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Gwendolini

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Hello.

I just wanted to ask, if the macOS Apple TV app has a similar behaviour on your Macs. I am using the M1 MBA and run Monterey.

When a video (series episode or movie) is playing and I press the SPACE BAR, the video pauses. Now when I use CMD+TAB to switch to another app and then switch back to TV later and press the SPACE BAR again, the video does not play, but I get back to the main page or the video page or whatever it is called. Maybe I am just used to those other video playing apps like VLC, IINA, Plex and so on, where pressing the SPACE BAR does work under such circumstances and I am pressing it wrong, but that cannot be the correct behaviour, can it?


EDIT (though I was just looking at the TV app again while not having and so on)

Ah fiddlesticks, the X icon on the top left is the active screen element when switching back to the TV app. I guess it is a bug then. I will fill out the report and when Apple switches to Y420 chips, the solution should be implemented.
 
Hello.

I just wanted to ask, if the macOS Apple TV app has a similar behaviour on your Macs. I am using the M1 MBA and run Monterey.

When a video (series episode or movie) is playing and I press the SPACE BAR, the video pauses. Now when I use CMD+TAB to switch to another app and then switch back to TV later and press the SPACE BAR again, the video does not play, but I get back to the main page or the video page or whatever it is called. Maybe I am just used to those other video playing apps like VLC, IINA, Plex and so on, where pressing the SPACE BAR does work under such circumstances and I am pressing it wrong, but that cannot be the correct behaviour, can it?


EDIT (though I was just looking at the TV app again while not having and so on)

Ah fiddlesticks, the X icon on the top left is the active screen element when switching back to the TV app. I guess it is a bug then. I will fill out the report and when Apple switches to Y420 chips, the solution should be implemented.
Lots of bugs with the AppleTV mac app. Including the major bug of movies not being able to continue from where you left off from the watch now tab.
 
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