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Picture in picture

Open ctreadw6 opened this issue 6 years ago • 2 comments

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. No. It's a new feature.

Describe the solution you'd like 'Picture in picture' feature in Chrome pops out a video frame into it's own borderless window. It is always on top and is draggable and resizable.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Additional context It should end up looking something like this image

ctreadw6 avatar Aug 16 '19 18:08 ctreadw6

Looks like Electron is implementing Picture in picture in the BrowserView. Its currently in a pull request. https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/17686

ctreadw6 avatar Aug 17 '19 01:08 ctreadw6

This is a feature also available as an extension from the Chrome Web Store. It's even developed by Google, but the issue with using Chrome extensions is of course probably some API it uses is missing, and it won't work on "protected" pages like the CWS.

  • GitHub repo: https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/picture-in-picture-chrome-extension
  • CWS listing: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/picture-in-picture-extens/hkgfoiooedgoejojocmhlaklaeopbecg?hl=en

gregk-git avatar Apr 05 '20 23:04 gregk-git