Beta: tvOS & iPad Multiview

All seems stable. Would request being able to move between channel collections. For example, would like to build a multi view using my default collection and E-Plus TV collection. While I can do this with all channels, I have to scroll thru hundreds of channels.

Thanks for a great enhancement.

Just a thought.....

I was wondering if anyone would think if it would be beneficial to show a channel number on the active channel for 3 seconds and it would fade away.. Active meaning when changing channel that the sound comes from. Since the channels could get re-arranged due to how many is viewed and which one is being viewed.

I just did a pass with showing the channel icon in a corner (like a bug) for inactive channels, and it wasn't that great.

The issue is that every corner conflicts with visible content in some way, and the bottom will too with sports bugs.

I'll keep thinking about it, but the idea of making it just flash for a second isn't a bad idea either, as you can just sort of focus a channel and let it flash a hint.

Over the course of the past 5+ years I've tinkered pretty extensively with ALL of the previous multiview approaches discussed here. Some are 3rd party apps and some are homebrew programs that integrate with CDVR. Each has their own pros and cons. Native integration inside Channels feels the best so far to us though!

I also agree a quick "channel name fade" could be a nice option, I tinkered with the same with this project and it's been helpful UI:

We use 2x2 grid most frequently these days. So the first question asked was, can the grid be enlarged to take up the full screen? The large black border feels like a lot of wasted space.

This is the Channels' multiview beta:

And here's a news grid via Multichannel View... before the aforementioned channel names fade:

And here's how 2x2 multiview looks in the Fubo app:

I also quite like the white line border around the actively-unmuted stream. This is in addition to a little speaker icon in the bottom left, but ideally both would be optional.

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Oh wow, such wonderful work as always!

Totally fair on the error! I managed to get sorted anyway.

The latest TestFlight beta adds network logo flashing when focusing a player. It will show it for a short moment to hint at the channel and fade it away.

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Amazing work here! Hoping to not have to use all the multi viewers programs I have collected! This is already working better than them!

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As of the latest TestFlight beta, we now have our first setting. Roomy Spacing!

You can now optionally turn off the default spacing to utilize the full view for your players.

  1. There is no more spacing between players
  2. Border color is used to denote focus, instead of resizing animations

It's defaulted to On.

Example Shots

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It’s absolutely beautiful. :star_struck: Fantastic work is brewing here. :stars:

Agreed! Very Nice!

Sent in another crash report. This time when closing down the number of streams from 3 to 2.

What source where you trying to close. If its HD HomeRun that is a known issue.

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Is the crash happening with interlaced channels? (CBS, ABC)

Any patterns you can detect would be helpful

I know my 1080 channels are interlace and I hate it (AKA fast motion in sports looks bad). But how can you tell if the sub channels are interlace? Is there an indication in the show stats?

@maddox , as a Android user, I use TiviMate and it works well, so not feeling completely left out. But I'd love to see that the Android community gets access this as well as I'd prefer to have a single platform to leverage being able to watch multiple games at once (and not have to deal with my 5 client limit that TiviMate has). My ask, don't let this turn into another Apple Only feature (ie Download).

Thanks.

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Let me say again how amazing this is!

If you need someone to test the 9 stream version, I'm your guy :smile:

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Just tried this. AWESOME!

Only one complaint, the purple background kills it for me.

Really needs full black background for all view modes.

EDIT: Turned off roomy spacing, that helps, on specific full screen views, but the rest still show purple fill.

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Well I did some testing and if I go to Advanced and change the Deinterlacing Mode from Hardware to Blend (30fps) the crashing stops. If I change it back to Hardware then it crashes again. So maybe something to do with the hardware deinterlacing mode.

Changing the setting to Linear (60fps) also stops the crashing.

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@maddox this is awesome. One question, would it be possible to have some sort of a mini grid guide instead of the tile guide? When you are in a large channel collection it takes a lot of scrolling right. Also its harder to see all the details in tile view.

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Thanks. Issue with HW deinterlacer is fixed.

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