This would be great for PiPing a general webpage rather than just a video. Instead of tearing-off a tab, resizing its window and pinning it always-on-top to use as a reference.
Firefox Picture-in-Picture
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Re: Firefox Picture-in-Picture
#72This is a nice feature. > play alongside while you go about your business on > other tabs or do things outside of Firefox. Do we need to watch video while we go about our business? You better finish your business or the video. Which leaves me thinking: this is kind of bloat.
It doesn't feel like bloat to me. It makes my experience better.
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#73Is anyone else annoyed that Mozilla chose to spam them with an ad for this new feature via the email address they received when creating the Firefox sync account? Is this really such an important thing that warrants sending an unsolicited message to every Firefox user's inbox?
Yes, the footer says "You're receiving this email because .. is subscribed to Firefox Account Tips." and indeed I can now see that setting in my Firefox account. I'm sure that checkbox popped up sometime after I created the account and was conveniently set to "true" by default.
Re: Firefox Picture-in-Picture
#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is a little clunky and could use a good deal of polish. For example, you can only PiP one video, and controls remain in the tab with the video frame. PiP only gives you play/pause, no scrubbing or anything from the embedded player. The always on top is a feature for some, but can be a hindrance, too. That behavior should be a toggle for the user so they can use their tools how they like.
These are a few of the reasons I've continued to use the "Open With" extension with mpv. ([right-click]->Open With->mpv) This provides full playback control, lets me toggle stay-on-top, etc. Firefox's PiP is a nice thought but just isn't right for me as currently implemented.
samesame
also;
* rank up the cache settings in mpv to prebuffer the whole vid
* see the ytdl-format setting in mpv.conf to select a codec that your machine can decode in hardware for enhanced power efficiancy (lower fanspeed)
Re: Firefox Picture-in-Picture
#75This is a nice feature. > play alongside while you go about your business on > other tabs or do things outside of Firefox. Do we need to watch video while we go about our business? You better finish your business or the video. Which leaves me thinking: this is kind of bloat.
> Do we need to watch video while we go about our business? You better finish your business or the video.
Yes, and don't tell me how to do my work.
Re: Firefox Picture-in-Picture
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
These are a few of the reasons I've continued to use the "Open With" extension with mpv. ([right-click]->Open With->mpv) This provides full playback control, lets me toggle stay-on-top, etc. Firefox's PiP is a nice thought but just isn't right for me as currently implemented.
Sorry, which extension is this? The only one I was able to find named "Open With" is pretty clearly not what you were referring to.
I prefer this one as it is potentially more secure than some of the other ones
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#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
Right. It should send the stream to the system video player. If you then want no window decorations or whatever you go to the video player app developers.
This pops out the element, so it works on 100% of websites with one. You can use tools like youtube-dl to extract/convert a lot of websites' video to a playlist compatible with external players, but it will never have as complete coverage.
or use https://mpv.io/ which will use ytdl internally to 'just play the fkn vid from the url' kthxby
Re: Firefox Picture-in-Picture
#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
These are a few of the reasons I've continued to use the "Open With" extension with mpv. ([right-click]->Open With->mpv) This provides full playback control, lets me toggle stay-on-top, etc. Firefox's PiP is a nice thought but just isn't right for me as currently implemented.
Sorry, which extension is this? The only one I was able to find named "Open With" is pretty clearly not what you were referring to.
This is the one I currently use: https://github.com/darktrojan/openwith Perhaps play-with is a better choice.
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#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sorry, which extension is this? The only one I was able to find named "Open With" is pretty clearly not what you were referring to.
MPV is a player. https://mpv.io/
Oh, I know all about MPV. Invoking it cleanly from within Firefox is the part I was asking about (and which has been answered :)
Re: Firefox Picture-in-Picture
#80Is anyone else annoyed that Mozilla chose to spam them with an ad for this new feature via the email address they received when creating the Firefox sync account? Is this really such an important thing that warrants sending an unsolicited message to every Firefox user's inbox? Yes, the footer says "You're receiving this email because .. is subscribed to Firefox Account Tips." and indeed I can now see that setting in…
There's also conveniently a new category whenever they want to make sure everyone has to be bothered by the newest junk. Or a very slight rename of an existing one, but hey, that means they get to ignore the previous setting.
To me, such sleazy tactics are simply a deep admission of failure.