We would like to feature 3-4 videos in our sidebar widget (e.g. create a video gallery as an option). Would it be possible to feature thumbnails for the videos in the sidebar view, then when a user clicks one of the thumbnails, the Widget switches to fullscreen view to play the video?

john h

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I would like to do something quite similar. I have a grid of videos and when you click on one it will slide the sidebar away and play the video. When pressing the 'Return' button on the remote it should pull up the widget menu but keep the fullscreen video view playing in the background.

I tried to toggle in my FullScreenView class but I think that allows the fullscreen view to pass through regular TV signals but what I wanted was the selected video.

CODE

 config: {
    // this will enable pass through video
    showPassthroughVideo: true
  },