Video Player

Pressing Play anywhere in the Android apps opens the full-screen video player. The controls appear when you need them and hide while you watch.

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TV Controls

On the TV apps you drive the player with the remote:

• Up, or any transport button - shows the controls.
• Left / Right - moves a marker along the timeline, 15 seconds a press and faster while held. The rewind and fast-forward buttons move it a minute at a time.
• OK - jumps to the marker when you’ve moved it, and otherwise plays or pauses.
• Down or Menu - opens the options panel.
• Back - cancels a seek, then hides the controls, then leaves the player.

The top of the screen shows the title, year and content rating, with a badge saying how the stream is delivered: Direct Play when the file plays untouched, Remux when the video is copied but another track is converted, Transcode when the server re-encodes the video. On a movie, up to six of the billed cast line the edges of the picture while the controls are up.

Mobile Controls

On Mobile, tap the picture to show or hide the controls, and drag along the timeline to seek, which happens when you let go. The same delivery badge sits at the top, between the back arrow that closes the player and a full-screen button that turns the phone to landscape and hides the system bars. The gear opens the options sheet.

A video keeps playing in a picture-in-picture window when you leave the app, and continues with the screen off, controlled from the notification and the lock screen. On the TV apps, pressing Home pauses playback instead.

Timeline

Once preview thumbnails exist for a title, moving along the timeline shows the scene at each position; on a first watch a note says the previews are still being generated. When the file declares chapters, the timeline is split into one segment per chapter and the chapter’s name appears beside the time.

Audio and Subtitles

The options panel (the options sheet on Mobile) offers Audio (Audio track on the TV apps), Subtitles and Playback info. The audio track that starts is the one matching the Audio language preference on your account. The subtitle list includes Off and image-based tracks such as the PGS subtitles common on Blu-ray rips, marked (image); the player draws these over the picture itself, and picking one for the first time prepares it, with a message while you wait.

Playback info shows the delivery mode, the server’s reason when it’s transcoding, the codecs, resolution, HDR mode, measured bandwidth and the current position. Transcoding explains each reason.

When a Title Ends

At the end of an episode, an Up next card offers the next one with a 15-second countdown and Play now and Cancel buttons. Pressing anything stops the countdown and leaves the choice to you. With Autoplay next episode turned off in your Account preferences, the card appears without a countdown, and after the last episode of a series it offers a More like this row of similar series instead. When Sovereign knows where the credits begin, a smaller card appears in the corner as they start, over the still-playing picture.

At the end of a movie, a panel offers the next movie in its collection under Up next in this collection, above a More like this row. Nothing on it starts by itself: choosing a title opens its details page.

When Something Goes Wrong

If the stream stalls, the player shows Reconnecting and picks up from where it was, trying a few times before it gives up. When it can’t recover, a Playback error screen offers to try again or leave.

On a server showing a licensing notice, a short notice video plays before the title, and seeking stays unavailable until it finishes.