Hello,
is it possible for Infuse on Apple TV and on iPad use embedded landscape artwork as newer Apples apps?
On my computer im using Apples TV app to view movies from my server. It uses landscape artwork and so are my files with embedded metadata and landscape artwork.
Infuse is using older style portrait artwork and so browsing my files is looking really silly.
Currently I donāt think either source for metadata that Infuse uses offers posters in the landscape orientation, only the portrait mode.
I donāt think the current posters would look very good stretched to landscape.
Landscape posters are not portrait posters stretched wide. So landscape posters do look better to a lot of us. Infuse canāt please everyone, but the more they do please, the better.
I use Infuse to watch YouTube videos, which I download using youtube-dl. YouTube videos come with a landscape thumbnail, which I save as -fanart.jpg. I make a āposterā .jpg file by embedding the thumbnail in an image with black bars at the top and bottom.
There isnāt a way to only use landscape artwork, is there? I donāt have any movies in Infuse!
Good idea!
Just adding my vote for landscape view.
I too do not care for movies at all. I mainly watch Twitch and YouTube with my Apple TV.
I am getting really jaded with videos disappearing from YouTube without any notice, some of those videos I come back time and again year after year.
So now I keep an offline copy of my favorites. Those videos can be anything from a music video, a small vlog, a twitch clip, ā¦
ā¦ all of them are in landscape.
Looking at Infuse screenshots I really thought this would work. The homepage of the app on ATV after all suggests that the thumbnails are landscape, but once you go into a favorite , instead there is a really odd looking grid of posters.
Iād be more than happy to even pay for a Pro version that has the option.
Suggested implmentation:
I think the simplest is to add a choice of LANDSCAPE / POSTER orientation view, in the options for a Favorite
ā¦ maybe even ājustā add it as a third option to the existing āgrid modeā : the existing list view with landscape art and long text to the side is almost there, add a third mode with the landscape thumbs, add the title below the thumbnail, and display them in a grid.
you already have support for the thumbnails ( videofilename.jpg ) ā¦ so that is already covered, if like me you have like favorites on youtube youāve been watching many times, yhe thumbnail is very familiar, and lets you recognise the video instantly, so
I assume if the user switches the view ( existing grid / list icon ) it is remembered per folder, so to avoid disturbing existing users, assuming watching movies is the main use case, then just let us manually switch to a grid of landscape thumbs, and nobody else is affected
I wouldnāt bother even supporting a mix of both thumbnail formats. I think long form movies and clips downloaded from various places should probably be sorted in separate folders anyway.
Agree that we can find Backdrops on TMDB.
For example: Venom2
In front of the Backdrops, you can present the video name. Awesome!
I suppose they are providing API to load.
A good suggestion.
Good suggestion
fabd-tv, yep, it would be great.
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Can we have an option for displaying thumbnails rather than posters?
What do you perceive as the differences between the two and for TV show or movies, or both?
-thumbnails are wide and are screenshots of episodes and/or the movie
-both
What device and what section are you referring to?
This is probably my main reason for not completely switching to infuse. I use jellyfin(which is in constant alpha mode) for this
Infuse could add this by reusing existing functionality 
Overriding Artwork and Metadata ā Firecore Support
Adding a landscape / portrait switch that can be overriden perhaps at folder level, would have some additional benefits
I was glad to see even Alex Lindsay of TWIT felt similar, he was talking about how Netflix keeps changing their movie posters and how itās confusing because you donāt know if youāve already seen something. But here it is a similar UX problem, you pick one image, then youāre shown another in the ārecently viewedā.
If I can have my videos shown in landscape view (like on YouTube), then it is a consistent UX from when I pick a movie or personal video - to what I see in the āRecently watchedā row
In fact to please everyone - in the WATCHING row (top rowo n APple TV app) - I would simply show either portrait , or landscape, depending what setting is in the folder where the movie was picked from - then the user has a consistent experience , seeing ONE image for any movie they recently watched, whether it is portrait or landscape (the portraits and landscapes would be aligned to the same height, and simply put one after the other in a row - kinda like sometimes youtube shows a square image for a āSongā in the recommened videos)
Hope this makes sense
ps: I would also add that Infuse needs to think wider here - and acknowledge that nowadays there are plenty of perfectly LEGIT services, where you can download videos after you join - and which you might want to watch on your TV. You can download videos from VIMEO if Iām not mistaken ,and other sites, many that donāt fit in the simple āMOVIE or SERIESā category. - a common example is instructional style videos - those have a long āshelf lifeā and you might want to be able to watch them on your TV - and itās really cool in Infuse how you can keep track of how much youāve watched and pick up any time later! If only it didnāt look so bad with all the clipped portrait thumbnails! Most of these donāt have a poster - but they often do have a landscape thumbnail of some sort.
As an iOS, tvOS, and macOS Infuse user, in the Files views, Iām forced to choose between basic folder icons with no artwork or contend with the tradeoff of funny looking folder artwork that is either cropped or stretched to fit. As such, Iād like to request a way to specify a horizontal and vertical folder.png/.jpg for use with each icon type for local content. This would improve the UI experience greatly for local content users like myself.
Are there any plans on the roadmap to support using 16:9 landscape āposterā artwork vs the current 2x3 as an option? More towards how ATV has artwork displayed? Thanks!
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