The player

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.

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. 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.

More lists only what this screen can actually do. Watching full screen from the guide is a slightly smaller set than the main player: there is no sleep timer or stream-facts overlay there, so those two are left out rather than shown greyed. Everything that does appear is named and ordered the same way on both, so nothing moves when you switch between them.

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 → OSD auto-hide timeout. 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, nudge it with Subtitle delay.

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.

Automatic Data Saver 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.

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.