Chapter menu in app

[Torpal 5]

Chapters is a very useful function in the Emby apps for playback, but the layout is horizontally at the bottom of the screen and is only there for a few seconds. From the play screen I wish I could choose a chapter menu that list them vertically. When one is marked and played the chapter menu returns. This in addition to just continue playing as today. You start from a chapter without using the chapter menu option but that the chapters are displayed until you press ok on one or pressing back on the remote.

[ebr 16411]

40 minutes ago, Torpal said:

You start from a chapter without using the chapter menu option but that the chapters are displayed until you press ok on one or pressing back on the remote.

Hi.  That should already be the case.  Where are you seeing it not be?

[Torpal 5]

No sorry i think you misunderstand. Yes I can look at the chapters on the opening play menu and start playing. Then the app continue to play the next chapter automatic, but if I press chapters while playing it show the row of chapters a short time then you must press chapters again. I want the chapter line to stay open until i make a choice or press back. Another option that I miss is to choose a chapter menu at the opening play screen listet vertically and when a chosen chapter is finished the system return to the chapter menu without starting the next by default. I use chapters a lot for each song in music videos from concerts. That is why I wish for more options and flexibility.

[ebr 16411]

19 minutes ago, Torpal said:

but if I press chapters while playing it show the row of chapters a short time then you must press chapters again

I understood.  Which app are you seeing this in?  I know the TV apps should not do that.

[Torpal 5]

The Android app on both my pad and Sony TV. However do have something to say about my other important chapter question. That I have to open the xhapter bar again if I am not fast enough was the minor part of the question for a new function that the system return to a chapter menu when one chapter is finished 

[Luke 42414]

Hi, it shouldn’t close while you have it open.

[ebr 16411]

22 hours ago, Torpal said:

for a new function that the system return to a chapter menu when one chapter is finished 

I honestly don't see much utility to the masses with that.  If you have an item that you'd like to treat that way, I would suggest breaking it apart into different videos and creating a playlist. Then it could operate as you wish.

[Torpal 5]

Ok, thank you for a quick response. Since i could not find this request i thought that the request was not important for most people. When I have a 2 hour concert I use chapter for each song and to split in several videos and use playlist does not give the same easy flexibility as to scroll down a chapter list if I choose to play by chapters in sted of general play. However I am very happy with Emby and I do value your work. 

[Torpal 5]

The other issue that the chapters close answered by Luke. I have tested this again and can confirm two things. I use the mobile app on my Sony oled tv and a press down make me choose between info and chapters and it stays open only for 5 seconds meaning I have to start using chapters before that short limit. Same with info. However using the app on my android pad both info and chapters stay open until I close it or select a chapter. Maybe the mobil app used on television is the problem, but I changed from the android TV app because the mobil app to my mind had an overall much better user interface. Could that be the reason.

[Luke 42414]

On 4/21/2026 at 1:52 PM, Torpal said:

The other issue that the chapters close answered by Luke. I have tested this again and can confirm two things. I use the mobile app on my Sony oled tv and a press down make me choose between info and chapters and it stays open only for 5 seconds meaning I have to start using chapters before that short limit. Same with info. However using the app on my android pad both info and chapters stay open until I close it or select a chapter. Maybe the mobil app used on television is the problem, but I changed from the android TV app because the mobil app to my mind had an overall much better user interface. Could that be the reason.

Hi, what version number do you have installed?

[Torpal 5]

Thank you for following up. Since the app on my pad behaved differently than the app on my Sony TV and your answer I did check. My TV app is now updated. I asket AI for the last version and got this years newest from April. Now the chapters stay open. I appologize and thank you for your response. Emby is the best since i switched some years ago after a decade using Plex.