Emby Theater for Windows (desktop/mouse): OSD auto-hide is far too long for pointer input

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Hi,

Long-time Emby Premiere Lifetime user here. I use Emby Theater for Windows on the desktop, with a mouse, as my main client.

The OSD / playback controls auto-hide delay feels appropriate on TV and Android clients — with a remote and a 10-foot UI, keeping the controls visible longer makes sense. But on desktop with a mouse, the same long timeout doesn't fit the input model. With a pointer the user has precise, instant control and doesn't need the OSD lingering for several seconds. Right now the desktop client seems to inherit the TV-oriented timing, and it noticeably gets in the way during normal mouse usage.

A few ways this could be addressed, in order of how clean they'd be:

• Shorter auto-hide specifically for pointer/mouse input on the desktop client (separate from the TV/remote timing). This seems like the most correct fix, since the issue is really about input context.
• A configurable timeout in player/display settings.
• Or, if neither is desired, support for custom CSS in Emby Theater for Windows (the way the web client allows) so power users can tune it themselves. Server-side custom CSS currently doesn't appear to reach the native Windows client at all.

Related: the seek bar on the desktop player is also quite large and visually heavy — it obscures more of the picture than necessary. A thinner/less intrusive bar, or the ability to adjust it, would help for the same reason: the desktop/mouse experience deserves a tighter UI than the TV layout.

Emby has been my setup for years and I'd really appreciate the desktop player being tuned for pointer input rather than inheriting TV timing. Thanks for considering.