Video player with permanent on screen controls...ipad or android

Rain again

Video player with on screen controls
Hi, I need a video player for ipad or android that will display the controls...play/back/next etc. constantly .....I can only find players that when the video starts the control icons disappear ,,,it for my special need son....

Soundman

Windows Media Player only hides the controls (as far as I am aware) when in full screen mode. Maybe you could run it as maximised but not full screen? That or there is a setting in WMP options that allows you to autohide the controls or not as the case may be.

Rain again

Hi many tks for your help, I have an android and an ipad only for my son. I have no access to a windows device

Kind rgs
Brendan

Soundman

Aha. Sorry, I completely missed where you said iPad/Android. I'll have a think and see if I can come up with anything.

Soundman

For Android anyway, have a look at these ones and see what the controls are like. Some of them allow gestures to be used to control the playback, though not knowing your son, I don't know how feasible that may be for him to use.

http://tech2.in.com/features/apps/5-best-android-video-player-apps/646462

Rain again

Many tis, I'm trying to teach my autistic son to use the controls, he has a bank of 100 disney clips on sd card that he has watched for the last 15 years, he has a severe learning disability so if I can teach him to use the controls himself, it would give him great independence.

Many tks for your help so far

ComputerKing

This is possible using MX Player on android.

Rain again

Hi.where is the setting in the mx player for this...rgs

ComputerKing

Rain again wrote: »

Hi.where is the setting in the mx player for this...rgs

Settings > Player > Screen > Untick Auto Hide Soft Buttons

Rain again

Hi. Computer king,
The settings you gave me does not show up on my mx player ...what I do have is..
Top screen rhs touch the 3 dots,,then the options are there, tools, settings, then player, screen, but no option for the soft buttons in there.

Have I a newer version maybe ?

Rgs
Brendan

Gran Hermano

When playing a video in MX, tap three dots then display then settings.

ComputerKing

Rain again wrote: »

Hi. Computer king,
The settings you gave me does not show up on my mx player ...what I do have is..
Top screen rhs touch the 3 dots,,then the options are there, tools, settings, then player, screen, but no option for the soft buttons in there.

Have I a newer version maybe ?

Rgs
Brendan

Go into player scroll down to where it says Interface and right under this you should see the word screen click on this then untick the option auto hide soft buttons.

Rain again

Followed exactly but defo no option for the soft buttons there, what is there is ...screen,,touch controls,,nav,,doublr tap, etc..
Sry for the hassle , and I thank you for your time in helping me so far,

Rgs
Brendan

Soundman

Apparently some menu options are missing on certain versions of Android. Do you know what version you are running?

ComputerKing

Rain again wrote: »

Followed exactly but defo no option for the soft buttons there, what is there is ...screen,,touch controls,,nav,,doublr tap, etc..
Sry for the hassle , and I thank you for your time in helping me so far,

Rgs
Brendan

When you click into screen do you get the option to untick auto hide soft buttons it's second from the bottom in mine.

ComputerKing

Rain again wrote: »

Followed exactly but defo no option for the soft buttons there, what is there is ...screen,,touch controls,,nav,,doublr tap, etc..
Sry for the hassle , and I thank you for your time in helping me so far,

Rgs
Brendan

When you click into screen do you get the option to untick auto hide soft buttons it's second from the bottom in mine.

Rain again

The version is..mx player 1.7.15a armv7'...

Rain again

On screen menu there is...brightness, elapsed time, rotation, display batt/clock in title bar,,show remaining time,,status bar, keep screen on.....that's it

ComputerKing

I have the same version as you so there should not be a problem so you don't have the option of auto hiding soft buttons like in the image below.

Gran Hermano

Pic attached

Rain again

It's missing on mine, have ye any suggestions ?

Soundman

What version of Android are you running though?

Rain again

Hi android, 4.0.3. Release5a

Soundman

You shouldn't be missing menus then from what I have seen. Any issues I have read about were to do with older versions of Android. circa release 2.x.

Soundman

Just installed it on my own phone to see if I could help in that way. I'm not seeing the option for what you need in the software either.

Rain again

Hi thank you for the help from everybody so far, really appreciate it.....if anybody has any more solutions I would be very grateful ..
Tks Brendan

starlit

Ipad better for video but android good too.

Rain again

Hi I have both, but still can't find a player that will permanently display the controls,

Rgs
Brendan

Simi

Just checked a few players on Android, BSplayer has what you're looking for. After launching the app go to 'Prefences -> User interface -> Controls display timeout' and set it to 'Never hide'. That should give you what you want. Just make sure the orientation is locked in landscape or portrait 'Playback preferences -> Screen orientation', as the controls seem to disappear if you rotate from Portait to landscape.

Rain again

Simi, downloaded the player and with your instruction it works perfect, I can't tank everybody enought for all the help, this will make a massive difference to my sons life...

Again many thanks to simi, and everybody that helped us out,

Kind regards
Brendan

irishgrover

It's threads like this that make boards such a wonderful place :-)