Atrium — a native tvOS app for your Emby server

[Grumpy1 49]

Happy to report that everything seems to be working  . My TV DV indicator does indeed come on.

 

sent a pic in pm if you still wanted to see it 

 

thanks 

[vdatanet 1677]

10 minutes ago, Grumpy1 said:

Happy to report that everything seems to be working

That's the one I was waiting for — thank you. A DV set switching over is the one thing I had no
way to test here, and it was the last open question in 1.4.

And thanks for the picture — it arrived, and it's exactly the screen I needed: the line reads
"signalled to the TV" and your set agrees with it.

For anyone else here with a Dolby Vision TV: there's nothing to do, it's already in 1.4. The only
report I'd still like to see is the opposite one — if the Playback Information screen ever says
Dolby Vision was signalled and then withdrawn, that's the case I can't reproduce here.

[jasonmcroy 327]

@vdatanet Just checked out the new update. Nice! Skip intro and credits pull up correctly and work very well. Will have more time to test further tonight and tomorrow. I plan to give the app a good run.

One UI point I noticed and not sure if on purpose or not - on the "Continue Watching" Row, instead of showing the name of the episode under the thumb image it says "Up Next" (I believe in most apps that is where it would show the episode name. It then shows the season number/episode number and episode runtime (which is good). 

Is it possible to have it display the episode name instead of the "Up Next"?

[vdatanet 1677]

32 minutes ago, jasonmcroy said:

Is it possible to have it display the episode name instead of the "Up Next"?

Good catch, and yes — it's changed, and a bit further than you asked.

That line was deliberate, which is the interesting part: the shelf merges "continue watching" and
"up next" into one row, and the metadata line was what told them apart. Your report makes it
obvious the label was doing nothing useful — a next-up card already has no progress bar, so the
text was saying twice what the card already said, and never saying the one thing you were looking
for.

So episodes now read the same in both states, the way you'd expect:

  The Big Bang Theory
  S1:E8 - The Grasshopper Experiment

with the progress bar as the only difference between one you've started and one that's next.

One thing that costs you, and I'd rather point it out than have you notice it: the runtime is gone
from that line — the part you said was good. The bar now does that job on its own. If you miss it
once you're living with it, say so; you're the one who looked closely enough to spot the first
problem.

And thank you for the skip intro/credits report — that's the first time I've heard those two work
in someone else's house, which is worth more than it sounds.

[jasonmcroy 327]

Excellent. Such a quick response.

Yeah, the runtime isn't a big deal. I actually don't think I have ever seen it listed in other apps any way. Probably will look cleaner without it to be honest.

I do love the UI layout in general. The images look really nice and clean. 

I will be watching several movies this weekend so will report anything regarding playback. I don't have very much 4K content that I haven't already watched. It's mostly just 1080p standard blu-ray rips with 5.1 audio. I am playing mostly on a 1080 projector anyway and is why I don't much bother with 4K stuff anymore. My TV in the bedroom is 4K but don't watch in there as much. I am also playing to 2 Homepod Pros so audio becomes a big deal on most apps. Yours plays back just fine so far.

[Grumpy1 49]

Ui bug maybe

 

when you go down on the homepage it always goes to the middle poster and not the left ( not sure if this is intended ) but when you are in the tv or movie section it wil not go down to the last row if there is no poster under where you are focused .

[vdatanet 1677]

55 minutes ago, Grumpy1 said:

when you go down on the homepage it always goes to the middle poster and not the left ( not sure if this is intended ) but when you are in the tv or movie section it wil not go down to the last row if there is no poster under where you are focused .

Thanks for both of these — they're bugs, not intended, and they turned out to be two different ones.

The last row. When the last row isn't full, there was nothing directly below the column you were on, so the remote did nothing at all and those titles couldn't be reached. It wasn't only Movies and TV Shows — every grid in the app had it. Each row is now its own focus destination, so a short last row gets picked up whichever column you come down from.

The middle poster. Also not intended. The bar at the top is centred while the rows start at the left edge, so coming down from it landed on whatever happened to be nearest — the middle poster. It now takes you back to the card you were on, and to the first one in the row the first time you go down.

Both are written, and now they need the remote: focus behaviour is the one thing that never shows up in a test, only in your hand on the sofa. So no date from me — it goes out when it's actually right.

Please keep them coming. This is exactly the kind of thing that's hard to catch from here.

[jasonmcroy 327]

I have been watching movies today on a lazy Saturday. So far playback has been flawless! Enjoying that.

I have noticed a minor UI thing - When selected any poster or thumb image, as the poster/thumb expands slightly in size as it becomes the focus point, the text under it overlaps the image just a little bit. It sort of makes it hard to read while the image is focused. Maybe just a padding issue? 

Nothing else of note so far. 

[vdatanet 1677]

1 hour ago, jasonmcroy said:

I have noticed a minor UI thing - When selected any poster or thumb image, as the poster/thumb expands slightly in size as it becomes the focus point, the text under it overlaps the image just a little bit. It sort of makes it hard to read while the image is focused. Maybe just a padding issue? 

Thanks — and good to hear about the playback, that's the part we can't test from here.

You were right that it's padding, but it turned out to be a more interesting kind of wrong than a number typed too small. The space under the artwork was a constant, and what eats it isn't: on focus, artwork grows in proportion to its own height, so the taller the image the more of that gap disappears. A poster is the tallest thing in the app, which is why it's the one that reads badly — the wide Continue Watching thumbnails were escaping it by half a point, which is exactly why those looked fine.

So rather than reserving more space, the text now moves down with the artwork: the distance between the two never changes. It's what most apps do and what this should have done from the start. The wide rows and the cast row move the same way now, so nothing behaves differently from the card next to it.

While in there, one more thing came out that you'll see: the titles under artwork were smaller than the ones in Continue Watching, for no reason anyone could find. They're all the same size now, and they read a great deal better from a sofa.

It's fixed and the update is with Apple. Thanks for looking closely — that one had been there since the very first version and nobody had put a finger on it.

[jasonmcroy 327]

Excellent. Makes sense in your explanation. 
 

I hadn’t yet noticed the other thing you mentioned but nice catch.