Any way to display video controls all the time (not auto-hide) and BELOW the video, not overlapping it?

Hello Tsvety, 

Thanks for reaching out! 

There isn't a way to permanently display the video controls in the most recent version of Storyline 360. 

I’ll be happy to pass your thoughts on to our product team, but you can also feel free to detail them more through a feature request!

Hello Joe,

Those clunky new video player controls are a HUGE problem, as my customers that are in the medical industry field have a lot of videos and they all use efficiently all the space on the video window to display relevant information without blocking the rest of the content on the video and bottom is reserved for written instructions throughout the full duration of the videos. They are absolutely appalled by the "New" controls", particularly their absolute lack of customizations, they cannot even be made thinner or semi-transparent, you cannot hide some of the buttons - they are an absolute nightmare to use! My customers are so unhappy by those that they ask me to revert Storyline 360 to the version before that update and stop ever updating it! Or move to another authoring tool or use some external Java script based controls.

We absolutely need this control. In an effort to be accessible first, we need to show only the accessible player. And that is impossible if the player controls are hidden by default.

Here is a JavaScript code snippet that ensures video controls are always displayed

const el = document.querySelector(".video-animation-container");

if (el) {
    el.classList.remove("controls-hidden");
    const observer = new MutationObserver((mutationsList) => {
        for (const mutation of mutationsList) {
            if (mutation.type === "attributes" && mutation.attributeName === "class") {
                if (el.classList.contains("controls-hidden")) {
                    el.classList.remove("controls-hidden");
                }
            }
        }
    });

    observer.observe(el, { attributes: true, attributeFilter: ["class"] });
}