Subtitles and Up Next popup

[MrBuggie 2]

Hi, I’ve asked about this before, and was wondering if there’s going to be a fix for this? Currently watching an anime that has extra content at the end of every episode, and it’s really difficult to read the subtitles because of the popup for the next episode that appears over them. And if I press Cancel to make it go away, I have to manually launch every episode. It’s very frustrating. Couldn’t it be moved to the top, or push the subtitles up? I realise a back press can make it vanish, but that’s so counter-intuitive and is just an annoying workaround for a bad UI choice.

Android TV app on a TCL C7K.

Edited Wednesday at 03:31 PM by MrBuggie

[GrimReaper 5017]

You can disable "Show Up Next Preview* in App settings>Playback tab until you finish that anime. 

Or use Universal Android app so you won't have that overlay at all. 

Edited Wednesday at 04:31 PM by GrimReaper

[MrBuggie 2]

Thank you. That’s better, though still not ideal as other people watch other shows on the same TV so I’ll have to toggle the option before and after every time I sit down to watch it.

[GrimReaper 5017]

45 minutes ago, GrimReaper said:

Or use Universal Android app so you won't have that overlay at all. 

 

[MrBuggie 2]

What’s a universal app? Google isn’t bringing up anything useful, and nothing by that name.

[GrimReaper 5017]

Search for just "Emb", it should bring two client apps: Emby for AndroidTV (the one you're currently using) and Emby for Android (standard/universal app). 

[MrBuggie 2]

Ohhh, there are two Emby apps available on the TV? I’ve been using Emby for years and had no idea. 

So I’ve been looking on the forum, and if I understand correctly, you plan on eventually phasing the TV app out, in which case you really ought to put some info in the app itself steering people to the universal app. It has solved another problem I was going to investigate later, where a H264 1080p file has to be transcoded (there was something in the stats for nerds about unsupported video level). As my server is a Raspberry Pi 4, transcoding isn’t an option. But the universal app plays it no problem. So I’ll try using the universal app for now and see if it fixes all my problems (including an audio/sub track issue I posted about earlier).

Also, reading about the universal app lead me to discover the enhanced homescreen/spotlight option which I’d never noticed, and that makes Emby so much better! It should really be more prominent on both apps. So thanks for pointing me to the universal Emby app.

[FrostByte 5483]

3 hours ago, MrBuggie said:

So I’ve been looking on the forum, and if I understand correctly, you plan on eventually phasing the TV app out, in which case you really ought to put some info in the app itself steering people to the universal app.

I do believe the AndroidTV app does have such a message, but it only comes up once or on new installs so as not to nag people.

[MrBuggie 2]

I changed TV recently, and didn’t see anything when I installed it. I might have noticed there were two apps on the Play Store, but was too busy setting up the TV and would have just installed the one that says for TV without giving it a second thought.

[FrostByte 5483]

16 hours ago, MrBuggie said:

I changed TV recently, and didn’t see anything when I installed it. I might have noticed there were two apps on the Play Store, but was too busy setting up the TV and would have just installed the one that says for TV without giving it a second thought.

This is what you should see when installing the AndroidTV app from scratch

[MrBuggie 2]

Oh, well I’ve never seen that. Is it only on the first install of an account? I’ve been using Emby for TV for years.

[FrostByte 5483]

1 hour ago, MrBuggie said:

Oh, well I’ve never seen that. Is it only on the first install of an account? I’ve been using Emby for TV for years.

Not on first account use, but on a clean install.  You should see it if you uninstall and reinstall.

[ebr 16447]

On 6/18/2026 at 2:05 PM, FrostByte said:

his is what you should see when installing the AndroidTV app from scratch

That will popup every 45 days but only if using the beta of the app on Google. Amazon production version has it.

[FrostByte 5483]

20 minutes ago, ebr said:

That will popup every 45 days but only if using the beta of the app on Google. Amazon production version has it.

I got it on the Google store version too on first install.

 

Edit: nm I am in the beta on Google store also 

Edited 1 hour ago by FrostByte