Brave-browser: Video pop out (HTML5) - similar to Opera

[bsclifton]

Carried over from https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/issues/2582

Pop out video (HTML5) something similar to what is on Opera would be nice.

There may be no action needed, per comment by @Jacalz:

I am fairly certain that this will get fixed in Brave-core. Google is working on a picture in picture mode which can be enabled from chrome://flags.

It will get enabled by default when it is fully ready. More info on it can be found at their site:
https://wicg.github.io/picture-in-picture/

[oliverthedeveloper]

+1

[bbabka]

+1

[seanf]

Looks like this has been in Chromium since v70.

You can activate picture in picture by running this in the JavaScript console:

document.getElementsByTagName('video')[0].requestPictureInPicture();

Or create a bookmarklet with this as the link:

javascript:document.getElementsByTagName('video')[0].requestPictureInPicture();

[rebron]

cc: @srirambv can you add some notes to this issue?

[srirambv]

Somehow missed adding notes to this issue. This feature works but not on all sites. I think this is dependant on the player being used on the site. Some sites like YT only allows popout player within the webview of the page. Sites like Vimeo doesn't support either but for sites like http://cricsports.sx which provides live streaming it supports PiP mode for ex: