# No user progress indicators between trailers or playlist items

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/no-user-progress-indicators-between-trailers-or-playlist-items/409625>\
**Category:** Feature Suggestions\
**Tags:** playlists\
**Created:** [May 9, 2019, 1:46am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/no-user-progress-indicators-between-trailers-or-playlist-items/409625 "2019-05-09T01:46:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![seanrowley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecc23a/32.png) [@seanrowley](https://forums.plex.tv/u/seanrowley)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 1:46am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/no-user-progress-indicators-between-trailers-or-playlist-items/409625/1 "2019-05-09T01:46:07Z")

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It would be a nice option to present content in “cinematic mode.” Ideally we could turn off all user interface progress indicators (progress bars, spinning wheels) when playing a playlist or theatrical trailers before a movie.

This would make for a more theatrical presentation, with just a quick black screen between videos or trailers instead of Plex remind us that we’re streaming content from a computer.

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**Author:** ![OttoKerner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/ottokerner/32/10079_2.png) [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 9:38am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/no-user-progress-indicators-between-trailers-or-playlist-items/409625/2 "2019-05-09T09:38:41Z")

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This sounds very similar to

> [@Buffer main movie during Pre-roll (mod: and/or trailer)](https://forums.plex.tv/t/buffer-main-movie-during-pre-roll/373636/1):
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> I don’t think I’ve seen this. I did search, promise! Wouldn’t it be great if whilst during a Preroll the Plex client is buffering the main title bring requested? Would make the Preroll have an extra function and would reduce the ‘buffering’ which so greatly annoys people grinning I mount a cloud drive which hosts my media. The Preroll video is kept locally so this plays immediately, when the actual movie starts it then has to buffer/transcode from the cloud drive which could ideally be done …

and also

> [@Seamless Transition Between Pre-rolls & Movies](https://forums.plex.tv/t/seamless-transition-between-pre-rolls-movies/286361/1):
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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…

Therefore this one is closed.  
Votes are given back to the users who voted on this request. Please think of re-voting in the other thread if you still want it.

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**Author:** ![OttoKerner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/ottokerner/32/10079_2.png) [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 9:39am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/no-user-progress-indicators-between-trailers-or-playlist-items/409625/3 "2019-05-09T09:39:32Z")

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