Picture-in-Picture (PiP): Automatically pop out video when tab is switched or window minimized
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I suggest adding an "automatic mode" that could be enabled for the rapidly-improving picture-in-picture feature.
When this feature was enabled, videos would automatically pop out into the standard picture-in-picture window when the tab they are playing in is in the background, i.e. when the user switches to another tab or when the Vivaldi window is minimized.
I used another browser that had this feature. Since I switched to Vivaldi, it is the only thing I miss, as Vivaldi is better in every other way.
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I was about to open a new feature request when I came across yours.
Opera 83 introduced automatic video pop out (Picture-in-Picture - PiP) in January 2022. I would love to have a similar (obviously optional) feature in Vivaldi. So that when you switch away from a tab with a video playing (or switch away from Vivaldi), the video pops out to a PiP window, and when you return to the tab, it restores the video in its original place.
There is an extension to do this, Always Video ᴴᴷ - Beta - PiP Automation, but it doesn't work well in Vivaldi, as described in this thread. So I would welcome seeing it as a native Vivaldi feature. Auto PiP on scrolling is another similar feature that would be useful.
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But one caveat to this feature request: if enabled on all sites, this feature might be too annoying, unless option to disable autoplay video feature request is implemented first. Unwanted auto-playing videos are bad enough; if they automatically popped up to always-on-top windows, that would be even more frustrating.
Opera doesn't have this problem, as it apparently only works on YouTube. (I thought they used YouTube as an example, but this article) confirms that YouTube is the only site where it works. I guess Vivaldi might also come with a configurable whitelist (or a pre-set whitelist like Opera, with only video playing sites enabled). Or if the disable-autoplay-video feature is implemented, this might not be a problem at all.
The extension doesn't have this problem, since I can use a whitelist where the extension will be enabled in the Vivaldi extension settings page. (Or, for those who want to use it in blacklist mode, the extension's own settings have that ability.) So I would be fine with using the extension and enable it only on YouTube (and other sites that I want) if Vivaldi was compatible with this extension so that it worked consistently.
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Is this a dead topic?
I was using Vivaldi up until the sync issues that lasted for weeks it seemed and it wiped all my settings, so i ended up going to Firefox. Firefox currently has automatic PIP and its really really nice. Would love to see this feature implemented, I believe chrome already supports this? -
Please implement this! There's also no chrome plugin can do this reliably, which sucks so much. Arc and Firefox do this really well.
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@lucky138200 Chrome now supports it natively.
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@sirrichard Chrome is a special patched browser by Google.
Vivaldi is not that browser.Just curious, which Chromium version supports the mentioned PiP feature?
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@sirrichard I can not test.
Had you chrome://flags/#auto-picture-in-picture-for-video-playback set to Enabled and restarted? -
@DoctorG i'm not using Chrome
Don't want to download just to test. I'm currently using Arc browser as my default, but would really want to switch to Vivaldi - but auto pip is one of Arc great features I really miss when using Vivaldi. -
@sirrichard We are not talking about Chrome; have you opened in Vivaldi the address and set the experimental flag?
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@DoctorG yeah, just did it, but it's not working, at least in Coursera and youtube.
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@sirrichard Please report issue to Vivaldi bug tracker, include as much detail as possible.
Once that is done, share the bug number (beginning with VB-) you got by bug report mail.Please read blog article, If you like to know about "A bug’s life at Vivaldi".
Thanks for helping us making Vivaldi better.
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Reported it, but didn't receive any email yet.
Edit: ok, got it: VB-114856
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Hopefully Vivaldi team can fix this soon. I even tried to use Cursor to build me a plugin just for this, which didn't work well. Probably for the same reason why it doesn't work for the AutoPIP extension.
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Are they still working on that? It's probably one of the last features that keeps me from going full to Vivaldi.
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@z3us22 Yeah, because of this feature I'm constantly switching back to Arc.
