Enhancement: FloatingVideo player: the native video controls (timeline, play/pause, volume) are now hidden by default when a live stream starts and only appear when the user hovers over the player.

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ### Changed
 
+- FloatingVideo player: the native video controls (timeline, play/pause, volume) are now hidden by default when a live stream starts and only appear when the user hovers over the player.
 - Enhanced Swagger UI authorization dialog: registered a custom `OpenApiAuthenticationExtension` for `ApiKeyAuthentication` so drf-spectacular now generates an `ApiKeyAuth (apiKey)` entry alongside `jwtAuth`. Both entries include descriptive text linking to the relevant endpoints (`/api/accounts/token/`, `/api/accounts/api-keys/generate/`, `/api/accounts/api-keys/revoke/`).
 - Refactored frontend form components (`AccountInfoModal`, `AssignChannelNumbers`, `Channel`, `ChannelBatch`, `ChannelGroup`, `Connection`, `CronBuilder`, `DummyEPG`, and `EPG`) to extract business logic into dedicated utility modules under `src/utils/forms/`. Each extracted module is covered by unit tests. Mantine compound component references (`Table.Tbody`, `Popover.Target`, `Accordion.Item`, etc.) have been updated to use flat named imports. — Thanks [@nick4810](https://github.com/nick4810)
 - Improved the EPG BOM fix from v0.22.1: replaced the `lstrip(b'\xef\xbb\xbf')` / `startswith` approach with `start.find(b'<?xml')`, which locates the XML declaration regardless of any leading bytes BOM, whitespace, or other encoding markers without needing to know what those bytes are.

frontend/src/components/FloatingVideo.jsx

@@ -135,7 +135,8 @@ export default function FloatingVideo() {
 
   const [isLoading, setIsLoading] = useState(false);
   const [loadError, setLoadError] = useState(null);
-  const [showOverlay, setShowOverlay] = useState(true);
+  const [showOverlay, setShowOverlay] = useState(false);
+  const [showControls, setShowControls] = useState(false);
   const [videoSize, setVideoSize] = useState(() => {
     const prefs = getPlayerPrefs();
     const saved = prefs.size;
@@ -225,7 +226,8 @@ export default function FloatingVideo() {
 
     setIsLoading(true);
     setLoadError(null);
-    setShowOverlay(true); // Show overlay initially
+    setShowOverlay(false);
+    setShowControls(false);
 
     console.log('Initializing VOD player for:', streamUrl);
 
@@ -248,7 +250,8 @@ export default function FloatingVideo() {
         console.log('Auto-play prevented:', e);
         setLoadError('Auto-play was prevented. Click play to start.');
       });
-      // Start overlay timer when video is ready
+      // Show overlay briefly when video is ready, then auto-hide
+      setShowOverlay(true);
       startOverlayTimer();
     };
     const handleError = (e) => {
@@ -300,10 +303,8 @@ export default function FloatingVideo() {
 
     setIsLoading(true);
     setLoadError(null);
+    setShowControls(false);
 
-    console.log('Initializing live stream player for:', streamUrl);
-    console.log('Access token present:', !!accessToken);
-    console.log('Current access token from auth store:', accessToken);
     try {
       if (!mpegts.getFeatureList().mseLivePlayback) {
         setIsLoading(false);
@@ -851,6 +852,7 @@ export default function FloatingVideo() {
         <Box
           style={{ position: 'relative' }}
           onMouseEnter={() => {
+            setShowControls(true);
             if (contentType === 'vod' && !isLoading) {
               setShowOverlay(true);
               if (overlayTimeoutRef.current) {
@@ -867,7 +869,7 @@ export default function FloatingVideo() {
           {/* Enhanced video element with better controls for VOD */}
           <video
             ref={videoRef}
-            controls
+            controls={showControls}
             className="floating-video-no-drag"
             style={{
               width: '100%',