Custom PIP implementation

AlejandroHernandez

Perfect suggestions! – Especially a button to enter PiP. Or better yet like Opera or Arc does it, have an option to automatically switch to PiP when switching tabs.

Also please we need video controls. Right now we can only pause, which is veery limited.

Lastly, I feel like CMD should be used to snap to window corners and make it free-form when moving without holding a modifier. Why? Because most times you want to move this window freely. It's a bit annoying having to reach for the cmd key every time you want to just move it a bit.

Vlad

As a rule of thumb we do not automatically inject HTML to web pages to alter them (which is how Firefox adds that button). Button feels like it should be a part of the video control, not something browser should aritficially create.

AlejandroHernandez

Vlad Yeah I agree.

What about the way Opera does it:

It's an option to automatically pop out the window when you change tabs. It's so nice!

Right now when you switch tabs, you gotta find the tab where the video is playing and right click → and select show PiP. It's a lot of steps for something that most times someone would always want when switching tabs.

eirk

OrionUser

no, this is handled by webkit, not orion. see https://orionfeedback.org/d/2928-control-picture-in-picture-video-with-arrow-keys
no. see https://orionfeedback.org/d/1369-picture-in-picture-mode-button (tldr, shortcut and menu item exist, don't want to inject unnecessary stuff into webpage)
make a separate post for this
no, this is handled by webkit, not orion. see https://orionfeedback.org/d/2540-move-pip-more-freely/6

also please make one suggestion per post
otherwise its really hard to track individual requests

SptQ

i agree with having automatic activation of PiP when switching tabs or macos spaces, atleast as an option, its really useful on arc

also having video controls such as skip forwards / backwards 10 seconds would be good, but if its not in wekit's PiP then okay

Longely

SptQ

Would be a good idea to make a separate post for this if it doesn't exist. can see how it could be usefull

eirk

I feel arc implements some of these features pretty well, but I believe it uses its own custom PiP implementation, as I don't think chromium comes with one.

video:

What i think it does well:

freely moveable window, but also can align to edges
forward/backwards
progress bar on bottom

catch-22

eirk yeah I’m a big fan of its implementation in Arc. my favourite feature is that PIP video triggers automatically as soon as you navigate to another tab

viewsourc3

As of today, the PiP frame can only sit in one of the 4 corners of the screen.

I am wondering whether it would be possible to be able to drag the PiP to anywhere on the screen, a bit like this (this is Firefox's PiP feature)

Vlad

viewsourc3 Is it in Safari?

viewsourc3

Vlad from what I have experienced in Safari, PiP cannot be moved at all, and is only limited to sitting in the bottom left corner of the screen. PiP in Safari is also not as often available as in Orion, which seems to provide this feature a lot more constantly.
For example, PiP in Twitch is not available/possible on Safari, but is available on Orion.

Vlad

viewsourc3 I believe is PiP is managed by WebKit and this would probably be better made as a suggestion on WebKit issue tracker.

Vlad

There we go!

viewsourc3

_I_ @Vlad Yep! I confirm, cmd+click/drag solves the issue. I hate those hidden features. 😃

Thank you.

CenkTekin

_I_ Thank you for this hidden feature.. Great..

Vlad

CenkTekin I am wondering how did you find about this? 🙂

CenkTekin

Vlad I've downloaded Orion Browser Beta for the first time. Just testing it on Youtube videos. Then i want to install Google Chrome picture-in-picture extension and i didnt work. Then i search this site for pip features and i found it.. Really instructive for me 🙂
I want to say that Orion Browser is really good i love it..

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