"Info Display Time" aka "OSD Timeout" timeout stuck at 30s

[/df]

I've noticed that the Info-bar timeout doesn't appear to respect any timeout value (Off, 1-20s) set in Menu>Settings>Preferences>Screen Display>Info Display Time. Rather, it's always ~30s.

Is this happening for anyone else? I could swear that quite recently the Info-bar used to disappear too quickly, before one could press Back to go to the previously selected channel.

 

[Luke]

It has also changed on 1.02.20 to always being 30 seconds. I'm not 100% certain but I also believe that it changed quite recently.

 

[Black Hole]

My timeout is set to 5s but it takes 30. I don't know how long it's been like it for, but surely that must have been at least as long as the last firmware update? I'm amazed nobody noticed until now.

 

[/df]

You'd think so, but my unsupported recollection says otherwise. But I'm not sure what "recent" change might be responsible. Maybe some CF package, eg, one that hooks the Humax blob? @xyz321?

I see the same thing on the HDR too.

The name INFO_DISPLAY_TIME is used in the blob and looks like the only reasonable name containing TIME. There's no suitable name containing OSD. The values of INFO_DISPLAY_TIME in the setup.db match what's seen in the TV UI. As with other setting names, the name is found in 2 well separated places, presumably one for the UI and one for fetching and using its value (no global constant folding in the Humax toolchain). So some of the process is there, but for whatever reason the value isn't being used as set.

Some hacking rules out the all-too-likely hypothesis that the "use" side is expecting a value in seconds (or sec as the UI has it, never mind SI) while the setting is in milliseconds.

I wonder if stock firmware without CF packages behaves the same.

It has also changed on 1.02.20 ...

But yours is a CF setup?

 

[bottletop]

On my HDR the timeout (that I'd set) seems to work fine for the progress/timeline during recording playback, buffer playback and during channel change. But as others have said using it for program info seems to show it as 30 secs. I think this behaviour has been the same for a number of years.

On the manual:
Setting Info Display Time
You can set the duration the information box is displayed every time the channel is switched.

 

[Luke]

On my HDR the timeout (that I'd set) seems to work fine for the progress/timeline during recording playback, buffer playback and during channel change. But as others have said using it for program info seems to show it as 30 secs. I think this behaviour has been the same for a number of years.

Re-thinking it, I think you are right. Possibly every 2 years, I copy one of the programme descriptions from the screen by hand, and if the display had been as short as my timeout setting before needing to be redisplayed, then I would have used a camera and copied from the photo.