Emby for Android TV Beta 57+

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Some significant updates have been made to this app starting with beta 2.1.57.

Styling

I'm updating some of the styling of components like menus and dialogs to be a bit more modern but, hopefully, still maintain the character of the app and, definitely, still maintain the exclusively large-screen presentation and navigation behavior.

Usability

I've added some usability enhancements that will, hopefully, be appreciated.  Things like automatically focusing the last logged in user on the select user screen, remembering searched for subtitle languages and listing them first, etc.

Fixes

I've fixed several issues with series recordings.  The app had not adjusted to changes on the server that made series recordings not really work properly.  That should all be working now.

New Features

Starting to add some new features.  One interesting one in this build that may appeal to you guys with dedicated, dark rooms and HDR screens - there is now a setting that will automatically dim the OSD and any other overlays like selection menus during playback of HDR/DV content.  This should lessen the glaring effect you could get before when bringing up a menu in this context.  The default dimming amount is 20% but you can set it to 35 or 50 or just turn it off if you don't like it.  Only available if connected to an HDR capable display.

I've extended the setting to show the logo in place of the text title from just the detail screen to also the EHS - with one additional enhancement there.  The app will only use the logo on the EHS display if it is suitable to show there.  Most logos run kind of like a line of text and are landscape oriented or even banner shaped.  However, some logos like, "War for the Planet of the Apes" are stacked into more of a square or portrait shape and would look tiny or silly displayed in the available area for the title on the EHS.  So, in those instances, the app will show the text title instead.

This option (to show logo for text) has been turned on automatically with this release 1) because I think it looks good enough now to be the default and 2) to be sure and get good feedback on the feature.  You can turn it off in the display settings if you wish.

More to come...

 

Please post issues and feedback in this thread.

Thanks!

[CBers 7717]

Great news Eric, thanks  

 

Edited 34 minutes ago by CBers