# Hide buffer/loading dialogue

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/hide-buffer-loading-dialogue/497344>\
**Category:** Feature Suggestions\
**Created:** [November 26, 2019, 6:26pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/hide-buffer-loading-dialogue/497344 "2019-11-26T18:26:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![liammiller](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@liammiller](https://forums.plex.tv/u/liammiller)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2019, 6:26pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/hide-buffer-loading-dialogue/497344/1 "2019-11-26T18:26:45Z")

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Recently turned on trailers and added a custom pre-roll video and I’m loving it! However, seeing what trailer is about to play with the spinning circle and then seeing the name of the pre-roll video while it loads is totally killing the movie-going experience.

Can we get an option to suppress these loading dialogues and show a black screen? Or better yet, have the movie or next trailer begin loading before the previous one is finished?

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**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2019, 9:38pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/hide-buffer-loading-dialogue/497344/2 "2019-11-26T21:38:57Z")

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There’s already a similar request with a number of votes attached to it…  
Please search before posting new suggestions. This will help avoid distracting votes on the same topic between different similar requests.

Therefore closing this one as duplicate

> [@Seamless Transition Between Pre-rolls & Movies](https://forums.plex.tv/t/seamless-transition-between-pre-rolls-movies/286361):
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> I have been using Plex for quite sometime now and I am absolutely loving it. One feature in particular I have grown to enjoy is the pre-roll functionality. I have my own local pre-roll videos stored on my server along with my content and one thing that tends to break the, “movie theater experience”, is when the Plex app transitions from the pre-roll video to the movie. This is not necessarily a buffering issue as the files play fine. The main issue is that the title/details information pop-u…

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**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2019, 9:39pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/hide-buffer-loading-dialogue/497344/3 "2019-11-26T21:39:03Z")

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**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2021, 2:15pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/hide-buffer-loading-dialogue/497344/4 "2021-06-10T14:15:58Z")

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