OSD (skip, pause) take full window (and fullscreen) height

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Same here, but only after I've had the player in fullscreen. Until that point, no OSD is shown at all!

Let me be a bit more precise (no pun intended).
In Window mode, it I resize the window while the OSD is shown, it is rescaled to the window size. When switching to full screen while an OSD is there, it is also resized.
So a temporary workaround is to resize the window to a minimal size while forcing an OSD and then never again resize when an OSD is shown.

This happens with me too. It either never appears or when it appears it is as big as my screen. 14.04 fresh install.

Same problem here, fresh 14.04 install, tried to reinstall, did no good.

Same here. Happens when fast forwarding in a video on 14.10.

Correction: Still an issue is 14.04.

I'm on a fresh install of 14.04 and I have this problem, only in full screen. Reinstall didn't help.

I tried:

sudo apt-get remove totem
sudo apt-get install --reinstall totem

And reinstalling but it didn't change anything.

However this worked:
sudo apt-get autoremove totem
sudo apt-get install totem

Ah. scratch that, no, it didn't work either.
Ah, I had it full-window but not full screen... it's only a problem full screen.

Tried removing and reinstalling. Still an issue for me on 14.04 with all updates as of May 31 2014. Does it in window or full screen. Screenshot attached.

still an issue on 14.04

PLEASE FIX THIS ONE!!!

I tested Xubuntu 14.04 for a couple of days, and there the background of the icons is transparent. So it doesn't covers this much of the screen.

In Xubuntu I installed totem from the original repositories:

sudo apt-get install totem

I'm not sure, but I guess, that this is the same package as in Ubuntu 14.04. If so, then this should have to do with the unity theme, or not?

Maybe, this is a clue!? I hope so.

I'm running Xubuntu 14.04, and the problem definitely exists here. Yes, the icon backgrounds are technically transparent, in that the underlying video is visible outside the icons' rounded corners, but the icons themselves are opaque and cover almost the entire video frame.

I noticed that when I play a video, as far as I am in maximized mode (not full screen) no icons are shown for a while. As soon as I enter the full screen mode then icons are shown as big as the screen size (size=size of full screen).

related to my previous comment.

Patch code below to totem3.10.1, will fix this annoying problem.

**It may cause other display problems as i haven't run a full test**

    --- totem-3.10.1/src/totem-object.c 2013-09-29 20:18:43.000000000 +0800
    +++ totem-3.10.1-myversion/src/totem-object.c 2014-10-08 21:59:52.266918845 +0800
    @@ -3356,6 +3356,7 @@
        icon_name = totem_get_rtl_icon_name ("media-playback-start");
       else
        icon_name = "media-playback-pause-symbolic";
    + icon_name = NULL;
       totem_fullscreen_show_popups_or_osd (totem->fs, icon_name, FALSE);
       totem_action_play_pause (totem);
       return TRUE;
    @@ -3692,6 +3693,7 @@
       retval = FALSE;
      }

    + icon_name = NULL;
      if (icon_name != NULL)
       totem_fullscreen_show_popups_or_osd (totem->fs,
                icon_name,

Can you please tell me in which file should I paste the above code?

Anyway, sudo apt-get install --reinstall totem fixed the icons issue. But I have to make sure not the enable fullscreen on totem because doing that brings the huge icons back.