No longer able to stop/start video on Mac OS Tahoe on Mac M2 Studio

I just upgraded to TahoeOS on a Mac Studio and when I go to open a video in Photos app and play the video when I press the space bar, it closes the video and no longer able to stop start the video. I’m told by Apple that I now need to press option + spacebar to start stop video, but feel that this cannot be right. Is anyone else experiencing this problem?