iPhone Duo Support

[AJV20 71]

Please add support for the new iPhone Duo. It would be a bigger plus if you guys use the Apple native buttons as well

[Luke 43418]

HI, the app should already run. What features would you like to see?

[Neminem 1965]

Curious what's wrong with it.

Is it not displaying the right way?

 

[AJV20 71]

The entire screen space is not being used. Also for the outer screen the buttons are usually on the ride side now

 

there’s also more positions the duo can open to that usually affect video apps differently

Edited 18 hours ago by AJV20

[OSBuckeyes4Life 12]

Hi, another iPhone Duo user here. Emby looks fantastic on it, but I’m having trouble getting the app and player to use the whole display.

I’m on Emby for iOS 2.2.59, with Emby Server 4.10.2.0 running in Docker on Arch Linux (rolling release), kernel 7.2.11-arch1-1.

Home changes after playing a video

I noticed something interesting that might help narrow this down. When I first open Emby, there’s a separate area for the clock and battery at the top or on the right, depending on how I’m holding the phone. Home doesn’t use that part of the screen.

1. Open Emby and look at Home. The separate status area is visible.
2. Open a video and let it go into fullscreen playback.
3. Go back to Home.

Now Home uses the full display and that separate top/right area is gone. I haven’t restarted the app in between. It looks much better at that point, so I’d like it to open that way from the beginning instead of having to play something first. The screenshots show the before and after.

Could you look at what changes when the player enters fullscreen, and why Home only picks up that layout afterward? I wonder if the status-bar or safe-area settings aren’t being updated until the player changes them.

Fullscreen playback and zoom

Zooming is another frustration. It makes the picture bigger and crops it, but it doesn’t seem to make the playback area itself use the available screen properly.

I understand that a widescreen movie can have black bars on a differently shaped display. I’m not asking for the picture to be stretched. I’d like the player to use the full available area, with Fit preserving the picture and Fill being a separate choice if I want cropping. The normal movie black bars in the playback screenshot aren’t the issue I’m reporting with Home.

Could this be checked on both the inner and outer displays, including rotation and opening/closing the phone? Would the native Apple fullscreen controls help, or does this need a change to Emby’s layout?

Navigation dock disappears in portrait

The bottom navigation dock with Home, Search, Downloads and Movies only shows when I hold the phone in landscape. When I turn it to portrait, the dock disappears. Could you check that too? I would expect those navigation options to stay available in either orientation.

Logs

I’ve attached the identifiable playback activity from the previous 12 hours, plus a shorter log covering the more recent test. They include HLS requests and successful HTTP 200/206 responses. There’s also a separate download/sync log in case it helps, but that isn’t live-streaming activity.

The playback-info requests reference 4K files at 3840×2160, 3840×2076 and 3840×1608. Some of those requests are prefetch calls, so they don’t all represent active playback. I haven’t found anything in the server logs that explains the fullscreen change; the before/after screenshots are probably more useful for that. Personal details and credentials have been removed from the logs.

Screenshots

• duo-01-initial-home-landscape.png
• duo-02-initial-home-portrait.png
• duo-03-playback-view.png
• duo-04-home-after-playback.png

Log files

• duo-playback-layout-followup-sanitized.txt
• duo-playback-12h-sanitized.txt
• duo-download-sync-12h-sanitized.txt

Could you please take a look and let me know if there’s anything else that would help reproduce it? I’m really enjoying how Emby looks on the Duo. Getting these fullscreen and layout issues sorted would make it even better. Thanks!

Edited 56 minutes ago by OSBuckeyes4Life