After recent updates either I launch video on mpv, mplayer or browser built-in player the bottom panel (menu) is always shown when switching to a full screen video only if I set "always on top" in SMplayer for example then it gets hidden.
03.09.2018 · Ooh, SSE2 code would have scuppered me if I were still using my Pentium 3. It could run plain old SSE but SSE2 was a bit too new for it. You could argue it was well outdated even by the time I started using it, but it still worked when I finally dumped it after finding a newer machine to use which runs 64-bit code so I'm using arch64 on that.