Theme Videos in AndroidTV / ShieldTV?

[ebr 16169]

Sorry, not yet.  Again, the thing that continues to slow us down on this is the fact that there is no free and readily available source for this content so the feature only impacts a very small audience (and is far from trivial to implement properly).

 

Thanks for your patience.

[Scott310 137]

But there is a very large number of us that use @@radeon's tools and a smaller number of us that source our own.  Many of the other clients have this including the web portal.  I am still waiting to take full advantage of my android clients simply because this feature is not there yet.

 

It is obviously pretty popular if it keeps getting bumped....

Edited July 6, 2019 by Scott310

[K1ng_Lear 237]

But there is a very large number of us that use @@radeon's tools and a smaller number of us that source our own.  Many of the other clients have this including the web portal.  I am still waiting to take full advantage of my android clients simply because this feature is not there yet.

 

It is obviously pretty popular if it keeps getting bumped....

What other clients have this feature? I am using the iOS Clients, too, and there is this feature but it’s annoying and I deactivated it. On the other hand is it very well implemented in the web client.

[Luke 42077]

Emby theater has it.

[K1ng_Lear 237]

Emby theater has it.

Ok, unfortunately I don’t own any kind of a windows machine and have no intention to buy one. So I would appreciate it, if this feature comes to the shield, too.

[Spaceboy 2573]

So the explanations here don’t seem to add up. Elsewhere the “consistency “ argument is used to implement things no-one actually asked for, yet here where there is a demand and no consistency there is no action.

[Luke 42077]

This is a hard one that requires re-working the entire user interface so that video can be displayed underneath. Emby Theater and the web app did this work years ago and that is why they have the feature.

 

We cannot prioritize this ahead of things like Live TV development and other broadly used features, but hopefully we will be able to get to it in the not so distant future. Thanks.

[josenightbreed 4]

This is a hard one that requires re-working the entire user interface so that video can be displayed underneath. Emby Theater and the web app did this work years ago and that is why they have the feature.

 

We cannot prioritize this ahead of things like Live TV development and other broadly used features, but hopefully we will be able to get to it in the not so distant future. Thanks.

 

 

That is very true, there are other things with higher priority than video background. And the Ios implementation of it is very annoying lol

[Sammy 790]

It's getting closer.

 

Thanks.

 

Closer now??

 

I know there's been a lot of other priorities that are more appreciated but this is icing on the cake (for me anyhow)!

[Sammy 790]

This is a hard one that requires re-working the entire user interface so that video can be displayed underneath. Emby Theater and the web app did this work years ago and that is why they have the feature.

 

We cannot prioritize this ahead of things like Live TV development and other broadly used features, but hopefully we will be able to get to it in the not so distant future. Thanks.

 

For me, NUMBER ONE priority!

[ebr 16169]

We still have the roadblock mentioned above.

[Bigmack3000 107]

Didn't see this before starting the other thread.  Any updates on this?

[ebr 16169]

Sorry, not yet.  Again, the thing that continues to slow us down on this is the fact that there is no free and readily available source for this content so the feature only impacts a very small audience (and is far from trivial to implement properly).

 

Thanks for your patience.

[Bigmack3000 107]

Thanks.  I'm just curious if the following are two separate goals or both being help up by the same thing.  It seems like there's a holdup in how to pull videos from the internet to provide video backdrops (the way Emby already pulls photos for them).  Is the same thing holding up implementing video backdrops that we source ourselves and are already in the backdrop folder?

[Luke 42077]

Yes the main issue is the user interface development in the Android TV app.

[ScottRTL 6]

I'll +1 on this one too.

 

I really hope this is at least in the roadmap for a future release...

[andreash76 0]

I did buy all the plugins for 8$, but it seems it´s still useless since more than a year. I hope it´s getting implemented. I am running on FireTV and also Apple TV4K. Both have their topics (apple TV the translation it seems) for an example. 

 

Keep going the good work. I will 100% not going back to Plex anymore

Edited February 4, 2020 by andreash76

[Sammy 790]

I love the theme videos in the Web App and Theater. Sure wish they worked in AndroidTV et al.

[Beefy Banana 0]

Just bought the plugins and came looking to see why the theme videos weren't working on the Shield app. +1 for me as well would love to see this working

[lurch9366 16]

+1 for me. I rip my own content from blu-ray disk and am sure to add the "theme" blu ray menu video. This worked great on emby for wmc but since my switch to nvidia sheild due to the lack of win 7 support I really miss this.

 

Thanks Emby team for all your hard work!!!!

[the1legend 45]

+1 for me also. Adding my voice to the choir.

[Sammy 790]

Hi.  The app supports theme songs but not videos at this point.

 

Thanks.

 

 

Do you plan on adding video support at some point in the future?  Is it on the "todo-list"? 

 

 

It is on the list.

 

Thanks.

 

 

Soon?? PLEASE!

[Sammy 790]

 

Sorry, not yet.  Again, the thing that continues to slow us down on this is the fact that there is no free and readily available source for this content so the feature only impacts a very small audience (and is far from trivial to implement properly).

 

Thanks for your patience.

 

 

What if we add our own content just like with everything else in our libraries?

[Whupper 0]

+1 also for me. I would really like the Theme Videos feature on Android TV. Don't have any other feature requests than that.

[ThamerZ28 0]

+1 for me also, been waiting forever for this to work on android tv clients, just give us the option to add our own media/content, Please!