Video OSD tabbed items being clipped when selected

[scottpro 30]

Version: 26.0.23

During movie playback, bring up the video OSD.  The tabbed items text (Info, Chapters and Cast & Crew) is being clipped when selected by the background.  This version also leaves a dimmed background on the last selected tab.  Last selected is defined by selecting one of the tabs (Info, Chapters and Cast & Crew) and than using the up arrow to bring up the playback display.

Example - version 26.0.23

Not selected:

Selected:

 

 

For comparison, example of not selected and selected from previous version 26.0.22.  The last selected tab does not have a dimmed background and the text is not clipped by the background when selected.

Not selected:

Selected:

Edited 1 hour ago by softworkz

[softworkz 5381]

I have moved this to the Web App forum. This is not an app-specific issue and the legacy Windows app is no longer supported. Yet the legacy Windows app was displaying the hosted web app which of course supported and this is the right place for it.

[scottpro 30]

When was the Legacy Windows app (ET 3.0.20/21) no longer supported?

If the Legacy Windows app is no longer supported than why is the content it accesses is being updated.
Legacy Windows app: https://tv.emby.media
Windows Web app: https://app.emby.media

From what I can see is that the contents of the tv.emby.media is just a copy/mirror of the app.emby.media contents.

Since the Windows Web app runs under a later version of Chromium (the users web browser) and the Legacy Windows app uses a old version of Electron (11.5.0.0) that any testing is done on the Windows Web version and not the Legacy version.  If this is the case than perhaps Emby should stop updating the tv.emby.media since it poses potential breaking changes that are not tested and leaving the users to find them.

Perhaps Emby could release an updated version of Emby Theater Legacy with the latest version of Electron and MPV so it can use the latest updates from the web content and be consistent with current web browsers.  Not sure how many users are using the Legacy version but it isn't that difficult to update an existing project.  Heck, I'll do it if you want.

Edited 24 minutes ago by scottpro

[softworkz 5381]

33 minutes ago, scottpro said:

When was the Legacy Windows app (ET 3.0.20/21) no longer supported?

If the Legacy Windows app is no longer supported than why is the content it accesses is being updated.
Legacy Windows app: https://tv.emby.media
Windows Web app: https://app.emby.media

There doesn't exist something like a "Windows Web App". The Windows app does not access any of these two URLs. Changes to content on those URLs does not affect the Windows app. It has everything included and is self-contained. It gets updated solely by updates through the Windows store.

Both URLs point to the same code. The only difference is that tv.emby.media has TV mode as default and app.emby.media does not (at least that's how it was before TV mode selection was added to the welcome screen. 
And both URLs represent the "Emby Web App" which this forum is about. We also often call it the "hosted web app" (because we are hosting it for users).

The old Windows app was using the code from tv.emby.media, but tv.emby.media has never been a url specifically for that app. There were (not sure whether still any) other apps using it as well and tv.emby.media is also useful on TV models with a browser but for which we do not have specific apps.
 

33 minutes ago, scottpro said:

Since the Windows Web app runs under a later version of Chromium (the users web browser)

No. It ships its own fixed version of the WebView2 runtime to prevent bad surprises and different client behavior due to Windows updates of the included browser engine. In that regard it is quite similar to Electron, but the player integration is done in a completely different (and much better) way.

 

33 minutes ago, scottpro said:

Perhaps Emby could release an updated version of Emby Theater Legacy with the latest version of Electron and MPV so it can use the latest updates from the web content and be consistent with current web browsers.  Not sure how many users are using the Legacy version but it isn't that difficult to update an existing project.  Heck, I'll do it if you want.

You can't. There's no more way to bring mpv playback or any other kind of content into a Chromium engine. Those interfaces have been removed long ago and that's why the Electron version of the old app couldn't be updated anymore and is meanwhile a honeypot of browser vulnerabilities. It's irresponsible for a sw verndor to offer any such version to users and for users it's dangerous and risky to use any such application. I had discussions with Chromium developers about it and they acknowledged that there is no other way to bring video content into a browser's DOM with a native player like it was possible with NaCL/PPAPI (flash player was using this for example).
I had found a loophole in a somewhat newer Electron (which the first WMC UI Windows app was using), but shortly after, they completely ripped out all code for this from Chromium.

It's a dead horse, entirely. There will never be any update for that old app, I'm afraid.

Edited 2 minutes ago by softworkz