Microtube

Sorry for being unable to express myself better. I try to explain what I'm experiencing. This is a long writing and landscape mode app cover issue is presented also in the end of the post. Please, take your time to try out the steps I have presented. I'm pretty sure you'll understand. I also think that fixing the brightness issue won't take as much time as it took for me to write all this down.

My use  case is following:

I like to listen to some youtube channels while driving my car, I'm not watching the videos. I'm using Pitot and Pure Maps while driving. My XA2 phone has orientation patch so I the app covers rotate to landscape mode. In app cover view I can see my speed from Pitot's cover and from Pure Maps cover I see how far is the next turm, how far is the destination and how long it will take to drive there.

Usually, I start driving to home while the sun is up, so the display brightness is relatively high. When I'm back at home the sun have set already and it's dark. Thus, I must adjust the brightness on the way so that it's comfortable. As I have my phone in landscape orientation and I have started microtube while the display brightness was high, every time I go back to microtube to change the video, the brightness is set back to bright value. Even though I change the display brightness to dimmer value later.

I have bolded the text where it goes wrong (in my opinion). You can try it yourself:

(0. Close microtube if it's running)

1. Set brightness to high value (no matter if your phone is in landscape or portrait orientation)
2. Open the microtube
3. Open some video in microtube 
4. Turn your phone to landscape mode to view full screen
5. Change the brightness to dimmer while still in landscape orientation (it doesn't matter if you do it by gesture or "manually" from phone's settings)
6. Rotate your phone to portrait orientation (the brightness is set automatically back to brighter value by microtube)
7. Change the brightness to dimmer while still in portrait orientation
8. Turn the phone back to landscape orientation (the brightness is set to dimmer value automatically by microtube)
9. Turn phone back to portrait orientation (now the display gets brighter even though you have set the brightness dimmer in portrait orientation in step 7!)
10. Set the brightness back to dimmer value while still in portrait orientation
11. Swipe from right to switch to cover view (now the display gets brighter even though you have set the brightness dimmer in portrait orientation in step 10!)
12. Change the display brightness in cover view back to dimmer
13. Go back to microtube while in portrait orientation (OK, the brightness statys dim)
14. Swipe from right to see the cover view (now the display gets brighter even though you have set the brightness dimmer in step 12!)
15. Now every time you open the microtube by tapping the app cover and then come back to cover view by swiping from right, the display brightness is as bright as you set in step 1. You can try to change the brightness in or out microtube, in landscape or portrait orientation, it doesn't help. Every single time you come from microtube back to app cover view the brightness is changed to the bright value by microtube.

Another issue is the video scaling for cover view in landscape orientation. The cover shows the video only partially (top left corner). The cover view is fine in portrait orientation.

Thanks for the update to come and fast reaction :)

Thanks for the reply! If there is something I can try to help figuring this out, let me know.

I supposed that the intention is that the brightness obeys the display brightness setting from phone's Settings.

FYI: I don't use automatic brightness setting. Device is single SIM XA2.

Yesyes

Thanks for the reply, and also for the speed of the reply :) Gread to hear that resolution selection is already implemented. It sounds like you've already thought of much of what I suggested.

"i have no idea what you mean. Could you explain?"

As I say, this is totally not important, just eye-candy, if it's not easy to do it's probably not with the effort. In YTPlayer when a video is playing and you're on the multi-tasking view in sailfish you can see the video playing on the YTPlayer's app thumbnail. I'm suggesting microtube might do the same.

A couple more bugs...

Microtube is now telling me to "check internet connection". This happens both on mobile broadband and wifi. Is it happening for anyone else? It may not be a problem with the app, could youtube have changed something at their end? Could something have broken with my installation? Frustrating.

Error messages displayed in the find list, for instance the "check internet connection" mentioned above, or the message allowing loading of more finds, have the same drop-down menu as actual videos. Adding such system messages as subscriptions seems odd. Come to think of it, could attempting to do so be the thing that broke my microtube?