Brightcove player stops playing when out of focus (even with vivaldi pop-up)
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(Not sure which part of the forum to ask this one on, so I'll try here. Please let me know if there's a better part.)
The Brightcove player stops playing when it is out of focus, even if you PiP it in the Vivaldi player popup. Even if you remain in Vivaldi, but "outside" that particular page: For example, play the video and then click in the Panels (e.g. Notes): it'll stop playing again. It's infuriating!
example: https://videos.aarp.org/detail/videos/politics-society
I'd like to figure out a way to "trick" the Brightcove player to think it's always in focus, so it continues to play, even if I'm on a different tab, or Panel, or doing something somewhere else.
Any clues? I tried RMB on the player itself, but didn't find anything that would change its behavior.
Thank you.
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@tegehel
Hi, the page trick the browsers, it does the same in Chrome, it does not even show the PiP icon there.
Please add your Vivaldi and OS version, I test on Linux, Vivaldi 6.6.3271.48.
No solution from my side, sorry.Cheers, mib
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Vivaldi 6.6.3271.48 (Stable channel) (64-bit)
Revision ebcc4ade9d056b280d4c4bd195761b49d422c01d
OS Windows 10 Version 22H2 (Build 19045.4123)
JavaScript V8 12.2.281.21
User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/122.0.0.0 Safari/537.36Yes, I've read that same issue on a Brave forum, and they have the same issue and didn't find a solution either. Although, one person suggested a Virtual Desktop (VD), so that you can have it run there while you do something in another VD. I haven't tried it yet because it's a pretty drastic solution, and I don't know if you can actually watch/listen stuff going on in another VD.
I'm going to try, but I really want to know if there's a program or extension that can trick a tab into thinking that it's always active.
