Emby Theater Starts Playing in a Window

[ChrisCullen 1]

Hi,
Almost Every time I start Emby Theater then select play on a video (movie, tv show, ect) it starts playing in a almost maximized window with the windows 10 task bar slightly showing at the bottom and a very small amount of the desktop exposed at the right of the screen.
DB Clicking twice will minimize and then maximize the window  but i have to get the mouse to do this each time and I cant seem to find a setting anywhere to prevent this behavior
The Actual Emby app itself starts full screen the issue only occurs when i select the play button
I'm using the latest windows 10 with a single display and the Emby Windows Store App and a Logitech harmony remote to control Emby Theater

Regards,

Chris

[Luke 42078]

Hi, @@ChrisCullen, this sounds strange. can you show a screenshot? thanks.

[daveyravey1972 3]

i have seen this normally when using madvr

[ChrisCullen 1]

Hi Luke,

Sorry for the late reply It bloody stopped doing it right after my post lol

But today when i went to watch a show it did it again and I managed to get a screen capture of it this time
When i stop playing it switches back to the Theater in full screen.
 

 

Regards,

Chris

[Luke 42078]

This is only with the madvr player?

[ChrisCullen 1]

The madvr player option is unchecked

[Luke 42078]

I'm afraid that screenshot doesn't quite communicate the issue, not to me at least. i would probably need to see what is outside the window in order to better understand.

[ChrisCullen 1]

Its a full screen capture the desktop is the thin blue strip at the right and the the thin strip at the bottom is the win10 taskbar.
if you look closely at the bottom right corner you can just see a very small amount of the date and notification icon from the task bar showing.
It's basically a window that almost fills the screen but not quite.
This is only happening on my server/media pc on all our other PC's it is always full screen when playing.  
 

Here's a closeup of it Ignore the white expand arrow its from the photo app

 

Regards,

Chris

[GhostRider 49]

Hi Chris

 

I noticed similar narrow bands when I had the problem of Emby Theater starting as black screen, there were two very thin edges showing the Windows desktop.

 

Have a look at this old post from Luke.

 

https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/49427-emby-theater-wont-load/?p=471084

 

Editing the main.js file fixed my black screen so it may also fix your narrow lines. Worth a test and report back. You can always put the comments back in after testing.

 

It is proably not on line 649 in the latest version but you can search on disableHardware it only occurs in one place in the scipt. I edited my main.js in Wordpad.

[ChrisCullen 1]

Hi Luke,
Turns out on my Media  PC / Server was actually running a different version of Emby Theater (version 296) and not the Windows store one that is on all our other PC's at all Perhaps this is why I wasn't seeing this behavior on our other PC's
I have removed it and installed the store version.
Regards,

Chris

[Guest asrequested]

The desktop app is far better than the store app. We are testing some changes, right now. Give the test build a try. Let us know if it's any better.

 

 https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/46763-theater-mpv-test/

[ChrisCullen 1]

Hi Doofus, Luke

Since Using the test build I have not had the video player start in window at all.
Thanks for that
Regards,

Chris

 

[Luke 42078]

Thanks for the feedback.