@kingargyle:
re: Serenity 1.4.3-M2
I noticed an odd but harmless error in the browsing of episodes of a show season, using poster ViewMode.
When I used DPad-Left at the 1st episode, thus 'backing' to the last episode of the season, and then immediately thereafter used DPad-Right to go back again, this did not restore exactly the list I had before those movements. Most entries were OK, except the one that should have shown episode 3, which instead showed a duplicate of episode 1, both for the thumbnail and its meta-data info text. Scrolling back and forth so that the affected list entry left the screen momentarily seemed to fix the problem, so it's probably harmless. But it does recur consistently whenever I scroll episodes past the season start/end point like that. This error may well have existed in earlier versions too, having gone unnoticed in earlier tests.
Another very minor irritation is that the 'watched' flags are not drawn onto thumbnails/posters directly as you exit from viewing or sublist browsing. They are only drawn after the object (thumbnail or poster) has left the screen by some other operation (sidescrolling or entering exiting another show/season). The watched flags set or cleared by context menu command, on the other hand, are drawn immediately as the command is given, so those commands are already OK.
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@dlanor
I do not totally adhere to your opinion. Nevertheless, I only have 200 shows and I use 13 click and less that 2s in high speed to pass through with “fast forward/backward” button. So for me is enough.[/size]
That would correspond to the L1 and R1 buttons of the OUYA gamepad, but using these is not a feasible form of browsing for me, since the sideways jump then skips past more posters than the screen can display, so that some of the shows never are displayed on screen in such scrolling. It's obviously a faster scroll method (5 seconds for my shows section), and that is good, but it's not good for browsing as some content is passed by invisibly (3 posters per scroll-jump).
This is possibly in part due to the limited resolution of the OUYA, whose software drivers allow only for a maximum of 720p, even when the hardware uses 1080p. (So the hype advertising the OUYA as using 1080p is all lies. Only the hardware signal is 1080p, but all graphics rendering is 720p at best.) And this may have led Serenity to miscalculate the fast forward/reverse jump 'distance'.
However, I effectively asked and I suppose the issue is still open to be able to browse in counter clockwise (from the first show going directly to the last browsing to the left). Therefore, it will be more easy to access them. It already works for movies & episodes, but it could be inserting to have it for Shows & Seasons as well.[/size]
I agree that it would be good for the interface to be consistent in all list navigation. And it could be very useful for show lists, whether complete or 'First Letter' filtered. The usefulness for seasons is not so great, but I'm still all for consistency in this.
I saw another option in Samsung TV client, with up and bottom arrow from Dpad, it is possible to find the first letter of the show/movie. Nevertheless, from my point of view it is not “wife compliant” and it take even longer time than Fast (forward/backward).[/size]
Even so, fast first-letter search in a complete list can be extremely useful. That's the method I use in Plex/Web almost every time I need to find something fast, using its alphabetic 'Jump bar' at the right edge of either Movie or TV Show lists.
Anyway, I also asked for a semi-grid view for episodes like Confluence/Amber skins have, but only for look and feel purposes. [/size]
For me it's also an issue of browsing functionality, but since we agree that it should be implemented our varying reasons for this don't really matter. As I stated earlier, I see no reason to treat list navigation differently for movies and the top-level show lists. So I clearly agree with you on your 'look and feel' issue.
Best regards: dlanor
