How about increasing the zoom amount in Grid View of the Media Server? Things are a bit small on my 75" TV.
for this use case there is PMP with its
“tv fullscreen mode”
@demoni said:
I don’t have that option.
This icon is only visible on the main page of PMP.
This screenshot was taken while already within a library.
And it will only work in the Plex Media Player .
This is not the same as the plex web app which will open a web browser to run.
Plex Media Player is a separate (free) download.
OK, I see. But it’s in the Plex Media Server I want larger poster icons.
They’re already big enough in the Media Player.
@demoni said:
OK, I see. But it’s in the Plex Media Server I want larger poster icons.
They’re already big enough in the Media Player.
I don’t understand what you are trying to achieve.
The Plex web app is not written for the use on a tv screen.
What you need there is a so-called “10-foot UI”.
And that is exactly what PMP gives you in its ‘full screen’ mode.
The user experience will be a much better one with your use case.
A web browser on a tv screen is rarely working satisfactorily.
I’m attaching a picture of the Plex Media Server (found on Google). Where you change the posters and titles and other metadata in you library. This is where I would like larger poster art.
Your screen shot is a bit outdated.
There is now a slider available which you can use to scale the posters.
This screen shot was made on a 1080p resolution, which gives you 8 posters in a row. This is much bigger than in your screen shot.
You can experiment with some command line parameters when starting PMP, but I don’t give you any guarantees that this hasn’t some negative side effect. These are primarily for development.
Edit the shortcut for starting PMP and append --desktop --fullscreen --scale-factor=1.1 as command line parameters.
You can experiment with the scale-factor value.
But: as I said, you are using the ‘web app’ view of PMP which is not made to be looked at from a greater distance. That is what the 10-foot UI is for in PMP’s ‘tv full screen’ mode.
This screenshot was taken at 1080p resolution in the ‘tv mode’ of the new PMP preview.
As you can see, it is much more suitable for a bigger viewing distance.
If you are using the web interface on a browser, you can try to zoom the page using CTRL+ and CTRL-, I don’t remember if it works or if it creates some visual clash though
I have the slider at max. My TV (and Mac mini) resolution is 3840 x 2160 pixels, so even at max things look small. The zooming effect in Safari is an option (that I use on IMDb and other web pages), but I’d like to avoid this whenever I can.
Guess I’m asking for something that’s really not a problem, but it was just a suggestion now that 4k and ultra-HD TV’s are becoming the standard in peoples homes.
@demoni said:
I have the slider at max. My TV (and Mac mini) resolution is 3840 x 2160 pixels, so even at max things look small. The zooming effect in Safari is an option (that I use on IMDb and other web pages), but I’d like to avoid this whenever I can.
Since you mention a 4K resolution and Safari, isn’t there an option in OSX to “scale” the graphics, like on retina displays? Or 4K TVs are not recognized as “retina”?
@zpaolo11x said:
Since you mention a 4K resolution and Safari, isn’t there an option in OSX to “scale” the graphics, like on retina displays? Or 4K TVs are not recognized as “retina”?
There is a scale option, but I want the full resolution and that’s 3840x2160. This is the max value under the scale option, and also the resolution that get selected when I put it on auto.
@demoni said:
Since you mention a 4K resolution and Safari, isn’t there an option in OSX to “scale” the graphics, like on retina displays? Or 4K TVs are not recognized as “retina”?
There is a scale option, but I want the full resolution and that’s 3840x2160. This is the max value under the scale option, and also the resolution that get selected when I put it on auto.
I’ll check with my HD TV and my macbook pro, AFAIK the “scaling” Mac OS does on “retina” display retains the full resolution, but with crisper graphics. That is, unlike on old Windows where you can set a lower resolution, and therefore you’ll have larger items because of “larger pixels”, Mac OS is in fact enlarging the graphics, retaining the screen resolution for all elements (like pictures etc).
Early 2021 clean-up: implemented (using PMP; slider in Plex Web)
