How to Watch Picture-in-Picture Videos in Chrome 70
Picture-in-Picture (PIP) video playback is a favorite feature in the Chrome app for Android, and you can now get it in your Chrome desktop browser if you’ve upgraded to Chrome 70 , that is.
How to watch PIP videos in Chrome 70
You can verify that you have the latest version of Chrome installed by opening a Chrome browser window. You will see an icon in the upper right corner if an update is available: green means the update is less than two days old, orange means four days old, and red means seven days or more. If you have an update available, click the icon, then click Update Google Chrome to start the update. Then restart Chrome. You are now ready to watch videos in PIP mode.
Chrome on Windows, Mac and Linux
If you are using Windows or Mac, you can enable PIP by right-clicking the video and choosing Picture in Picture Mode. If you are watching YouTube, you need to right click twice. Some developers may also suggest buttons that you can use to enable PIP, as shown here , and some videos may even start automatically in PIP . (Some video players do not support this feature, but you can try using the Picture-in-Picture extension to fix it.)
You can click and drag the corners or sides of the PIP window to resize it. The player will remain on top of any Chrome windows you open, and the tab the video is taking place on will have a blue-framed star icon prominently displayed to the left of the tab title, making it easy to tell if you’re bouncing. between multiple tabs.
However, do not close the tab or leave the video website if you want to continue watching. If this tab is closed or the domain is changed, you will disconnect the player from the video and it will close.
Chrome OS
While PIP is enabled by default for Chrome 70 on Windows, Mac, and Linux, getting it to work on Chrome OS is a little trickier. For now, you need to type or copy / paste the following into the Chrome address bar: chrome://flags#enable-surfaces-for-videos
Then set the Enable Use of SurfaceLayer Objects for Video feature to Enabled. You may need to restart Chrome, but then you can right-click the video (double-right-click for YouTube) and then click Picture in Picture Mode to open the video in a pop-up player.