[jan-g]

If you long press the select button it will pause play without the transport controls showing up, and again long press to resume playing. Another useful tip (that took too long for me to find out about) is when you are deep into menus and you just want to quickly get back to the main/home menu, long press the back button.

thanks for this very useful info, this should be in the kodi wiki,
any more "long press" info you know of, and like to share?