VLC fullscreen progress bar is over subtitles

Question

Since version 3.x (as I recall) VLC is packed with a nice colored overlay progress bar in full-screen. Progress bar which I would love to modify to avoid it being displayed OVER subtitles when I search across a movie (e.g. fast forwarding with ctrl + right arrow).

I can't find any way to change the position or better: the alpha/transparency of that bar.

Please forgive my English and thanks for any tips regarding my problem.

Answer 1

It seems that the only way available to avoid that is disabling the OSD, (2) (On-Screen Display) which is not ideal but it will prevent the bar overlaying the subtitles.

It's not possible to change its color either.

There is also a ticket requesting the feature if you want to keep track of it.

Note that disabling the OSD will also disable other features such as the subtitle filename, volume information, etc.

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This problem was also reported a year ago with the goal of changing the position of the progress bar to the top and it's planned to get fixed in the upcoming version 4.0.0 (#20684) planned to be completed on 1 Oct 2019.

The first ticket I mentioned doesn't have any date planned but this ticket should solve the main problem.