Movie Player Controls

TIVRA 2.0 ships a new dedicated movie player. It's tuned for Android TV hardware (hardware-overlay rendering, no Flutter compositor in the loop) which means smoother playback, faster scrubbing, and zero frame drops during normal viewing. Here's what each control does.

Showing the controls

By default the player is full-screen video — no UI on top. Press OK on the remote (or tap the screen on touch devices) to bring up the on-screen controller (OSC). It fades out automatically after 4-5 seconds of no input.

The OSC is a compact card at the bottom of the screen with:

• Title (top-left) and stream-info chip (top-right: resolution / codec / audio)
• Current position / total duration
• Seek bar
• Play/Pause button (default focus when OSC opens)
• Sub-menu icons below the card: Audio, Subtitles, Aspect Ratio

Scrubbing

With OSC open + focus on the seek bar:

• D-pad LEFT — rewind 10 seconds.
• D-pad RIGHT — fast-forward 10 seconds.
• Hold LEFT or RIGHT — the jump accelerates. Each accelerator tick doubles: 10s → 20s → 40s → 80s → 2 minutes (capped). A 2-second hold gets you ~2.5 minutes of seek; a 4-second hold gets you ~10 minutes.
• OK on the seek bar — toggles play/pause (same as TiViMate).
• BACK / UP / DOWN while holding LEFT or RIGHT — emergency stops the accelerator.

The seek doesn't fire during scrubbing — TIVRA accumulates the target on the seek bar visually and fires one player seek when you release. That's why long-distance scrubs are smooth (one rebuffer event) instead of choking (which happens in some other players that fire a seek per tick).

Audio tracks

For movies + series episodes with multiple audio tracks (dubbed languages, director commentary):

1. Bring up the OSC (OK).
2. D-pad DOWN to the sub-menu row. Audio is the leftmost icon (🎵).
3. Press OK. A picker opens with all audio tracks the source declares.
4. Pick the one you want. Playback switches immediately.

Language names come from the source's metadata (e.g. English, Spanish, French). If the source only declares ISO codes, TIVRA translates them automatically.

Subtitles

Subtitles are off by default for VOD playback. To enable:

1. OSC › sub-menu › Subtitles icon (💬, second from left).
2. The picker opens with Off at the top, then each available subtitle track.
3. Pick a track — subtitles render on top of the video.
4. Switch back to Off to hide them.

Subtitle availability depends on the source. Most providers don't include subtitles in their VOD streams — if the picker only shows "Off", the source doesn't carry any.

Aspect ratio

Three modes cycle when you press OK on the Aspect icon (📐, third from left):

• Fit (default) — preserves the video's native aspect. Black bars on the side or top/bottom if the video doesn't match your screen.
• Fill — zooms in uniformly to fill both dimensions, cropping the edges that don't fit.
• Stretch — stretches non-uniformly to fill. Distorts the picture. Useful occasionally; usually not.

Most modern movies are 16:9 — on a 16:9 TV all three modes look identical. The difference shows up on 4:3 classic content or 21:9 cinemascope.

Exiting playback

Press BACK on the remote. TIVRA:

1. Saves your current position to Continue Watching.
2. Scrobbles to Trakt (if connected).
3. Returns you to whatever page you came from (movie detail, series detail, home).

Behavior is hierarchical — if a sub-menu / picker / overlay is open, BACK closes that first. Press BACK again to exit playback.

Stream-info chip

The top-right of the OSC card shows what the player is actually decoding — e.g. 1080p · H264 · AAC 5.1 or 4K · HEVC · EAC3 5.1. Useful to confirm you're getting the source you paid for (some providers advertise 4K but stream 720p; the chip tells the truth).

Live TV vs VOD

The above controls are for the VOD player (movies, series episodes, recordings). Live TV uses a slightly different overlay with EPG program info, the live buffer seek bar, channel switching, etc. — see the live TV guide for those.