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    Picture in Picture mode on M2 pro keeps freezing

    Hello! I recently bought a new M2 Pro MBP 14". When I toggle the picture in picture mode on my mac, initially it works just fine but if I switch to mission control and then make another window active, the PiP immediately freezes except for small parts around the play/pause and the close the PiP...
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    How do you make Picture in Picture bigger?

    Is there anyway that I could make the width of Picture in Picture wider than half of iPad screen? It seems that I couldn’t make it wider than half. I could place two fingers and move them apart to make it bigger than half but I have to hold my fingers on the screen. As soon as I let them go, the...
  3. W

    All iPads Video player with picture-in-picture

    Is there an app that offers the following basic features? 1. Playback from a NAS. 2. Playback from RTSP feeds (e.g. from ONVIF IP cameras). 3. Picture in Picture. 4. Nice and simple interface.
  4. xapp

    Universal X.app: Picture-in-Picture Extension for iPhone and iPads, supports YouTube, Chrome, etc

    X.app on App Store: Download Link - Picture-in-Picture Extension runs natively in Safari and transfers videos to in-app's browser for YouTube, Chrome, etc. - Fullscreen Extension activates native UI for YouTube and Twitch, which have better scrolling and skipping controls. Support email...
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    Other So Youtube...

    What is your purpose of holding back specific iOS/iPadOS features? Greed? Everyone was super pumped about 4K video coming to the app, but no one asked for the updated resolution picker. Everyone is super pumped that Picture in Picture is coming, but that has not shown up yet even for premium...
  6. D

    YouTube PiP

    So I just updated to the latest version of the YouTube app and finally Picture in Picture in enabled! About time!
  7. Z

    Universal Timeflower: Photo Organizing Made Easy

    I have been making this app for more than two years. Features including: - Support photos on the iCloud photo library. - "On This Day" photos. - Quickly add a photo or multiple selected photos to multiple albums. - Pinned photo albums/media types. - iOS 14 widget for showing a specific photo or...
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    iOS background audio and PIP questions

    I like to listen to audio in the background while I use other apps (especially casual games). In some cases, though, even with the audio settings inside the active app being set to "off" or equivalent, the background audio from Apple Music will always be paused (even if I resume it from the...
  9. iOnlyknowSoMuch

    Twisting Picture in Picture mode crashes iPad iOS 14

    Picture in Picture mode can crash my iPad Pro by just twisting the pip window using keyboard trackpad. I’m using the Logitech keyboard with trackpad for 11 inch iPad Pro 2018/2019 with my 256gb 2018 iPad Pro. If the Picture in Picture video window is twisted with two fingers, it will crash the...
  10. sherwinzadeh

    iPad Announcing "PiP-it!": picture-in-picture straight from the YouTube App

    Hey guys, I'm Sherwin, an indie developer, and I just wanted to announce PiP-it! iOS 14 brought a lot of attention by bringing picture-in-picture, a feature that's existed on iPad since iOS 9, to the iPhone. But many apps, like the YouTube app, do not enable this feature. With PiP-it! you can...
  11. SteveJobzniak

    Resolved TIP: Sierra "Picture in Picture" on older macOS versions (kinda)

    This is just a quick little tip. Enjoy! There are two ways to get "picture in picture" mode on all old versions of macOS and Safari. Method #1: Drag these bookmarklets to your bookmarks bar and just click the one you want, to open the current webpage's video (HTML5 or YouTube videos only) in...
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    Picture in picture app other than "Helium"?

    I was delighted when I found Helium but it turned out not to play local video files, a few google searches showed others have the same issue. Is there an alternative free app that would play local files? VLC player has the option to "stay on top" but it doesn't seem to work for me either, is...