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Hello, I like the spotlight feature, but the one in Apple is not really ideal.

As a comparison I have the Apple TV, Android TV app and the Windows app.

Apple TV:

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Windows App with Sidebar:

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Windows app without Sidebar:

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Android TV (Fire TV):

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When comparing them the Apple TV cuts just way too much from the picture. The Windows App with the Sidebar does it much better. Though it's worse when the Sidebar is closed.

The best approach in my opinion is the Android TV app.

Could we get the Android TV version too?

Also the Spotlight on the Apple TV seems to be endless, while the other 2 are limited to 12 items. 

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kbijvank
Posted

Yes I find the cutting an issue also.

gthrift
Posted

Yeah, the crop would be better if it would crop starting below the top 10% of the image instead of just from the middle of the image.

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arrbee99
Posted

Give this one a go...

arrbee99
Posted

or even this one -

 

Posted
6 hours ago, arrbee99 said:

or even this one -

 

That one will not work with my Library. It can't display .ass subtitles.

arrbee99
Posted

Oh OK. Never thought of that.

Posted

Hi, we are working on improving this. Thanks.

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Posted

The changelog for 4.10.1.0 mentions improvements for the spotlight, but i don't see any difference.

Does the app need to be updated for it to take effect? I'm on 2.0.9 (1)

Posted
33 minutes ago, Kyouma said:

The changelog for 4.10.1.0 mentions improvements for the spotlight, but i don't see any difference.

Does the app need to be updated for it to take effect? I'm on 2.0.9 (1)

HI, the improvements are for the web app. Stay tuned for improvements in other apps.

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  • 4 weeks later...
Kyouma
Posted (edited)

When will this app receive an update? 

The last update is now almost 2 months old and there is no active beta.

Why is this client not getting any updates? 

Edited by Kyouma
Posted

HI, we are currently working on a left flyout menu and we'll have a beta up as soon as that's ready.

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Kyouma
Posted
4 minutes ago, Luke said:

HI, we are currently working on a left flyout menu and we'll have a beta up as soon as that's ready.

That's great but I just wanna know, if this client will ever receive steady updates. Waiting 2 months for an update really isn't nice. Hope you can agree with that.

Posted

I think it has gotten steady updates all this year. We're just in the midst of a larger one right now.

Kyouma
Posted

Will the spotlight fix be in that one?

Posted
4 minutes ago, Kyouma said:

Will the spotlight fix be in that one?

I'm not sure yet, but we will be updating it to match our other apps.

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  • 2 weeks later...
ZanderKeen
Posted

@KyoumaYeah so-far everything bug-wise that I brought up this year on the AppleTV app has been fixed within 1-2 update cycles thanks to @SamES. We use it on 2 of our 5 tv's now (and Plasma Bigscreen on the other 3 now).

I was coming to report that we still noticed this issue repeatedly on a lot of movies as well & would also like the focus moved up higher in the image since heads keep getting chopped off, but it sounds like its being taken care of. 👍

Thanks! 😁

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Kyouma
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20 minutes ago, ZanderKeen said:

@KyoumaYeah so-far everything bug-wise that I brought up this year on the AppleTV app has been fixed within 1-2 update cycles thanks to @SamES. We use it on 2 of our 5 tv's now (and Plasma Bigscreen on the other 3 now).

I was coming to report that we still noticed this issue repeatedly on a lot of movies as well & would also like the focus moved up higher in the image since heads keep getting chopped off, but it sounds like its being taken care of. 👍

Thanks! 😁

Generally I really like the recent changes the Emby Team is making. A lot of feature requests are being taken care of and big updates are on the way too. I also do not have any playback issues when using the Apple TV, so that's great too.

I just wish the Emby Apps were more aligned in their features. It is a tiny bit frustrating when other clients get features or improvements for features while Apple TV users have to wait longer for that. That's the only thing I'd like to see improved in the future.

Other than that I still have a great time using Emby. 

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