No Picture In Picture button on playing videos

[SlowNicoFish]

Description

I would love a button on top of a playing video to easily go into PIP mode. Vivaldi and Firefox has this feature and I would like to have it in Brave as well. This feature would make it so much more convenient to get into Picture In Picture mode since i use it almost all of the time.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Start a video

Actual result:

I see no button for PIP

Expected result:

A little button to pop a video out in PIP-mode

Reproduces how often:

Always

Brave version (brave://version info)

Version/Channel Information:

• Can you reproduce this issue with the current release? Yes
• Can you reproduce this issue with the beta channel? Yes
• Can you reproduce this issue with the nightly channel? Yes

Other Additional Information:

• Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Shields? No
• Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Rewards? No
• Is the issue reproducible on the latest version of Chrome? Yes

Miscellaneous Information:

[rebron]

@SlowNicoFish At the top right corner, there's a global media control UI that will let you get into PIP mode. Does that work for you?

See image below for the control.

[SlowNicoFish]

It's not really optimal because it throws off the flow i have from other browser with that feature. Vivaldi and Firefox has that feature I think that it really adds to the experience.

[rebron]

An overlay button on the video to get into PIP mode. There is redundancy here since there is a way to get into PIP mode, just not as discoverable.

[Haravikk]

@SlowNicoFish At the top right corner, there's a global media control UI that will let you get into PIP mode. Does that work for you?

Thanks for mentioning this! I wasn't aware of it at all; I think discoverability is a bit poor as it's not super obvious, despite being super useful.

In my case I'm used to right-clicking (or double right-clicking for sites like YouTube with custom right-click menus) on a video in other browsers to open it in Picture-in-Picture or Fullscreen.

At the very least it might be worth Brave adding PiP/Fullscreen options to the right-click menu for videos? It currently just seems to show the same menu as for anywhere else on the page.

[SlowNicoFish]

Now even Microsoft edge browser has implemented it. @Haravikk Yes, that would be a good solution, not great but good enough. The best would of course be a floating button

[Mennaruuk]

Yup. Edge, Firefox, and Vivaldi have this feature. Brave will be a more perfect browser with this button!

[nonokh]

Please add media scrubber like in Firefox. It makes absolute no sense to go back to tab just to seek 10 secs -/+

[SlowNicoFish]

Yes, the pip functionality needs to be much improved. Take a look at Firefox and Vivaldi for inspiration