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Building Firefox's Picture-in-Picture Support

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Re: Building Firefox's Picture-in-Picture Support

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Post by tialaramex »

MayeulC wrote: post #91
cpeterso wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am told that Firefox Nightly now allows you to use keyboard shortcuts to seek the video. Part of the problem here is that there are some sites that have special logic around seeking, so having playback controls on the PiP popup can cause the original page's custom controls to get confused or out of sync.

That would be great. My main use-case is watching youtube videos. When watching a video, I often pause (space) to have a better look at what's on the screen [-> rewind (left)] -> play (space) I absolutely loathe youtube's "suggested videos" that pop in my face when I try to focus on a specific frame. I never used that feature, it's just a way to shove ads in my face. Moreover, if I close it, the open/close button is…

Are you sure Youtube's keyboard shortcut for pause is "Space" for you? For me it's K, with J being jump backward a few seconds and L being jump forward a few seconds. I don't know if the media buttons (Pause, Rewind, Fast Forward) would also work as this keyboard pre-dates Windows 95 so it doesn't have anything like that. [ Yes I should buy a new keyboard... ]

Re: Building Firefox's Picture-in-Picture Support

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Post by rtpg »

gbrown wrote: post #85
fiddlerwoaroof wrote: post #56

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I use this all the time to watch Netflix while programming: put Netflix in PiP mode, then put the resulting window in the corner and switch to other applications to work.

It blows my mind that you can watch Netflix and program at the same time.

The analogy I like is how people listen to the radio while driving. Sometimes you’re just doing something pretty simple (like a tedious refactor) and can move forward while watching something else

Re: Building Firefox's Picture-in-Picture Support

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Post by mrpopo »

GeneticGenesis wrote: post #75

Mozilla's choice to add their own pip button is a massive pain for anyone developing video applications - anywhere over the player can't be considered a safe space to add our own buttons anymore, it really feels like Mozilla didn't talk to any video service developers when deciding how to approach this problem. Pip needs to be common API driven (as Chrome is) to make building portable video applications possible. A t…

> Pip needs to be common API driven (as Chrome is)

Ah yes, Mozilla should follow the steps of Google's web experiments playground, the Chrome browser. Every month we hear about a new self-serving feature implemented by Google/Chrome engineers.

The web is slowly drifting to the IE days again, and of course this move by Mozilla doesn't help it, but let's not forget the bigger culprit.

Re: Building Firefox's Picture-in-Picture Support

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Post by retox »

MayeulC wrote: post #91
cpeterso wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am told that Firefox Nightly now allows you to use keyboard shortcuts to seek the video. Part of the problem here is that there are some sites that have special logic around seeking, so having playback controls on the PiP popup can cause the original page's custom controls to get confused or out of sync.

That would be great. My main use-case is watching youtube videos. When watching a video, I often pause (space) to have a better look at what's on the screen [-> rewind (left)] -> play (space) I absolutely loathe youtube's "suggested videos" that pop in my face when I try to focus on a specific frame. I never used that feature, it's just a way to shove ads in my face. Moreover, if I close it, the open/close button is…

You can use stylish to remove the suggested popup div, if there's any interest I will put up a gist somewhere. I also wrote some custom CSS to center the controls rather than have them spread across my ultra-wide monitor. Huge quality of life improvement if you watch a lot of yt.

Re: Building Firefox's Picture-in-Picture Support

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Post by anticensor »

aasasd wrote: post #101
Fnoord wrote: post #79

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VLC has a feature called "float on top". Together with resizing, it allows basically something akin to picture in picture mode. You can use VLC to play YouTube videos by downloading them with youtube-dl. That is what I used before Firefox PiP mode was available in stable.

VLC can play YouTube directly―at least if YouTube didn't change the format again. Just ‘open’ the URL as a network source.

They changed the playlist format. It has been failing again.

Re: Building Firefox's Picture-in-Picture Support

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Post by aasasd »

aasasd wrote: post #103
MayeulC wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That would be great. My main use-case is watching youtube videos. When watching a video, I often pause (space) to have a better look at what's on the screen [-> rewind (left)] -> play (space) I absolutely loathe youtube's "suggested videos" that pop in my face when I try to focus on a specific frame. I never used that feature, it's just a way to shove ads in my face. Moreover, if I close it, the open/close button is…

Suggested videos can be ‘disabled’ with rules in uBlock Origin or other extensions. I'm not at the desktop so you'll have to search the web for the exact element classes/ids.

Here's the class, stick this in the ‘my filters’ of uBO:

  youtube.com##.ytp-pause-overlay

Re: Building Firefox's Picture-in-Picture Support

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Post by retox »

retox wrote: post #114
MayeulC wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That would be great. My main use-case is watching youtube videos. When watching a video, I often pause (space) to have a better look at what's on the screen [-> rewind (left)] -> play (space) I absolutely loathe youtube's "suggested videos" that pop in my face when I try to focus on a specific frame. I never used that feature, it's just a way to shove ads in my face. Moreover, if I close it, the open/close button is…

You can use stylish to remove the suggested popup div, if there's any interest I will put up a gist somewhere. I also wrote some custom CSS to center the controls rather than have them spread across my ultra-wide monitor. Huge quality of life improvement if you watch a lot of yt.

Here are my stylesheet changes; https://pastebin.com/mRgPWKTd

Re: Building Firefox's Picture-in-Picture Support

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Post by girvo »

Merg wrote: post #74

Everything old is new again it seems. Anyone used Maxthon Browser before? It was multiengine browser, which used both Webkit and Trident under the hood. It has that feature for ages, just for flash content back than. If only someone would built good email client into Browser like old Opera, that would be godsend. Opera and Maxthon were ages ahead in terms of certain features. It is little weird for me, they ended up…

Wow that’s a blast from the past! I also used... damn I can’t remember. It used Gecko as its engine, implemented mouse gestures for navigation among other nice features Firefox didn’t have at the time.

Re: Building Firefox's Picture-in-Picture Support

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Post by [deleted] »

LandR wrote: post #98
gbrown wrote: post #85

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It blows my mind that you can watch Netflix and program at the same time.

Sometimes coding is just mindless typing some boiler plate. It's easy to pay attention to something else. I see it like listening to podcast or something while mindlessly grinding in a game.

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