The new video player on Android TV no longer displays the text overlay in the upper left corner when showing the play pause etc. You can get the info, but it requires navigating menus. Can we please not remove such a useful feature? Being able to tap a button and see that the player is or isn’t tra…

You only need to dig into the menus to activate it, after that, it’ll appear every time the HUD is visible, like the old one. :slight_smile:

So I figured I’d give the latest beta version a go, maybe see how these “Nerd Settings” look. However, I can’t see to be able to select the three-dots options button in the lower right of the new player in order to activate them. I can highlight the mini-player option just next to it, but I can’t hi…

Yeah, that’s a bug that’ll be fixed in the next beta :sweat_smile: I’ll need to follow up on our new Nerd Settings :slight_smile:

Commenting to prevent this from closing… Still don’t see any option to enable this in my player.

Nope. A lot of stuff was added recently (including moving Settings to the very bottom - WHY???), but no Nerd Settings.

agreed. I REALLY dislike the new player!! with the old player and orange bar you have a visual representation of exactly where you are in the file as you fast forward, rewind or even hit pause. all of the info you need is visible. the new player gives us nothing! when I fast forward I see a circle…

Can you guys please stop setting my client to use the new player? It reverts to the new player at least once a week. And the new player fails to play in most cases…

same here! I’m constantly resetting it back to the old (good) player. I wish we could just opt out of the new player. it’s terrible!!

The old player (which had plenty of issues) will be going away. It’s better to use the new player and report any issues you find than simply switching to the old player. If we aren’t aware of whatever issue you’re seeing prior to removing the old player, we won’t be able to fix it. :man_shrugging:

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The nerd stats aren’t out yet, but was just informing that there will be something in future

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