The player

Nothing is matched until you say so, and there is no "accept everything" — the suggestions are the closest thing found, not a decision the app is confident enough to make on its own. The score is on screen for exactly that reason: you know your own channels, so a 55% suggestion you recognise is worth taking, and a 95% one you do not is worth looking at first.

A channel whose provider guide id is not in your EPG source says so, rather than pretending nothing matched. That is a gap in the guide you are using, not something matching can fix.

Accepting a match here is the same as setting it one channel at a time with Set EPG channel (how-to 10): it is yours, and the automatic matcher leaves it alone from then on. Large line-ups are offered a few hundred at a time — accept those, then open it again for the rest.

A physical Info button opens the same programme panel when programme details are available; otherwise it keeps showing the existing channel and picture information. The on-screen information action is hidden when the guide supplies nothing beyond a title and time.

Some providers put tonight’s event in the channel name instead of in the guide. TiviGlass still shows that title next to the picture, so you can tell what is on without waiting for the name to scroll. If the name includes a start time, the progress bar uses it; if it does not, the title is shown without a made-up clock.

On a touchscreen, tap the picture to show or hide controls. Double-tap the left or right side to seek a movie by 10 seconds or change live channel; drag horizontally to scrub a movie or swipe between live channels. Drag vertically on the left side for brightness or on the right side for volume. A percentage appears while you drag. Leaving playback restores the previous screen brightness, so the rest of the app follows your phone’s normal brightness again. Gestures wait for a clear direction, so a diagonal or ordinary tap does not accidentally adjust playback.

The action row only ever shows what applies to the channel you are on, and moving left or right walks exactly the buttons you can see. If one disappears while it is highlighted — the guide stops supplying details, or a stream you had rewound catches back up to live — the highlight returns to play/pause rather than being left on nothing.

For a live stream that has frozen or keeps buffering, choose More → Reload stream to reconnect the same channel at its live edge. This works from both player screens without changing channel. With Premium, Remote & buttons → Shortcut keys can bind Reload live stream to a spare remote button.

More lists only what this screen can actually do. Watching full screen from the guide opens the same player as Search, including its timeshift controls and More options. Back returns you to the guide.

The recent-channel prompt only appears once you have some viewing history, so a brand-new install won’t show it. How long the controls stay up is yours to set: Settings → Streaming & reliability → Hide player controls after. Back hides the controls first and only leaves the player on a second press.

The tab you opened is focused immediately, while Remote controls and Close stay pinned below the choices. Set defaults once instead of choosing every time: Settings → Video & audio → Default audio language, and Subtitles & captions → Subtitles on by default and Default subtitle language.

Subtitle search is free. You can link an OpenSubtitles account for better limits, and prefer hearing-impaired (SDH) results. If a subtitle drifts, there are two different controls and they are not interchangeable. For a subtitle you searched for or loaded from a file, use the Sync −0.5s / Sync +0.5s / Reset sync buttons in the Subtitles section of the player’s track picker (press More, then Subtitles). They move that one subtitle either way, up to 30 seconds, they take effect straight away, and they are free on every plan. For a subtitle that came inside the stream itself — broadcast captions, DVB subtitles, or a track built into an HLS channel — there are no Sync buttons, because the file those buttons rewrite does not exist; use Subtitle delay under Settings, Playback instead. That one holds a subtitle back by up to two seconds. It only goes one way on purpose: a subtitle that has not arrived yet cannot be shown earlier than it arrives, so it can fix a subtitle running ahead of the speech and cannot fix one running behind. It is part of Advanced playback, so it needs Essentials or Premium.

Search subtitles is offered on movies and shows, because a live channel has no single film to look up. Load file is offered on movies, shows and live channels. Neither appears while you are watching Catch-Up or a recording: those have no separate identity to save a subtitle against, so a subtitle saved there would show up on the whole channel instead.

The information bar also carries what the stream itself is: its resolution, HDR, the video codec, the measured frame rate, and the video and audio bitrate where the provider declares them. Plenty of live streams declare no bitrate at all, and in that case the badge is simply left out rather than showing a zero.

Keep a clock on screen (Settings → Streaming & reliability) shows the time in the top corner for as long as something is playing, instead of only while the information bar is up. It uses the 12 or 24 hour format you set under Appearance. To protect your screen, the clock drifts by a few millimetres every minute rather than sitting in exactly the same spot — anything left in one place for hours can mark an OLED panel, so it is never still for long enough to leave a trace. The movement is slow and small enough that you will not catch it happening.

Automatic Use less data is recommended for unstable connections. TiviGlass keeps full quality while the connection is healthy, then lowers adaptive-stream quality in steps when repeated stalls show the link cannot sustain it. Always on deliberately selects the lowest available variant.

Once a channel has its own picture shape, A changes that channel’s shape rather than your global default — so the button always changes what you can see. Everything else keeps following the default until you say otherwise.

Cropping always loses some of the picture. Filling a normal TV with a widescreen film means the left and right edges go off the screen; that is the trade for losing the black bars. The A button skips the Crop choices, so it stays a safe thing to press blind — pick a crop from the menu, and pick Fit there to undo it.

Rewinding into your provider’s own archive is free — it’s the on-device buffer that needs a paid plan. The buffer is marked experimental and uses storage while it runs, so leave it off if space is tight.

The stats overlay is the first thing to check when a channel stutters — it separates “the stream is thin” (buffer emptying) from “this device can’t decode it” (frame rate far below the stream’s).

All three live in Settings → Streaming & reliability. Together with Merge duplicate channels they turn a provider’s five copies of one channel into one entry with four fallbacks.