Cool tip discovered just now whilst watching a video podcast in iTunes.
The overlay controller that shows up when you mouse over a movie window, like this,
can be moved by clicking in one of the non-control areas and dragging. Handy for when there’s info being obscured, but you’d like to keep the controls active, such as this,
I’m probably the last in a long line of people who already knew this, but just in case. :)
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I never knew that, so thanks for sharing :)
If you watch a lot of video podcasts, as I do, I'd be surprised if you never stumbled onto that sooner. It's almost too easy in some instances to accidentally move it, but then again, perhaps you have greater trackpad/mouse accuracy than I do. Also, that overlay is something that seems to be coming in Leopard's DVD Player app, so get used to it:)
See, Macam, that's probably it -- I've only just been paying attention to video podcasts recently. Ah, well -- at least Paul and I have been newly informed. :D
Thanks for the info. It was new to me as well. It would have been pretty hard for me to find by accident and I guess because of the way it fades on and off when you mouse over I never thought it would function as a distinct object that I could move. Very cool though.
And I hope it is going to be part of the new DVD player because I can't stand how long the current one stays on the screen.
Frank
VLC has the same feature. It's floating control bar looks very similar to the Quicktime/iTunes one, and with VLCs new support for the apple remote it's become my video file player of choice.
Is there a way to turn off that overlay controller in windows itunes?