uuuh what a pitty...
I could have used the player for some professional presentations I'm doing.
This is very funny because I just begged everyone for a solution about a week ago. I was running a theatrical production and needed to hide the OSD. I did find a solution with the help of a fellow forum member. By replacing an image and modifying the text color, it worked fine for me. It just displayed a black bar/box at the bottom but I made sure to only play/pause when the screen was already black.
I was very thankful because we were a day before opening night and needed a solution immediately.
I think it is time that this feature be seriously considered--simply a checkbox to disable the OSD completely.