Cover Art Resize (Folder.jpg)

[unisoft 352]

Using the current released Apple TV Emby app on Apple TV 4K.

 

My Apple TV movies display correctly as portrait cover art.

 

For my TV my Folder.jpg is 250(w)x150(h) but it was carefully cropped to enable default landscape or resize to portrait without looking "squished".

 

All the other Emby apps (bar the very latest ROKU release last week v3.0 build 153) resize them to fit within the portrait frame.

 

On Apple app, for my TV library it seems to cut the middle bit of the image and shows the cropped middle bit of the image instead.

 

Could this be fixed to resize within the frame in next general release update please?

 

Also be happy when 24p switching is implemented.

[Luke 42077]

Hi there, can you show a screenshot to demonstrate the issue? Thanks !

[unisoft 352]

Hi there, can you show a screenshot to demonstrate the issue? Thanks !

 

Hmm will be hard to show as if I blur out /obfuscate the content (for copyright holder reasons) you wont see what I mean.

 

I have edited an example below to show. Rather than taking the 250(w)x150(h) image (they are all this size for my tv) and just fit it to the image frame placeholder like most of the Emby apps do, it does similar to the example below. This is different to the Roku new version that was released last week that just shows the image as 250x150 (and annoying as changed !)

 

Example - shows it does resize vertically to fit the frame, but just chops the sides off. All of the covers look like this and very hard to make out some as a result.

 

Edited April 2, 2019 by unisoft

[Luke 42077]

Sorry, just having a hard time visualizing what is happening. But yes this probably needs improvement.

[unisoft 352]

If the layout is 2:3, the app is currently doing the right thing. It should not be stretching or cropping a 16:9 image into a 2:3 slot because you'll barely be able to see the contents.

 

The fix is that the app should adapt to the images and use 16:9 placeholders instead, however, what I'm trying to say is that this is more difficult on Roku than on other platforms.

 

But the thing is, because I cropped the image carefully originally - the 250x150 scales OK into the image frame and you can see it. I did not use a full size portrait dvd cover originally and shrink to 250x150.

 

As I said, on the Roku this was working till the new version last week, and Apple TV I have only recently purchased so not sure if the image handling has always been this way on Apple TV. The LG, Samsung, Web and Android apps DO resizing as of today and work well. The Apple TV app is actually the worst at resizing at the moment as it attempts it of sorts...

Edited April 2, 2019 by unisoft

[ebr 16169]

Luke - this is the same odd aspect primary images for items as he is reporting in the Roku.  The Apple TV app is doing a center crop on it instead of showing it very small or distorting the image.

 

On Apple TV, we should be able to adjust dynamically - in the rows but not the grids.

 

unisoft - where, exactly, is the above image from?

[Luke 42077]

 

 

But the thing is, because I cropped the image carefully originally - the 250x150 scales OK into the image frame and you can see it

 

Understood, but this is the needs of the few vs. the needs of the many. For our audience as a whole, the images should not be stretching or cropping a 16:9 image into a 2:3 slot because you'll barely be able to see the contents.

[unisoft 352]

Luke - this is the same odd aspect primary images for items as he is reporting in the Roku. The Apple TV app is doing a center crop on it instead of showing it very small or distorting the image.

 

On Apple TV, we should be able to adjust dynamically - in the rows but not the grids.

 

unisoft - where, exactly, is the above image from?

It was a mock but basically similar. I didn't want to photo the screen as away from home at the moment. But yes it's doing a centre crop when I go into my TV library. Edited April 2, 2019 by unisoft

[ebr 16169]

Okay, so it is in the single grid of shows.

[unisoft 352]

Okay, so it is in the single grid of shows.

So as you guys were naughty and removed something that used to resize on the fly without any warning in any blog or release notes, and haven't actually coded Lukes fix of showing images as landscape when detected instead of portrait; do I go ahead and use a bulk image resize tool to get them to 180(w) x 240(h) which was the size for mb 2.6.2?

 

I do get about having to re-add code and need to optimise but I want to be sure in case in next couple of versions you do add the code to detect landscape/16:9 or you decide this is now normal for TV images!

 

Bearing in mind other parts of TV like next up is already landscape images.

 

Should I resize them to 180x240? I can't re download new thousands of images for example and the existing images would look OK resized for most of them.

Edited April 3, 2019 by unisoft

[Luke 42077]

Using a 2:3 aspect ratio is our suggestion, yes. We intend to make the changes I outlined earlier, you just have to be aware that it's harder to accomplish on Roku & Apple TV and so we have to balance the importance of doing that vs. development of other features.

[unisoft 352]

Using a 2:3 aspect ratio is our suggestion, yes. We intend to make the changes I outlined earlier, you just have to be aware that it's harder to accomplish on Roku & Apple TV and so we have to balance the importance of doing that vs. development of other features.

 

Resized all the tv covers now, and replaced some that were too compressed ones that were done years ago when more aggressive on jpeg compression.

 

For anyone else in this boat, I used a bulk image resizer tool called "Image Resizer for Windows" by Brice Lambson.

 

Most tools wanted to create a copy to another folder. This tool I just did a search for FOLDER.JPG in Windows Explorer in my TV library media folder and selected them all and right clicked for explorer context menu of "Resize pictures" which brings up the options for size. It kept all the images in the original folder and you can set the jpeg compression value.

 

As I wanted to have all the pictures the same dimensions, there was an interesting bug in its GUI - it had to be unticked to work for "ignore the orientation of pictures" option shown in screen shot below else I found it didn't resize all to b the same.

 

 

My HTPC which has Media Browser 2.6.2 (I'll consider Emby later for this device when Live TV EPG more complete) seems OK with the resized cover art.

 

The Apple TV and the Roku apps are now displaying the covers as expected, however, the Apple TV gets the auto download of TV channel logos in the EPG wrong and doesn't auto resize on the fly properly. These are downloaded as part of the EPG data so the team should still look at this bit.

 

Now Luke, if you go changing the dimensions again, I am going to hunt you down personally lol

Edited April 16, 2019 by unisoft

[Luke 42077]

No plans to change them again. Glad you have that situated now.