Increase Number of Items Displayed on Home Screen

[Dizzy49 99]

A long time ago (like YEARS) I made some modification SOMEWHERE that increased the number of items displayed in Continue Watching to 50.

I have NO idea where I made that change, but I'd like to make similar changes for the "Latest XXXX" sections as well.  I have an Ultrawide screen and they don't even fill up the screen which just annoys me, and I like to have lots of options.  Sometimes, particularly at the start of a new season all my stuff I was watching gets shoved off screen and I have to go track them down to finish watching the last episode or two.

Anyone know where such a change can be made?  I am pretty sure it was server side, but I could be wrong.  I primarily use Emby on my Windows11 PC.  I switch between the web version and Emby Theater.  It depends what I'm watching and if it's HDR or not.

[Luke 42212]

@Happy2Playmay have some tips.

[arrbee99 1836]

Find a directory with -

Emby-Server\system\dashboard-ui\modules\emby-elements\emby-itemscontainer

edit the -

emby-itemscontainer file (the javascript file not the css one)

make a copy just in case.

search for 

innerWidth?16:12

and replace the numbers with 64:48 or whatever

Save and restart the server. And clear cache and anything else you can think of.

Don't think this helps with the Continue watching row but should help with Latest.

[Dizzy49 99]

11 hours ago, arrbee99 said:

Find a directory with -

Emby-Server\system\dashboard-ui\modules\emby-elements\emby-itemscontainer

edit the -

emby-itemscontainer file (the javascript file not the css one)

make a copy just in case.

search for 

innerWidth?16:12

and replace the numbers with 64:48 or whatever

Save and restart the server. And clear cache and anything else you can think of.

Don't think this helps with the Continue watching row but should help with Latest.

Thanks, I will give that a try.  Real quick though, what are the 16:12 or 64:48 numbers?  How many to display in large:small mode?

[arrbee99 1836]

I believe its to do with being over/under a certain width of screen. I just thought I'd multiply both by 4.

[visproduction 332]

The search select number is in the .js file.  It use to be set as 16.  Changing the width is not going to make more entries appear.  When you do change this number, the amount listed by row can change, but it goes back to the default, after every update and you would have to go back into the .js file to change the select value again.

The steps to do this exactly has already been described in the forum for older versions and it might still be correct. Just search the forum for these steps.

Some people tend to pick posters that are quite large and hence make the home page heavier.  The maximum size that a poster can appear is something around 640 x 428.  Technically, picking exactly that size in a moderately compresed jpg copy, would be helpful to keep the page weight down.  At the most, choosing posters that are exactly twice the max height would result in clean looking images whenever they are presented.  If you double the number of posters available on a row and you have 5 libraries, you could be adding perhaps 64 MB image weight to the home page.  With Broadband connection, this could add about 73 seconds to the initial page load for all posters when they are scrolled.  This is the main reason why number of posters are limited to around 16 per row.  This makes the home page more efficient.

For anyone on a local server with a decent CPU, the page load speed is not visible.  But if you are remote and downloading with perhaps a lot of hops between you and the server and with heavy traffic online and all posters are full size high quality 2000 x 3000 pixels, then initial home page load speeds are going to be slow. Technically, if you have a sluggish home page load speed, the popularity of the site suffers. There is around 50% of users that leave a site that does not appear on mobile within 3 seconds. 80% of visitors will not return, if they feel the page is slow.

You can be the low percentage of users who want to have 40 or 60 posters for each library row, but if this causes remote users to wait more than 3 seconds, this choice is destroying the popularity of the site, overall.  It would not be prudent to create a design that results in a slow home page load for some users.

Of interest: https://www.sitebuilderreport.com/website-speed-statistics

Edited Monday at 11:29 PM by visproduction