The player control bar sometimes stay visible

[TheFrenchGhosty]

Sometimes the player control bar will stay visible, it only seems to happen if the user interacted with it (including pausing/resuming).

This is completely inconsistent and maybe happen for 1 our of 10 videos. This is one of the biggest UX frontend bug currently.

Previous issue (containing potentially useful information):

When using the "Invidious" theme for the player, if the user change the quality (using dash) after going full-screen the control bar will always stay visible, requiring a refresh of the page.

The only way to have a specific quality AND the video in full-screen is to set the quality, then go full-screen.

This is a massive UX issue.

Edit: this is actually inconsistent, no idea what is the actual cause.

[no-realm]

@TheFrenchGhosty While not ideal, paste the following into the browser console, and then move the mouse over the player, which should fix the control bar:

player.options_.inactivityTimeout = 2000

2000 is the default value, but feel free to use a different one.

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[WaywardHeart]

Videojs fixed this in videojs/video.js#7383, which landed in v7.15.1.

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[foxjaw]

Is this progressing btw ? I'm keen to look into this issue.

[unixfox]

No. We are stuck in old videojs version due to #2848

[NolonQ]

I think i'm affected by this bug aswell #4461