New media player shortcomings

[revengineer 142]

Updating from v2.8.54 to 2.8.70, I found that the Android video player has been updated. The new player no longer overrides the orientation lock, a function that is sensible for video players. Also SD live TV only fills a fraction of the screen and options to fill the screen are not longer available. There are no obvious benefits with the new player. Please restore the functionality we just lost. Thank you.

[Luke 42077]

Thanks for the report. The benefits with the new design are obvious if you use other Emby apps. It is the same, consistent OSD design.

[Luke 42077]

The orientation override, brightness swipe feature, and volume swipe feature are all back in 2.8.75. Thanks for the feedback.

[revengineer 142]

Great, thank you Luke. Is it also possible to get the screen size adjustments back (fill, 16:9, etc.)?

 

BTW: I did not realize that the purpose of the new player was consistency between apps. I only use Roku and android and these apps are very different and I would not expect otherwise.

Edited February 26, 2017 by revengineer

[Luke 42077]

Yes we can look at those.

 

if you watch a video in landscape orientation you should be seeing the poster on the left bottom with controls to the right of that. It might not yet be an exact match with the new Roku app but the general layout is very similar. I am of course referring to the new Roku beta preview app, not the current store app.

[revengineer 142]

Great, I will re-check the Android app periodically and will use the latest version again when the screen size functionality has been restored.

 

I use the Roku store app rather than the beta, so I do not see the similarities in the layout. No big deal, most important is that the app works well. 

[Luke 42077]

Aspect ratio control has been restored in the open beta. Thanks.

[revengineer 142]

Thank you, Luke, that is great news! I will give this a test run on the weekend.

[computerprep 148]

A small UI suggestion, just posting here since the title matches my concern exactly...

 

The user interface buttons in the new Android Mobile player don't minimize as completely as they should. When they're hidden from view, the bottom-most row of pixels is some shade of grey.

 

[Luke 42077]

Thanks @@computerprep, I will see if I can reproduce that.

[Smitty018210 143]

Great, thank you Luke. Is it also possible to get the screen size adjustments back (fill, 16:9, etc.)?

 

 

@@Luke

Yes please return this function. It is what made the android app the best. I'm still using WMC for tv and wont even look at theater again until an easy way of fill or zoom function is added. Very disappointing to lose this ability in yet another app. I don't understand why we keep removing this option from the different apps. Some of use just do like having black bars on our screens. Sorry about the rant, but I feel like I can't use half of the new stuff Emby offers b/c I'm stuck using WMC for this reason.

Just my two cents.

 

edit:

Just saw this will be fix!! Thank you!!

Edited May 14, 2017 by Smitty018210

[Luke 42077]

Did you read post #7?

[Smitty018210 143]

Did you read post #7?

@@Luke yeah, I saw this right after working 14 hour shift and was dead tired. Sorry about that. But my point about Emby theater still stands.