picture-in-picture

[KashanRauf]

Summary

I'm not very familiar with the tech stack, but I'd be interested in adding support for picture-in-picture/video popout. I use Fladder on my Windows 10 PC and it would be convenient if I could stream while doing other things. I do this quite often with YouTube videos using a PIP extension on my browser, so I have something similar to that in mind.

Basic Example

A new button in the video controls that allows you to move the video to a popup that stays on top of other apps and can be moved/resized.
The popup would allow you to interact with the video (e.g. play/pause) or to close the popup itself.
Potentially feature settings such as opacity, borders, etc.

Drawbacks

Adding more buttons to the video controls could create a sense of clutter (I believe there is a lot of open space so this wouldn't be a problem to me personally).
For those streaming with captions enabled, there is a concern of whether or not the popup could have captions on it, and if they would be large enough to read.

Unresolved questions

Since I am unfamiliar with the project I'd like to know where I can start and what parts of the repository may be relevant. If there are any rules or suggestions relating to quality control then I would also like to know about those.

[PartyDonut]

Hi that's a great suggestion and thanks for wanting to give it a go 🎉 .

Implementing this on desktop should be fairly easy depending on which route you take.

1. Using the main window itself is probably the easiest option. Fladder uses the window_manager package this already has options for always-on-top for all platforms. So you would only need to toggle that.
2. The other, probably cleaner, option would be to use something like desktop_multi_window and create an actual pop-up window separate from the main window in similar fashion to how browsers do it. However this would require some communcation from and to the multiple window instances making this option a bit harder.

One thing for both platforms is that the video controls would also need to have a simplified version. With just a pause, previous, next and return the pip back to the main window (similar to how browsers implement it).

Both of these options are fine though I do prefer the second option.

One small request on my end if you feel like working on it.
Fladder is cross-platform application, keeping that in mind having a working solution for mobile at the same time would be fantastic. One package we could maybe use for that is this pip one. But that's up to you, implementing it on just desktop is fine with me.

[66Bunz]

Is there any news on this?

[Theo-user]

+1 the only thing making me go back to Jellyfin