diff --git a/web/js/MonitorStream.js b/web/js/MonitorStream.js
index 591c6b89f..b9136cf6d 100644
--- a/web/js/MonitorStream.js
+++ b/web/js/MonitorStream.js
@@ -83,12 +83,14 @@ function MonitorStream(monitorData) {
   this.img_onerror = function() {
     console.log('Image stream has been stopped! stopping streamCmd');
     this.streamCmdTimer = clearInterval(this.streamCmdTimer);
+    this.writeTextInfoBlock("Error", {showImg: false});
   };
   this.img_onload = function() {
     if (!this.streamCmdTimer) {
       console.log('Image stream has loaded! starting streamCmd for monitor ID='+this.id+' connKey='+this.connKey+' in '+statusRefreshTimeout + 'ms');
       this.streamCmdQuery(); // This is to get an instant status update
       this.streamCmdTimer = setInterval(this.streamCmdQuery.bind(this), statusRefreshTimeout);
+      this.writeTextInfoBlock("");
     }
   };
 
@@ -404,18 +406,21 @@ function MonitorStream(monitorData) {
     }
     this.handlerEventListener['playStream'] = manageEventListener.addEventListener(stream, 'play',
         (e) => {
+          this.writeTextInfoBlock("");
           this.createVolumeSlider();
-          getTracksFromStream(this); //Go2rtc
+          getTracksFromStream(this);
         }
     );
     this.handlerEventListener['pauseStream'] = manageEventListener.addEventListener(stream, 'pause',
         (e) => {
+          this.writeTextInfoBlock("Paused", {showImg: false});
           manageEventListener.removeEventListener(this.handlerEventListener['volumechange']);
         }
     );
   };
 
   this.start = function(streamChannel = 'default') {
+    this.writeTextInfoBlock("Loading...");
     if (streamChannel === null || streamChannel === '' || currentView == 'montage') streamChannel = 'default';
     // Normalize channel name for internal tracking
     if (streamChannel == 'default') {
@@ -632,6 +637,98 @@ function MonitorStream(monitorData) {
     this.updateStreamInfo('ZMS MJPEG');
   }; // this.start
 
+  this.setSrcInfoBlock = function() {
+    const imgInfoBlock = document.getElementById('img-stream-info-block' + this.id);
+    if (!imgInfoBlock) return null;
+
+    let src = this.url_to_zms.replace(/mode=jpeg/i, 'mode=single');
+    if (-1 == src.search('auth')) {
+      src += '&'+auth_relay;
+    } else {
+      src = src.replace(/auth=\w+/i, 'auth='+auth_hash);
+    }
+    if (-1 == src.search('scale=')) {
+      src += '&scale='+this.scale;
+    }
+    if (-1 == src.search('mode=')) {
+      src += '&mode=single';
+    }
+    imgInfoBlock.src = '';
+    imgInfoBlock.src = src;
+    return imgInfoBlock;
+  };
+
+  this.writeTextInfoBlock = function(text, params = {}) {
+    const infoBlock = document.getElementById('stream-info-block' + this.id) || this.createInfoBlock();
+    if (infoBlock) {
+      if (params.color) infoBlock.style.color = params.color;
+      const normalizedText = (text == null) ? '' : text;
+      infoBlock.textContent = normalizedText;
+      if (normalizedText === "") {
+        infoBlock.style.zIndex = 0;
+        this.hideImgForInfoBlock();
+      } else {
+        setTextSizeOnInfoBlock(infoBlock);
+        infoBlock.style.zIndex = 10001;
+        if (params.showImg === false) {
+          this.hideImgForInfoBlock();
+        } else {
+          this.createImgForInfoBlock();
+          this.showImgForInfoBlock();
+        }
+      }
+    }
+  };
+
+  this.hideImgForInfoBlock = function() {
+    const imgInfoBlock = document.getElementById('img-stream-info-block' + this.id);
+    if (imgInfoBlock) imgInfoBlock.classList.add('hidden-shift');
+  };
+
+  this.showImgForInfoBlock = function() {
+    const imgInfoBlock = document.getElementById('img-stream-info-block' + this.id);
+    if (imgInfoBlock) imgInfoBlock.classList.remove('hidden-shift');
+  };
+
+  this.createImgForInfoBlock = function() {
+    let currentImg = document.getElementById('img-stream-info-block' + this.id);
+    if (!currentImg) {
+      const imgInfoBlock = document.createElement('img');
+      imgInfoBlock.classList.add('img-stream-info-block');
+      imgInfoBlock.id = 'img-stream-info-block' + this.id;
+      imgInfoBlock.style.position = 'absolute';
+      imgInfoBlock.style.top = 0;
+      imgInfoBlock.style.left = 0;
+      imgInfoBlock.style.width = '100%';
+      imgInfoBlock.style.height = '100%';
+      imgInfoBlock.style.zIndex = 10000;
+      imgInfoBlock.style.pointerEvents = 'none';
+      this.getElement().parentNode.appendChild(imgInfoBlock);
+      currentImg = imgInfoBlock;
+    }
+    this.setSrcInfoBlock();
+    return currentImg;
+  };
+
+  this.createInfoBlock = function() {
+    let currentInfoBlock = document.getElementById('stream-info-block' + this.id);
+    if (!currentInfoBlock) {
+      const infoBlock = document.createElement('div');
+      infoBlock.classList.add('stream-info-block');
+      infoBlock.id = 'stream-info-block' + this.id;
+      infoBlock.style.position = 'absolute';
+      infoBlock.style.width = '100%';
+      infoBlock.style.height = 'auto';
+      infoBlock.style.top = '50%';
+      infoBlock.style.left = '50%';
+      infoBlock.style.transform = 'translate(-50%, -50%)';
+      infoBlock.style.pointerEvents = 'none';
+      this.getElement().parentNode.appendChild(infoBlock);
+      currentInfoBlock = infoBlock;
+    }
+    return currentInfoBlock;
+  };
+
   this.stop = function() {
     manageEventListener.removeEventListener(this.handlerEventListener['killStream']);
     manageEventListener.removeEventListener(this.handlerEventListener['playStream']);
@@ -647,6 +744,11 @@ function MonitorStream(monitorData) {
       console.warn(`! ${dateTimeToISOLocal(new Date())} Stream for ID=${this.id} has already stopped.`);
       return;
     }
+    if (-1 !== this.activePlayer.indexOf('zms')) {
+      this.writeTextInfoBlock("Stopped", {showImg: false});
+    } else {
+      this.writeTextInfoBlock("Stopped");
+    }
     console.debug(`! ${dateTimeToISOLocal(new Date())} Stream for ID=${this.id} STOPPING`);
     this.statusCmdTimer = clearInterval(this.statusCmdTimer);
     this.streamCmdTimer = clearInterval(this.streamCmdTimer);
@@ -1630,6 +1732,13 @@ function MonitorStream(monitorData) {
     $j.ajaxSetup({timeout: AJAX_TIMEOUT});
 
     this.streamCmdReq = function(streamCmdParms) {
+      if (-1 !== this.activePlayer.indexOf('zms')) {
+        if (streamCmdParms.command == CMD_PAUSE) {
+          this.writeTextInfoBlock("Paused", {showImg: false});
+        } else if (streamCmdParms.command == CMD_PLAY) {
+          this.writeTextInfoBlock("");
+        }
+      }
       if (!(streamCmdParms.command == CMD_STOP && ((-1 !== this.activePlayer.indexOf('go2rtc')) || (-1 !== this.activePlayer.indexOf('rtsp2web'))))) {
         //Otherwise, there will be errors in the console "Socket ... does not exist" when quickly switching stop->start and we also do not need to replace SRC in getStreamCmdResponse
         this.ajaxQueue = jQuery.ajaxQueue({
diff --git a/web/skins/classic/css/base/skin.css b/web/skins/classic/css/base/skin.css
index 615dbeea7..144ab9b79 100644
--- a/web/skins/classic/css/base/skin.css
+++ b/web/skins/classic/css/base/skin.css
@@ -1621,6 +1621,28 @@ video-stream[id^='liveStream'] video{
   border-radius: 4px;
 }
 
+.text-3d {
+  color: transparent;
+  text-shadow: -4px 4px hsla(0, 0%, 70%, .4),
+               -3px 3px hsla(0, 0%, 65%, .2),
+               -2px 2px hsla(0, 0%, 60%, .2),
+               -1px 1px hsla(0, 0%, 55%, .2),
+               0px 0px hsla(0, 0%, 50%, .5),
+               1px -1px hsla(0, 0%, 40%, .6),
+               2px -2px hsla(0, 0%, 38%, .7),
+               3px -3px hsla(0, 0%, 37%, .8),
+               4px -4px hsla(0, 0%, 36%, .9),
+               5px -5px hsla(0, 0%, 35%, 1.0);
+}
+.text-3d-mini {
+  color: transparent;
+  text-shadow: -2px 2px hsla(0, 0%, 65%, .2),
+               -1px 1px hsla(0, 0%, 55%, .2),
+               0px 0px hsla(0, 0%, 50%, .5),
+               1px -1px hsla(0, 0%, 40%, .6),
+               2px -2px hsla(0, 0%, 30%, .7);
+}
+
 /* +++ This block should always be located at the end! */
 .hidden {
     display: none;
diff --git a/web/skins/classic/js/skin.js b/web/skins/classic/js/skin.js
index b71e12c59..af9a4613a 100644
--- a/web/skins/classic/js/skin.js
+++ b/web/skins/classic/js/skin.js
@@ -1854,6 +1854,30 @@ function setButtonSizeOnStream() {
   });
 }
 
+function calcTextSizeOnInfoBlock(el) {
+  const w = el.offsetWidth;
+  const textLength = el.innerText.length;
+  if (textLength === 0) return false;
+  const d = (w/400 > 1) ? 1 : w/400/0.8; // If the block width is less than 400px, the text will take up more than 40% of the width, otherwise it will be difficult to read.
+  return parseInt((w/textLength) * 0.6 / d); // ~40% of the block width
+}
+
+function setTextSizeOnInfoBlocks() {
+  const block = document.querySelectorAll('[id ^= "stream-info-block"]');
+  Array.prototype.forEach.call(block, (el) => {
+    setTextSizeOnInfoBlock(el);
+  });
+}
+
+function setTextSizeOnInfoBlock(el) {
+  if (el.innerText.length == 0) return;
+  const fontSize = calcTextSizeOnInfoBlock(el);
+  el.style.fontSize = fontSize + "px";
+  el.classList.remove("text-3d-mini", "text-3d");
+  const blockClass = (fontSize !== fontSize || fontSize < 50) ? 'text-3d-mini' : 'text-3d';
+  el.classList.add(blockClass);
+}
+
 /*
 * date - object type Date()
 * shift.offset - number (can be negative)
@@ -2768,6 +2792,7 @@ function monitorsSetScale(id=null) {
     }
   } // End function _setScale
   setButtonSizeOnStream();
+  setTextSizeOnInfoBlocks();
 } // End function monitorsSetScale
 
 /*IMPORTANT DO NOT CALL WITHOUT CONSCIOUS NEED!!!*/