"Episode Title" & "Discord Poster" Bug Fix Solutions

[SirHacksABunch]

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues

Have you ran the program with debug logging?

• I used --log-level=debug when running the program

What went wrong?

Bug A: When enabling episode titles in the installer screen only the season and episode number display.
Bug B: Discord status shows image of media in a square format which cuts off aspect ratio.

SOLUTIONS:
A) When creating "main.js" from installer user prompt include the code to display episode title which is

"episodes": {
      "display": {
        "details_text": "{show-title}",
        "state_text": "S{season-padded}E{episode-padded} {sep} {title}",
        "image_text": "{show-title} ({year})"
      },
      "separator": "-"
    },

B) Specifically the best way to implement this fix is probably:
1: Have the Jellyfin retrieved image resized to 1024 H and 1024 W square without changing the image to fit the width (note this means the poster's vertical height won't be cut off the way it is currently in the Discord status)
2: Create a 171 pixel transparent space on the left side and right side of the square image so it creates the illusion of Discord displaying a proper poster

If you want the thought process for the solution please reference the documentation and explanation. Credit to this commernt and Plex-RPC's solution with code here for getting the solution started.

Terminal output

No response

Jellyfin-RPC version

1.3.3

What OS are you using?

Windows 11

What version is the Jellyfin server on?

10.10.7

Anything else?

No response

[SirHacksABunch]

If you're okay with a requerst; please consider having the ".EXE" start minimized and in system tray (where the "^" is on the right of the taskbar) instead of on the taskbar. Current fix is to hide the terminal application in system tray when minimized however this is for every terminal instance instead of the ".EXE" only

Creating a GUI or something which isn't a terminal script might work. Creating a shortcut on the ".EXE" and launching the shortcut stops the ".EXE" launches a minimized PowerShell window (with "Run" launch parameter of "Minimized" on the shortcut) however don't know how to get the shortcut into system tray. "--hidden" somewhere for the ".EXE" parameter might start it minimized in system tray.

[LeviSnoot]

I just created #197 which should fix your concerns for aspect ratio.

[LeviSnoot]

As for your second comment, the solution is simply to make jellyfin-rpc a service. You can use nssm on Windows to achieve this.

[SirHacksABunch]

I just created #197 which should fix your concerns for aspect ratio.

Clever workaround which probably looks better than the solution proposed in this thread. Thank you and cheers

As for your second comment, the solution is simply to make jellyfin-rpc a service. You can use nssm on Windows to achieve this.

Figured as much. Don't know if I want to keep it a service so will keep it how it is ("Terminal" window) because of the tradeoff. Thank you and cheers. Keeping the thread open so the first bug fix solution is seen

[SirHacksABunch]

@radiicall Want to confirm you've seen this please and thank you

[JustRadical]

Is this solved now with the merge of #197 and #206?

[LeviSnoot]

@SirHacksABunch I've made a PR (#228) to remove the background among other things, which I believe is something you requested here. Had considered it for a while, just needed to actually put the work in ^^