The picture-in-picture feature appeared in Chromium browsers last month. Now Google is actively improving it. Fresh improvement includes support for "silent videos" in this mode. In other words, we are talking about turning off the sound in the video, which is shown in a separate window.
A new feature that allows you to mute video when you select Picture in Picture is finally ready for testing. However, it is supported not only in Google Chrome, but also in Microsoft Edge. Of course, this only works in test builds on the Dev channel so far.
To enable this feature, you need to follow a few steps:
- Make sure you are using Dev or Canary versions of Chrome or Edge respectively;
- Go to about:flags or edge://flags depending on your browser.
- Find and activate the Experimental Web Platform features flag.
- Restart your browser.
- Visit YouTube or another video streaming platform that supports PiP and then play any video.
- Double-click the video with the right mouse button and select the Picture-in-Picture option.
- Hover over the PiP window to see the mute button in the lower left corner, click on it to mute the video, to unmute it, click again.
It is worth noting that the above walkthrough works in both Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge. It is also available in other browsers based on earlier versions of Chrome.
It is not yet specified when the new feature will appear in the release. Most likely, it will be in build 74 or 75. And about testing the new Microsoft Edge, you can in our large material.
Source: 3dnews.ru