way back to the Home screen.  When pressing the "Esc key ", "Backspace key" or "<" button multiple times the context menu appears.  Also, if you select the "Favorite Movies" link in the Favorites screen the back navigation fails there too.  All other screens appear to be working correctly (Movies, Collections, ...).

Example:
Select (from Home Screen) Favorites->Movie (back navigation fails)
Select (from Home Screen) Favorites->Favorite Movies (back navigation fails)

Version: Emby Theater 3.0.20
Windows 10,11

Additional info for devs:

This problem started happening after "data-appversion" update 4.9.3.13 (01/18/2026). Previous version 4.9.3.12 works correctly.

Edited 20 hours ago by scottpro

[Luke 42078]

Hi there, what context menu exactly appears?

[scottpro 10]

This context menu/screen.  Once you exit this context menu/screen than the current movie screen/page is stuck unless you use the home icon or home key to exit.  It should be easy to replicate this issue.

[Lessaj 467]

I think Favourites is considered a "tab" instead of a "page" so going back doesn't bring you back to the last "tab" but rather the last "page". Similarly if you're on the home page and you click into a library, say Movies, and you click on one of the other tabs like Collections or Genres when you press back it won't bring you back to your default "tab" for Movies, it'll go back to the home page.

I don't how this used to work if the functionality has ever changed, I don't really navigate like that...

EDIT: Oh I misunderstood until I read the post again, so instead of coming back from the item detail screen to Favourites tab, it's back on home page and therefore another back opens the exit menu.

That said, I can't reproduce, it brings me back to Favourites.

Edited 1 hour ago by Lessaj

[scottpro 10]

To clarify, I am selecting the Favorites tab at the top of the Home screen/page.  I use the term "Screen" because that is the term used in the settings menu (Home Screen).  Once in the Favorites tab (screen) I see a list of movies.  I navigate to a movie on that screen and select it.  This can be done with the mouse or keyboard. Once the movie detail screen/page is displayed the back keys (esc and bs) or icon do not return me to the Favorites tab/screen, in fact it doesn't return me anyway, not even the home screen.  The only way to exit the movie detail screen/page is to use the home key or home icon in the upper left.  This takes me all the way back to the Home tab/screen.  This was working last month as mentioned in my original post.

I also did a clean install of ET 3.0.20 with the same results.  This is happening on (2) PC's, Windows 10 and 11, so it's not a one off issue.

Options: Enable TV display mode - On

TV mode home screen: Vertical

If I roll back to "data-appversion" 4.9.3.12 it works fine.  Any version after that is broken.

[Lessaj 467]

How does Emby for Window compare?

[scottpro 10]

I can't use the Windows app version unless I do a lot of modifications to the mpv-1.dll.  The first issue with file permissions and requires me to boot the PC from a Linux distro.  The second issue is Emby disables loading the mpv.conf file and scripts and plugins.  The reason why I use a custom mpv-1.dll is for the Dolby THD Atmos audio problems.  Also, to use the Emby Windows App version I add additional options to MPV to enable me to load conf and script files.  All of this was discussed in previous threads.

I don't like the solution that if ET legacy is broken due to an update than I should use the Windows app version.