Playback controls hide too fast

[Chaos Reigns]

Recently I upgraded my iPhone 4 to iOS 7.1.2 and there I'm having a big issue with playback controls with media.

I'll explain as best I can.

What I do is record videos of random stuff: cars on the road, nature, whatever, and what I used to do is play the video from the camera roll/photos and be able to hit the pause/play button very quickly. This would create a somewhat "stopmotion"-like video. I would do this to find a perfect frame in the video to then screeenshot and use as wallpaper, or throw into photoshop and make something of it.

After upgrading to iOS 7.1.2, when I hit the play button, it automatically goes into full-screen mode which hides the pause button until I tap the screen again and hit pause. This results in a lapse of 2-3 seconds which is a LOT of frames being missed.
The scrubbing option is too sensitive as an alternative.

I have jailbroken my device, so I am wondering is there any tweak or an external video player that will let me use videos in my camera roll and not instantly hide the pause button after I hit play and go into fullscreen mode.
Either one is fine: tweak or external video player.

Thank you.

 

[Chaos Reigns]

Found an ok external video player off of Cydia that does the job but poorly. It has a good 1 second lag betwen play and pause.

The best solution would be some kind of app that would just let me go through a video frame by frame.

 

[mattyu007]

I'm not sure if this works in iOS 7, but in iOS 8 in the Photos app, if you hold down the video scrubber for a few seconds, the video preview behind the scrubber "zooms in," and you can scrub through the video more slowly.

 

[Chaos Reigns]

Yes that happens on iOS 7 but what I meant by in the OP by scrubbing is too sensitive is just this. The zoom in on the video timeline makes it so even a slight rotation of my finger by what seems like less than a milimeter results in a change in frame.

Still looking for a good alternative. Not so happy with VPlayer as a cydia alternative.