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I was wondering : What is the purpose of picture in picture? I don't have any use case for it and was curious about who does.
by cassepipe 6y ago
I was wondering : What is the purpose of picture in picture? I don't have any use case for it and was curious about who does.
- kbenson 6y agoI haven't used it much, but it does allow you to not have to pull a tab out for youtube or the like if you want to watch something on the side while doing something else, and it does it with zero extra interface, which is nice (it's always annoying when I want to resize a video in the window to take almost all the window size and there's useless padding I can't easily bypass).
- cardamomo 6y agoI've used it when I am multitasking (watching something fun while "working") or while taking notes on the video.
- mrspeaker 6y agoSame - especially when there's a rocket launch or other long-running stream. I shrink the PIP view to a tiny thumbnail in a corner of the screen so I don't miss anything.
- gcthomas 6y agoI use it to make it easy to pass the video only to OBS Studio - the video shows up as a separate window.
- dhritzkiv 6y agoI use PiP in Safari, and I find it useful for watching a video in a small window in the corner of my screen without having to keep the page the video was on (YouTube, etc.) open. That way, I can watch the video while reading other tabs, or working in other windows. It's nice because PiP (at least Safari's/macOS' implementation) keeps the video above all other windows, and it even carries over into other Spaces. In short: multitasking.
- matthberg 6y agoI've used it to put video from web based video chat on top of a full screen video, while still keeping focus on the main video. I mainly browse with a whole bunch of tabs open instead of multiple windows, so it's useful to pull a video out of a page and be able to navigate away and continue watching instead of dragging to a new window which would take up more space and get lost more easily. I've also used it for checking docs while following video tutorials, or watching recorded classes while looking at assignment pages.
- asdff 6y agoopening a sports game stream and keeping it on top in the corner while doing something else (my use case)
- Vrondi 6y agoIt is rare, but sometimes a video embedded in a web page has no option to make it full screen. I can click the PIP button in Firefox, then I can double-click it to make it full screen. Nice workaround for those moments.
- hypertele-Xii 6y agoMaybe they should just add that option for all videos.
- millzlane 6y agoI use it for when I want to watch multiple streams of the same event.
- shpongled 6y agoI LOVE the picture in picture feature. It's nice for multitasking - I can pull up a video and put it on top of any other full-screen app or webpage.
- alex_duf 6y agoIt's kinda baffling me, I can't do two things at the same time. At best I listen to music, but any words (podcast) or visual distraction totally pulls me off of what I was doing. Same goes with using a chat feature while in a different meeting. So the whole picture in picture to me is more distraction. I'm glad to see some people find it valuable because I was failing to find its usefulness.
- jffry 6y agoI've run into videos where the option is either to watch a tiny video as-is in the page (too small), or make it full screen (too large), with no in-between option. Twitch clips are an example of this. If I pop the video out via PiP, I can resize it to a comfortable inbetween size.
- kome 6y agoI use it literally all the time: i watch a video while i do other low intensity stuff, like browsing or messaging.