When watching live TV and the signal degrades, the playback status bar will be displayed for a few seconds. If the signal quality improves, this UI element eventually goes away.
What's the value in having the playback status bar displayed when this happens? I'd rather it not come up at all unless I press a button on the remote.
You should be able to turn that off in Settings > Playback > Signal Notifications
I think they mean the bottom timeline bar comes up, not the bad signal notification up at the top right.
Yeah hate that too I wish we can turn off the Playback Status bar totally.
I have Signal Notifications turned OFF and that does stop a pop-up from showing, but I'm actually referring to the Playback status bar at lower portion of the screen with the timeline/scrubber.
I'm really curious as to what the reason for displaying this UI element when the signal degrades. If there's a good reason for it, fine, leave it that way, but I'd like to know why it's this way.
Does viewing a slightly time-shifted live stream keep this from showing? Maybe that's a workaround when my antenna signal goes to crap from a storm?
OK. Didn't know w/Signal Notifications turned OFF that it would do that. Sounds annoying.
I don't experience signal issues with my HDHR Prime and don't use an HDHR OTA tuner.
The timeline bar is displayed when the player is buffering. That buffering can happen when the signal has degraded enough to prevent realtime playback.
Yes, if you have enough of a buffer, you won't be buffering and it won't pop up, you'll just see the visual glitches in the feed.
It covers too much real estate on the screen and at times covers the CC. can an option be added to disable it.? Why is it necessary to pop up ?
I feel the same way about the timeline bar in the web UI Player, taking up too much screen real estate.
An option to disable it entirely is best, or to quick dismiss it would be great. How about a way to bring it up for those that like it and leave the rest of us enjoying the video we're watching.
It's like the friggin' annoying banners and popups on web pages. WE USE COOKIES! (Really, tell me about that, NOT.)
It would be cool to have the ability to override the default css in the apps.
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